Apex Legends' Season 15 is well underway, and fans are getting used to the new Broken Moon map. While Apex Legends' new map has a lot in common with its predecessors, Broken Moon also has some unique features like a Zip Rail system that players should consider when choosing their drop location and looting spots.
Broken Moon is the fifth core map in Respawn Entertainment's battle royale first-person shooter. It was released alongside Season 15 and Apex Legends' new Legend Catalyst at beginning of November, referring to a location of the map in lore: Boreas' meteor-stricken moon Cleo. The map offers great looting spots from the center all the way to the edges, and two extra large POIs well-positioned for early fights and potentially map supremacy. However, players should consider some of the best drop locations on Broken Moon.
Top-Tier Loot and Early Fights on Apex Legends' Broken Moon
The maps in Apex Legends have experimented with unorthodox placements through Storm Point and Olympus. However, Broken Moon is a more standard layout that players are used to based on Apex Legends' first map, Kings Canyon. It offers a good amount of space for those who want to loot carefully, being the second-largest map in the game, but core locations and popular spots can be good for early confrontations and EVO shield upgrades.
Those looking for early high-tier loot and fights should consider the large central hubs of Terraformer and Perpetual Core, which are around twice as large as regular POIs. Both are well-connected, and the former offers particularly good early positioning that could help cut off teams advancing too swiftly. The latter offers Respawn's special hidden Easter egg, but if a team is pushed out of these locations, nearby looting locations might not provide good options. The locations north of Terraformer offer only low-level loot.
Between the two large POIs are a few mid-tier locations perfectly located in the middle of the map. Stasis Core as well as North and South Promenade can offer average-to-good loot, but even better positioning. It might even create opportunities to "third-party" weaker teams on both Terraformer and Perpetual Core.
High-tier loot areas circle the whole edge of the map, so getting a good early start doesn't mean that teams have to compete for the same few central locations. Eternal Gardens on the east side is a good option if the team wants to do rigorous looting without being late to the closing circles - especially without movement-enhancing Legends like Pathfinder or Valkyrie. The location has the lone Jump Tower on Broken Moon, which can be a major advantage.
Broken Moon with Zip Rails
It's noteworthy that one of the changes with Season 15 is the Zip Rail network, which helps team compositions without movement-enhancing Legends. Even the looting locations on the edges of the map can be valid on a hard circle shift if players use the Zip Rails. Teams relying on Zip Rails can be easy targets on the next stop though, as unlike the trains on previous maps, there's not much that can protect the player while zipping - similar to Kings Canyon.
For those looking for good tips on exploring Broken Moon, smaller POIs with high-tier loot like The Divide and Production Yard are worth a look. The Divide can't fit much more than one team, which will often dissuade teams from dropping there unless in the middle of the flight path early on. It doesn't have a Respawn Beacon in the area, though a few are close by. Being near Eternal Gardens, teams dropping to The Divide can easily use the Jump Tower to improve their position after looting.
Thanks to the Zip Rail lines, the corners of the map can also be good spots to loot since all of them offer high-tier loot but beware of early droppers, especially in non-ranked or low-ranked games. Dropping to locations that are not well-positioned is likely not worthwhile if three or four other teams are also headed that way.
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