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.
