Apex Legends ranked Season 14 will kick off with new Kings Canyon

As another dose of seasonal content from Apex Legends approaches, so too does a new ranked season. In Season 14, we won't see quite as many massive shakeups to ranked as we did last season, but we will have a newly-reworked map to play on.

In an interview with Respawn developers ahead of Season 14, The Loadout learned from lead level designer Jeff Shaw that for the first ranked split of Apex Legends Season 14, players will be dropping into the revamped Kings Canyon. Throwing the reworked map - which in the past has been criticised for not being as viable for high-level competitive play as the other three maps in the battle royale game - straight into ranked rotation is a bold statement. However, Shaw is confident that the changes that have been made across Kings Canyon will make it "more of a competitive map" this time around.

Various changes to the "map health" of Kings Canyon have been made, including better distribution of loot, a new POI in Relic, and attempts to make existing POIs like Cage and Relay less campy and enclosed. A full rundown of changes can be found here.

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