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Daybreak Games, the developer behind the EverQuest series, H1Z1, and DC Universe Online, just announced another entry into the crowded battle royale space. Unlike H1Z1 King of the Hill, which originally spawned out of a zombie themed survival game, Planetside Arena is a spinoff of their sci-fi F2P MMOFPS, Planetside 2. Assets like the 8x8km map, vehicles, and infantry and small arms models all seem to be lifted from the free game, and it will presumably use the same engine that allows Planetside 2 to host so many players at once. Daybreak says the game launches on January 29th for $20, with support for 500-player battles, but they intend to add more modes and increase the player count as time goes on.
Check out the announcement trailer here, or watch the dev's lengthier introduction on YouTube.https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/12/14/daybreak_announces_planetside_arena
"The other side of it is, it's not a BR game. It's an Arena game. PlanetSide Arena may have BR in it, but our biggest goal is to have just BR as a mode and not be a BR game. While we may have a CTF mode that is 8v8, we may also have a CTF mode that is 20v20v20v20, which completely throws everything on its head and any expectation for predictability out the window, and it's something we can do on a scale base we know no-one else can do at the moment." The announcement of PlanetSide Arena also comes at a worrying time for Daybreak itself. The company has suffered two rounds of layoffs this year, the most recent occurring just before Christmas, with a reported 70 staff let go.
Check out the announcement trailer here, or watch the dev's lengthier introduction on YouTube.https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/12/14/daybreak_announces_planetside_arena
"The other side of it is, it's not a BR game. It's an Arena game. PlanetSide Arena may have BR in it, but our biggest goal is to have just BR as a mode and not be a BR game. While we may have a CTF mode that is 8v8, we may also have a CTF mode that is 20v20v20v20, which completely throws everything on its head and any expectation for predictability out the window, and it's something we can do on a scale base we know no-one else can do at the moment." The announcement of PlanetSide Arena also comes at a worrying time for Daybreak itself. The company has suffered two rounds of layoffs this year, the most recent occurring just before Christmas, with a reported 70 staff let go.
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