Move over, PUBG: There’s a 400-player battle royale game in the works
We’re only asking because developer Automaton recently announced its upcoming game, currently titled Project X, and it sounds insane.
Utilizing Improbable’s cloud-based computing system SpatialOS and the ever-powerful CryEngine, Project X aims to not only support 1,000 players in a shared-world environment, but also to include a PUBG-style mode in which 400 players will fight for survival in a huge open-world map.
How huge? Well, according to Automaton, the map will be 144 square kilometers, making it a little over twice the size of PUBG‘s current map. Plus, thanks to the CryEngine, it’s going to look real pretty.
The enormous yet familiar last-person-standing MMO PvP mode is only one part of the game, which will also feature “strong character progression, social hubs, intelligent mission systems and global-scale player-driven narrative,” according to Automaton’s website. It sounds like there will be more to do in Project X than just hunt or be hunted.
You wouldn’t be alone if you never heard of the developer behind this massive undertaking. Automaton’s only other full title is Deceit, a six-player, asymmetrical survival-horror multiplayer game in which one player is “infected” and hunting the rest down while the “innocents” are trying to escape. The catch is that no one besides infected knows who the infected player is. It’ll be interesting to see how Automaton handles moving its development from a six-player game to a 1000-player game, because last time we checked, a thousand is way more than six.
Automaton plans to launch Project X sometime in 2018, but it’s shooting to have a playable version of the game ready in the spring.
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ChatPosted:
This is stupid, gotta love how they take the idea and try make it bigger, 400 players is dumb, unless the map is gonna be huge.. Even in PubG people die very fast with just 100 lol
SophPosted:
Craig I mean that's nice and all but really?
PUBG will always be the best..
Exactly, people just love over saturation of game genres blows my mind...
GaryPosted:
Im ready for the Battle Royal genre to get beaten to death by BR game release after BR game release. It happened to MOBA's, it happened to team shooters, I have a feeling Battle Royal genre is next in line for oversaturation.
EarnPosted:
First time hearing about this game and it sounds insane, I can imagine it will run like shit on most computers because of the amount of people playing at one time. Regardless I will still keep up to date on future news about Project X.
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