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Krafton, the developer of the "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" game, announced four new games under development in a report to investors on February 8, including a game from the creator of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.The "Takov"-style game being developed by the PUBG studio.
Although the pioneer of the game known as "chicken eating" by domestic players is "Survival King" (H1Z1) developed by Daybreak, it is Krafton's "King of Survival" that really made this type of game popular.PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds".Although "chicken eating" games can still be seen on various live game platforms, the market for this category has stagnated a bit.
So Krafton is aiming at the next "explosion", which is called "Takov"Evacuation-style shooting game.At present, Krafton announced that PUBG studio is developing a project called "Project BlackBudget".They said that they are "challenging themselves, based on the previous development and operation experience of "PUBG Mobile" to make evacuation shooting games as popular as the previous chicken eating games."At the same time, they said that the game will include "an ever-changing PvPvE open world and satisfying gunplay gameplay", allowing players to have an unpredictable happy experience.At present, they are considering making this game available across the three major ports of computers, consoles and mobile phones, and going online on multiple platforms.So far, they have not announced the launch date of these new works, and they have not even disclosed the concept map of the project in the report.
Evacuation shooters are not a new genre.The reason why players call this type of game "Takov" is because as early as 2019, "Escape from Tarkov" produced by the Russian company Battlestate Games became popular due to the game live broadcast platform.At the end of 2019, "Escape from Tarkov" once surpassed popular games such as "League of Legends", "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" and "Fortnite" on foreign game live broadcast platforms.At that time, it had been three years since "Escape from Tarkov" was launched.
Although there are representative products for evacuation shooting games, this does not prevent Krafton from taking a share.After all, there are lessons learned from "PUBG Mobile" against "King of Survival", not to mention that "Call of Duty: War Zone" has also entered this track with the DMZ mode. It is inevitable that Krafton, who is also good at designing shooting games, would like to join.
Since the explosion in 2017, "chicken eating" games have appeared one after another.At present, there are only four PC games that are best in operation: "PUBG Mobile" (2017), "Apex Heroes" (2019), "Call of Duty: War Zone" (2020) and the need to create additional building gameplayFortnite (2018).
In fact, the battlefield of the chicken game is just like this type of game. The "players" on the battlefield have already been saturated, and the rest are fighting each other.Recently, more and more games have been withdrawn from this battlefield, especially this year.
"Rumbleverse" (Wrestling City): Just last month, Epic announced that this game will be offline at the end of February.This is a cartoon-style melee chicken game that can support up to 40 players to fight together.From going online in August last year to going offline at the end of February this year, it only lasted for about half a year.In fact, melee chicken eating is not a failed game, because the other two melee chicken eating games, "Jelly Bean: Ultimate Knockout" and "Eternal Tribulation", were launched earlier and are still in operation.Moreover, the evaluation of "Rumbleverse" among players is not very bad. The main reason why it was abandoned by the publisher is that it has not enough players as a free game, and the economic benefits brought by it are compared with other similar products under the publisher.Night" is far from "Jelly Bean Man".
The mobile game version of "Apex Heroes": also last month, EA announced that the mobile game version of its popular chicken game "Apex Heroes" will be shut down in May this year.Just been online for a year.The person in charge of EA admitted in the financial report that due to the complexity of the gameplay of "Apex Heroes", it could not be well transplanted to the mobile game version.In fact, it is a bit late for EA to join the battlefield of mobile games to eat chicken, because before that, "PUBG Mobile" and "Fortress Night" have already released mobile game versions, and Activision also announced that it will launch "Call of Duty: Call of Duty" this year.The mobile game version of "War Zone", EA may fall further behind in the mobile game of eating chicken.
Ubisoft's "Ghost Recon: Frontline" and "Super Hunting City": Both are shooting and eating chicken games, and neither of them caused any splashes. Both were in July and last year respectivelyIt was cut by Ubisoft in April.These two Ubisoft projects entered the chicken eating track too late, and it is indeed difficult to cause any splashes.
As for Krafton’s new evacuation shooting game track, in addition to the previously mentioned DMZ modes of “Escape from Tarkov” and “Call of Duty: Warzone”, there are also many already on the market.Completed, upcoming or operating products.
"Hunting: Showdown": a first-person perspective competitive bounty hunting game from Crysis, the production team of the "Crysis" series, is a Tarkov-style PvPvE game, mainly PvPContains a large number of PvE elements.In the game, players need to cross the swamp to complete the task of killing the bounty monster boss.Bounty bosses drop loot after killing them.Players who pick up loot will reveal their information, causing other players to chase them.When the player successfully takes the loot to the designated location to complete the evacuation, he will receive a large amount of bounty and experience rewards."Hunting: Duel" continues the brilliance of the classic shooting game "Crysis" ten years ago, and is often in the top 50 of the Steam game rankings.
"Second Extinction": Although the game is still in the stage of early access, many players have passed theXbox and steam have played it ahead of time.The game is predicted to be officially launched this year.In this escape shooter, the player character is dropped on a Jurassic Park-like island filled with dinosaurs.Players can go alone or team up to complete the goal of reaching the extraction point.
"Storm Man": From Yager Development, the studio that developed "Special Operations: A Line of Life"Another masterpiece of .Although "The Storm" was only launched in June last year, it has been in public beta for three years.The game is nicknamed "Interstellar Tarkov". Players have to collect materials on strange planets, fight against other players to plunder each other's materials, fight alien creatures, avoid damage from extreme weather, and most importantly board a spaceship to evacuate.The game mainly runs on the computer side, and it is a F2P game on both Steam and Epic.
"Dark and Darker": Known as "Fantasy Tarkov", an independent game from South KoreaDeveloper Ironmace.Unlike the other Tarkov games mentioned above, this is not a shooter.And the scene of this game is set in an underground labyrinth rather than other open outdoor scenes of the same type.Players can choose different occupations and reach the evacuation location to clear the level.On the way, players can pick up resources such as weapons and equipment, and encounter various underground monsters, and even other players.If the player's character can reach the extraction point alive, the money in the game can be obtained by selling the picked up resources.The game has just completed the Alpha test on Steam, and at its peak, more than 100,000 players can be seen online at the same time.The game is expected to be officially launched on the computer side in the fourth quarter of 2023 this year.
Evacuation shooting games are actually both familiar and unfamiliar to players of chicken eating games.Players can quickly get used to the operation, and at the same time have enough strangeness in the core gameplay. After all, blindly killing other players can no longer directly bring about the victory of the game. Collecting resources and safe evacuation are the primary goals.At the same time, it still retains the thrill of "meeting on a narrow road and the brave wins" in the game of eating chicken.
We don’t know if Takov games can be as popular as the chicken eating game, but Krafton urgently needs some new products to reverse the situation. Recently, the company disclosed its financial report to the outside world.The results of the "Callistour Protocol" released last year were not satisfactory. All kinds of situations show that Krafton has a high degree of dependence on PUBG IP. Will targeting "Tarkov" be a good path?
