Apex Legends players have been waiting years for a fully urbanized battle royale map to hit the game. Thanks to a teaser for the Aug. 1 season 22 launch trailer, it looks like that wait is just about over.
Respawn Entertainment dropped a short teaser today to build hype for the new season launch trailer. Titled “Shockwave,” the footage showed off legends fighting in unfamiliar territory—a cityscape with plenty of neon lighting and at night time. “Ready to light up the city?” the post reads, adding more fuel to a now almost-certain fire that the long-rumored and leaked city map is almost here.
Throughout its history, Apex has only had dalliances with cities and urban environments. World’s Edge and Olympus both represented partial attempts at more urban environments but also include much more open and undeveloped terrain. That doesn’t look to be the case in the newest map, which was last seen in a trailer featuring Alter and Horizon.
Instead, this new map looks to be the first Apex map that’s truly more city than fields, plains, or swamps. It’s also set at night time, which would be the first non-Halloween event map to get a night setting. Those After Dark map versions all ran as LTMs, while the night setting of the new map should be here to stay, making all the lights and neon of the city pop.
It’s not much to go on, of course, but we can see skyscrapers and a city hall-type structure, an industrial section, and even a park-like environment lined with cherry blossoms, which should give Titanfall fans pleasant flashbacks to Angel City.
We’ll all learn more about the newest battleground in Apex when the Shockwave trailer is released tomorrow, Aug. 1, at 10am CT.
