They’re working on an extraction shooter
Playerunknown’s Battlegroundshas experimented several times with PvPvE modes, but it seems like the next project from developers PUBG Studios will mine the genre further. Specifically, the latest earnings report from publisher Krafton says the studio are working on an open world “extraction shooter”.
If you haven’t kept up, extraction shooters are a type of particularly deadly looter shooter, in which you’re tasked with defeating (computer or human) enemies, grabbing some resource, and then escaping the area before you’re wiped out yourself. Escape From Tarkov is one; the DMZ mode inWarzone 2is another.
Krafton’s take on the genre is codenamed Project BlackBudget and is Krafton “challenging ourselves to popularize the extraction shooter genre based on our PUBG production & service experience,” according topage 9 of the earnings report.
There’s not so much as a piece of concept art of the game yet, of course, so all this could change or the project could be scrapped entirely.
The rest of the earnings report makes for similarly interesting reading. There’s brief and vague mention of theSubnauticasequel we already knew about, fantasy epicThe Bird That Drinks Tears, and another game-as-service PvPvE action game called Project GoldRush.
Personally I’m more interesting in the extraction shooter than making friends.
