Krafton’s PUBG Madison studio, builders of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, at the moment are engaged on a brand new IP within the shooter style. This title is totally different from the already confirmed Black Finances undertaking, which is able to function a spin-off to the PUBG IP.
Again in November 2023, it was introduced that Black Finances 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 growing an thrilling new IP that goals to push the shooter style ahead”, as per the itemizing, and whereas there isn’t a official communication but in regards to the title, the job openings’ descriptions paint a tough image of what the sport might provide and seem like. For starters, the place of Senior Degree Designer requires a “robust information of shooters, each PVP and PVE”, so it could be one other PvPvE title from Krafton. Furthermore, there’s additionally a requirement that the Senior Degree 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 numerous POIs.
There’s one other job opening for a Senior Technical Animator, the place one of many duties is to “writer rigs and belongings spanning throughout characters, weapons, creatures, automobiles, 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 seem to be one other battle royale shooter is brewing, however there isn’t a point out of battle royale within the listings to develop on that college of thought. PUBG Madison has additionally claimed that they may look to “push the shooter style ahead”, and one other battle royale title may not be what they’d take into consideration for conducting that.
Apparently, the listings additionally require expertise in Unreal Engine 4 and 5, so the upcoming undertaking may be primarily based on Epic Video games’ Unreal Engine 5, and given the latest stories about Krafton’s pivot to Unreal Engine for PUBG, it turns into possible that different tasks are additionally following the identical route.
Regardless, all of those are speculations for the time being, so it’s suggested to take this info in with a pinch of salt till there’s an official announcement from Krafton.