Apex Legends game director Chad Grenier teased the content due to release in the coming seasons, including until season 11, but highlighted season 9 as a time when players will receive unexpected content.
Apex is currently in season 7, which was released on November 4 and brought with it a new map, the third of the game. Season 8 is coming, of course, but the Respawn team is always working many seasons in advance, and season 9 seems to be a highlight.
Talking to IGN about their workflow, while the entire team was moved to work from home and yet they managed to successfully launch two full seasons and work on at least four more.
But at the end of the discussion, Grenier offered some stressful teasers about what players can expect in season 8 and 9, especially with a few planned surprises.
“I would like to talk about all this, because I am very excited. Season 8 is perfecting to be amazing, it’s just wonderful and worked almost entirely from home. “But when we talked about season 9, Grenier seemed even more enthusiastic.
“Season 9 will also be great, he is looking forward to. In season 9, you’ll see some major things you didn’t expect. So, it’s just a very interesting moment right now.
“Despite all the challenges of working from home, we took a step back and discovered a lot of things about how to work together and how to build great content. And there are great ideas in our studio. “
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What could be these unexpected features? There are several possibilities. The top of the list for many players would be several modes that are not in the style of Battle Royale. The success of LTMs like Winter Express will certainly give Respawn confidence that these types of modes can work in Apex. They’ve already said it’s something they want to work on.
Other possible ways are more PVE style modes or maybe a more concretized story mode. The Season 5 quest was a small clue as to what might come there, but Respawn formed this back in Season 6 and 7, opting for weekly comics to tell the story of the game.
There is also the possibility of another map, but given that we have just added Olympus, this seems less likely, because another new map within six months is probably excessive – for both gamers and developers.
Seasons 10 and 11 are also in the works, confirms Grenier and, no doubt, plans are being formed for many seasons beyond that. As always, we’ll keep you posted on everything you need to know about present and future Apex Legends.