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Battlegrounds Competitor 'Project X' Shown With 400 Player Battles
Eurogamer is reporting on a new game by developers Automaton, who previously worked on psychological thriller Deceit. Their new game, Project X, is a 1000-person world that boasts a 12x12 kilometer map for players to engage in a Battlegrounds-style deathsport.
That large battlefield allows for games of up to 400 people at once over a more spread out area, replete with vegetation, fire, animals, and most of what you would expect from an excised part of a breathing world.
It remains to be seen how well this works in practice, but Automaton is relying heavily on the power of the cloud to help do a lot of the heavy lifting. Comparisons to Battlegrounds are inevitable, so hopefully Automaton tries to hit this one out of the park when the game is scheduled to be playable next Spring.
[Source: Eurogamer]
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