Following Bloomberg’s latest claims EA had cancelled an unannounced single-player recreation set within the Titanfall/Apex Legends universe, dependable leaker Jeff Grubb has shared extra particulars, saying the mission was a “Titanfall-feeling” single-player marketing campaign that may have been included in Apex Legends somewhat than being a standalone title.
Grubb, who’s been in a very leaky temper this night, made the claims throughout a Giant Bomb podcast (as transcribed by VGC), saying he’d heard from sources that the cancelled mission was a part of a broader push to develop the scope of Apex Legends.
“In two weeks from now, Apex Legends goes to get Crew Deathmatch, and that was all the time a part of a plan to show Apex Legends into this platform the place you can get all types of various shooter experiences from an expanded Apex Legends/Titanfall world”, Grubb defined.
He added that Titanfall Legends (one of many codenames given to the cancelled mission) was “all the time supposed to fit in as a part of that [and] can be a single-player marketing campaign inside this platform, in the identical manner Name of Obligation works the place you get Fashionable Warfare 2 and Warzone is correct there as effectively.”
Based on Grubb, Titanfall Legends would have seen Apex Legends character Rampart uncovering the chassis of Titanfall 2’s BT, resulting in gamers – within the function of Blisk – exploring the sport’s world with an upgradeable BT. Though the marketing campaign reportedly featured acquainted Titanfall staples like wall-running, Apex Legends would have had a heavy presence, with varied Legends popping as much as give gamers extra powers alongside the way in which.
“The considering there was that extra individuals have performed Apex Legend than have ever heard of Titanfall,” Grubb defined, “in order that they have been actually going to lean into that.”
“Titanfall Legends was not Titanfall 3, as a result of in lots of people’s minds I feel Titanfall 3 was going to be a brand new, standalone recreation with a single-player marketing campaign and a multiplayer, they usually might simply by no means try this once more after Apex Legends modified the calculus on all of these issues”.