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If you had to give Season 23 a one-word name, what would it be?
Season 23 includes so many exciting game-changers.
“Definitely excited about it,” Legend designer Devan McGuire said.
Is theEPG-1 grenade launcherthe only weapon included among the Rift Relics, or are there more?
“There are quite a few more weapons in the list,” lead legend designer Mike Button revealed.
There are going to be some [Rift Relics] that are familiar."
“It’s pretty disruptive, but by design,” Button revealed.
And our playground is really outside of ranked.
You won’t see Rift Relics appear in ranked.
That’ll remain a pure and balanced experience.
You’re not going to see event-style content contained to one or two weeks, but all season long.
You’ll see this build up of more and more things.
You’ll see things rotate in and out of the Rift Relic pool.
There’s a balancing component there for sure.
Part of [having] fun is also [maintaining] some balance.
It can’t be all craziness all the time.
So we have levers to pull just as we would with core content.
But we’re trying to ride that edge a little bit."
“I could share one more Boost Kit with you,” Button offered.
You’ll get a second with one HP to reset.
It’s not as long as Wraith’s tactical–that’s part of the balancing element here.
And that’s one we’re especially excited about as well, in addition to all the rest."
Last time it was Revenant, whose rebirth had awhole storyline behind it.
But lore-wise, I feel like she was sort of being pulled along to all the major story events.
She’s holding onto DOC and gliding through the air.
What was the thought process behind “Lifeline should fly”?
“You’ve probably seen her doing it already quite a bit in previous trailers and stuff.
“So that was a big inspiration for it.
So that was the inspiration.
It just worked out really well.”
What was the biggest challenge Respawn faced when designing Season 23, and how did you navigate it?
In Rift Relics, there are groups of these things and atonof them.
I don’t think we could have done them all without that [passion].
What was the team’s main goal when it came to implementing all these huge meta changes?
“The biggest thing is breaking expectations.
What aspect of Season 23 are you the most proud of?
That has been a really great landmark to finally achieve.
It was a large effort.”
What are your hopes for the future of the game?
“We want to grow the game with the player base, with the community,” Nikolich said.
“We’re not trying to build something in secret and launch it all at once.
Over time, some things are going to hit, some things are going to miss.
The big thing is there are players that were what, nine years old when Apex came out?
And now they’re 14 and they’re stepping into their first competitive shooter.
Why should they choose Apex?
So our focus is to get more nimble.
So that’s our commitment going forward.
And yeah, there’s going to be a lot more change.
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