Respawn CEO explains why Apex Legends won\u2019t rival Fortnite\u2019s social plans Respawn Entertainment\u2019s CEO Vince Zampella has admitted Apex Legends will never really challenge Fortnite\u2019s grand plan to become a \u201csocial hub,\u201d but admits that\u2019s by design as his battle royale doubles down on its character-based focus. Epic has been looking to push the boundaries of video gaming in recent months with Fortnite, with major events like the game-deleting \u201cThe End,\u201d and the Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker crossover, company founder Tim Sweeney recently revealed. All these new events, which are geared towards bringing more fans and creators into the game before arming them with new creative tools so they can build their worlds, are aimed towards turning the game into a \u201csocial platform.\u201d While arch-rival Fortnite may be aiming to create a \u2018hub\u2019 for players, recently promoted Respawn and now-DICE CEO Zampella said Apex wasn\u2019t going to wade into the challenge, but stay focused on \u201ccharacter-based\u201d development. According to Zampella, who spoke about the direction of Apex and bringing DICE under his Respawn umbrella in an interview with the LA Times on January 2, comparing his title and Fortnite is like \u2018chalk and cheese\u2019 in regards to their aims. Instead of the \u201csocial hub\u201d ambition Epic has latched onto with their title, Respawn is remaining locked onto \u201cbetter ways to developer characters,\u201d as well as making sure \u201cmechanics and art coalesce into visual storytelling opportunities.\u201d \u201cWe tend to rapidly prototype characters at a high rate and throw them away when they\u2019re not working,\u201d added incoming Apex Legends overseer Chad Grenier. \u201cWe do 10 times more prototypes than what actually make it into the game.\u201d While Fortnite is moving towards the cartoonish crossovers, Apex is embracing the \u201csci-fi space\u201d theme single-player predecessor Titanfall first set in place. While the world is \u201cgeneric,\u201d he said, the characters create the universe. \u201cThat\u2019s terrible for me to say about my own game, but we wanted something more identifiable by going into characters,\u201d he said. \u201cTo identify with a character, either by play style or because you like who they are and what they stand for, it was important for us to take that next step. Character-based is now super important to what we do.\u201d Apex certainly has a wide cast of colorful and crazy characters already solidified into its arsenal. From lovable robot Pathfinder, to death-obsessed scientist Caustic and fan-favorite warrior Wraith, there\u2019s already plenty of great storylines, with more planned in the near future. Melee-focused Forge, near-complete Rosie, aka Loba, and shadowy robot villain Revenant, who took control of King\u2019s Canyon in Apex\u2019s recent Halloween event, are all looming on the horizon from the many prototypes Zampella teased. Considering Respawn keeps their secrets closely guarded when it comes to character developments, as Bangalore voice actor Erica Luttrell revealed on December 30, it may be some time before we hear official news on new characters. It is expected, however, that Revenant will be joining the Apex Games party with the release of the game\u2019s fourth season. With Season 3 winding to a close, it\u2019s likely new teasers for the next period of the battle royale are just around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Respawn CEO explains why Apex Legends won\u2019t rival Fortnite\u2019s social plans Respawn Entertainment\u2019s CEO Vince Zampella has admitted Apex Legends will never really challenge Fortnite\u2019s grand plan to become a \u201csocial hub,\u201d but admits that\u2019s by design as his battle royale doubles down on its character-based focus. Epic has been looking to push the boundaries […]<\/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-18532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532","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=18532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}