A free-to-play Titanfall battle royale game called Apex Legends is reportedly coming

EA and Respawn are set to announce a free-to-play battle royale game based on Titanfall Monday, February 4, according to multiple sources within and close to the games industry. Dubbed Apex Legends, the game has been described as a mix of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout and Rainbow Six Siege.

Apex Legends is said to be a hero battle royale, allowing players to choose a class or hero with distinctive abilities and operate as part of a team of up to three, with servers supporting up to 60 players, according to esports consultant Rod Breslau, who goes by @slasher on Twitter. Breslau says his sources describe the game’s free-to-play model as a “similar approach to that in Overwatch,” with microtransactions and loot boxes for in-game cosmetic items.

Twitter games blogger Nibel has sources saying Apex Legends is “set in the Titanfall universe” and described it as a mix of Blackout and Siege. Nibel also reports that EA filed for trademarks for the name Apex Legends (and Project Apex) last October, right around the time that EA announced that Respawn would have “multiple games” launching in 2019.

Apex Legends is reportedly launching on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Breslau says Respawn invited a group of streamers and esports professionals to a playtest event for Apex Legends in Los Angeles last week, and it’s likely this event is the source of the leaked info, as Kotaku’s Jason Schreier observed.

Apex Legends will presumably feature the high-velocity parkour and traversal that made both Titanfall games so much fun to play – although the titans themselves will apparently be sitting this entry out. You’ll have experienced this kind of action already if you played Titanfall 2’s Pilots vs. Pilots playlist, which was a popular if controversial multiplayer mode.

In any case, the rumors all point to this Monday, February 4 for both the announcement and launch of Apex Legends, so we’ll find out how the Titanfall universe works for battle royale, and for a free to play game, very soon.