While some PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds fans may disagree with Greene’s stance when it comes to the notion of region locking the game in China, it would be difficult for one to claim that PUBG Corp. is not taking the issue of cheating seriously. After all, the development team behind the battle royale title has been steadily working on anti-cheat updates, introduced fresh rules in an effort to stop cheaters and unauthorized programs, and has banned more than one million players in the past for the offe

Unfortunately, Greene wouldn’t say anything regarding actual details, nor would he reveal any of the new weapons, potential modes or vehicles coming to the game. The update didn’t talk about the Xbox version of the game or loot boxes either, but it did offer some examples of aesthetic changes coming to existing assets – improving the look and level of detail on buildings. The biggest reveal however (the only real reveal) is that of a smaller, 4x4km island map designed to offer players a quicker battle royale experie

However, as PUBG Corp’s comments about the Ghillie suit note, certain cosmetics can be used to benefit players, by camouflaging them in certain areas of a map . PUBG Corp. may have only identified the Ghillie suit as a beneficial piece of loot, but what of the other cosmetic content that players can collect in paid-for cra

News comes from the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds development blog , where the studio was hoping to clear the air and create a prioritization list for the community. The most notable change in the works is a brand new island map that is set to be only 4x4km — likely the biggest play towards the Fortnite audience. This new map will be available on PUBG ‘s experimental test server starting next mo

Of course, this isn’t the only change coming out of Fortnite ‘s playbooks. Another addition coming to the list of changes is an Emote System — a feature that will be coming to the Test Server “very soon.” For an idea of what this looks like, check out the gallery be

Yet Esports tournaments seem to be a big focus (alongside loot boxes) while optimization and dealing with hackers has fallen by the wayside, at least in terms of perception by active players. It’s why we stopped playing over the last two weeks (the hackers and awful in-game reward syst

“Clothing does affect gameplay in terms of camouflage. Clothing can be used to assist the player to blend in with the environment, making the player less visually detectable. In particular, Battlegrounds includes a Ghillie suit, a full body suit covered with camouflaging material typically used by snipers. The Ghillie suit allows the player to become nearly visually invisible depending upon the terra

That’s okay for now since PUBG is one of the best-selling games ever and accomplished this in less than a year, and it is still one of the most popular games on the internet. But H1Z1 was in a similar spot a year ago and some slow development and bad decision-making saw it fall off the map. Even its recent launch out of early access and going free-to-play today cannot save H1Z1 so in response to all of this, Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene finally took to community to lay out plans for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in 2018 and it’s about damn t

Of course, not everything on the roadmap is targeting the Fortnite audiences and much of the upcoming plans are simple tweaks and polishing of what PUBG does best. Improving on the graphics, the art team is reportedly working on all around improvements to make the game more aesthetically pleasing. For instance, check out the new art direction on buildi

For the past six months many gamers have been discussing pay-to-win loot boxes in games such as Star Wars Battlefront 2 , a title which removed gameplay buffs from purchasable loot boxes due to backlash. Many have also called for games to only offer cosmetic loot which only changes a character’s appearance rather than their ability to do something in a game so that those with more money to burn do not have an unfair advant

If it wasn’t for Fortnite coming in and stealing the spotlight from PUBG missions , we’d be stuck with a poorly optimized, gambling-focused battle royale game. Thankfully, Fortnite is here, forcing PUBG Corp and publisher/original developer Bluehole to take some action (and ideas). Over the last two months PUBG has added weekly events which players have fallen in love with, so much so there’s a lot of demand to see some of these test modes become permanent. These events include shotgun-only modes to large team deathmatches and there’s more on the

And that issue is only going to become more prevalent later this year as we expect multiple Battle Royale games to start being announced and releasing in various forms. We already know that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Battlefield V should have their own takes on Battle Royale, and that Ubisoft’s Massive is likely developing one too. Every triple-A publisher must be, and when the big gaming companies come in with better looking, more feature-full, and better optimized battle royale titles – many of them attached to established franchises – PUBG is in trouble. Especially if they keep milking players for loot box money when these other new games may not have that. And that’s good thing. PUBG isn’t free-to-play like its current competition, so its microtransaction practices are slimey at b