Apex Legends devs address hopes of adding Throwing Knife permanently Respawn EntertainmentRespawn has added a new weapon as part of Apex Legends\u2019 Gun Run LTM in the Beast of Prey collection event, the Throwing Knife. The fresh addition to the game has players hoping it\u2019ll be a permanent feature, but developers aren\u2019t keen just yet. The new Gun Run LTM in Apex Legends is a throwback to gun games and arms races of old in other titles. You start with one weapon, and progress through the tiers as you get kills. It gets increasingly harder with worse guns too, making for a fun challenge. Players are already loving the game mode, but one thing has captured intrigue and that\u2019s the Throwing Knife. A new weapon exclusive to the Gun Run LTM, it\u2019s what you need to use to end the game and get a win. While Respawn put a lot of effort into bringing Throwing Knives to Apex Legends though, players shouldn\u2019t expect it to be a permanent addition any time soon. If they were ever to do it, developer Robert West said there\u2019d need to be some serious finetuning. \u201cThe throwing knife was designed as the final weapon in Gun Run and is tuned to be quite lethal,\u201d he said on September 20. \u201cEven if we make it an air drop weapon, it would probably need some changes when considering battle royale.\u201d The idea of adding the Throwing Knife in the first place came out of necessity. Just ending the Gun Run LTM on a regular melee didn\u2019t fit Apex Legends\u2019 gameplay, so the developers had to think of something new. It was spawned off the Arc Star, funnily enough: \u201cWe wanted something difficult but achievable, with some range but optimal at short range. Throwing Knives fit the bill and was prototyped really early on in development. [A developer] took the arc star, removed the explosion and upped the initial hit. We loved it right away and started concepting the final visual design.\u201d Despite all that effort though, it won\u2019t be a permanent addition yet. Respawn has been slowing down weapon releases in Apex Legends for some time, and while they\u2019ve added features from LTMs in the past \u2014 like Evo Armor \u2014 Throwing Knives are unlikely to be one of them for some time. Never say never, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends devs address hopes of adding Throwing Knife permanently Respawn EntertainmentRespawn has added a new weapon as part of Apex Legends\u2019 Gun Run LTM in the Beast of Prey collection event, the Throwing Knife. The fresh addition to the game has players hoping it\u2019ll be a permanent feature, but developers aren\u2019t keen just yet. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}