Paladins, wizards, magic spells, unicorn motorbikes, and crafting are coming to Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds with the foolish Fantasy Battle Royale occasion mode celebrating April Fools’ Day. Starting Wednesday, it’s Plunkbat, proper, however with fantasy lessons. What I most like is how all that is dressed as shoddy LARP gear: the Paladin in tinfoil greaves; the Barbarian sporting a Buster Bluth muscle swimsuit; the Wizard in his dressing robe; the Ranger with two off-brand Pringles tubes as thigh-mounted quivers; the unicorn mount that’s a bike with an opulent unicorn head strapped to the entrance. This live-action trailer is nice too.
While most April Fools’ jokes in video games are dangerous, I do like when builders truly decide to the joke and make their joke actual. Fantasy Battle Royale will begin at 8am (midnight PDT) on April 1st then run till 7:59am on April eighth. I’m properly up for some fantasy battling with the laaads.
I fairly fancy a go on the Wizard myself, who has the bottom HP however can fling fireballs and meteor showers with homosexual abandon. The Barbarian has excessive well being and motion pace, a giant ol’ sword, and a perk that enhances motion pace as they hit enemies, which sounds enjoyable. The Ranger snipes with a crossbow and can even hurl Flash Powder to blind enemies and buff allies’ injury discount. And the Paladin can heal, sluggish enemies, and defend cost – however can’t climb as a result of their arms are full with their banister mace and bin lid defend.
The mode will deliver 20 groups of 4 to Erangel (right here often known as the Dragon’s Isle), and no there’s no compelled social gathering composition. Two automobiles might be round, the Noble Steed (the motorcycle) and Dragon Wagon (a repainted UAZ), however they’re slower and fewer resilient than standard.
Oh, and it’ll have a crafting system. We’ll be looting crafting supplies to improve our class-specific weapon, necklace, and ring for extra highly effective perks.
A particular occasion requires particular prizes, and Fantasy Battle Royale will allow us to get the LARP costume items for keepsies. Some are purchased with Gold earned by finishing Fantasy Battle missions, whereas others are bought for normal BP earned by regular play. They can even be bought for actual money for individuals who’d slightly skip all that.
This frivolity additionally lets PUBG Corp squeeze in some experiments they’ve been occupied with.
“A big part of Battle Royale is survival and we’ve been curious what crafting on the Battlegrounds might look like,” the builders stated in the announcement, and that this occasion mode “gave us the perfect opportunity to try out a crafting system”. Though they do stress that “none of this means that these test features are going to appear in normal PUBG matches tomorrow, or ever for that matter, but it does finally give us a good way to get them out to you and gather your feedback so we can decide whether or not to develop them further.”
They did additionally attempt to head off grumbling from gamers who need different issues extra, saying “it’s important for us that you know Fantasy BR wasn’t some giant use of our development resources.” They continued, “It is mostly some creative new art on top of a few bits of code to change how things that already exist in PUBG work. We know that what we spend our time on is important to you, especially while some persistent issues remain unfixed right now.”
As a lapsed day by day participant, mate I’ll take wizards over no matter else. An occasion mode is perhaps a low precedence for normal gamers however this’ll actually get me again in for a glance.
