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 totally 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 is no such thing as a official communication but in regards to the title, the job openings’ descriptions paint a tough image of what the sport could provide and seem like. For starters, the place of Senior Degree Designer requires a “robust information of shooters, each PVP and PVE”, so it might be one other PvPvE title from Krafton. Furthermore, there may be additionally a requirement that the Senior Degree Designer would have “straight personal the extent design of Factors of Curiosity inside massive maps and different areas as assigned”, which factors in the direction of massive maps with varied POIs.
There may be one other job opening for a Senior Technical Animator, the place one of many obligations is to “creator rigs and belongings spanning throughout characters, weapons, creatures, autos, and props.”
PUBG Studios’ subsequent undertaking could be made on Unreal Engine 5
Whereas it’s nonetheless a stretch, all three of those do make it look like one other battle royale shooter is brewing, however there is no such thing as a point out of battle royale within the listings to increase on that faculty of thought. PUBG Madison has additionally claimed that they are going to look to “push the shooter style ahead”, and one other battle royale title may not be what they’d bear in mind for undertaking that.
Curiously, the listings additionally require expertise in Unreal Engine 4 and 5, so the upcoming undertaking could be primarily based on Epic Video games’ Unreal Engine 5, and given the current reviews about Krafton’s pivot to Unreal Engine for PUBG, it turns into probably that different tasks are additionally following the identical route.
Regardless, all of those are speculations in the intervening time, so it’s suggested to take this data in with a pinch of salt till there may be an official announcement from Krafton.