Respawn Entertainment's Apex Legends is one of the best battle royale games out there at the moment and one of the reasons behind this is the game's selection of weapons. Apex Legends may have fewer guns than Warzone and Fortnite, but they're balanced fairly well and offer a variety of gameplay opportunities to players. While there are a lot of players happy with the weapons in Apex Legends, there are quite a few who want to see more. When asked, once again, about Titanfall weapons during a Reddit AMA on the battle royale's characters and firearms, senior game designer Eric Canavese explained exactly why we're probably not going to see too many more Titanfall guns in Apex Legends.
In his explanation, using Titanfall's Softball Anti-Armor Grenade Launcher as an example, Canavese details that the weapons in Titanfall are designed "specifically for Titan combat" and that Apex Legends' combat often just "doesn't have those sorts of challenges" for players to overcome.
Discussing the Softball explicitly, he goes on to say that Respawn Entertainment would need to look at creating a new weapon category altogether for a grenade launcher - or develop it "specifically as a care package weapon". However, as he discusses in another Reddit comment, the resources required to develop and introduce a new weapon to Apex Legends outweigh the impact it has on the game when it is limited to care package drops.
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