AVA RE:BIRTH Adds Extraction Shooter Mode HUNTING FIELD
This announcement confirms that AVA RE:BIRTH is not a simple remake but a modernized continuation, as the extraction shooter format and cross-mode equipment progression signal a deliberate shift from the original AVA's pure competitive FPS formula.
Key Facts
- G.O.P announced HUNTING FIELD mode for AVA RE:BIRTH on August 28, 2026.
- HUNTING FIELD is an extraction shooter-style mode where players collect supplies and escape before a time limit, losing everything if they fail.
- Equipment obtained in HUNTING FIELD can be used in other game modes in AVA RE:BIRTH.
- AVA RE:BIRTH is scheduled to launch on PC via Pmang and VFUN in autumn 2026.
- The original AVA service will end on October 28, 2026.
Reporting from 2 sources: Automaton, Game Spark.
G.O.P announced on August 28 details for HUNTING FIELD, a new mode in AVA RE:BIRTH, the upcoming PC online FPS that continues the Alliance of Valiant Arms (AVA) series. The mode is an extraction shooter-style survival experience where players sortie into familiar AVA locations like urban areas and vast deserts, collect supplies from scattered crates, and contend with roaming AI soldiers and other players. Players who fail to reach an extraction portal before the time limit lose everything they gathered. Equipment acquired and upgraded in HUNTING FIELD can also be used in other game modes within AVA RE:BIRTH, creating a growth loop described as "endless" that raises the player's status as a soldier. The announcement updated the official teaser site and released a second teaser movie showing large-scale battles with helicopters and tanks. G.O.P stated that the next information release will discuss the game's balance policy, addressing whether the balance of the original AVA era can be faithfully reproduced while evolving for modern players. AVA RE:BIRTH is scheduled to launch on PC via Pmang and VFUN in autumn 2026. The original AVA service will end on October 28, 2026.
- HUNTING FIELD is described as a survival mode where "thrill and decisions determine the player's fate," and it is a mode not included in previous AVA works, which pursued the "original experience of FPS."
- Players can act as raiders who aggressively fight for supplies or as stealth operators who avoid combat, and knowledge from the original AVA directly affects survival odds.
- Supplies brought back can be kept for the next sortie or sold at a trading post for funds, alongside the cross-mode equipment progression.
- An earlier August 12 teaser had hinted at this direction: the Pmang lounge page listed "FPS," "PvPvE," and "PvP" genre tags, and the teaser site metadata contained the term "Extraction Shooter."
- The new teaser movie is 25 seconds of image cuts and footage showing tense battlefields characteristic of AVA, with the audio being only gunfire and radio chat.
- The original AVA has run since 2008 and its service ends October 28, 2026, with AVA RE:BIRTH framed as taking over the baton. A separate global version, A.V.A Global, runs on Steam and is playable from Japan.
- G.O.P said the next information release will cover balance policy, framed around whether "that era's" balance can be reproduced while evolving with a "+α" suited to modern players.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.