Apex Legends News

World's Edge returns to Apex Legends today after 98-day absence

Rejoice, Apex Legends fans, because the World's Edge map is returning to the battle royale game today, 98 days after it last featured in either the ranked or regular map rotations. The map was completely absent in Season 12, and the first seven days of Season 13 have been played exclusively on Storm Point, but today, it returns.

World's Edge is generally considered to be many players' favourite map, but it's also the top choice for pro and competitive play, too, which is why players will be glad to see it find its way back into Apex Legends' map rotation for Season 13. Right now, it's only in regular lobbies, as Apex Legends ranked players will have Storm Point as their Split 1 map this season. The map for Split 2 is currently unknown.

The map is one that provides great diversity in its locations, from the ice cold Epicenter to the fiery flames of the Thermal Station. Almost every area of World's Edge is ripe for looting and gunfighting, and that's what makes it such a compelling map for players. The majority of the community are more than happy for it to be back after more than three months on the sidelines.

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TSM's ImperialHal defends divisive Apex Legends ranked changes

We're not even a full week into Apex Legends Season 13, and already the modifications to the battle royale's ranked mode are causing a bit of a stir. For this season, Respawn has altered the way that you earn RP in ranked matches, and it's generally made moving up the Apex Legends ranks tougher than in previous seasons.

Yesterday, a Reddit post highlighting Season 13's rank distribution sparked a lot of conversation around whether the ranked changes have improved or worsened the ranked experience. While it is slightly trivial to look at rank distribution this early in a split, the post in question does show that the majority of players have failed to move past the first three ranks of Rookie (newly added for Season 13), Bronze 4, and Bronze 3.

With the climb up the ranks clearly getting tougher, and the emphasis on placements and teamwork becoming a talking point for solo players, a lot of casual players have been quick to find fault with the new system. However, for the battle royale's top players, the changes are being seen as a real positive, and many have praised and defended the changes.

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Удачный старт нового сезона: Apex Legends побила собственный рекорд по числу одновременных игроков в Steam

Стартовавший 10 мая в Apex Legends тринадцатый по счёту сезон под названием "Спасители" с новой легендой Ньюкаслом, переработанной рейтинговой системой и новым боевым пропуском привлёк к себе внимание аудитории и отметился в Steam рекордным пиковым онлайном.

Apex Legends' Lifeline has killed a country's worth of people

When you look at Lifeline, Apex Legends' sole healer, you wouldn't automatically assume that she's a cold-hearted killer. But clearly she - and her impeccably styled space buns - mean business if this new Apex Legends Mobile trailer is anything to go by.

That's because we now know that canonically Lifeline has killed 38,423 legends over the course of the games - that's more than the populations of Gibraltar and Liechtenstein (thanks @gekkonova) . Brutal, right? It is when you consider 29,675 of those were headshots. Her lifetime stats flash up briefly in the trailer (around the 0:46 mark) when Mirage assembles his team to take on Wraith - who's understandably been dominating the games. She is, after all, one of the best legends in the game according to our Apex Legends tier list.

While Lifeline's uncharacteristic brutality is perhaps the most shocking from the trailer, we also get a little insight to Mirage and Gibraltar's stats too - and they are no where near as impressive.

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Apex Legends lobby shows off Newcastle and Bangalore's sibling rivalry

Season 13 of Apex Legends kicked off earlier this week and players are discovering a host of new updates and working their way through a new battle pass. However, some of the new additions are doing a good bit of heavy lifting when it comes to building out the lore and relationships of the characters in the game.

And, one of those relationships that already exist within the universe is Bangalore and Newcastle being siblings. A new lobby animation (spotted by 'itslik2002' on Reddit) when both legends are chosen shows off the rivalry that has formed between both of them over the years adding a nice dose of levity to the serious matches that take place within the universe.

It's always great to see this kind of touch in multiplayer games and battle royales as it really helps breathe life into all of the characters, even when it might seem minor in the grand scheme of things.

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