Apex Legends players are finally seeing it: E-District, the new cityscape and playground they’ll be fighting their way through in season 22. And the E-District, as it’s called, looks like the cyberpunk cityscape of our dreams.
E-District is the first new battle royale map released in Apex since Broken Moon entered the games way back in season 15, which was November 2022. Players have received some huge updates to other maps since then almost akin to getting a new map, with big reworks happening on both Storm Point and the aforementioned Broken Moon. But with a gap between new maps stretching close to two years, plenty of players were ready for something very, very different than what came before. And it looks like that’s what we’re getting.
Respawn says E-District is “a map built for verticality and instant, continuous action,” which should be music to the ears of the Apex community that loves nothing more than to see a large building to hot-drop into. The incredibly long sightlines between POIs that are the hallmarks of almost every map in Apex history seem to be far less prevalent in E-District, with the map looking dense with structures.
Some of these structures feel familiar, like the city and park filled with cherry blossoms. But there are also areas that don’t feel like they have any comparison in Apex currently, such as the night market—just make sure you don’t catch a grenade in your ramen.
More details on E-District will be released in a blog tomorrow, Aug. 2, when we’ll undoubtedly see more of the district and all it has in store. But for Apex fans who have wanted to fight through a city (and maybe even some Titanfall players pining for the building and cityscapes they used to crawl around, under, and over), the new map seems sure to scratch that new map itch.
Season 22 of Apex, Shockwave, will be released alongside E-District on Aug. 6.
