Apex Legends leak suggests \u201cTropic Island\u201d will be new battle royale map Respawn EntertainmentRespawn is set to add a brand-new \u201cTropic Island\u201d map to Apex Legends in the near future, according to new map-pack code strings added to the battle royale\u2019s backend following the Season 6 update on August 18. Little is known about the new \u2018Tropic Island\u2019 map so far beyond its recently-discovered string code. The string reads \u201cMP_RR_TROPIC_ISLAND_DESC,\u201d which is the same as Kings Canyon and World\u2019s Edge in the Apex Legends core code. In fact, the newly-added code is actually right next to World\u2019s Edge in the same map-pack folder. The strings were uncovered by Apex Legends data miners Shrugtal and Biast12 soon after the August 18 patch went live. Nothing else has been found in the code relating to Tropic Island yet, Dexerto has confirmed with the dataminers. This makes sense too; when World\u2019s Edge was first added, it remained as the solitary map file for multiple patches in a row. it looks like Tropic Island is a new map! pic.twitter.com\/PP92X947HG \u2014 Biast12 (@Biast12) August 18, 2020 Apex Legends fans will certainly be excited to hear a new map has been added to the battle royale backend code too. Players were fairly disappointed when Respawn confirmed World\u2019s Edge would be getting a \u201crevamp,\u201d instead of an all-new map arriving in Season 6. The \u201crevamp\u201d news stung doubly as hard considering all the evidence that had been building for a new city-scape \u201cOlympus\u201d battlefield. It had been teased in the Season 5 storyline, and in multiple trailers and gameplay videos. While Olympus may have been shelved for now \u2014 insiders have suggested it was never set for a Season 6 release \u2014 \u201cTropic Island\u201d does have a little more evidence behind it. The name certainly evokes a certain visual too. Kings Canyon and World\u2019s Edge both boast sand and tropical swamps respectively, but this new \u201ctropic\u201d map could go some distance to combining those two elements together. Funnily enough, a \u201ctropical jungle map\u201d is something Apex fans have been requesting for a fair while now too. In April, Redditor NizzyDeniro suggested a tropic map could have \u201cdense\u201d jungles with vines that work like zip lines.\u201d They wrote they\u2019d love to see \u201cgiant trees\u2026 for good sniping and stealth, long, mid, and short-range battles. Caves\u2026 lit by glowing crystals, and with holes in the ceilings. Shallow lakes\u2026 waterfalls\u2026 [and] a rotating sailboat that just floats around the map.\u201d Well, it looks like that could be a possibility sooner than expected, if Respawn does end up building on this \u201cTropic Island\u201d map code. There\u2019s been no official confirmation, of course, but it does seem to be on its way, for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends leak suggests \u201cTropic Island\u201d will be new battle royale map Respawn EntertainmentRespawn is set to add a brand-new \u201cTropic Island\u201d map to Apex Legends in the near future, according to new map-pack code strings added to the battle royale\u2019s backend following the Season 6 update on August 18. Little is known about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}