BattleCore Enviornment, the free-to-play arena-based shooter launched again in 2017 by Cosmic Ray Studio, has simply been re-announced. The sport is now beneath growth at Ubisoft Bordeaux, coming to PC through Steam and Ubisoft Join. Regardless that there is not any launch window as of but, you may join a tech test, working from February 1st to February fifth.

In case you had been one of many individuals who performed the unique, nice information: The unique idea stays just about untouched. In BattleCore Enviornment, you are taking management of a core–a sphere-shaped character–as you roll and bounce round in aggressive multiplayer matches. The main target is on physics-based motion; consider it as if you happen to’re controlling the ball from Rocket League, however with out vehicles.

As a PVP sport, you can also make use of ranged weapons alongside perks, which can assist with knocking out enemies or serving to your teammates. Within the announcement post, Ubisoft says there will be three multiplayer modes: Backup, a traditional 3v3 group deathmatch, Golden Core, during which you must maintain onto the “eponymous Core” to realize victory, and Free-for-all, which additionally has ranked matches. You can even customise your sphere–sorry, your core–with beauty objects, together with armor, lights, banners, elimination explosions, and extra.

BattleCore Enviornment was initially developed by Cosmic Ray Studio, and launched on October 4th, 2017. On Steam, the sport had new updates involving technical and gameplay modifications up till Might seventeenth, 2019. The official account on X (previously referred to as Twitter) remained pretty lively till early 2019, sharing clips of animations in growth in addition to an upgrade to Unreal Engine 4.21.2.

The final publish was made on February seventh, 2020, earlier than the brand new announcement led to a brand new pinned tweet earlier at present. It is unclear if Ubisoft acquired Cosmic Ray Studio, as there is not any point out of such an acquisition within the announcement posts.