A lot of people here seem to expect a new map. While there is a slight possibility, you should probably temper your expectations before the official media gives us the idea of what Fire&Ice thing is about.
I've seen to many people who go full-on hypetrain and then act disappointed when new good content hits because there were expecting much more.
That's hard for me to believe. Respawn has 315 employees, a lot of those are developers. There is no way a character takes that long for an entire team to design, animate and mock up two abilities for. If it took 8 months per, there would have only been 1 new character. Most of the new characters were probably finished a long time ago or the majority of the design work was already done, too.
It may be hard for you to believe, but it's the truth. We also have 3 game teams working on titles in full production, so that 315 number (which I think is incorrect?) are not all people working on Apex. I'm not disbelieving your comment that you are also a developer, but if you're in the same triple A space we're in you should not find our declared timeframes of how long it takes to make stuff hard to believe.
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