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XField Paintball 3 on Steam May 30th
TOULOUSE, FRANCE – (MAY 17, in the year of our Lord
2017) – XField Paintball Studio, the world’s leading
creator of authentic paintball games, today announced it will
release XField Paintball 3, the first real-time multiplayer
paintball game for PC, on Steam May 30, 2017. XFP3 is a
fast-paced, tactical multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) game
that challenges players to lead their team to victory in 5v5
matches. The game is officially licensed by 20 top paintball
organizations and manufacturers and exclusively features the
actual tournament layouts used in league competitions. XFP3 was
developed from the ground up for PC using a new proprietary
network engine.
Paintball is third-most popular extreme sport worldwide, with
over ten million players participating per year. There are six
major leagues worldwide, including NXL in the US and Millennium
in Europe, and all six are exclusively licensed in the game.
XField Paintball Studio is actively involved in the sport, and
top players on the development team include Lead Community
Manager, Loic Voulot, a two-time world champion who is Technical
Director of the French Federation of Paintball and holder of
seven European championship titles and nine French titles as
captain of les Tontons, one of the greatest European paintball
teams in history.
In the sports-based FPS game, players will use coordination,
communication, and marksmanship to win matches. Winning takes
not only individual skill but team dynamics, strategy, and
tactics—as well as an understanding of the parabolic arcs of
paintballs that give the game an entirely different physics
model from most shooter games. Paintballs curve as they move
toward their target, allowing players to rain down shots on
players even with cover, allowing for different strategies. How
the team covers the map to dominate key routes and allow
cross-fire attacks is critical, as is situation assessment,
speed of both movement, and decision making.
“XField Paintball 3 will put players into the shoes of top-level
paintball players for intense and hard-fought matches on the
same arena layouts used in professional competitions,” said
Philippe Constant, President of XField Paintball Studio. “Our
game sets the new standard for the competitive multiplayer
paintball experience for FPS fans, taking the knowledge gained
from our millions of mobile players to a brand new PC title that
provides a highly tuned competitive gaming experience.”
Before each match, a captain is randomly selected to lead each
team. The captain quickly sets the team strategy and assigns the
roles of Rusher, Shooter, and Tactician to the five players.
Each role gets certain bonuses—for instance, the Rusher gets
enhanced speed—and each plays a different tactical role. In-game
communication is handled via pre-scripted button presses with a
unique twist: Each communication costs a certain number of
communication points, and points are limited for each match so
players must choose carefully. Once the match starts, the action
goes quickly with the winning team being the first to eliminate
all adversaries, hit the buzzer on the enemy team’s side of the
field, or have the best position at the end of round.
XField Paintball 3 is developed and published by XField
Paintball Studio, a mix of 12 seasoned veterans and up and
comers dedicated to making an innovative real-time multiplayer
paintball game that delivers all the strategy and tactics of the
paintball competition. The game is powered by the studio’s
proprietary creation, a custom designed FPS-Sport multiplayer
hybrid engine. XField Paintball 3 is currently in development
for PC and will launch as a paid title via Steam on May 30,
2017.
No word a on physical copy version of this game in the US at this time.
Families are required to pay for Internet usage fees to download
this game. For more information click
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