Apex Legends players have one big gripe with new E-District map

Respawn added a new map, E-District, in Apex Legends Season 22 and players are loving the fresh art style and revamped location, but find the loot a little lacking.

Players have reported not finding much — if any — ground loot, leaving their initial drop location with only a level 1 backpack holding maybe a gun with some ammo.

“I’m running spot to spot to try to get a small loadout to fight, and it’s like 1 ammo spawn or 1 attachment spawn per ‘area that looks like it should have loot,'” one Reddit user said in a thread about the lack of items.

“Vibes are great, loot could be better,” another user said.

Respawn has tweaked the loot spawn mechanic in this update and Season 21. The previous season made it so players were guaranteed to find a weapon in a loot bin, and Season 22 added loot bin resets that re-stock every location mid-way through matches with more powerful guns.

These mechanics, however, do not seem to help much on the new map, thanks to its size and overall lack of ground loot.

“It’s honestly ridiculous, I was solo queuing pubs and pretty much any teammate who decided to talk was doing it to complain about the loot being a***.

“For such a massive map the loot feels BY FAR the worst out of any of the other maps, I’m constantly out of ammo or can’t find heals,” another Reddit user said on a different thread about the lack of drops.

Players will have to endure the lack of loot for a few more days as E-District is the exclusive map for casual matches until after August 12 and ranked matches until the end of August 9.

Respawn has yet to respond to the criticism around the lack of loot as of writing but could hotfix the loot spawn rate soon or in the next patch.