Tensions run excessive in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds however the feelings are easy: I wish to shoot you; I would like you not shoot me; oi oiiiiiii! These will be deduced by context however, for gamers who imagine they’ve wealthy emotional lives which completely should be shared with everybody, the battle royale ’em up now has little emote animations. These fastidiously categorical feelings starting from “I surrender; please do not shoot me” by “I am angry enough to shoot someone” and even “You absolutely bloody legend!” Today’s replace appears a superb’un on the whole, bringing loads of welcome fixes and quality-of-life tweaks.
The dozen emotes are Hello (a wave); Thanks (blowing a kiss); Affirmative (nodding your head); Clap (clapping and nodding a bit); Laugh (a belly-clutching, arm-pointing cackle); Surrender (placing your fingers up); Rage (shaking your fists like an urchin simply stole a pie out of your windowsill); You’re Done (drawing a hand throughout your menace); Negative (shaking your head); Provoke (doing the ‘eye see you’ finger-eyes adopted by a pointing then beckoning finger); Come Here (a beckoning hand wave); and Go (pointing forwards). These are all performed in eerie silence, such as you’re a horrible mime assassin pretending to expertise feelings when actually you’re interested by sporting my pores and skin as a go well with. Observe:
The devs say they plan so as to add extra emotes later, which I assume will likely be packed into the crates of beauty objects.
Beyond animations which might be principally helpful for dicking about within the foyer and as a easy attention-grabbing focus for online game blogs, as we speak’s patch has introduced some respectable little modifications. Here are a number of highlights I’ve picked out:
- Improved real-time response by lowering enter lag
- Mitigated the body drop challenge attributable to the map loading course of
- Added major menu voice chat
- Made holes within the ceiling and ground of some excessive buildings, in order that it’s simpler to maneuver between totally different ranges, to enhance the gameplay expertise on Miramar
- Added 37 achievements on Steam
- Changed the gun scope view to be extra life like
- Increased the radius of explosion impact contemplating the precise efficient radius
- Removed ambient noise and lowered the general quantity
- Implemented the Doppler impact for the airplane engine sound – the pitch of the airplane engine sound is now totally different relying on the gap and the path of motion of the airplane
- Improved a problem the place three-wheeled motorbikes would out of the blue flip every time the server efficiency deteriorated
- Mitigated a problem the place when exiting the parachute mode, participant may take extreme fall injury
- Fixed a problem the place the adjusted zoom degree in 8x scope reset after swapping to your different weapon(s)
The full patch notes are over here.
The achievements are mostly boring, difficult gamers to get sure numbers of kills and wins, however there are some enjoyable ones like “Wear the outfit of a dead player”, “Kill 10 players with the crossbow”, “Get into a vehicle where an enemy player is already in”. I’d prefer to see extra of the cheevos encourage banter and antics, with daft challenges like massive jumps, pub crawls… truthfully, typically it’s virtually as if PUBG Corp overlook they’re making a stag & hen weekend simulator.
And sure, efficiency does appear high quality. FPS and crash woes over the weekend had been principally attributable to a wonky anti-cheat update that ended up being rolled again.
The devs have additionally now opened signups for early entry to the sport’s upcoming API, which ought to enable for higher stat-tracking websites and such.
