\nMaggie’s new abilities in action.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Of course, Season 12 isn’t just notable for Maggie’s inclusion – or indeed the new Olypus map changes and limited-time Control mode. It also marks a significant milestone for Apex Legends as project, given it’s celebrating the third anniversary of its surprise reveal and release on 4th February 2019. Respawn is remaining coy about how exactly players will be able to get involved in the birthday festivities but more details are promised soon. In fact, it remains coy about a lot of things while its carefully choreographed pre-launch PR plans to play out, but it did go as far as to confirm that news on the long-requested native current-gen version of Apex Legends – which it says will add “a bunch of new features” – is coming “very, very shortly”. <\/p>\n
In closing its time with the press, however, Respawn was willing to offer at least a few thoughts on its future ambitions. Perhaps the purest statement of intent came from design director Evan Nikolich, who explained the studio’s ultimate goal is, simply, to be “the best competitive shooter out there, that’s both fun to play and super engaging to watch”.<\/p>\n
“And that means we’re really gonna commit to battle royale,” Nikolich continues. “That’s what we do best, that’s what Apex is known for. That being said, battle royale needs to evolve; we want to attract players who’ve maybe been on the outside edge, or who’re maybe intrigued by the Apex universe and find it interesting in terms of wanting to join in, but we have to do a better job of teaching players how to play the game… So we want to serve both super-high skill play but also the people who are just entering, that’s like the main driving force [for the future].”<\/p>\n
“And the big thing for me personally, is to keep the community feel valued, engaged, and really keep on building the hobby and building out the world. When people play Apex, they’re spending their valuable free time with our game. And we want to respect that and make it worthwhile for [them] when they play.”<\/p>\n
Apex Legends’ 12th season, titled Defiance, arrives next Tuesday, 8th February.<\/p>\n
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