Metro’s bullet-scrounging economy has also been replaced with a crafting system that uses scrap you’ll find if you explore enough, perhaps keeping Metro grounded in its roots as a tense, stealthy shooter.ĭeveloper: Techland | Release date: 2019 | Link: Sneak around far enough and you’ll learn they’ve split up into distinctive sub-groups who’ve all decided to implement their teacher’s lessons in, uh, differing styles. The open railroad gives way to more open environments to explore, like a forest campground full of bandits who end up revealing themselves as the surviving campers who were sheltered by their teacher as kids. Thankfully, Metro Exodus is giving you a considerably wider berth when it comes to tackling foes. Of course, there’s still plenty of mutants, mutated wildlife, and various brands of cults and neo-nazis standing in your way. Instead of claustrophobic, dimly lit subterranean tunnels (although we bet there will be at least a few), Artyom and his sniper rifle-wielding wife Ana will travel along the Russian railways in search of something resembling home.

The underground underdog Artyom is back, and this time he’s got a train. The technical hurdles PUBG has faced in its second year have reinforced the importance of rock-solid technology sitting underneath battle royale games, and SpatialOS is a platform all about making a huge number of concurrent players possible.ĭeveloper: 4A Games | Release date: February 15 | Link: Steam The prototype we played in March only featured five players, but 'even at this early state it's refreshing to see some elements coming to a battle royale game that might allow for new tactics and styles of play,' Chris wrote then. Is your Star Citizen Skepticism tingling yet? The potential differentiator: Mavericks isn't built on Unreal 4, but a pile of new tech that promises 1,000-player capacity, dynamic weather, 'comprehensive' destructibility, wildlife, and details like trackable, persistent player footprints and shell casings across a 16x16km map.

But if I had to pick a game that has a chance of stealing millions of players from Fortnite and PUBG on PC, it'd be Mavericks. At this point the biggest battle royale games are as established as Dota 2 and League of Legends.

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