‘Overwatch’ Clone ‘Paladins’ Will Also Launch A ‘PUBG’ Style Battle Royale Mode

“Paladins” is the free-to-play multiplayer shooting game that is often considered by the gaming community as a clone of Blizzard’s “Overwatch” title. Adding yet another notch on its copy/paste resume, the developers of the game just announced that it would launch a new mode that copies the Battle Royale format of “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.” What’s more, the mode will apparently be called “Paladins: Battlegrounds.”

Now, it’s worth pointing out that PUBG is hardly the first game to utilize the Battle Royale formula. It simply popularized it, which prompted other developers to emulate the format, Gamespot notes. One of the most well-known of these is Epic Games’ “Fortnite Battle Royale” mode, which is free-to-play.

As such, the decision by Hi-Rez, the developers of “Paladins” to start offering their own Battle Royale mode is hardly a surprise. However, this is likely to rankle PUBG creator Brendan Greene even more, who recently expressed his frustration that others have started copying his game’s formula, which itself copied from other games.

With regards to what the “Battlegrounds” will actually offer, the developers said that it will be 300 times bigger than its siege maps. It will still involve spawning 100 players in the game, who will eliminate one another.

However, Hi-Rez did take care to make the mode different to PUBG by making it team-based only, Forbes reports. This means that players won’t be able to play solo in “Battlegrounds.”

What’s more, players will also be able to ride mounts like they could in the base arena game. This would enable them to move around the huge map much faster than they could when on foot.

On that note, while some are making note of these deviations from the PUBG formula, many are taking issue with the name. By calling it “Paladins: Battlegrounds” (PABG), there are those accusing Hi-Rez of capitalizing on PUBG’s name as much as its format.