‘Apex Legends’ will now punish players who leave Arena matches

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Respawn Entertainment has released a new patch that will punish players in Apex Legends who leave Arena matches early.Earlier this month, a brand new 3v3 deathmatch mode, called Arenas, was added to the online battle royale game, however, since its launch, there have been issues with players leaving games.Respawn released the new patch last night (May 24) which confirms the game will now penalise players for leaving Arena matches early.As detailed by the patch notes, “this is similar to the abandon penalty in Ranked BR games,” meaning players who leave a match will now be unable to queue for another game for 10 minutes.Players will only get a penalty if they were in a full squad when they left the game however, this doesn’t apply if you.