Apex Legends dev explains why they\u2019re removing Kings Canyon in Season 3 With the imminent launch of Apex Legends Season 3, players are looking forward to the addition of a brand new map, World\u2019s Edge \u2013 but the fate of the classic Kings Canyon has already been decided, at least temporarily. Kings Canyon was the first and, until Season 3, only map you could play in Apex since its launch in February, and although it\u2019s undergone numerous changes in that time, players will still hopeful for a brand new location. This new season finally delivers on that, taking the legends not only to a new map, but an entirely new planet, with the arena now named \u2018World\u2019s Edge\u2019. So, what will become of Kings Canyon? Well, at least for the start of the new season, the classic map will no longer be in rotation at all. Developer Drew McCoy explained the reasoning for this decision in an interview with Stevivor, likening the new map to the addition of a new legend. \u201cIn Season 1 when Octane launched, he was the brand-new thing and you would see a lot of people select Octane as the first player on their team. Then the other two would disconnect because they also wanted to play as the new character,\u201d Drew explained, \u201cWe think the same type of thing is going to happen with multiple maps.\u201d \u201cWhat we don\u2019t want is for someone to get in on October 1 and be like, \u2018Oh, it put me on Kings Canyon, I\u2019m going to back out.\u2019 You\u2019re going to end up with a bunch of half dead games,\u201d Drew continued. It doesn\u2019t mean that Kings Canyon is gone forever though, as McCoy states, \u201cat launch it\u2019s going to be World\u2019s Edge only, and then based on feedback from players, and the data we can get, we have a lot of different levers we can pull to see what we can do about reintroducing Kings Canyon.\u201d Season 3 of Apex Legends starts on October 1, when players will finally be able to jump into the action on World\u2019s Edge, which features a mix of Lava and Ice locations. Kings Canyon may be a thing of the past for now, but players will surely grow wistful for the old map and hope that it makes a return perhaps later in the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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