The subsequent Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds map will probably be a bit of 4x4km one–25% the dimensions of its present two–and we’ll get to play it on take a look at servers subsequent month. Developers PUBG Corp as we speak laid out a few of their plans for Plunkbat throughout 2018, which vary from fancy additions just like the little new stage to refining and overhauling numerous current components. Expect prettier homes, new sport modes, emotes, new automobiles, new sounds, extra customized sport choices, extra efficiency enhancements, extra anti-cheat, extra, extra, extra, how do you prefer it, how do you prefer it?
“This year we want to involve our players in the ongoing development of PUBG even more than before,” head honcho Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene stated in today’s announcement, “and to aid with this we plan to open an Experimental Test Server so we can get your valuable feedback on our feature/content development cycle sooner and for you to have a real impact on how our game changes and develops going forward.”
That’s the place we’ll discover the brand new 4x4km map subsequent month. Greene says it “should give you all a much more intense and faster paced Battle Royale experience”, with gamers packed in nearer and shorter rounds. He shared this idea artwork of the map’s map:
Based on the verdant flora and what seem like paddy terraces and fields, I’d guess it’s set in China or the same fictional place in southwestern Asia. Seeing as Plunkbat is big in China and shortly to formally launch free-to-play there, some kind of pandering China-ish map wouldn’t be an enormous shock.
Greene mentions they’re planning one other 8x8km map too however doesn’t present something or say once we may get to play. He has stated before that they have been planning an Adriatic island map, although plans may have modified since then. In the meantime, you may take pleasure in a fantastic concept for Scandinavian map made by a fan.
Let’s rattle on by another issues coming. Emotes!
Prettier homes!
Bullets penetrating limbs (to achieve juicy facemeat behind) and automobiles! Achievements! Squad voice chat in the primary menu! Overhauled participant animations, together with new ones for getting in automobiles and altering seats! More responsive parachuting with new animations! New car sounds together with suspension! More participant sounds, together with totally different motion sounds for various loadouts and totally different respiratory sounds for various actions! More spectator stuff! More customized sport choices, with extra gamers allowed to make use of them! An API to tug participant and match information out of the sport! Other issues! More exclamation marks!
The builders plan to launch huge updates each two months, with smaller ones in-between.
See the blog post for particulars on all this and extra. Greene says that weblog publish doesn’t cowl the whole lot coming in 2018 both, so cross your fingers if you happen to’ve been hoping for one thing else.
