The reason for the hurry was that the modified version of Valve's Source engine (used by the previous Titanfall games and reportedly also Apex Legends) - "was starting to feel dated", and "Titanfall 3 might not feel or look as good if it came out too much later" - which, clearly, it did not. (Respawn is also working on Jedi: Fallen Order, an under-wraps Star Wars game it briefly announced last year.)īack in fall 2017, a Respawn source told Kotaku's Jason Schreier "Titanfall 3 was well into development" and would release by the end of 2018. McCoy's answer also confirms what many already suspected: Titanfall 3 isn't in development, and Apex Legends is its current Titanfall focus. Respawn simply want the game to speak for itself, McCoy says. But then, in the context of what happened with Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Apex Legends' release with the bare minimum of marketing makes sense. It's the perfect recipe for a marketing plan to go awry, so why have that - let's just ship the game and let players play." "We're doing a free to play game, with essentially loot boxes, after we were bought by EA, and it's not Titanfall 3. "To try and convince a sceptical audience for months with trailers and hands-on articles, we're just like 'let the game speak for itself' - it's the most powerful antidote to potential problems. "There are some people who think there are too many battle royale games or it's a fad, the world thinks we're making Titanfall 3 and we're not - this is what we're making. ![]() "Our desire is to be completely open and transparent with our player base, and part of that expands to how we talk about problems, and we understand this game is gonna have a sceptical audience," McCoy told me. So those are the main facts - but why did we only hear about Apex Legends at the last possible minute before launch? Here's your latest battle royale island, complete with. In other words, as cross-play only recently became a possibility, it will never be fully integrated into Apex Legends. Cross-progress and cross-purchases, however, will never be possible in Apex Legends, "due to the way systems were set up early on" which "can't reconciled after the fact". Lead producer Drew McCoy told me that while Respawn would love to bring Apex Legends to mobile and Switch, there's "nothing can currently talk about", so you'll have to dock that handheld for now.Īlthough cross-play is unavailable at launch, Respawn told Eurogamer it "plans to allow players to play with their friends on other platforms". ![]() More on that later.Īs leaked, Apex Legends is available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. ![]() Apex Legends also introduces a variety of other neat additions to the battle royale genre. There are currently eight "legends" in the game, each with unique passive, tactical and ultimate abilities - but Respawn has gone to significant lengths to ensure the gameplay feels balanced. It's essentially a genre-merge of battle royale and hero-based shooter. Finally, my chances of winning have increased. To be crowned champion, you'll need to lead your 3-player squad to victory against 19 other teams - a total of 57 other players.
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