The very floor of the video games trade as we all know it’s nonetheless a free-flowing mass of magma, all recognizably stable floor decreased to mud by the stunning influence of the hyper-popular Battle Royale shooter style, accelerated to planet-smashing speeds by the rise of high-end PC gaming in China.
With the very way forward for the trade nonetheless uncertain (nicely, extra uncertain than common), it’s nearly laborious to imagine that this cataclysmic occasion occurred only a yr in the past. In a video launched alongside their GDC look, the lead builders of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds shared their ideas on the previous twelve months, plus a bit glimpse on the upcoming island map.
There’s some fascinating stuff within the video, though in all probability not in the best way that they had absolutely meant. The discuss of completely hostile participant suggestions is sort of disconcerting, particularly mixed with their ‘Well, at least they’re passionate!’ response delivered by a compelled smile. There’s positively loads stated there, simply not with the phrases that you just hear.
But what you’re right here for is the thin on the upcoming map. Alice delivered the long and short of it a couple of weeks again (this one is extra brief than lengthy), and this video offers us our first have a look at it. It’s designed for shorter, sooner, extra aggressive matches and you may see the total overhead map beneath. The map itself will probably be arriving on check servers ‘soon’, and will hopefully be simpler to check and optimize than earlier landmasses, on account of it solely being a dinky 4x4km throughout, down from the standard 64km world of damage that we’re used to.
There’s a definite Southeast Asian look to the buildings on the island, though timber really feel an odd combine that by some means appears to be like a bit misplaced to me. I’m prepared to chalk that as much as both me not understanding timber, or brain-spiders. Either means, the replace shouldn’t be too far off. This isn’t the one new map for Plunkbat within the works, both, with a bigger, extra conventional surroundings of some description nonetheless within the works, in addition to some new weapons and automobiles.
Despite shedding some floor to Fortnite, Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds continues to be completely absurdly well-liked, and you may seize it for £27/$30 via Steam.
