The launch trailer for Apex Legends Season 12 – Defiance has dropped, teasing the newest Legend Mad Maggie’s abilities and the changes that are coming to the Olympus map.
As set up by the most recent Stories from the Outlands cinematic, this trailer sees the badarse, tooth-spitting Mad Maggie being sentenced to death/entered into the Apex Games. After being unceremoniously dumped onto Olympus, Maggie is met will a shower of bullets from Horizon, Crypto and Mirage, who don’t seem awfully happy to see her. As she flees, we see what looks to be her tactical; a pistol that shoots a flame trap that will likely disrupt and slightly damage Legend’s caught in it.
Later in the trailer, we see Mags take a direct hit from Fuse’s ultimate before downing him with a rolling bomb, so it’s hard to tell what her ultimate will be, but it’s likely to include a shield of some kind, as we’ve seen promotional images of her wielding one.
On a grander scale, the entire Olympus map has been sent into as free-fall thanks to the mysterious dealings of Duardo Silva, father of Octane. As expected from an event like that, Olympus is in a bit of a state, with buildings and other structures having been lifted and flung across the map. It’s unknown if this will directly impact moment-to-moment gameplay, but it’ll certainly mix up the layout of the flying city.
Give the trailer a watch:
Apex Legends Season 12 – Defiance kicks off on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch and PC from February 8.
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