Interview: A Chat With Valorant's Max Grossman On Killjoy, And Riot's Design Philosophy For New Agents

Perhaps it'd be interesting to see how the Apex Legends community responds to the idea of spin-off titles, and whether it'd be a worthy venture for Respawn Entertainment and/or EA. At a glance, Apex Legends and Titanfall bring enough to the table lore-wise for this to be absolutely possible, but it's a matter of gauging whether the interest is there. Somehow mixing the whimsical nature of Apex Legends ' lore with the seriousness of Titanfall could be an interesting experim Lore continues to expand and grow alongside the popularity of Apex Legends , which still boasts several million active players and is consistently a top 20 game on Twitch. With each new character and season has come new cinematics and lore entries detailing the world of the popular battle royale title. Now, Respawn Entertainment and EA have the opportunity to potentially expand the Apex Legends world outward into various other gameplay experiences. There's enough lore and background material that could make a similar expansion plan feasible, but it's unclear if Apex Legends ' lore has as much staying power as League of Legends d While League of Legends continues to grow outside the MOBA, it seems Apex Legends shares a similar desire to grow outside of its own battle royale genre. In an interview with Eurogamer, Apex Legends <a href="https://vchys.com.ua/biology/user/MoraCourtois8/">SLG game strategy</a> director Chad Grenier mentioned a desire to expand and "eventually evolve into something beyond a battle royale." At first, Grenier mentions that crossplay and the Nintendo Switch release of Apex Legends are the first steps to expanding the <a href="http://Www.Tqlaser99.com/comment/html/?165875.html">SLG Game missions</a>. However, Grenier subsequently poses the question of how Apex Legends could move beyond just iterating on Apex Legends with additional limited-time-mo Although the game has never been exactly known for its friendly player base, recent seasons have seen a drastic increase of League of Legends ' toxic behavior in-game that avoids chat detection. With even some famous streamers acting this way, many matches would end with someone AFKing or sabotaging their team and receiving no punishment. Because these actions became widespread to the frustration of many community members and figureheads, Riot vowed to heavily revamp its behavioral syst The design team is involved in the early stages to establish rules for creating characters and making them stand out in environments. We worked with the character artists on what color values to use on the maps relative to how you do that with Agents. Small tiny details end up making a world of difference. Specific RGB color values on our characters are just not allowed to exist on our maps to prevent that "hiddenness" from happening so that the characters always pop out in the wo ** Max Grossman: ** When we think about the characters we're making, we tend to first look at player fantasies. So the idea of playing with a turret is something that many players want. We can look at many different games to learn and dissect how similar types of player fantasies exist in other games. I don't think we want to be derivative necessarily, but I also think it would be ridiculous for us to claim that we came up with the turret first as if it's this genius idea since that's not the case. It's more like "there's a turret in Overwatch. How does it work? There's a turret in Team Fortress. How does it work? Rainbow Six has turret-like gadgets." We can compare how abilities work within the context of those games and use it to inform our design. It was hard to figure out how a turret would function in Valor The Needler may not be the best Halo weapon , but it would be the perfect one to use against Trynd, because if he uses his ultimate, Chief can fire as many needles into him and just wait, because after a slight delay the needles will all expl Kratos can easily break out of normal ice, but Lissandra's black ice is infused with so much magic that even his body can be crushed by it. He could try asking for help, but that might make things worse, because if Lissandra kills any of his allies, she can create an ice clone which will follow him like a homing miss ** TheGamer: ** Sentinels tend to be a favorite among players new to tactical shooters. Namely, Killjoy, Sage, and Cypher — Agents with robust defensive toolkits. Are Sentinels intentionally designed to be friendly to new players? 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