PlayerUnknown Productions has announced that an open beta for Prologue: Go Wayback is now available on Steam and the Epic Games Store. A Rust-inspired survival game, Prologue: Go Wayback combines hardcore roguelike survival gameplay with a dynamic weather system and machine-learning models to create a unique experience for every player. The next game from PUBG creator Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, the open beta will run until the launch of the game’s early access period on PC.
“After running playtests with our Discord community over the last six months–and receiving some fantastic feedback–we decided to take the time to add more ways to explore our generated worlds based on our community’s suggestions,” PlayerUnknown Productions said in a press release. “We have a great survival experience, with millions of maps for players to explore in the open beta, and over the coming months leading up to our Early Access launch, we plan to add more features to further customize your preferred way to play.”
Players will have a 64km² map based on the Czech Bohemia region to explore, with the world being rendered with ML models in Unreal Engine 5 and then populated procedurally with custom assets such as trees, rivers, rocks, cliffs, hills, and shelters. PlayerUnknown Productions added that this ML model is trained on publicly available open-source data and vetted to prevent the use of any copyrighted material.
One of the other factors that sets Prologue: Go Wayback apart from other survival games is an emphasis on body temperature, as players will have to manage their internal heat by finding better clothes and by building fires to stay warm as they search for the fabled Weather Tower. Prologue: Go Wayback also serves as the foundation for Project Artemis, something that PlayerUnknown Productions refers to as a platform that will enable “massive-scale creation” for future projects.
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