It’s hard to believe it’s been four years since Titanfall 2 was released, but that’s the milestone Respawn’s beloved sci-fi shooter hit on Wednesday this week. Since 2016 things have been pretty quiet on the mainline Titanfall front, with much of Respawn’s efforts channeled into spin-off Apex Legends: a game that emerged from tests for a battle royale mode in Titanfall 3, and which has since achieved a huge amount of success in its own right. But it seems the Titanfall sequel is continuing to influence the development of Apex Legends, as it turns out upcoming map Olympus was initially conceived for Titanfall 3.
Season 7 of Apex Legends is bringing a raft of major changes to the game – most notably new astrophysicist legend Horizon, community clubs, the game’s first-ever vehicles and floating city-in-the-clouds Olympus. The new map really is the main draw here, designed with verticality and vehicles in mind, and stuffed with the sort of opulent architecture you’d expect to find in one of the richest cities in the Titanfall universe. And although work on creating Olympus for Apex Legends began in Spring 2019, the idea itself is far older.
“At one point, there was a Titanfall 3 in the works after we launched Titanfall 2,” game director Chad Grenier told me in an interview. “And Olympus wasn’t called Olympus at the time, but that style of map was something that we were exploring for the next Titanfall game.
