Recently, the "Absolute Zero" Weibo and WeChat public account have passed the certification, the WeChat public account displayed the main body of the account is Shanghai Miha Youying Iron Technology Co., Ltd., but the two have not released any content in addition to the name, and even the avatar is blank.
But this does not prevent players from showing their enthusiasm, on Weibo, "Absolute Zero" super talk has accumulated 125,000 views; in station B, a suspected official account, without any content release, has 4w fans; related tieba has been established early...
Regarding "Absolute Zero", as early as the end of last year, netizens found that Shanghai Jiaozhai Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Mihayou, applied for trademarks such as "Absolute Zero" and "ZENLESS ZONE ZER0".
Recently, some netizens found that "Absolute Zero" (beta version), version number V0.50 has been registered with the China Copyright Protection Center. It is worth noting that last year's exposure of "Crash: Star Dome Railway" also completed the registration of the beta version V0.53 in July, and ushered in the first public test three months later.
All indications are that Mihayu is about to make another move, and it may be a big move. Because most people speculate that "Absolute Zero" is the "AAA third-person open world shooter".
However, this time I have to admire Mihayou's secrecy work is indeed very good, there is no direct evidence to show the exact identity of "Absolute Zero", can only be guessed through some fragmentary information.
First, in November last year, Mihayou issued a job announcement on the LinkedIn, saying that he would set up a studio in Montreal and recruit about 100 employees to make a 3A open world action-adventure shooter; as early as October, Mihayou hired Zheng Kai, the former chief level designer of Sony's Santa Monica Studio, to join.
This number and duration do not seem to be in line with the positioning of the project, after all, the "Original God" team has reached the size of several hundred people.
But this project is most likely not built from scratch. If you remember, In 2019, Mihayou exposed a "third-person shooter for the world" - Project X. At that time, Huang Renxun announced six games that support ray tracing technology at GTC China, including Project X.
Project X was originally expected to go live in 2021, but now there is no following, if the two can not be equated, at least there is an inheritance relationship.
But there are two questions here: First, will "Absolute Zero" be the renaming of the announced "Kotchell Front"? Second, if the two are not the same, will the latter be the AAA?
On the first question, this brings us to Dark Zone Zero. This is a trademark registered by Mihayou in July 2020, and in the pitiful information, I found that at the end of June last year, a player posted on the NGA that Mihayou's offline test campaign had two games - "Kochir Front" and "Dark Zone Zero".
If the intelligence is true, then Break Zero is more likely to be the latter, so Kotchell Front and Break Zero should be two games.
As for the second question, it can still only be learned from the user revelations on Zhihu and Pulse that "Absolute Zone Zero" (or "Zero Dark Zone") is a flagship product.
So it makes sense to infer that Breaking Zero is the game that North American studios are working on.
However, when I browsed the recruitment information on the official website of Miha Tour, I found a very interesting information. They are rushing to recruit communities in multiple countries and regions for a project code-named N. This at least shows that the game is in the late stages of development and will be able to meet players in the near future.
What's even more interesting is that project N also includes "Unity client development (performance optimization)", while the legendary AAA masterpiece uses Unreal Engine; in addition, some job requirements also mention "love ACT games" and "love two-dimensional culture". On the whole, N is more like the rumored "Crash" IP-derived meat pigeon game.
So what exactly "Absolute Zero" is is not a conclusion, but I think it will be revealed soon, after all, the official account has landed, and then refer to the rhythm of last year's "Crash: Star Dome Railway", and even from the real start of this game may not be far away.