PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting a 5v5 top-down shooter spinoff

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Krafton and PUBG Studios unveiled Project ARC today. It’s a spinoff of nan celebrated crippled PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but trades successful nan third-person battle royale gameplay for that of a 5v5 top-down shooter.

Currently intended arsenic a multiplayer-only title, Project ARC is trying to guidelines retired by implementing realistic shooting mechanics into a top-down shooter. Things for illustration target height, deed zones, destructible environments, and weapon recoil matter successful Project ARC erstwhile they typically don’t successful top-down shooters. Players take a character, each of which uses a unsocial limb from PUBG and has a gadget for illustration a Med Kit aliases Grenade Launcher. Right now, nan only confirmed crippled modes are Team Deathmatch and Demolition, which has nan aforesaid rules arsenic nan superior mode of games for illustration Valorant aliases Spectre Divide, but swaps nan explosive for a Decrypter hacking device.

Unlike The Callisto Protocol, which started arsenic a PUBG spinoff, but developed into its ain universe, Project ARC is simply a nonstop PUBG spinoff group successful nan aforesaid world arsenic nan conflict royale. That relationship will chiefly beryllium seen done weapons and gadgets for illustration nan Blue Zone Grenade and Folded Shield. When it comes to expanding PUBG arsenic an IP, developers said successful comments provided to Digital Trends that “PUBG Studios is presently moving connected respective caller projects, including Project ARC. As a mini team, nan ARC Team will proceed to prosecute swift and bold experimentation.” A squad of little than 15 group is moving connected Project ARC.

Project ARC will beryllium released into early entree connected PC successful 2025. The developers will see a console merchandise aft they adhd controller support, but don’t scheme to bring nan crippled to mobile. The developers are still deciding whether Project ARC will beryllium a free-to-play aliases premium title.