Apex Legends, Why Doesn’t It Have Titans?

In an interview with Eurogamer, lead producer Drew McCoy shared the reason why Apex Legends doesn’t feature titans.

In an interview with Eurogamer, lead producer Drew McCoy shared the reason why Apex Legends doesn’t feature titans.

That’s quite a weird decision, if you consider the game is a Titanfall spin-off, but the developer had design choices to make in order to allow the series to work in a battle royale context.

“The titans in Titanfall 1 and 2 were meant to be a power fantasy – you’re supposed to think ‘alright, I can call it in, I can power it up and feel like a bad-ass for a little while’, then it’ll probably blow up and you have a chance to do it again,” McCoy revealed.

“So we were prototyping that and they were a power-up, and that was really detrimental to a battle royale. Battle royales are supposed to be like Poker – everyone comes to the table with the same possibilities.”

With just one design decision, Respawn felt it was preserving both Apex Legends and the Titanfall lore where titans are super-strong.

“If we ever balanced a titan down to where they were not a destructive force on the match – it was like betraying that power fantasy, like they were made out of paper, a wet cardboard bag – it was not worth it,” he added.

It makes sense and, as the game is being run as a live service, we’ll see whether Respawn is able to find a solution to bring the titans in while not disrupting the “power fantasy” and the battle royale balance.

Considering Titanfall 3 is not being currently worked on, there’s a chance it’ll take a long while before we can play titans again.

Source: Eurogamer