Final December, PUBG Battlegrounds creator Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene introduced the debut title of his new indie studio, Prologue: Go Wayback. Billed as an open-world survival sport boasting dynamic environments and emergent gameplay, the sport is about to debut in PC Early Entry, however gamers can dive in now with the discharge of its first open beta.
Greene’s studio, Playerunknown Productions, says Prologue: Go Wayback is a survival sport “the place each journey is exclusive.” Gamers discover a procedurally generated wilderness modeled after the Czech Bohemia area to achieve a climate tower. Undertaking this entails utilizing a small suite of instruments, reminiscent of a map and compass, whereas studying how you can navigate the terrain by using pure landmarks and minimal direct steering.
The sport has no scripted path, quest markers, or directions, giving gamers the liberty to discover as they see match. Gamers are additionally challenged to handle fluctuating statuses reminiscent of physique temperature, starvation, and thirst as they journey from shelter to shelter to achieve the tower.
Prologue: Go Wayback leverages machine studying (ML) know-how to generate realistically rendered terrain maps in Unreal Engine 5. To keep away from pulling from copyrighted supplies, Playerunknown Productions states it has skilled its ML mannequin to make use of publicly obtainable open-source knowledge that the studio then vets.
Try the sport’s new screenshots within the gallery beneath.
Prologue can be the primary of a three-game plan to construct Venture Artemis, a bigger challenge designed to “create and ship a know-how and platform that permits massive-scale creation and emergent play.” These three video games, two of that are unannounced, will signify an answer to what the studio refers to because the “three issues of scale: practical terrain technology, participant and NPC interactions, and thousands and thousands of gamers sharing the identical on-line area.” Prologue is designed to sort out the terrain technology side of this initiative.
The open beta comes after six months of playtests by the sport’s Discord group. It can stay obtainable and usually up to date with new options till the sport’s Early Entry launch on Steam and Epic within the coming months. Inexperienced posted a video message stating that deliberate updates embody community-requested options reminiscent of a map editor, a world settings menu letting gamers set the world as they select, and a save sport perform.
