Apex Legends devs admit adding Titans is \u201cagainst the rules\u201d for now Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends won\u2019t be getting Titanfall 2\u2019s lumbering war machines in Season 5, or any time soon, Respawn game director Chad Grenier has confirmed. In fact, he admitted adding Titans is \u201cagainst the rules\u201d for the battle royale developers. Titans \u2014 and their absence in Kings Canyon \u2014 have been a hot topic surrounding Respawn\u2019s battle royale since it first debuted in early 2019. Apex was born out of the Titanfall 3 development cycle. The iconic war machines were only hooked from the title fairly late in the process as Respawn pivoted to the title we see today. With much of the cult Titanfall fanbase following Respawn to their next FPS game, it makes sense fans are eager to see major elements from the series added. Apex is, after all, set in the same universe \u2014 it makes sense we\u2019d see Titans eventually. Unfortunately, it looks like that may still remain just a pipe dream. Despite the fact the whole dev team would \u201clove\u201d to find a way to add Titans to the game, it\u2019s \u201cagainst the rules\u201d when it comes to the game\u2019s development, Grenier has revealed. The issue, Respawn\u2019s game director said in an interview with vg247, is there are only two choices when it comes to adding Titans: make them so powerful they take over the game, or have them \u201close their fun\u201d in a weakened state. \u201cWe all love Titans, just from a fantasy-fulfilment perspective. It\u2019s always been a huge challenge to balance them in a game that has pilots and Titans,\u201d Grenier admitted. He added Respawn would likely never add the machines to Apex. \u201cWe actually had a version of Apex early on that had Titans. It had pilots with wall-running, and all that in there. We faced the same challenges we tried to solve with Titanfall too,\u201d the Respawn development guru continued. \u201cHow do you design a map that supports both big and small? Can you balance a game where you have Titans and squishy pilots in the same game together? How do you have a competitive, predictable game?\u201d That\u2019s not to say Grenier didn\u2019t completely pen a huge red line through the Titans. They may eventually arrive in Apex in a form outside of the \u201cdestructive machines\u201d from the Titanfall series. It might just not be \u201csoon.\u201d \u201cOnce we did some playtests slowing the game down a bit by taking out wall-running, taking out Titans, we all realized that we had a much more competitive, fun game that you could invest a lot of time in and get really good at.\u201d \u201cWe love Titans. They\u2019re in the universe, the Apex arena is in the Outlands, separate from Titans,\u201d the Apex game director continued. \u201cThey\u2019re just against the rules at this point in time. It\u2019s an interesting thing to think about, but with those thoughts come flashbacks to all the Titanfall challenges too.\u201d This stance all lines up with now-departed Respawn producer Drew McCoy\u2019s comment on Titans when the game was first released too: \u201cFor now, Titans are just not a thing [in Apex]. We are no longer considering it\u201d. It looks like, behind the scenes, nothing has changed on that front in the past year either. The closest players might come to experiencing a rampaging Titan across Kings Canyon in Season 5 could come in the newly-leaked player vs environment (PvE) event \u2014 discovered by returning data miner That1MiningGuy \u2014 that could see Titans, Spectres, Stalkers, Frag Drones, and more debut in the battle royale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends devs admit adding Titans is \u201cagainst the rules\u201d for now Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends won\u2019t be getting Titanfall 2\u2019s lumbering war machines in Season 5, or any time soon, Respawn game director Chad Grenier has confirmed. In fact, he admitted adding Titans is \u201cagainst the rules\u201d for the battle royale developers. Titans \u2014 and […]<\/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-14703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14703","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=14703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}