Season four of Apex Legends is here, and one of the game’s new map changes is proving deadly to many players. While not as big a change to the minute-to-minute gameplay as the replacement of King’s Landing was, Apex Legends’ newest update has not only introduced the new playable character Revenant and a new sniper rifle, but has also made adjustments to various aspects of the team-based battle royale’s current map.
Apex Legends has consistently added in new characters, weapons, and map changes since its original release a little over a year ago. The newest Legend to join the roster, Revenant, sports the ability to summon a Death Totem which can be used by teammates and enemies alike in order to cheat death for a few brief second in the middle of a firefight. Revenant joins Apex Legends as a part of the Season Four event Assimilation, which also adds some rather deadly changes to the game’s landscape.
Now, it’s beginning to look as if some of these new map changes can be absolutely devastating, even to players who haven’t yet left the starting dropship. As shown in a recent Reddit post and immediately testable for any Apex Legends player willing to lose their life, any player which passes through the gigantic Planet Harvester laser beam shooting into the sky will be immediately destroyed, including players who are still in the beginning plane waiting to drop to the surface. If the plane’s path happens to take it directly over the beam, anyone still in the dropship will be eradicated. Check out one player’s experience below:
While this player only experienced the brutal force of Apex Legends new map changes with less than twenty players still remaining in the dropship, it’s easy to imagine a situation where everyone in the map has yet to vacate the plane, leading to the Planet Harvester energy beam causing an immediate total team knockout. Although the developers have not yet commented on whether this is an intentional mechanic or an unintentional result of making the Planet Harvester beam cause instant death upon impact, it’s definitely still in effect at the time of this writing and shows no signs of being changed any time soon.
The inclusion of such a deadly mechanic which will likely only ever be seen by a small minority of players is yet another example of how the developers of Apex Legends season four know how to keep players engaged and interested with their game. Although the idea that all of the game’s players would sit idly by while the dropship passes through the Planet Harvester energy beam may seem slim, the possibility such a situation could actually occur is one of the reason players keep coming back to Apex Legends, and the team shows no signs of slowing down on these interested gameplay additions.
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Source: Reddit
