How's it possible that Apex Legends is built on Source engine?

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The same engine Counter Strike and Half Life games are built...I mean I'd understand if it was built on Source 2 but wtf that's an old engine.

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it’s a modified version of source

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Originally posted by Map Room Recon:

it’s a modified version of source

what does it mean? It's still Valve's engine, right? Also why EA didn't use the engine BF5 uses, it's a more modern one.

[Justice Potato]

Originally posted by BoyDilly:

Originally posted by Map Room Recon:

it’s a modified version of source

what does it mean? It's still Valve's engine, right? Also why EA didn't use the engine BF5 uses, it's a more modern one.

Major segments of the code have been replaced with Respawn's.

iirc, Apex as a project started prior to EA acquiring them, so they didn't have access to EA's resources.

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Just like the original source engine was a heavily modded quake engine, same way the engine used by Respawn is a heavily modded version of the source engine.

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Originally posted by Justice Potato:

Originally posted by BoyDilly:

what does it mean? It's still Valve's engine, right? Also why EA didn't use the engine BF5 uses, it's a more modern one.

Major segments of the code have been replaced with Respawn's.

iirc, Apex as a project started prior to EA acquiring them, so they didn't have access to EA's resources.

oh I got you

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Originally posted by Justice Potato:

iirc, Apex as a project started prior to EA acquiring them, so they didn't have access to EA's resources.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I doubt EA really did anything in terms of developing the game. They're just the publisher for the game, not really the developers. In other words, I don't think Respawn would've had access to EA's engine (or tools) at any point in time during development.

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Originally posted by BoyDilly:

The same engine Counter Strike and Half Life games are built...I mean I'd understand if it was built on Source 2 but wtf that's an old engine.

Apex Legends is basically completely recycled Titanfall 2. And so they had to use the same heavily modified source engine that was used in its predecessor.