After an exciting Virtual Press Event and a detailedblog post, we got a ton of new information revealed on all the changes coming to Storm Point in Apex Legends Season 19.
Now that the storm has cleared, there’s a lot of infrastructural damage around the island, but Wattson is aiming to restore its power. Let’s dive right into these new features and changes.
Apex Legends: Storm Point map changes in Season 19
The main focus for Respawn this Season was toadd a ton of new points of interest (POIs), and reduce the overall map sizeto make it feel a lot tighter. This was done to improve the fun factor and mid-game pacing.
Also, a few areas were reworked, like the Forbidden Zone and Lightning Rod. Let’s go over all the changes and new POIs revealed for Storm Point in Apex Legends Season 19.
Wattson’s Pylon
After the massive storm damaged Storm Point and took away the power, now the city of Suotamo has no energy. Luckily, Wattson volunteered to help bring back the power with Wattson’s Pylon, in collaboration with the Syndicate.
The goal with this new POI was to create anew enticing hot dropfor early combat. Inside the Charge Tower is aGravity Cannonthat’ll launch you right into the reworked Forbidden Zone. What’s cool is that at the top floor is Wattson’s room, if you want to take a peek.
The ECHO structures are probably familiar to avid Apex Legends players. But this one is amuch larger headquarterson the coast where Gale Station used to be.
It has a large interior, alongside somemaintenance tunnelsaround its exterior. The exterior is quite busy with tinier buildings and plenty of structures to take cover behind.
Coastal Camp
In Respawn’s efforts to reduce the overall map size, it decided topull in the coastlineand create Coastal Camp. The broken remnants of Ship Fall are washed ashore and all along the coast.
This area, once a lot larger, is now much tighter to bebetter connected to other POIs. Nearby you may find Wattson’s Pylon and Echo HQ.
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Devastated Coast
The storm really ravaged this specific area, hence the name of this POI. The Devastated Coast contains theruined remains of the Fish Farms. There’s one main wall set up to protect this river from any future flooding.
What’s neat is one of thebuildings suspended in the airby a crane, which gives a nice height advantage in combat. Smaller buildings of what’s left of the Fish Farms litter the ground as well.
Zeus Station
To help Wattson restore power to Storm Point, we now have this brand new building, alongside Ceto Station. There arefour enormous energy rodswith crackling electricity beaming between them.
Respawn wanted this POI to makedropping near the higher side of Storm Point more attractive. There’s also a sneaky little rotation point going through the mountain all the way to Lightning Rod.
Ceto Station
Now with Prowler Island gone, Ceto Station has taken over. Respawn stated that this new POI would hopefullylessen the high trafficthat used to go through Prowler Island with the PVE action.
There’s one large energy rod that powers this little station, alongside some smaller buildings. Ceto Station being in the middle of Storm Point should still make it a nice hot drop.
Forbidden Zone
Sadly, the storm hit this area pretty hard, but the destroyed fence made the Prowlers able to run away. Finally,the Prowlers are gone, but there are still vital structures in place.
Respawn reworked this area to remove the Prowlers, but also to providestructures for better defensive points. Hopefully this makes the Forbidden Zone a nicer POI.
Lightning Rod
One other huge rework Respawn focused on was Lightning Rod. Unfortunately, Lightning Rod had a low drop number. This reworked area isa lot more reduced, as there’s now a huge gap with land missing between one of the mountains and the island.
This will hopefully make Lightning Rod feel a lot less spacious andmore connected to the other POIs. Just nearby is Zeus Station, so I can already tell this POI got a lot of improvement.
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Anyka Pettigrew
Anyka Pettigrew has been a Staff Writer for PC Invasion since November 2023 and a Contributing Writer since February 2023. She is a Canadian graduate of a Bachelor of Arts degree who has been writing in games journalism for four years. Anyka is an avid guides writer but also enjoys writing anything from news pieces, to reviews, and even opinion pieces. Having a never-ending passion for video games for as long as she can remember got her into a plethora of genres like action adventure, RPGs, horror, survival etc. Some of her favorite franchises are God of War, Persona, The Last of Us, Zelda, and Resident Evil. She also enjoys reading fantasy and sci-fi books, as well as drawing digital art. Anyka also regularly listens to podcasts on gaming news from ‘Kinda Funny Games’, and ‘Play, Watch, Listen’.
