https://www.pcgamer.com/automaton-lifts-the-lid-on-mavericks-proving-grounds-impressive-tech/ >Announced at the PC Gamer Weekender a couple of days ago, Mavericks: Proving Grounds is a massively ambitious 1000-player MMO that will also find the time to cram in a 400-player Battle Royale mode, which will launch first. There's no real footage yet, but in the first of two highlight videos from the PCG Weekender, Automaton Games' James Thompson offers a glimpse of the enormous 16km map we'll be able to explore, while going into detail on some of the technical wizardry that's making it all possible. >Automaton basically sees this as the "next generation" of MMO, something it's achieved via a network of servers, allowing for millions of entities inside a single game. Other similar titles, Thompson argues, compromise the depth of the simulation for the sake of scale, but he says that won't be the case with Mavericks.