Dataminers have found quite a feature hiding in the preload for AEW Fight Forever.
As shared by Twitter user LynchReborn, the game data has revealed that AEW Fight Forever will have an ambitious online multiplayer mode, a full on battle royale.
Called Stadium Stampede, this game mode allows 30 players to compete vs each other simultaneously online.
If you were a wrestling fan during the Monday Night Wars, you may vaguely remember when Yuke’s released WWF Royal Rumble on the Dreamcast. While that game had a 30 man battle royal, it could only show eight wrestlers at a time, so it was actually programmed to remove wrestlers in the duration of the royal.
But you may have noticed I was making a little joke here. No, Stadium Stampede is not under the wrestling match format called a battle royal.
Stadium Stampede is a battle royale mode, in the same vein as Fortnite, PUBG, Call of Duty Warzone 2.0, and others. The data reveals it uses battle royale rules, where wrestlers compete in constantly shrinking circle until a few wrestlers hit the end.
There are also some gameplay details that show up in the data, possibly in the part of the game that explains the rules. We’ve summed up the parts that seem relevant to Stadium Stampede below:
- There are item boxes and treasure boxes.
- Treasure boxes have different rarities, and have a chance of giving you weapons. And yes, weapons are destructible.
- Vending machines can give you recovery items.
- Using recovery items make you briefly vulnerable, so you’ll want to be alone before using one.
- Slot machines give you stampede medals, that can level you up.
- There are shields that serve to add to your base health, but don’t stop you from using wrestling moves yourself.
- Horses and golf carts are the most powerful weapons in the game. To be clear, they can also be used as transport, and have a set HP before they go away.
- There are environmental grapples you can activate by slamming an opponent towards a particular object. Each map has such objects spread all over the game.
- You can enter a KO state and still stay in the game. You’ll have to find a recovery area, say close to a vending machine, to get HP back.
- On the other hand, you can eliminate a KO’d opponent by using your finisher on them. You are rewarded for taking opponents out with Appeal.
Our source also believes that this mode is the reason that AEW Fight Forever will have a battle pass. Of course, we can’t verify that for now, but this potential live service aspect would explain why AEW is eager to bring the game to as many platforms as possible.
AEW Fight Forever will be releasing on June 29, 2023, on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows via Steam.
