Ubisoft's Hyper Scape, a free-to-play battle royale that launched back in 2020, unfortunately didn't prove to be a success (its servers close down this month), but it looks like Ubisoft might be trying again with a new game dubbed "Pathfinder".
This is coming from a report by journalist Tom Henderson over at Exputer, who has advised that three sources have confirmed to him that Ubisoft is working on the third-person shooter, which appears to have a graphical style similar to Hyper Scape, albeit a bit more cartoony.
"Three sources have confirmed that Ubisoft is working on a new third-person shooter dubbed ‘Pathfinder’, which could be a codename for the project."
It's described as a "different take" on a battle royale, requiring teams of four to drop into the map and fight off AI enemies (and likely other players as well), with the goal of progressing to the centre to fight the main AI boss. Every match will have certain gates that are breachable or unlocked, changing the path you'll need to follow each time.
It sounds interesting, and it seems the game will adopt a "Hero" system where each character has their own unique abilities, along with a central hub where you can hang out, practice in firing ranges and other things. It's said to be in "very early development" right now, so probably a long way off, but we'll be keeping an eye on this one.
Liking the sound of this, or are you totally disinterested by it? Let us know down in the comments.
[source exputer.com]
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No battle royale is getting anywhere close to fortnite and that's what everyone is trying to do. Only half decent one ls so far are apex legends and call of duty which is mainly because of its name.
Wonder what the next fad will be? Weve had a craze of moba style games, arena shooters and battle royales
If Ubi determined to have a new MP game I wish they would just make a modern version of Assassins Creed MP. It was pretty unique and lots of fun when people played it properly.
I loved Brotherhood and Revelations MP back in the day.
@Korgon yea that was pretty great fun.
There's no one I trust less to support a live service game than Ubisoft right now.
Since hyperscape was taken down I’ve never seen it get so much marketing. It’s been on the game spotlight on the rewards page twice since too…was on it yesterday, takes you to the page where it tells you it’s no longer available. Are Microsoft just trolling Ubisoft at this point?
One of the criticisms I made of 343i and Halo about a decade ago was "If they continue to chase trends, they will alienate everyone that likes what's unique about the franchise, while also failing to draw in people who like the new direction, because those people are already catered to with other franchises".
If anything, the industry is just getting worse as time goes by. Remember when the horror genre was killed off for action titles?, then the indie scene had to fill that market?, Then Capcom and EA was like "actually, maybe we should make more of that genre". And now today, the stealth and military strategy genres are all but dead, and the owner of some of the biggest franchises in those genres is like "but how about more Battle Royale?", it's a joke.
@Richnj so I took some time away from Infinite last week to play a tonne of Apex Legends. I fired up Halo Infinite yesterday and it was a breath of fresh air to play an arena shooter again.
Infinite has been critically mishandled but I’d be lying if I didn’t have fun playing it versus a battle royale.It should be a better game but I’m glad it exists.
I didn’t even know Hyper Scape was a game that existed. Lol.
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