Prologue: Go Wayback! is the brand new Rust-inspired survival recreation from PUBG creator PlayerUnknown, and gamers can now sign-up to take part in a closed beta check operating till Might 14.
The sport is billed as a hardcore, single-player roguelike survival recreation the place each playthrough is completely different due to procedurally generated maps and dynamic climate. Gamers begin in a cabin and are tasked with surviving a a number of kilometers trek throughout the map to achieve a climate tower. Alongside the best way gamers might want to handle their physique temperature, starvation, and hydration, with a heavy emphasis being placed on a participant’s means to remain heat.
These desirous about collaborating within the Go Wayback! closed beta can sign-up on the official PlayerUnknown Productions Discord server.
In an interview with the Epic Games Store, PlayerUknown himself, Brendan Greene, mentioned that not like most different survival video games, Go Wayback! emphasizes physique temperature as a key issue of survival. For that cause the sport incorporates a strong hearth simulation, the place gamers might want to pile collectively kindling and spark a flame to create hearth versus merely choosing “campfire” from a crafting menu. Objects that appear burnable within the recreation, even objects within the cabin like books and drink coasters, most likely are, giving gamers freedom in the way to method the sport’s survival conditions.
Whereas a recreation in its personal proper (one that can launch in early entry on Steam and the Epic Games Store), Go Wayback! can also be a testbed for a bigger, extra formidable recreation PlayerUnknown Productions calls Undertaking Artemis. It is a at present extra ephemeral concept that Greene describes as a mix of Minecraft and “3D model of the web” the place gamers will be capable to create worlds, cities, and cities and have 1000’s of different gamers populate them.
Go Wayback! serves as a systemic basis for Undertaking Artemis. A playable engine showcase known as Preface launched totally free final 12 months and exhibits off the planet-generating tech that can energy Artemis. A at present untitled recreation, one which Greene describes as “Command & Conquer however first-person” and with tens or a whole bunch of gamers, will come subsequent and likewise function a element of what is going to finally turn into Artemis.
As for Go Wayback! itself, Greene was closely impressed by the favored survival recreation Rust and its emergent gameplay. Scott Davidson, Rust’s former artwork director, now works as Go Wayback’s artistic director. Although Go Wayback! is at present a single-player expertise, Greene mentioned he does wish to ultimately add co-op multiplayer. The workforce is at present estimating the sport shall be in early entry for round two years.