Ubisoft overhauling sci-fi battle royale effort Hyper Scape to reach its "full potential"

Hyper Scape, Ubisoft’s reasonably entertaining entry in the already well-represented free-to-play battle royale genre, has only been out three months but already the publisher is looking to overhaul the experience in order to reach its “full potential”.

Writing in a new blog post on the Hyper Scape website, Ubisoft explained that while it considered the game’s open beta and launch on PC a success, “we were not able to achieve the high expectations we set for ourselves with our full release on console”.

Ubisoft says that in order for the game to reach its “full potential”, it has identified five key pillars Hyper Scape’s team will now focus on so it can become an experience “everyone can play and enjoy”. These areas cover combat comfort, onboarding, game modes, player goals, and cross-play, with the broad aim being to get more people playing Hyper Scape and to find ways to ensure they continue playing for longer.

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On combat comfort, Ubisoft says that while it wanted a high skill ceiling for Hyper Scape, its data shows “the floor is also too high”, and it’s simply too hard to aim, track, consistently damage, and eliminate players, “especially on consoles”, making for a “difficult experience for new player”. That’s further compounded by an onboarding process that “does not currently provide enough time and opportunities for new players to learn and succeed”.