It’s Plunk a go-go as we speak with many titbits of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds information. To summarise:
1) A brand new occasion offers the chance to earn a implausible big hat, the kind of engaging hat that vacationers on a stag or hen weekend would immediately purchase.
2) The flare gun seen within the Metal Rain occasion, which may name in a particular big airdrop or an armoured car, is headed to common modes too.
3) A rating system is coming.
4) Proper particular person map choice is coming again.
5) God, that hat is gorgeous ladbait.
So! Shiniest first: the flare gun. For now, it’s solely present in the latest event mode. The flare gun, discovered as a spawn world wide, can name in a double-size airdrop crate if fired contained in the secure circle or an armoured Uaz if outdoors. The massive drop packs sufficient gear for 2 gamers, whereas the armoured Uaz is a chuffing armoured automotive conserving gamers secure as they energy by means of hazard zones. The flares are fairly loud and visual as they dangle within the sky, creating spontaneous aims to scrap over. I’ve actually loved flare drops in Metal Rain, although right here the weapons will likely be much more uncommon than they had been in that occasion mode.
The devs say their flare gun occasion plan is “to give it a proper test in a real environment to see if it fits within the normal PUBG atmosphere and make sure everything works properly.” They do additionally word that they’re engaged on “something special” to switch the armoured Uaz later this yr. My fingers are crossed for a supercharged muscle automotive with sheet steel over the home windows.
The flare gun beta occasion mode begins in a single day, at 3am on Friday the 21st within the UK (which is 7pm as we speak for Pacific time zone people). It’ll run till 3am on October 1st (or in Pacific, 7pm on September 30th) as a result of they need loads of time to check it. It’s restricted to four-player squads on Erangel.
Moving on: THAT HAT. An merchandise of conventional Korean ‘Hanbok’ competition type, it’s one among many gadgets of formal put on accessible over the following 4 weeks merely for putting effectively in matches. This is due to a new event marking Korea’s Chuseok and the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrated in China and a number of other Southeast Asian nations.
The occasion challenges gamers to achieve the ultimate 15 in not less than 5 matches (any squad measurement, any map). Do so and also you’ll win that week’s two or three competition cosmetics, that are largely South Korean or Chinese formal clothes. Look for the crate icon within the top-right nook of the principle menu to trace your progress.
The first week of the Festival occasion began in a single day, so hop on if you’d like that hat. God, I need that hat. In a game about hungover stag & hen weekend events smashing by means of vacation locations, I can’t consider something extra appropriately culturally insensitive than blithely sporting the largest hat you could find with shorts and sunnies.
As for rating, that’s as a result of come within the subsequent massive replace. It’ll assign gamers one among eight ranks–bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond, elite, grasp, and grandmaster–and bump them up and down as they win and lose matches. That replace can also be as a result of deliver again correct map choice, letting gamers select precisely which maps they need to play quite than dealing with the selection of ‘everything, Sanhok only, or a random pick of Erangel or Miramar’. Good-o.
Also in that replace: a wheel menu to simply choose consumables and throwables; a ‘trade up’ system letting gamers swap ten beauty doodads of the identical rarity stage plus some Plunkbucks for one doodad of the following rarity; choices to zoom nearer within the minimap; and extra bug fixes.
Update #22 is because of launch in “early October” however, when you actually to see all that, is now reside on the check servers. See the Update #22 patch notes for extra on every part.
That’s all of the information that’s match to Plunk. Until I get that hat, not less than. Then we could have A LOT to speak about.
