PUBG Creator's Next Game is Having an Open Beta and You Can Play It Right Now
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The creator of PUBG: Battlegrounds has been hard at work on new and interesting projects since leaving the development of the game in 2019, and after the release of Preface: Undiscovered World late last year, the next game from PlayerUnknown Productions is finally playable for everyone.
PlayerUnknown Productions has announced the launch of an open beta for Prologue: Go Wayback!, a new single-player survival sandbox game. Prologue was initially planned to launch in early access in Q2 of this year, but the studio decided to hold a lengthy open beta period before that, a decision explained by Brendan Greene – PlayerUnknown himself – in a video on YouTube.
A player looking at a map next to a river in a promotional screenshot for Prologue: Go Wayback!
A player looking at a map next to a river in a promotional screenshot for Prologue: Go Wayback!
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"We chose this path as after running playtests with our amazing Discord community over the last six months and seeing their fantastic feedback and suggestions, we were inspired to add more ways for you to explore our generated worlds," Greene says in the video. "In the open beta, we still offer a great emergent survival experience, featuring millions of maps for you to explore, but over the coming months leading up to our early access launch, we plan to test and add more features based on our community suggestions."
Greene says that multiple community-suggested features, like a map editor and a save game function, will be added to the game's open beta in the coming months, with some of those features being tested first by members of the game's community Discord.
Prologue: Go Wayback! is a unique game that uses machine learning to generate massive 64 square kilometer maps each time you play. PlayerUnknown Productions says that its machine learning algorithms are built on open source data that is vetted to ensure that no copyrighted material is being used, and they generate base terrain which is then populated with custom assets like trees, rocks, rivers, and more. The result is a huge, unique game world that looks and feels natural but is different every time you boot up the game — that's the idea, at least.
Players interested in trying out the game can head on over to Prologue: Go Wayback!'s Steam page, where they'll need to click the green "Request Access" button in the playtest banner. The open beta should be available to anybody who's interested, and it's currently free to join in and test the game out ahead of its early access launch later this year.
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