Wildstar trailer introduces Warplots, Carbine's 40 vs 40 PvP mode

It's all been very war-ish today. If it's not metal monstrosities firing explosive anger at each other, it's cheerful cartoons scrapping across hovering mobile battlefields. That's the premise for Wildstar's Warplots mode. As explained by the trailer, it's a 40 vs 40 PvP showdown, in which two sides fight it out over their player-made plots.

It sounds like an enjoyable and somewhat different take on high-level PvP. Chris was already charmed by Wildstar's player-versus-player battles, and hopefully that same skill-based fluidity will neatly expand to the much bigger scale.

Wildstar is out June 3rd.

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