The UE5 survival game of every day and every light year is quietly launched overseas
In March this year, GameLook reported that the doomsday survival mobile game "Codename:"Spark" suddenly opened an appointment, and released the concept PV first, which immediately attracted many players and peers to discuss.In recent days, this mysterious new game seems to have quietly started testing overseas.
GameLook found that a SOC mobile game "Project EVO" started Alpha testing overseas.Whether it is the mysterious red Rubik's Cube similar to Tinder in the concept map, or the announcement that it was developed using Unreal Engine 5, it is hard not to let people associate it with "Code Name: Spark".
Based on various factors, GameLook believes that "Project EVO" is exactly thisThe doomsday survival mobile game of Light Year Agent.With the help of this test, the outside world can finally get a glimpse of what the SOC mobile game developed by UE5 looks like?
Game PV
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According to the test version, the current "Project EVO" has a map similar to the size of "PUBG: M", creating a desolate and tragic open world of doomsday wasteland"Emberland".Among them, rich natural landforms and weather environments are added, and resources are abundant.
Internal test play
That is to say, players can freely travel through deserts, forests, snowfields, mountains and ruins, etc., and freely explore and explore in various landform environments.Development and growth.
Of course, the game screen is not inferior to most mobile games, character modeling quality, real-time weather effects, andThe environments are highly realistic.At the same time, it also has a certain degree of environmental interaction feedback. For example, when cutting trees and mining, there will be corresponding trace effects when hitting different positions; the door can also be opened when holding a building map or riding a horse...
Zed, the person in charge of "Project EVO", said that the reason why he chose to use UE5 for research and development is not only to meet the high degree of freedom and openness of the game, real-time confrontation and interaction complexity requirements, to achieve better graphics effects, and to establish an effective anti-cheating mechanism.It is to optimize performance and adapt to more low-end devices.
"Contrary to what people think, Unreal Engine 5 not only looks better, but also performs better than Unreal Engine 4 on low-end devices. This allows us to reduce the adaptation of "Project EVO"
The official also stated that for fairness considerations, the test prohibits PCThe simulator is involved.At the same time, foreign media said that "Project EVO" is planned to be released for iOS and Android platforms this year.However, considering that the product developed by UE5 is closer to the end-game experience as a whole, GameLook believes that the game will most likely choose to be released across platforms in the future.
7-day single round cycle + settlement incentives, digging new directions for the doomsday survival track
Different from the mainstream doomsday survival gameplay, "Project EVO" is based onThe 7-day dynamic mode is settled. Players need to collect resources, build territories, manufacture weapons and continue to explore the map in the seamless big world, constantly strengthen their personal and team strength, face the challenges of wild beasts, zombies and hostile forces, and finally become the few survivors.
Compared with the traditional "survival" SOC games, "Project EVO" greatly strengthens the PvE and PvP gameplay, and is closer to the single-game system in tactical competitive games.At the same time, the game introduces the concept of periodic points ranking, which further magnifies the cooperative gameplay and competitiveness.
The mysterious Rubik's Cube that appears in the game concept map is actually the key resource for in-game competition——Ember, the player needs to find it alone or in cooperation with others.Ember is not only related to the normal operation of home facilities, but also affects the daily ranking in the game, and players can also obtain different rewards.
Of course, the core gameplay of the game is still inseparable from the traditional collection, construction, and survival.In the early stage, players still need to chop down trees to collect wood to make axes, use pickaxes to mine stones, accumulate resources to build houses, upgrade technology trees, and unlock more weapons and equipment such as bows and arrows and firearms.Also note that fasting and lack of water will result in reduced health.
As players upgrade their equipment and weapons, they can also use PvE to attack strongholds to obtain moreMultiple resources.Among them, you need to face different types of zombies, such as fast-moving, using ordinary physical attacks, or types that explode after death and cause range damage.There will even be battles with better armed human enemies called "Mobs".
Therefore, players can challenge themselves, or form a team to attack more difficult strongholds.If you die unfortunately, not only can you be resurrected by your teammates, but you can also be reborn in a shelter built with sleeping bags.However, after the sleeping bag is destroyed by other players, you can only choose to resurrect nearby, and then go to the death point to pick up equipment.
Interestingly, unlike traditional SOC mobile games that separate PVP and PVE gameplay, "Project EVO"Directly combine survival construction with PVE and PVP.At the same time, since this test involves hundreds of players competing on the same server, when players have certain resources in the later stage, the intense PvP gameplay will immediately become the mainstream.
StationOn the same starting line, major manufacturers compete for the SOC global market
The doomsday survival track, there has always been no shortage of 3A masterpieces such as "Radiation" and "Metro".In the field of terminal games, a large number of SOC games have been cultivated early, such as "Ark: Survival Evolved" and "Forest" and other highly popular games.But strictly speaking, this is still a relatively new category in the field of mobile games.
To this day, only NetEase's "After Tomorrow" has been able to successfully open up wasteland, and even "gnawed" the more difficult PC field starting from mobile games.Since then, doomsday survival mobile games have changed their unpopular positioning in the past, and have attracted more and more attention from domestic manufacturers.
However, due to the relatively high R&D technical threshold of this category, in recent years, there have been few small and medium-sized teams participating, and more have become the exclusive competition ground for major manufacturers.
As early as a few years ago, Photon organized a team of 300 people to create an open world survival mobile game "Dawn Awakening" using Unreal Engine 4, but it has not yet been launched.At the same time, category pioneer NetEase is also stepping up the development of the second SOC mobile game "Codename: ATLAS", and transferred the world view to the future ocean wasteland, once again playing new tricks on the survival experience.
Now, with "Project EVO" being tested overseas, it also meansEntered the countdown stage of product commercialization.
As far as the current performance is concerned, there are basically not many PvE and PvP gameplays in the early stage of the game. It is more like an open sandbox game, such as "New Dawn", which is also tested overseas by Xishanju.However, the latter is obviously a two-dimensional fantasy style, while the former is closer to "Seven Days to Kill".
More importantly, "Project EVO" is extremelyDadi improves the fun of the game, and to a certain extent alleviates the shortcomings of high liver and boring experience in the late game of this type of game.At the same time, it also strengthens the PvP and PvE gameplay of the game, and solves the problem of excessive content consumption by amplifying the competitive nature of the game.
Whether you like sandbox construction or competitive experience, "Project EVO" can meet the needs of users.To some extent, it solves the problem that the current doomsday survival games are relatively small in the field of mobile games, and also pushes the game, and even the entire category, to a larger user base.
However, even if the long-term operation of "After Tomorrow" is successfully implemented, it is currently mainly in the domestic and Asian marketsoperate.For the entire European and American mobile game markets, the doomsday survival shooting category is still novel.
To put it more bluntly, from "After Tomorrow", "Awakening of Dawn" to "Project EVO", domestic manufacturers are still on the same starting line.In the future, whoever succeeds first will have the hope of occupying the global market in advance.
