Apex Legends' New Map: Why Olympus Is So Important | Screen Rant
Apex Legends Season 7 is coming November 4th, and it's bringing more content than any other patch in the game's history. Players are excited to fight on a brand-new map, Olympus, which Apex Legends teased back in Season 5, and with it comes a new Apex Games Legend, Horizon, as well as the game's first-ever vehicle, the Trident.
The new map in Apex Legends is a floating city in the sky with a massive singularity in the middle, but it's also a lot more than that, with deep lore connections to multiple Apex Legends main characters as well as a storied history within the narrative that players have experienced in Apex thus far.
What is going on with the new map in Apex Legends? How does it connect to the Legends that players already know and what does it mean for the future story of Apex Legends?
Olympus is the floating city far out in the Titanfall Universe's Outlands; specifically, it's a previously upper-class city on the planet of Psamathe, which ties it to several of Apex Legends' characters that players already have their hands on. Lifeline and Octane are both Psamathe natives, born to wealthy families that likely lived in the pristine city of Olympus. Octane's parents were the CEOs of a large pharmaceutical company, and Lifeline's parents were war profiteers in the wars from Titanfall 1 and 2.
Loba has a more storied past with the Olympus map in Apex Legends. Not only is Olympus her hometown, but 0ne of the map locations is Bonsai Plaza, which long-time Apex players will recognize as the location from the Apex Legends Season 4 Trailer. This means that players will be fighting in the space that started Loba's entire storyline and colored the story of Apex Seasons 4 and 5, as Bonsai plaza is where the Legend Revenant killed Loba's parents.
Finally, the Olympus map is almost completely defined by the new Apex Legend, Horizon. Namely, Horizon is an Olympus native who journeyed into the far reaches of space to solve the cities energy crisis but was betrayed and left in the time-warping pull of a black hole. She managed to escape the pull of the black hole but came back to Olympus 87 years later, finding an abandoned city with a massive gravitational singularity corroding the middle of it. Seeing as gravity and black holes are Horizon's specialties, it wouldn't be surprising if she is integral to future changes to the map that modify how players move around it and play with the weird gravity.
With all of the changes coming to Season 7, including a brand-new leg to the Apex Legends' story, it's an exciting time for players looking for a change to their gameplay, or just those players who loved the world. No matter what players are looking for, with huge changes like Apex's first vehicle ever and cross-platform play for Apex Legends, it's one of the best times ever to visit the outlands.