Sling your mind back to last October and you might remember PUBG Studios (yes, that PUBG) unveiling a new 5v5 PvP shooter featuring ‘shared real-time line of sight’. Well, it’s back, it’s got a proper name now, and there’s a demo on the way.
When we last saw PUBG Studios’ new title, it was going by the name of Project ARC and being described as a “realistic and fast-paced top-down shooting experience inspired by PUBG: Battlegrounds”. Four months – and doubtless some arcane process involving an awful lot of Post-It notes – later, it’s been renamed to PUBG: Blindspot.
What we have here is a 5v5 top-down tactical shooter where teams are either charged with hacking or defending a hidden crypt each game. The hacking team must blow up the walls surrounding the crypt to gain access and install a Decrypter device, while the defending team tries to stop them. But why, you might be asking yourself, is it called Blindspot?
Well that, I assume, brings us back to the aforementioned shared line of sight, with enemies vanishing and reappearing across the map depending what individual teammates can see – a system intended to add a further tactical wrinkle through “immediate, non-verbal cooperation”. Chuck in characters with their own preferred weapons and distinctive gadgets, alongside the promise of “skill-based, thrilling” gunfights, and that’s all the basics covered.