An average round lasts around 30 minutes, but varies greatly between the different skills of the players and the chance factor of equipment. The winner is the player or team that is last left.
Alternatively, it is also possible to play in the first-person view instead of the third-person view. Rare weapons and items are sent out via so-called air drops, which are randomly placed in the game world, and often cause battles between players. There are different weapons, vehicles, clothing and other equipment that can be found in the game world. Alone or as a team of two or four, you fight against up to 100 other players. Before this, the upcoming reduction is already indicated by a marker on the minimap. This will direct the players to a random point on the map. A circular border becomes smaller at certain time intervals and causes damage to players if they are not yet within the safe area. The playable character can be freely designed beforehand. There he has to try to survive as long as possible. The player lands with a parachute from an airplane on a remote island. The principle is based on the Japanese film and manga Battle Royale. Various items of equipment such as weapons, rucksacks, helmets or bulletproof vests are located at defined points on the map, mostly in houses or covered regions. In the game world itself there are abandoned houses, streets, forests and villages. The play zone of the open world game world becomes smaller in certain time intervals and the player suffers damage if he is outside the defined area. Some new gameplay elements such as snow trails have also been added with the map. The cold climate is similar to the conditions in Scandinavia or Siberia. In December 2018, the snow-covered Vikendi map was installed. In June 2018, the third Sanhok card was added, vegetation and place names give a Southeast Asian flair. Calendar pages on walls refer to the year 1963. The flora (especially Joshua Trees ) corresponds to the US-American-Mexican deserts, place names, graffiti and brandmarks are Spanish. The old map can still be played as "Erangel Classic" in custom matches.Īt the end of 2017, PUBG was supplemented by another card called Miramar. With version 4.0, the map was revised in mid-2019. The world covers a size of about 64 square kilometers. Russian graffiti and brand marks can be found on houses and objects. The oldest map is the remote and extensive island of Erangel with Eastern European geography, which is based on brutalism and the Soviet Union in the 1950s. These are mostly dystopian, fallow places. The name is consistently capitalized for marketing purposes because, according to Greene, "it just looks better". This is where the name "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" came from. He used the nickname "PlayerUnknown" in online games.
Check out some of the test build patch notes below for more information. All of these crate items are simply cosmetic.
The new keys are a unified form of key that can also open Desperado and Gamescom keys. Spending BP will grant you one of four possible crates though there’s a higher chance of receiving the new crates. Test server players will receive 100,000 BP and six Early Bird keys.
Two new crates have been introduces, one which can be opened with a key and the other for free. Bluehole is also introducing a new crate system. This is just the test build but there’s even more to look forward to. Overall, this should make it easier for players to analyze whether someone is cheating or not. You don’t have to be killed by said suspected cheater in order to report them. With this latest update, the developer has now made it possible to report cheaters from the replay feature. A new patch is available for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on PC test servers and it follows up on the last Steam Community post from Bluehole that addressed cheating.