Highlights
- Palworld’s new PvP arena feature will allow players to battle each other with teams of Pals, new islands to explore, and more weapons to craft.
- Personal arenas within bases could help players test strategies and builds, aiding in their preparation for real competition.
- The upcoming update may help Palworld differentiate itself from other monster-taming games, attracting new players and growing its community.
Palworld is teasing fans with an upcoming PVP arena feature that allows players to battle it out with their fellow creature companions in a coliseum-like structure. The preview of its inclusion can potentially introduce us to a particular structure that could benefit every base made within the Palworld islands.
One of the game’s core elements of play is finding the best Pals to create an efficient workforce, a versatile exploration team, and a powerful battle squadron. Once players have amassed the creatures, skills, and weapons they need, some wonder how they might stack up against others who have put in the same amount of time and effort. Introducing an arena to the game will help answer those questions, but where it’s located and how to access it have yet to be revealed to the public. This provides an interesting opportunity for the developers to include a feature that allows players to build personal arenas within their bases.
Why Palworld’s Pal Arena is Arriving at the Right Time
With Palworld’s exciting new Pal Arena set to arrive sometime this year, the PvP battle mode is coming to the game at the right time.
The Palworld PvP Arena Update
The thought of finally being able to duke it out with other players is certainly cause for excitement. With that excitement comes questions, although Pocket Pair has provided some sense of what fans can expect from Palworld‘s arena update:
- An arena that allows for two players, each with a team of three Pals, to do battle
- A new island to explore
- Additional species of Pals to capture
- More weapons and structures to craft
While more features are likely to be included, the ones mentioned are meant to garner player interest and pull in people who have yet to play Palworld. Those who have put in numerous hours will have the advantage of figuring out the best Pals, skills, and weapons that will allow them to overcome all opposition.
Palworld Releases Update 0.2.2.0
Pocketpair releases another Palworld update that fixes one annoying combat bug, on top of addressing a number of other issues in the hit game.
Why Players Should Have the Ability to Make Their Own Pal Arenas
The update will no doubt force players to conceptualize the potential battling meta. This means a lot of testing from finding out the best Pal of each type to the most effective weapons that synergize well with the team. While battling the in-game bosses can be great for experimentation, there is no way for it to simulate the human factors that can come into play. Having the ability to create an arena within one’s base can help alleviate that problem.
Personal lobbies that allow friends to test out their teams are great for discovering groundbreaking builds or cheesy strategies that will help them gather wins in actual arena battles. The inclusion of base arenas would also help new players, as it can tell them what Pals shouldn’t be brought to battle and help assess if they’re ready to fight against real competitors that aren’t the game’s AI. It also allows the developers other opportunities for more structures, such as one that lets players test out skills and weapons without the fear of damaging their base and Pals.
There is a lot of potential in this planned update. While it is no longer as popular as it was upon initial release, Palworld still has many fans. Despite others seeing Palworld as another Pokemon clone, the game has enough unique features which make it stand out. Adding an arena with its own set of distinct mechanics could help prove that Palworld isn’t just a Pokemon rip-off, and intends to become a mainstay in the monster-taming and survival genre.
While seasoned veterans will have the advantage of knowing what teams could potentially work within the upcoming update, new players will be incentivized to look for tips and strategies on Palworld‘s best Pals, weapons, and more that will help them catch up to their experienced peers. This allows for a more active community, ensuring that the fan base continues expanding, and the game stays alive for years to come.
Palworld
Pocket Pair’s Palworld is a creature-collection game set in an open-world. Entering early access on January 19, 2024, the project blends survival, building, farming, monster breeding, and shooter elements.
- Released
- January 19, 2024
- Developer(s)
- Pocket Pair, Inc.
- Publisher(s)
- Pocket Pair, Inc.
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- ESRB
- T For Teen Due To Violence
- How Long To Beat
- N/A
- X|S Enhanced
- Yes
- File Size Xbox Series
- 6 GB (February 2024)
- Number of Players
- 1-4 (Co-Op); 32 Players Server Limit
