The player count for Titanfall 2 has seen a massive spike since the reveal of a new Apex Legends character who has heavy ties to the game.
This week, Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment uncovered the high-flying, rocket-dispatching Legend Valkyrie. The new contender has close connections to the characters and story of Titanfall 2, which has caused a gigantic spike in players for the 2016 game.
Players who needed an update on what happened to Valkyrie’s dad or to encounter it interestingly have rushed to Titanfall 2 in extraordinary numbers. Since Respawn started prodding the at this point to-be-uncovered Valkyrie’s associations with Titanfall 2 a week ago, the game’s player tally hopped from a normal of around 1,500 per day to a normal of 15,000 on Steam, as indicated by Steam Charts. Indeed, there are a bigger number of individuals playing Titanfall 2 now than when the game previously came to Steam a year ago.
Steam is the solitary game help that has player check measurements openly noticeable, so it is obscure what the player tallies resemble on PlayStation or Xbox. Titanfall 2 was free to PS Plus endorsers in 2019, and it is allowed to play on both Xbox Game Pass and EA Play, so it is conceivable that numerous or more players are using those stages, too.
Valkyrie will be playable in Apex Legends on May 4. The particulars of her unit still can’t seem to be formally uncovered, yet as indicated by Valkyrie-related releases, her latent capacity will allow her to drift noticeably all around, while her strategic capacity will include shooting a bunch of rockets. Her definitive will purportedly work like a Jump Tower for her and her colleagues, permitting them to migrate across the guide voluntarily.
Apex Legends is available now on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One, with a mobile version currently in beta testing.
