Apex Legends Season 7: Ascension Brings New Legend and Map
The latest season of Apex Legends, Ascension, is coming on November 4th. This update will bring Horizon, a new Legend, a new Olympus map, and much more.
Horizon
The first addition to this season is Horizon, Apex’s newest Legend. He is an astronaut from an Olympus colony trapped at the end of a black hole. For Horizon, it was stuck there for a year, but actually 90 years have passed.
Horizon was originally developed as a more sinister character, resembling Lex Luthor from the Superman series. The traces of the old story can be seen from several voiceline where it wants to find more test subjects. But after they developed the background more, the upcoming version of Horizon to Apex Legend became more sympathetic. Right now she is just a mother who wants to return to her child after years apart.
In the game, Horizon is the newest Legend that has a mobility focus. His space suit gives him greater mobility in the air. Iya can even make a smooth landing which will maintain Horizon’s momentum, unlike other Legends which will lose momentum upon landing.
Horizon’s tactical ability is Gravity Lift which creates an anti-gravity field. All players entering this field – friend or foe, standing or falling – would be affected by the anti-gravity and fly upwards. This effect will only stop if the player exits the field, or has reached a peak, where they will just float in mid-air. The main function of this ability is to give Horizon and her team a high ground against other teams, but it can also be used in a variety of other creative ways.
His ultimate ability is Black Hole. Using his robot companion – NEWT – Horizon opens a small black hole that attracts enemies. Horizon and his team could then use this opportunity to finish off all the sucked up players, or run off to take on another battle. This black hole is designed not to kill its target instantly due to its absence respawn automatically in Apex Legends. Because of this, the design team at Respawn have tried to make this ability fun to use but not overly powerful.
Olympus
The second big part of this update is the new Olympus map, a colony above the clouds. The concept of this map – a flying city of the future – is inspired by an old concept from the Titanfall series.
One of the main features of this map is the concept of “Negative Space” or empty space. This map is designed with several places that don’t have anything that can help players to get more interested in other places. Because of this, locations with better loot – such as the Reverie Lounge – will see more battles.
One more point of interest inside Olympus is the spaceship Arcadia Supercarrier. This large plane can be seen previously on the World’s Edge map, and will provide many narrow corridors. Teams will fight in close quarters in Arcadia, and Legends with defensive abilities will gain the upper hand here.
But the most important part in this new map is the huge vortex that can be seen from around the map called “Rift”. This vortex connects to two other areas, and the developers of this map want to see players get into it. Their curiosity will be rewarded because they will spin attracted to the “Phase Runner” and then sent to the middle of the Olympus map.
Phase Runner itself is a unique feature of Olympus that functions as an always-on portal. This portal connects the three areas in this map and will always send the player to a certain position.
The Trident
Due to the many features that change player positions across maps on Olympus, the developers at Respawn introduced the first vehicle in Apex Legends, The Trident. This vehicle has three seats so that a team can use it together.
If a team is stranded at the end of the map, they can immediately return to the center of the battle using a Trident. This vehicle has indeed been designed from the start as an important part of the Olympus map. The developers at Respawn want to see these vehicles stolen, contested, even used as protection.
In addition, Respawn has also thought about some small things that can happen to a vehicle in a competitive game like Apex Legend. First of all, a Trident can only be used by one team, so an opponent cannot pilot it off the map without killing the team that owns it.
Not even teammates can sabotage their friends by dropping everyone inside the Trident, as they’ll be knocked out before the Trident can fall off the map. Lastly, a Legend can still be useful even when piloting a Trident, as some abilities – such as the Gibraltar shield – can be used in this vehicle.
For the team fighting the Trident, all the damage they inflicted on this vehicle will be spread throughout the team inside. Of course they can still directly shoot certain targets so that their attacks are more focused.
Clubs
Club is a new social feature coming to Apex Legend. This feature will create a group in the game so that players don’t have to find it difficult to find friends to play with without having to use third-party solutions such as Discord.
According to Respawn, this feature was developed because of the many negative experiences players have in playing with friends they don’t know. According to Chad Armstrong, a Level Designer, he knows that the experience of playing Apex without a three-person team will be a volatile experience.
“I’ve had situations where teammates watched me die so they could take my equipment. Or friends who don’t care about the team at all so they can do whatever they want, but when they die they suddenly want all your attention.”
If a player starts their own club, they can choose the name, clan tag and logo of that Club. Although this system at first glance looks exactly like the Clan system from other games, the last feature of this system is the most important, namely the “Search Tag” feature.
Using the Search Tag, players can tell other players what their Clan is looking for. This system is very flexible and can be used to tell them which gamemode they are looking for such as ranked or casual, or even provide specific tags such as “requires mic” and “LGBT inclusive”.
A Club can have 30 members, and can be ranked so that certain players can manage it. All club members can communicate with each other even outside the party. They can also see milestones achieved by the Club and its members.
Battle Pass
The latest addition to this update is a change to Apex Legends’ Battle Pass system, making it simpler than the previous version.
Every time a player completes a challenge, they will get one star. After collecting 10 stars, players will get one level battle pass. This was all they had to do to increase their battle pass.
To help players, Apex is also getting a Challenge Tracker that will notify players of new challenges or those they are close to completing. This feature can be accessed in the main menu, in the lobby, and in matches so players can always know what they have to do without having to memorize it in their minds or write it down elsewhere.
As usual, the Season 7 Battle Pass is coming with some Legendary items. At level 25 players will get a Legendary item for Wraith, and a Legendary skin for Octane at level 50. In addition, the Level 100 skin for this season is for R99 weapons.
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