Apex Legendswill be getting Skull Town as a temporary Arenas map thanks to the upcoming Genesis Collection Event. This limited-timeApex Legendsevent will come with the usual new, themed cosmetics as well as a new heirloom set for Revenant, but it will also bring back the original Kings Canyon and World’s Edge battle royale maps for the duration of the event.
Skull Town was a fan-favorite drop location in the original Kings Canyon map due to its size and potential for chaos in the early stages of battle royale matches. It was destroyed in Season 5 ofApex LegendswhenLoba blew up an underground facilityhousing Revenant’s source code and fans have wanted to see it return ever since.
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With the Genesis Collection Event, Skull Town will beadded as an Arenas mapthat appears in one-hour increments in the normal Arenas map rotation. Normally Arena maps rotate every 15 minutes from a pool of three maps which changes every two week. Skull Town is a large area that is dominated by small, narrow shacks on the outskirts, and tall buildings in the middle, allowing players top to either opt for controlling the high-ground or fortifying a building down below.
While there will not be a new limited-time game mode as with previous collection events, Genesis will instead add map takeovers which bring back theApex Legendslaunch version of Kings Canyon and the original World’s Edge when it wasintroduced in Season 3 along with Crypto. The maps will take over Trios and Duos and will rotate every hour. Olympus will remain the Ranked mode map.
On Kings Canyon, the new Season 8 Crash Site area will be gone and major locations such as Skull Town, Cascades, and Bridges will be back. For World’s Edge, the Harvester will be gone, the Capitol City will no longer be fragmented, and the loot train is back.
The Genesis Collection Event, which starts on June 29 and ends July 13, adds plenty of new cosmetics, balance changes, and various quality-of-life changes too. The event is themed around going back to past with the old maps and skins showing the Legends in their previous lives before they joined the Apex Games.
Respawn introduced the massive Legacy update forApex Legendsnearly two months ago which brought Valkyrie, an updated Olympus map, and the new Arenas map. Since then, there has been a bit of a content drought as players waited for an event, so Genesis has arrived at a perfect time.Apex Legendsplayers should keep an eye onEA Play 2021for potentially moreApex Legendsnews.
Apex Legendsis available now on Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
