Sling your thoughts again to final October and also you would possibly bear in mind PUBG Studios (sure, that PUBG) unveiling a brand new 5v5 PvP shooter that includes ‘shared real-time line of sight’. Nicely, it is again, it is acquired a correct identify now, and there is a demo on the way in which.
Once we final noticed PUBG Studios’ new title, it was going by the identify of Venture ARC and being described as a “reasonable and fast-paced top-down capturing expertise impressed by PUBG: Battlegrounds”. 4 months – and probably some arcane course of involving an terrible lot of Put up-It notes – later, it has been renamed to PUBG: Blindspot.
What we’ve got here’s a 5v5 top-down tactical shooter the place groups are both charged with hacking or defending a hidden crypt every recreation. The hacking crew should blow up the partitions surrounding the crypt to achieve entry and set up a Decrypter gadget, whereas the defending crew tries to cease them. However why, you could be asking your self, is it known as Blindspot?
Nicely that, I assume, brings us again to the aforementioned shared line of sight, with enemies vanishing and reappearing throughout the map relying what particular person teammates can see – a system supposed so as to add an additional tactical wrinkle by “fast, non-verbal cooperation”. Chuck in characters with their very own most popular weapons and distinctive devices, alongside the promise of “skill-based, thrilling” gunfights, and that is all of the fundamentals lined.
PUBG: Blindspot does not have a launch date but, but when the brisk run-down above has left you in anyway intrigued, a demo will probably be obtainable from twenty first February as a part of Steam Subsequent Fest. It will characteristic 10 distinctive characters with their very own signature weapons and particular instruments, three crew deathmatch maps, and 4 demolition mission maps, giving gamers a “probability to expertise what [the team has] been cooking up to this point”.
In semi-related information, PUBG creator Brendan Greene final yr revealed an “bold” three-project plan for his PlayerUnknown Productions studio. This included a single-player open-world “emergent” survival recreation often called Prologue: Go Wayback, an “immersive” tech demo titled Preface: Undiscovered World, and the still-mysterious Venture Artemis.
