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 recreation boasting dynamic environments and emergent gameplay, the sport is ready 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 recreation “the place each journey is exclusive.” Gamers discover a procedurally generated wilderness modeled after the Czech Bohemia area to achieve a climate tower. Conducting this includes utilizing a small suite of instruments, comparable to a map and compass, whereas studying tips on how to navigate the terrain by using pure landmarks and minimal direct steerage.
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 comparable to physique temperature, starvation, and thirst as they journey from shelter to shelter to achieve the tower.
Prologue: Go Wayback leverages machine studying (ML) expertise 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 out there open-source knowledge that the studio then vets.
Try the sport’s new screenshots within the gallery beneath.
Prologue can also be the primary of a three-game plan to construct Challenge Artemis, a bigger challenge designed to “create and ship a expertise and platform that permits massive-scale creation and emergent play.” These three video games, two of that are unannounced, will characterize an answer to what the studio refers to because the “three issues of scale: lifelike terrain technology, participant and NPC interactions, and tens of millions of gamers sharing the identical on-line house.” Prologue is designed to deal with the terrain technology facet of this initiative.
The open beta comes after six months of playtests by the sport’s Discord neighborhood. It can stay out there and commonly 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 comparable to a map editor, a world settings menu letting gamers set the world as they select, and a save recreation perform.
