On paper, the large replace which hit Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds within the wee hours sounds fairly good. It provides a brand new anti-cheat system, brings again map choice, whacks in a rating system to climb, and allows automated area sorting to hopefully preserve distant gamers from lagging up our rounds. In actuality, ah, it appears little it is perhaps a little bit messy.
First, particular person map choice. I’d been looking forward to this to return and substitute the system of a alternative between massive maps (Erangel and Miramar) or small (Sanhok) or each. And sure, whereas we will now choose a person map reasonably than having the game select for us, we will’t choose a number of maps. You can’t queue for e.g. a coin-toss between Sanhok and Erangel – solely Sanhok or Erangel. So I can’t simply kick Miramar out the pool. It’s puzzling.
Automatically sorting gamers into server areas, reasonably than letting us choose areas, additionally sounds useful. It’s supposed to take a look at everybody’s connections and place them on the right servers, probably tolling an finish to distant gamers irritating of us by lagging up games on servers past their area. In observe, stories from some gamers make the sorting sound kinda wonky, generally placing gamers in unsuitable laggy servers or throwing collectively unlikely teams from throughout the globe. And this additionally sucks for gamers in less-populous server areas, who at sure instances can queue for aaages to discover a game. This expertise isn’t common, thoughts – it is perhaps simply high-quality for you.
New anti-cheat is welcome too, stamping out gits, however some are reporting efficiency issues with it. This new anti-cheat is non-obligatory for now, enabled by a pop-up because the game masses, however quickly will turn into obligatory. So why would you flip it on? “To help us refine our anti-cheat service it would be helpful for us if you play with the ‘Enable Anti-cheat” field checked,’ the builders say. I’ll in all probability go for now.
It’s not all wobbly on this replace, thoughts. Nice stuff consists of:
- Added UI that permits gamers to entry a quick-select wheel (related UI with the Emote system) for the short choice of objects with out opening the stock or urgent particular person hotkeys.
- Players can now additional amplify the minimap.
- Player order between the foyer and in-game is now constant in order that gamers can have fastened numbers and colours primarily based on foyer order once they enter a game.
- Friend UI has been improved to point out logged out / disconnected teammates.
- Added a wheel menu for fast entry to therapeutic and throwable objects
And there’s the rating system, with ten ranks to climb, if you happen to’re thinking about that form of factor.
See the patch notes for extra on every part.
The replace did additionally add the choice to commerce in a load of beauty bits for a higher-rarity merchandise, however that’s been temporarily disabled because of a bug which may swallow objects with out giving something in return.
Developers Plunkcorp have examined adding the drop-calling flare gun to the main game in latest weeks however that’s nonetheless not in but.
