Apex Legends Titan-Based PVE Event Teased in Leak

Apex Legends may receive a player-vs.-environment mode pitting players against Titans, according to a data mine uncovered Saturday by That1MiningGuy.

That1MiningGuy posted his findings on Twitter: a series of strings in Apex Legends' files referring to the Specter, Stalker, Frag Drone and Titan from Titanfall. Each string included the tag "outlands," which may refer to an upcoming event.

This is interesting to me because I cannot remember seeing the specific strings for these NPCs that included the _outlands tag. (Not saying Titans for Apex... but maybe something PVE related regarding them?) pic.twitter.com/ulTPRDjOoF
— That1MiningGuy (@that1miningguy) May 23, 2020

Apex Legends, set in the Titanfall universe, has long avoided the giant mechs that defined that series, preferring instead to keep the action at human scale after internal experiments with Titans were found lacking. Respawn Entertainment has drawn characters, weapons, and alien creatures (specifically Prowlers) from Titanfall, but has stopped short of adding the mechs themselves.

Prowlers first appeared in The Old Ways lore event, where players could fight them on the map. They have returned in Apex Legends Season 5's Quest in a dedicated PVE game mode, indicating Respawn's growing implementation of PVE.

Respawn Entertainment has not commented on the leak.