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The new season of Apex Legends has been coming for a while now, but players have been speculating about who the new character would end up being. Keen-eyed players have spotted a few hints in the class of a downed send on the Storm Point map, which seemed to hint that someone continued to Salvo or even Mad Maggie herself joining the battle royale game'southward roster in the upcoming flavor.

Well, players tin can cease their wild speculation — Respawn shared the latest Stories from the Outlands featurette, titled Judgement, which has confirmed some major points for the upcoming season. The largest point is that Mad Maggie will be joining the Apex Games as the newest Legend.

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The Apex Legends website has also confirmed that the championship of the new season will be Defiance, a plumbing fixtures title for a character who sees herself every bit a freedom fighter trying to drive an invasive organisation off her people's land. It as well confirmed that there will be a new LTM for the first iii weeks of the Disobedience event called Control mode. This 9v9 battle sees teams vie to control points on the field with space respawns.

The current flavour of Apex Legends, titled Escape, is scheduled to stop around the last week of January, so expect more details well-nigh how Mad Maggie volition play and what new features Defiance volition bring to the boxing royale game when a full gameplay trailer releases on Jan 27.