Most Titanfall fans on reddit probably remember the infamous sushi leak from last year, leak didn't really gain that much attention outside of r/titanfall so I'm pretty sure that most people on era have never heard of it.
In this leak, someone claims to work in a sushi restaurant where Respawn developers drop by every once in a while, and he apparently eavesdrops a lot of information in regards to the studio's projects, the leak dates back way before Respawn's acquisition by EA.
In short, he confirms that Titanfall 3 is in development using the same Source engine from the last two games, the mere existence of a third Titanfall game probably isn't surprising to most people who pay close attention to these sort of things, but the thing that's weirding me out the most about this leak is the game's release date.
It was apparently supposed to be released in April 2019.
So, EA acquires Respawn in November 2017, then EA Play passes by in June 2018 and we get... nothing.
I'm beginning to wonder if the game got internally rebooted, or even worse, cancelled (highly unlikely), I wonder if we're getting the same Titanfall that they were working on around the time of this leak (March 2017), which was supposedly a meaty Titanfall game in terms of singleplayer content, but given EA's recent business decisions and their love for shoving Frostbite down every EA developer's throat, I wonder if Titanfall 3 has received a major overhauls following EA's acquisition.
Here's the leak for those interested:
I think that this leak is fairly legitimate due to several things, #1 he leaked Titanfall 2's DLC titan name long before it was ever possible to data-mine it on PC, #2 this whole thing about a canned Medal of Honor game getting its assets used on another project sounds... VERY FAMILIAR, #3 he claims that Respawn thinks that their Star Wars game looks "average", which might explain the lukewarm EA Play reveal we got for Jedi: Fallen Order.
https://www.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/62dkvn/titanfall3_in_production/
In this leak, someone claims to work in a sushi restaurant where Respawn developers drop by every once in a while, and he apparently eavesdrops a lot of information in regards to the studio's projects, the leak dates back way before Respawn's acquisition by EA.
In short, he confirms that Titanfall 3 is in development using the same Source engine from the last two games, the mere existence of a third Titanfall game probably isn't surprising to most people who pay close attention to these sort of things, but the thing that's weirding me out the most about this leak is the game's release date.
It was apparently supposed to be released in April 2019.
So, EA acquires Respawn in November 2017, then EA Play passes by in June 2018 and we get... nothing.
I'm beginning to wonder if the game got internally rebooted, or even worse, cancelled (highly unlikely), I wonder if we're getting the same Titanfall that they were working on around the time of this leak (March 2017), which was supposedly a meaty Titanfall game in terms of singleplayer content, but given EA's recent business decisions and their love for shoving Frostbite down every EA developer's throat, I wonder if Titanfall 3 has received a major overhauls following EA's acquisition.
Here's the leak for those interested:
Titanfall 3 scheduled for April 2019. Titanfall 2 DLC. 6 primes and 1 brand new Titan before Christmas. Problems, staff exodus and re-org. Medal of Honor. Was in dev but just got cut.
Boy do I have news for you lot.
A very good friend of mine works in a Sushi restaurant in Chatsworth and the Respawn team drop in every few weeks. They chat loud and each a lot of Sushi apparently. From listening in to their conversation and talking to the Producer, this is the scoop. Clearly it's not a verbatim conversation but the Respawn staff cover the game week after week every time they visit so a lot of info can be found.
Hopefully when people see the efforts Respawn are making as they try and recover this game from pretty horrible sales, the community will stick around to see what they have in store as it's too early for us to give up on the game just yet.
Titanfall 3 is in the works!
So happy to hear this! This has been in progress since the beginning of the year and is currently scheduled for April 2019. It's going to use the same engine as Titanfall 2 but will be upgraded with some new features that are still being worked out based on what the designers need.
Titanfall 2 is DOA in the sales cycle at this stage due to a botched launch, terrible marketing and a poor online numbers. Having Titanfall 3 come out April 2019 will allow EA (publishers) to reset and recover the universe which they've sunk money into with little upside at this point and Respawn are worried that a game with giant Robots might not be as mainstream as Titanfall 1 sales hinted at. Sales for Titanfall 2 are less than Titanfall 1 even with an extra PS4 offering so the producer is worried the series might be killed off if Titanfall 3 doesn't sell well.
On tech, with 4k Consoles about to become mainstream and PC hardware making massive GPU leaps, the 3D engine which is already showing it's age (says Drew) would need to be replaced for a 2020/21 release date to handle modern requirements. They're going to use the same good enough engine they used in Titanfall 1 and Titanfall 2 with some additional polish added.
He was coy on details about the game other than they're focusing on a big unique SP game with every level having a time-shift moment and he's going to leave the MP details in the hands of the MP designers as "They're always late and won't make a decision until the day after it ships" Lol.
He said Titanfall 3 is not playable yet but it will be in a few months once the SP designers deliver the first action blocks(?) or level.
DLC. Not a great deal of detail on this other than it's with the 'B' design team. No new code features are going to be added, just art stuff and remixes. He did say they have a total of seven new Titans, six primes and one brand new Titan for later in the year called Monarch. He didn't sound massively excited about it as the online numbers were tailing off which makes supporting DLC not worth it when they can make big leaps for Titanfall 3. Obviously EA will dispute this as they have to.
Staff exodus? After Titanfall 2 shipped a few key people left the company including the guy who was head of art, Joel? who moved back to Activision.
They fired the Game Director as he wrote documents rather than directed the team and it's now a collaborative team effort with the producer running the show.
Apparently Respawn have their own internal marketing people who the team thinks are to blame for a terrible launch. They're going to replaced soon or have just been replaced, can't remember which one but he wasn't a fan. He did say most of the SP designers remain and they're the good ones as opposed to the MP team, which makes sense when you compare the quality of the SP to MP game. Personally all I want is a bigger SP game next time around and a back to basics game for MP but that's just me but SP was definitely the focus for Titanfall 3.
Medal of Honor! As a juicy leak of info, Respawn have a third team. The first being Titanfall, the second being Star Wars (looks very average he said) and a third team that was making Medal of Honor. Respawn had some of the original Medal of Honor people back on staff (remember this where the original team came from) but it recently got killed by EA as it was running late and they're not sure whether to keep developing the game on their own or cancel it. They're talking to other publishers about taking it on and using a different name other than Medal of Honor.
I have lots of other info from my scribbled notes that I'll share soon but I thought you'd all like to get some information of what's going on at Respawn and they aren't giving up on the game just yet.
I think that this leak is fairly legitimate due to several things, #1 he leaked Titanfall 2's DLC titan name long before it was ever possible to data-mine it on PC, #2 this whole thing about a canned Medal of Honor game getting its assets used on another project sounds... VERY FAMILIAR, #3 he claims that Respawn thinks that their Star Wars game looks "average", which might explain the lukewarm EA Play reveal we got for Jedi: Fallen Order.
https://www.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/62dkvn/titanfall3_in_production/