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Apex Legends
Respawn officially announced its free to play take on battle royale in a dramatic fashion—the same day it launched. Apex Legends combines a hero squad shooter with the last-man-standing formula, and it became an instant hit, racking up 10 million players (1 million concurrents) just a few days after it arrived. With eight characters to pick from, each with their own abilities and ultimates, plus novel systems that allow great mic-less communication and the respawning of dead teammates, it's quickly become the battle royale to watch in 2019.
Fortnite
Fortnite was a worldwide phenomenon in 2018, providing a bright and arcadey experience to counter PUBG's measured pace and gritty vibe. Epic isn't shy about experimenting with wacky modes like 50 vs 50, making frequent and sometimes mysterious changes to its map, or by adding, of all things, airplanes. We don't expect the surprising, game-changing experiments to stop anytime soon. If you enjoy games like Fortnite, read on.
PUBG
We don't know if there will be a PUBG movie, but at this point we wouldn't really be surprised (we even came up with a script). PUBG had a busy 2018, adding a third map called Sanhok and a winter map, Vikendi, plus new features like dynamic weather and bullet penetration. Expect new modes, weapons, vehicles, and maybe even more maps to keep trickling in as they have since it was released. PUBG will continue to be a major force in battle royale in 2019.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 | Blackout
There's no traditional campaign in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, but it's got a battle royale mode called Blackout and it's great, if not especially groundbreaking. With grappling hooks and ray guns and a lot of nostalgia—its map recreates a number of locations from earlier CoD games—it's a slick and fast-paced experience, and it continues to develop with new features like custom games.
Ring of Elysium
Tencent, PUBG's distributor in China, launched its own battle royale game on PC called Ring of Elysium. With real-time dynamic weather, plus snowboarding and snowmobiling, Tencent has put a few new interesting spins on PUBG's formula. Four players can escape the freezing storm via a rescue chopper, but we discovered that even when there are only four players left they'll still try to kill each other out of habit. It's free and it's fun, and after the addition of a survival mode we're eager to see what else might be added in 2019.
Upcoming battle royale games
There's a lot planned for the rest of 2019 as the genre continues to expand, and we suspect there will be many more to come. For a taste of battle royale games in development, keep reading.
Planetside Arena
Featuring solo matches or teams of three, Planetside Arena is a 150-player class-based battle royale (and will sport other match-based multiplayer modes) arriving this January. The sci-fi FPS from the makers of the Planetside series will have a streamlined looting system (you'll find higher tier weapons with attachments already in place, rather than having to cobble them together) and personal transports in addition to vehicles that will seat an entire team. Earned XP will let players unlock new weapon blueprints, and currency collected during the match will allow them to 'buy' those new weapons and put them to use.
Battlefield 5 Firestorm
Battlefield 5's battle royale mode is now called Firestorm, and will support 64 players on four teams. We don't yet know if it will feature a more traditional solo battle royale experience, but its map—the largest in Battlefield history—will be filled with destructible buildings and vehicles like Panzer tanks. The map will also feature Conquest-like objectives, with a ring of fire pushing players closer and closer together.
Pavlov VR
Pavlov, an Early Access multiplayer shooter made for the HTC Vive, is billed by many players as the closest you'll get to playing CS:GO in VR until Valve makes CS:GO in VR. The developer recently added Rift Support and revealed plans to add a battle royale mode sometime this year.
Mavericks
It's planning to be the biggest battle royale game yet, capable of whopping 400-player matches, though we haven't played much of Mavericks yet. At GDC last year, I tried a demo with only a few players in the match, but was impressed by the fact that you could track players by following the muddy footprints they left behind.
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