I hope you’re not fed up with news from the video gaming word about a Battle Royale game here, a Battle Royale game there, but that is the biggest thing right now. Every game publish does not want to get with his/her pants down, not having a Battle Royale game to offer. With PUBG and Fortnite battling it out for supremacy in this genre, more game developers are coming forward with the same formula, it is just a matter which publisher will snap it.

While they use the same formula, about game characters parachuting/flying/landing on the game area and try killing each other until there is one character left standing, the battle now is who can provide the most massive Battle Royale game.

“Mavericks: Proving Grounds", wants to be the biggest of them all by promising that upon official release, it will be 1,000 player game.

Too ambitious you might say? Looking at PUBG and Fortnite capping their maximum player numbers at 100, yes indeed it is. The company behind the game, Automaton Games Ltd., is a 40-person company based in Cambridge, England and they will launch the Beta that will accommodate 400 players in a game in August. For the closed Beta, they are recruiting 100,000 players who will be included to their exclusive Expanded Beta Access upon successful registration.

When the 1,000 player mark is ready, players can form 5-man squads that will compete in this massive setup. The map is equivalent a 10 x 10 kilometer map, so just imagine how big it is in real terms. Players can track the enemy by looking at their footprints or blood trails when wounded. Wildlife can create distraction and being sensitive to sound is very important.

I wonder how long a game will last in a 1,000 player game. It will take longer so it’s also being alert for longer periods to survive will be important. I wonder even further how the developers will be able to scale up a game this big.

“Mavericks: Proving Grounds” is expected to be released in December 2018.