Krafton’s PUBG Madison studio, builders of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, are actually engaged on a brand new IP within the shooter style. This title is completely different from the already confirmed Black Funds undertaking, which is able to function a spin-off to the PUBG IP.
Again in November 2023, it was introduced that Black Funds is an upcoming PUBG spinoff that includes an “everchanging PvPvE open world.” Now, there’s a new job itemizing by PUBG Madison (as noticed by Gamesual), which reveals details about what the studio, which introduced a genre-defining battle royale to the scene, is planning.
“PUBG Madison is creating an thrilling new IP that goals to push the shooter style ahead”, as per the itemizing, and whereas there isn’t any official communication but concerning the title, the job openings’ descriptions paint a tough image of what the sport might provide and appear to be. For starters, the place of Senior Stage Designer requires a “sturdy information of shooters, each PVP and PVE”, so it might be one other PvPvE title from Krafton. Furthermore, there’s additionally a requirement that the Senior Stage Designer would have “immediately personal the extent design of Factors of Curiosity inside massive maps and different areas as assigned”, which factors in direction of massive maps with varied POIs.
There may be one other job opening for a Senior Technical Animator, the place one of many tasks is to “creator rigs and belongings spanning throughout characters, weapons, creatures, autos, and props.”
PUBG Studios’ subsequent undertaking may be made on Unreal Engine 5
Whereas it’s nonetheless a stretch, all three of those do make it appear to be one other battle royale shooter is brewing, however there isn’t any point out of battle royale within the listings to increase on that faculty of thought. PUBG Madison has additionally claimed that they’ll look to “push the shooter style ahead”, and one other battle royale title may not be what they’d take note of for conducting that.
Curiously, the listings additionally require expertise in Unreal Engine 4 and 5, so the upcoming undertaking may be based mostly on Epic Video games’ Unreal Engine 5, and given the latest reviews about Krafton’s pivot to Unreal Engine for PUBG, it turns into doubtless that different initiatives are additionally following the identical route.
Regardless, all of those are speculations in the mean time, so it’s suggested to take this info in with a pinch of salt till there’s an official announcement from Krafton.