Highguard developer Wildlight options veterans who beforehand labored on Apex Legends. Since they’re intimately aware of what they consider to be the errors of their earlier title, Wildlight is set to not repeat them with Highguard.
“I do not suppose it is any thriller that we launched Apex Legends and we weren’t prepared,” recalled design lead Mohammad Alavi throughout a Highguard press occasion (by way of Polygon). “However we survived that fireside and we discovered rather a lot from it.”
The hearth Alavi is referring to is that Apex Legends was dropped with out a agency plan for post-release content material. That recreation’s developer, Respawn Leisure, ultimately arrange a timetable for its first 12 months, and Wildlight has already accomplished the identical for Highguard. Not like the sooner recreation, Highguard’s new content material might be launched extra ceaselessly.
Wildlight CEO Dusty Welch added, “The expectation from gamers has appeared emigrate extra in direction of the expectation of cell gamers, which is much extra frequent. Each three months or each six months doing seasons shouldn’t be according to gamers’ expectations now.”
For now, Highguard can have episodes that span two months, which can embrace new weapons, bases, and different gadgets or places within the recreation. Highguard might get a horse-racing characteristic sooner or later, and a handful of fan-requested options had been lately added. Sharp-eyed followers have additionally observed that Highguard’s retailer web page not mentions that it was made by the creators of Apex Legends and Titanfall.