Good morning and welcome back to Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku’s daily round-up of interesting news and other stuff you might care about. Don’t worry, I’m not mad that you didn’t call at all while you were away. I’m used to it, really. Anyway, let’s move on and talk about Concord, a new Vampire Survivors spin-off game, bad news for PUBG fans on PS5, and good news for Battlefield 6 players craving a big new map to play on.
Battlefield 6 finally has a big Conquest, but EA didn’t make it
Since Battlefield 6′s beta earlier this year, players have been begging the devs to make bigger maps. And a few fans have grown tired of waiting and have used Battlefield 6‘s own in-game content creation tools to turn the shooter’s recently added (and very big) battle royale map into a few different massive conquest levels. You can see some gameplay of this below via Jackfrags.
Watching gameplay of the Golf Course conquest map created by Kurtinthegrind and a few other players has me both excited for the future of Portal—BF6‘s mode dedicated to user-created levels and modes—and sad that we don’t have a big map like this in the official game yet. Portal, while fun, has various restrictions, including smaller XP rewards and less populated matches and servers. And from what I can tell, this big new conquest map made by fans runs well on console and PC. So the engine seems capable of handling this kind of experience.
Honestly, if I were running Battlefield Studios, I’d be porting at least the Golf Course map into the main game ASAP as a bonus extra new level for this season. Don’t even tease it. Just drop it and watch fans go wild.
Concord directly mentioned during UK government debate over consumer laws
Remember Concord? It was that short-lived hero-based FPS from Sony that shut down just two weeks after launch. Well, Concord was brought up in the UK House of Commons during a debate about consumer rights and laws regarding live-service video games, an issue raised by the Stop Killing Games movement. According to Eurogamer, MP Ben Goldsborough led the debate on Monday.
During the debate, another MP specifically named Concord, stating: “A recent example is Concord, a game released for PlayStation 5 and Windows in August 2024. Following a disappointing launch, Sony Interactive Entertainment made a commercial decision to shut it down. To their credit, they did refund all purchases, but this isn’t always the case.”
Don’t expect any change to UK laws to come from this, as the government has already stated it has no plans to change consumer laws in regards to live-service, online-only video games.
Vampire Survivors and Warhammer collide in new official spin-off
As announced on November 4, the folks behind Vampire Survivors are teaming up with the Boltgun devs to create a new spin-off game officially known as Warhammer Survivors. In a press release for the newly revealed game, Games Workshop describes it as a “brand new and completely standalone survivors-style game” that is set in the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar universes. Warhammer Survivors launches sometime in 2026.
You’ll have to re-earn all your PUBG trophies on PS5
The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 ports of PUBG: Battlegrounds will soon be dead and done, as previously announced in August. The devs are going to focus on the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S ports of the battle royale game instead. But a new wrinkle for PS4 players is that when you leap to PS5, you’ll have to re-earn all your trophies again. This was confirmed in a new blog post from the devs who say they “explored various options with Sony Interactive Entertainment to make trophy transfer possible,” but due to how much data was involved, it would be “technically difficult to implement.” So they aren’t going to do it. “We kindly ask for your understanding,” said the PUBG team.
