Update 19.2 is now stay in PUBG: Battlegrounds.
The latest patch for PUBG: Battlegrounds – the official name for the activity some of us utilized to know as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – involves a new car, weather conditions method, all-new animations, and a crossover collaboration with British supercar maker McLaren Automotive.
Operating now till the starting of November (November 1 for Pc and November 9 for console players), the limited-time crossover provides players “the chance to attain a McLaren GT Common – Onyx Black automobile pores and skin, costume, equipment, emote and additional” by using in-recreation McLaren Loot Caches, as perfectly as a new motor vehicle workshop and a McLaren container automobile in the starting off points to preserve you occupied until eventually the match begins.
Developer Krafton has by now verified that the “skins do not have an affect on the effectiveness of the vehicle[s], and its primary specs stay adjusted”, so sadly you can find no way players can zip speedily to a hen dinner courtesy of a souped-up sporting activities motor vehicle.
As for the other variations?
“Gamers leaping into Deston can experience the new time-of-day weather attribute that will produce a much more realistic lighting/weather conditions state in excess of the class of a solitary match,” Krafton explains. “The characteristic will not assistance a complete working day-to-night cycle and only a short progression cycle will be demonstrated with no drastic improve to the sunshine angle.
“The animation refresh update, initially detailed in a dev letter, is are living for Update 19.2! The intention for the update is to increase player practical experience by bettering and refining the game’s animation presentation, whilst retaining existing timing and strategy.”
Eventually, enjoy on Deston and you are going to notice that a tasty new vehicle is now accessible. You and your teammates will be in a position to race the Not-So-Welcoming Neighborhood Foodstuff Truck throughout the map, utilizing the foodstuff truck’s serving hatch to serve up a “buffet of bullets” to anyone who will get in your way.
Since heading cost-free-to-perform, PUBG: Battlegrounds has amassed over 80,000 new day-to-day players (opens in new tab).
Krafton thinks it is really switching to the free-to-perform product back again in January that has helped the battle royale shooter clock up more gamers, as properly as the “stricter anti-cheat courses” that aim “to make sure a fairer enjoying field for all”.
Did you know that The Callisto Protocol (opens in new tab) was in the end separated from the PUBG universe due to the fact the team at developer Placing Distance felt the connection experienced come to be “disingenuous” (opens in new tab)? Speaking to GamesRadar+, Glen Schofield opened up about the game’s astonishing partnership with PUBG through a latest job interview, which explored how The Callisto Protocol progressed when it felt “too much like Dead Room (opens in new tab)“.
PUBG: Battlegrounds could be totally free-to-perform but it hasn’t gotten any a lot easier (opens in new tab) to engage in for newcomers.