‘PUBG: Battlegrounds’ is recognized for placing the games battle royale on the market, causing titles like ‘Fortnite’, ‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Apex’ to decide to bet on that formula, but with their own style. Now it’s the same Krafton who signals that it is time to abandon said market.
The PUBG studio is working on a “extraction shooter” which according to them will be the way to the future. At the moment it bears the name of ‘Project BlackBudget‘ and a simultaneous launch between PC, consoles and mobilessomething that is not so common in this type of project.
Krafton laughed commented a Polygon that his new project is an internal “challenge” to popularize the extraction shooter genre.
How to play an extraction shooter
The name of the genre may sound unknown, but in reality it has been with us for a few years, the maximum exponent is ‘Escape From Tarkov‘, one of the most popular titles currently on Twitch. This is a first person shooter with survival and tactical elements.
The charm of this type of title is how it mixes different RPG elements with MMO details, without forgetting that the level of tension can be so great that it is even suspenseful.
The objective is very simple, we must advance through the map and eliminate all the enemies that we find to steal their equipment and be able to escape when we reach the extraction point. Another exponent is the same ‘Call of Duty: Warzone’ with its DMZ mode still in betabut so far it is a big surprise for the community.
The charm is that each game is a different challengeeither by the weapons that we meet or the enemies that we meet, a charm similar to the battle royale. It is undoubtedly a title that can be enjoyed in company or with friends and could be considered an “evolution”.
The beginning of the end?
We are experiencing difficult weeks for some games with a free model and among them we have several battle royale on the list. Let’s remember EA announcements that they will shut down the servers of ‘Apex Legends Mobile‘ in May, or the cancellation of the ‘Battlefield‘ for mobile.
In the case of Ubisoft it is also a sea of delays and cancellations, but with the battle royale have ‘Hyper Scape’ y ‘Ghost Recon Frontline‘, two titles that never managed to make the leap. Without forgetting other cases like ‘CrossfireX‘ which closes in May or ‘Knockout City‘ who leaves in June.