For five years battle royale has been the default direction for multiplayer shooters to pivot. I'm ready for something new.
Did you know that battle royale, in its modern form as a trendy FPS genre, turns five this year? That's when PUBG came out and proved there was big money to be made. We've now spent half a decade dropping out of planes with 99 of our closest enemies, ripping each other to shreds as we fight over the last AK-47 in the room. That's 1,800 days of getting shot in the back by a squad with better guns.
The circle can single-handedly ruin a 40-minute match that's going your way, and it makes that decision completely randomly. The circle doesn't care if I've already fought tooth and nail for a tactical position on top of a hill or in a secure building.
I remember watching the 2019 Fortnite World Cup and laughing at how such a vibrant, animated children's game could be reduced to a hundred teens, waiting and hoping the circle doesn't force them to move. Competitors would sit idly by for the better part of an hour, taking potshots through little windows until the circle eventually shrank to a cylinder barely one person thick, at which point whoever had the high ground would usually shoot the other survivors in the face.
Hunt: Showdown and Escape From Tarkov are part of a burgeoning genre that doesn't really have a name yet. Developers call them"PvPvE shooters" because you fight players and AI enemies, but I like to call them"raid" games. The format sits somewhere between traditional battle royale and the genre that preceded it, sandbox survival games. A raid game is similar to battle royale, except there's more than one win condition, depending on your personal goals.
Players have a chance of spawning near you, but you're more likely to have five or ten opening minutes of peace before a player appears. From the jump you can explore any compound in any order. Every compound has a collectible clue that slowly reveals the location of the boss monsters on the map. Boss monsters are the toughest AI enemies in the game, but killing them drops bounty tokens worth a lot of money and XP.
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