Apex Legends’ latest season has resulted in a brand new peak excessive for its Steam participant depend. In accordance SteamDB, the battle royale shooter lately hit over 610,000 gamers after the discharge of season 16, “Revelry.”
“Revelry” is the primary Apex season that hasn’t had a brand new playable Legend hooked up to it. However it does have new modes the participant base have been asking for, and its new workforce deathmatch mode has caught gamers’ consideration.
The brand new participant depend eclipses the 510,000 participant excessive that Apex Legends beforehand hit in August 2022. When season 15 launched in November that yr, it had practically 413,000 Steam gamers earlier than falling to round 350,000 the next month.
Previous to the launch of the “Revelry” season, Respawn’s sport mode designer Marty Wong informed Kotaku that workforce deathmatch (or TDM) was supposed to function a greater onboard for brand spanking new gamers in comparison with the now axed Arenas mode.
“We’ve been listening to the group ask for this one for some time,” mentioned Wong. “We’re hoping that TDM is available in and offers a spot for gamers to die quick and really feel snug making errors, hoping that provides Apex much more accessibility for brand spanking new gamers.”
What’s sooner or later for Apex Legends?
Because it first launched in 2019, it appeared that Apex Legends was mainly untouchable, however the final a number of weeks have since referred to as that perception into query.
At the beginning of February, EA introduced the cancellation of Apex Legends Cellular and Battlefield Cellular. EA claimed that the award-winning cellular model of Respawn’s shooter wasn’t participating customers within the long-term, although it acknowledged that the sport “speaks volumes for the long run potential of the franchise.”
Together with the cellular sport, EA additionally canceled a single-player spinoff that went beneath codename Titanfall Legends. The sport was supposed to function a story bridge between Apex and its mothership collection Titanfall (they’re set in the identical universe), and had 50 staffers engaged on it earlier than its cancellation.
Although there’s certainly extra Apex seasons ready within the wings, the cancellation of its cellular sport and a single participant title raises questions on simply how a lot EA is keen to let no matter future potential Apex has as a franchise develop past battle royale.
