Apex Legends dev explains why Octane skins may never unmask him Respawn EntertainmentA Respawn developer has explained why Apex Legends players may never see Octane without his mask in the battle royale. However, there could be a way to make up for it for those desperate. Ever since Respawn Entertainment included a mugshot of Octavio Silva in Pathfinder\u2019s Quest Book, fans have been waiting to see if the studio would ever include his face in the game via a new cosmetic. Unfortunately, that may never happen after the devs admitted they never had to make his face, thanks to the mask & goggles, so the technical hurdles to incorporate it at this point would be tremendous. Respawn Entertainment lead animator Moy Para broke the news to Octane fans holding out on seeing the Adrenaline Junkie\u2019s face in the Apex Games. \u2705 It’s much more feasible to put a mask or a helmet on a character that already has a face than the other way around. Think of Wraith’s Voidwalker \u2013 she was able to have both as she already had a facial setup to begin with. Bloodhound or Octane would be VERY challenging \ud83d\ude2c pic.twitter.com\/D93AgUfRm3 \u2014 Moy Parra \ud83c\udfae (@_moyparra) March 17, 2022 The dev laid down the honest truth about the limitations preventing Octane\u2019s face from being show. And even if it were possible, it wouldn\u2019t be what fans expect. \u201cI get asked all the time \u2018when can we have an unmasked skin for Octane?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThe real challenge is that we never made any facial animation for him as the rig did not need a facial component. So he would have a blank expression for everything!\u201d As disappointing as that may be, Apex-loremaster-turned-Respawn-narrative-historian \u2018frozenfroh\u2019 suggested there could be some way to make his face appear, despite its limited appearance. \u201cSometimes I wonder if this would be feasible if he only showed his face for a bit during a special Legend select animation in a way that he puts his mask\/goggles by the end of it,\u201d they said in response. Indeed this could be a way to add a face to Octane without having to add an insane amount of animation work everywhere else for a single skin. From the community, I can see positives and negatives with this approach \ud83d\ude05 \u2014 Moy Parra \ud83c\udfae (@_moyparra) March 17, 2022 Respawn, at least Parra, were tempted by the idea. \u201cIndeed this could be a way to add a face to Octane without having to add an insane amount of animation work everywhere else for a single skin,\u201d the dev said. \u201cFrom the community, I can see positives and negatives with this approach.\u201d So for now it seems like Octane\u2019s face won\u2019t be in Apex Legends. But if the community gave Respawn enough reason to at least get his mug in the moments leading up to a match, then there\u2019s a chance Octavio\u2019s face could make an appearance to some degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev explains why Octane skins may never unmask him Respawn EntertainmentA Respawn developer has explained why Apex Legends players may never see Octane without his mask in the battle royale. However, there could be a way to make up for it for those desperate. Ever since Respawn Entertainment included a mugshot of Octavio […]<\/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-14539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539","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=14539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}