Highguard developer Wildlight features veterans who previously worked on Apex Legends. Since they are intimately familiar with what they believe to be the mistakes of their previous title, Wildlight is determined not to repeat them with Highguard.
“I don’t think it’s any mystery that we launched Apex Legends and we were not ready,” recalled design lead Mohammad Alavi during a Highguard press event (via Polygon). “But we survived that fire and we learned a lot from it.”
The fire Alavi is referring to is that Apex Legends was dropped without a firm plan for post-release content. That game’s developer, Respawn Entertainment, eventually set up a timetable for its first year, and Wildlight has already done the same for Highguard. Unlike the earlier game, Highguard’s new content will be released more frequently.
Wildlight CEO Dusty Welch added, “The expectation from players has seemed to migrate more towards the expectation of mobile players, which is far more frequent. Every three months or every six months doing seasons is not in line with players’ expectations now.”
For now, Highguard will have episodes that span two months, which will include new weapons, bases, and other items or locations in the game. Highguard may get a horse-racing feature in the future, and a handful of fan-requested features were recently added. Sharp-eyed fans have also noticed that Highguard’s store page no longer mentions that it was made by the creators of Apex Legends and Titanfall.
