Apex Legends Becomes Less 'Battle Royale' With The Introduction Of Traditional Team Deathmatch

Oh boy. Calling it now.

Testing grounds for Titanfall DLC since they'll never do another stand alone release.

This game has fallen off soo much in the last couple seasons.

I think it just makes sense. Battle Royales are getting stagnant. You want to keep the players in your launcher so you build other modes to do just that.

They tried with arenas but that never gelled for me. Let’s see how TDM does.

If Battle Royales start also including broader and more traditional game modes, that'd honestly be a good thing for the players and for competition. Companies chasing the games as a service model are gonna have to think twice or try even harder to make their games better with the already high failure rate, and pre-existing F2P games are gonna have to step it up too.

@shoeses I think we’re quickly getting to or already where companies trying to get into the Battle Royale business are thinking twice. There’s been so many closures of also rans which leaves us with the “big 4”; Fortnite, Apex, CoD Warzone & PUBG.

Fortnite has been trying to branch out for ages. Arenas, Creative and the music experiences provide people with more than the BR experience.

Apex had Arenas and now TDM + LTMs.

Warzone has regular yearly CoD.

I don’t know about PUBG.

@ParsnipHero Sadly the video game industry is like many others - most companies are still ran by a bunch of out of touch airheads and will get everyone involved financial beatings until either a lesson is learned or the next thing to chase comes up.

They do occasionally dip the toes in other game modes, with the exception of Warzone where it IS the extra game mode, but they're usually just tests or limited time unless it pops off big like No Build Mode. I'm hoping this will be a start to many new permanent editions.

@ParsnipHero you are so right. I had no use for Apex as a battle royal, but i might download this and play team death match. That sounds like fun and more my style. They added me to their launcher and that was something i had no desire to play before.

@Green-Bandit one thing to be aware of is that Apex’s TDM 3 weeks after launch then it’ll be in rotation with other LTMs like Gun Game and Control so it won’t be available all the time.

@shoeses true. The hope is the next big thing will just appear and upend the current battle royale and battle pass business meta.

@ParsnipHero crap good point man. Yeah that won’t really work for me. Just wish they would make an Apex non battle royal shooter. Make a great arena shooter since halo didn’t work out. What i really want to see is i.d reboot quake. That could be a Xbox exclusive that makes some noise if done right like i.d did with the Doom reboot.