400-Player Battle Royale Game Known As ‘Project X’ Now Has A Teaser Trailer

The upcoming Battle Royale game that claims to support 400 concurrent players now has a name and a teaser trailer.

Originally known as Project X, the PUBG-like game mode is called Mavericks: Proving Grounds and is currently in development with UK company, Automaton Games. While the trailer shows off some great looking environments, it doesn’t really reveal much else. Check it out below.

Its creators say Mavericks will have a 12km x 12km dynamic world where players can be tracked by things like footprints, and wildfire will spread like… Well, wildfire. It’ll also feature wildlife that can be used to your advantage.

“Wildlife will react to players,” team member Lawrence Barnett told Polygon“It will react dynamically. So, if you run through a bush you’ll scatter a deer to the right. If there’s another player to the right of you that you’ve yet to have seen and that deer runs into that player, it will then turn around and look really rather startled before finding an alternative route.”

Proving Grounds – the Battle Royale aspect of the game – will have a playable beta out at some point this year, but it’s unclear exactly when that will be.

“This year, we’re coming out with our competitive, Battle Royale-style mode, which we hope will show that there is so much more for that genre than what people have seen today,” Automaton’s James Thompson told PC Gamer. “How much more we can do with the game world and the game mode as a whole.”

The full game is scheduled for release in 2019 and will allegedly support 1,000 concurrent players in an “ultra-high fidelity” MMO world.

“It is set in a huge, photoreal, and highly dynamic environment, with strong character progression, social hubs, intelligent mission systems and global-scale player-driven narrative,” the game’s description says.

Mavericks will likely be released on PC, at least to begin with, but there’s no word on a console version at this stage. Automaton will be making some kind of announcement at The Game Developers Conference next month, so expect to hear more then.

Just thinking about a 400-player version of PUBG is giving me anxiety, yet I yearn for it.


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