PUBG Publisher Krafton Finally Reveals Project Windless, an Ambitious Open-World Action RPG From Ubisoft's Former Far Cry Director | Sony State of Play

Tonight's PlayStation State of Play broadcast has featured a afloat uncover for Project Windless, a single-player enactment RPG agelong successful improvement astatine the Montreal workplace acceptable up by PUBG steadfast Krafton.

Krafton Montreal Studio, arsenic the developer is simply called, is led by Patrik Méthé — a erstwhile Ubisoft seasoned who served arsenic a crippled manager connected Far Cry 3, Far Cry 4, Far Cry 5, Far Cry: New Dawn and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction.

Since precocious 2022, Méthé has been Head of Studio astatine Krafton Montreal and originative manager connected Project Windless, an open-world enactment RPG instrumentality connected Korean phantasy caller bid The Bird That Drinks Tears.

Designed for players caller to its storytelling satellite and built successful Unreal Engine 5, today's trailer intelligibly seeks to presumption the crippled arsenic an introduction constituent for a caller audience, and impressment with AAA accumulation values.

One notable diagnostic is its large-scale battles, powered by the game's alleged Mass Technology, which allows for war-like scenarios with thousands of participants.

"From the start, we asked ourselves what it truly means to play a legendary fig successful a phantasy world," Méthé said. "For us, that meant giving players existent agency, not conscionable successful combat, but successful however wars unfold, however alliances are formed, and however past is written. Project Windless is built astir the thought that fable is not thing you observe, it is thing you actively make done play."

Krafton is champion known for publishing PUBG: Battlegrounds, arsenic good arsenic the Dead Space spiritual successor The Callisto Protocol, and the Sims-like InZOI.

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