Respawn explains why they won\u2019t add \u201csmall\u201d Arenas maps to Apex Legends Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends devs have explained why Season 9\u2019s Arenas mode will not be getting \u201csmall\u201d maps, despite calls from some players to add more close-quarters locations. Arenas came as the biggest overhaul of Apex Legends Season 9, providing players a smaller, 3v3 mode where they can focus on taking out one enemy team over and over again. The matches take place over multiple rounds, meaning it can become a best of 5, best of 7 or best of 9 depending on how many rounds the opposition manages to win. However, some players have suggested that the mode\u2019s maps are too large, even with a closing ring. At the moment, there are two specifically designed Arenas maps \u2013 Party Crasher and Phase Runner \u2013 as well as three maps taken from POIs of the battle royale maps \u2013 Artillery Battery from Kings Canyon; Thermal Station from World\u2019s Edge and Golden Gardens from Olympus. A post from one fan stated exactly that, suggested Artillery should be removed as an Arenas map due to its size, and replaced with Octane\u2019s Gauntlet, which saw the speedy Legend\u2019s Town Takeover replace Kings Canyon\u2019s West Settlement. However, Lead Game Designer at Respawn Daniel Klein responded, saying: \u201cIt would be too small! It\u2019s important to have multiple POIs in an Arenas map, ideally POIs with direct line of sight between each other. This might be one good POI (although there\u2019s a lot of sight blocking with the tall structures), but it wouldn\u2019t be enough for an arenas map.\u201d Another player responded to suggest trying out smaller maps and seeing how they play, but this idea was quashed by David Bocek, another game designer at Respawn. \u201cWe experimented with lots of stuff!\u201d he said. \u201cWe learned a lot about what works and what doesn\u2019t, and unfortunately small maps just didn\u2019t really work imo. In my personal experience, they felt like they got too same-y really quickly, you lose most of the interesting and meaningful decision-making about where to go based on where you think the enemy will go, weapon loadouts, etc. The POIs like the health bins and the cash stations and the care package just felt all too close together too.\u201d Bocek finished: \u201cI\u2019m no level designer, this was just my personal experience with it, but wanted to note that we have been experimenting a lot with this before launch, and will continue to do so!\u201d In short, it sounds like small maps resulted in very repetitive matches; exactly the kind of thing devs seek to avoid when designing a new mode. We certainly wouldn\u2019t rule slightly smaller maps out in the future, but not every popular POI will transfer seamlessly to Arenas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Respawn explains why they won\u2019t add \u201csmall\u201d Arenas maps to Apex Legends Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends devs have explained why Season 9\u2019s Arenas mode will not be getting \u201csmall\u201d maps, despite calls from some players to add more close-quarters locations. Arenas came as the biggest overhaul of Apex Legends Season 9, providing players a smaller, 3v3 […]<\/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-18596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18596","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=18596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}