Apex Legends Director Teases 'Major Things' For Season 9

You shouldn't have much trouble with anything playing as Gambit since, again, his Big Easy Impact dash has enough maneuverability to get you out of harm's way or fend off any incoming diver. But regardless, there are a couple of match-ups that might get tricky, no matter the odds or even if you're out of your Cajun Charge and Bayou Bash char

Offensively, he's a great hero who has a steep learning curve thanks to his Sleight of Cards. Knowing when or how to use them is crucial since there is (currently) no way to recharge them unless you wait for them to replen

DC K.O. #1 launches DC’s new 22-issue (not including prologues), tournament-style Fighting game community|https://fightnewsplus.com/ series, where heroes and villains face off in bracket-style battles, all striving to become the DC champion capable of gathering enough Omega Energy to challenge Darkseid at his most powerful as the King Omega. It’s this very premise that serves as an epic pitch for DC’s next game , one that, if properly capitalized on, could rival the massive popularity of Marvel Riv

Kraber also shared that each of the voice actors for the now-15 Legends had to record from their own homes instead of the booth at Warner Brother’s studio in Burbank, California. Some of the actors did not have their own personal studios though, so other voice actors shipped equipment to one anot

In Marvel Rivals , Magik's Ultimate transforms her into the Darkchild. Alongside a physical transformation, Magik temporarily increases her speed, attack damage and cooldown rates. While the design is impressively demonic, it's a long way from being comic-accurate, and Amazing X-Men 's redesign would allow fans to play the 'Darkchild' version of Magik with and without her Ultim

Kraber, Audio Director and namesake for the powerful sniper rifle in Apex Legends , talked about what working on the game’s music was like during the pandemic. Kraber said the team’s commitment to having a "John Williams meets Hans Zimmer" orchestral score for Season 5, Fortune’s Favor, led to the team needing 60-70 solo artists to come in one at a time to record their respective parts. The final mix of the swashbuckling Fortune’s Favor theme, which is also mixed for 7.1 surround sound, is over 600 tracks in Respawn’s audio editing softw

For a DC K.O .–inspired game to truly compete with Marvel Rivals , DC would need to refine the concept. This could include featuring more iconic characters absent from the event, such as the Flash's Barry Allen and Wally West, Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and John Stewart, Nightwing, and more. Expanding the roster would ensure fans feel their favorite heroes and villains are fully represen

Gambit's whole kit makes him the ideal hero that lives up to the name in the "Strategist" role. But even more so, it also helps that he's a support-focused character who can help push the tides of battle in your favor pretty eas

Despite having to work remotely, the development team for Apex Legends managed to keep up a steady stream of content with few delays, aside from the Switch version of Apex Legends being delayed to 2021 . Even more impressive is that the team managed to have a successful year during a pandemic, while also committing to an anti-crunch development appro

Illyana Rasputin's Magik is one of Marvel Rivals _ ' most popular heroes - a Duelist with a particularly intimidating Ultimate and an impressive win rate over 55%. Now, players who love the mutant hero _need to see her new redes

Game Director Chad Grenier, Audio Director Erik Kraber, and Principal Animator Moy Parra spoke to IGN about the challenges of game development during a pandemic. Grenier talked about the turnaround time of different elements, saying that the prototyping phase for major things like Olympus and Horizon began roughly a year ago before the pandemic hit. He noted that everything else, like new voice lines and Season 7’s snazzy cosmetics , were all started and finished from h

**Marvel Rivals ** Season 4.5 is set to introduce a new game mode, pitting multiple players against dangerous Zombies in a long-awaited PvE mode that changes the hero shooter's normal formula. This mode changes several game mechanics, including the abilities of the limited characters you have access to. With powerful bosses and chaotic, large-scale battles against hordes of zombies, this mode has many details to disco

Animation Lead Shawn Wilson apparently adopted a new, cheaper at-home mocap suit and began to capture all the animations the team needed himself until a low-staff system could be set up back at Respawn’s original studio. Parra said all they need at the studio now is an actor, a technician, and a "COVID officer," while the rest of the team watches from Zoom and controls a camera robot that Parra said was "a tiny bit overki

Every character has a variety of huge changes to their abilities in Zombies Mode , based entirely around unique customization options exclusive to the PvE content. For example, The Punisher can spawn their turret and have it operate independently of him, allowing him to approach fights in a completely new