Everyone has a fighting chance
Tencent and PUBG Corp have announced that the mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has reached the 10 million daily active user benchmark. Further, it has scored the “most downloaded” spot in over 100 countries worldwide.
Mobile users of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds now have a new location to play in thanks to the arrival of the Miramar map. The update brings new weapons and vehicles, social features and better optimization. To celebrate the release of Miramar, PUBG Corp. has sent out a brand new video developer diary to show off the location and features.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds players with an eye to testing can log into the Experimental Server to try out the new Sanhok map (formerly known as Codename: Savage). The team is looking for feedback because “we’ve still got some work to do before Sanhok is ready live servers”. In addition, the weapon balance and item spawn changes from live servers have been applied to Sanhok.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds PC version is getting a big update today that includes a brand new vehicle for Miramar, the SLR weapon, the ability to select the map to play on, balance changes and the commencement of a new ranked season.
The PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Steam page has been updated with a post to review recent anti-cheat measures and the results they have produced thus far. PUBG Corp has been working in concert with Chinese law enforcement agencies to enforce recent legislation that prohibits “developing and selling hacking/cheating programs”. On April 25th, fifteen suspects were arrested for using “malicious code, including Trojan horse software”.
If you’re a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds XBox One player, you may want to check into the Test Server to try out the new Miramar map. The map will be fully available for testing as well as new vehicles and weapons. The team will be taking feedback from its community during the testing period. The map should make it into the XBox Game Preview version sometime towards the end of May.
For most PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds players, finding an assault rifle is the happy-go-lucky moment when they realize their chances for survival just went up exponentially. That gleeful feeling will be going away soon, however, once the next PUBG update goes into place. According to the latest Steam notes, the patch will balance weapons in terms of damage and provide players with the solace that, even if not finding/using an AR, their damage output will feel just as powerful.
Based on player feedback, PUBG Corp has announced that a new map selection interface will be added to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in a future update. While the ability to choose maps has been much-requested by the playerbase, the team wanted to ensure that matchmaking times aren’t increased and needed to solve “players in different regions having different preferences and playstyles” and how to make map selection work for everyone.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will soon be expanding with the new “small map” (4km x 4km) called Codename: Savage. The first round of beta testing took place and the developers have made some tweaks and adjustments to the map based on player feedback. The second round of testing will begin on April 17th and run through April 19th on the Closed Experimental Server. Players can get hold of codes via MapBeta.PlayBattlegrounds.com.
The developers behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds have posted a new video in celebration of the game’s first year and in thanks to the community for their support. In addition, a new 4km x 4km map, “Codename Savage”, is being teased. It will be tested by a very limited capacity from April 2nd through April 5th. There is no specific timeline on when the map will be introduced into the larger game or available for wider testing.