Adding computerized area sorting to Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds was supposed to resolve the issue of jerks disrupting games by connecting to distant servers the place they’d lag round with excessive pings. In actuality, last week’s update brought on extra issues. Players might discover themselves sorted–and locked–onto servers that clearly weren’t of their native area, and in laggy games with people thrown in from all all over the world. Not the very best. Developers PUBG Corp immediately admitted that yeah, they muffed it up, and say they’re making an attempt to repair it. A partial supposed repair has already gone stay, and the total repair is because of be in place subsequent week. Deary me.
“The improved system is intended to automatically send players to the region that provides the lowest ping, but unfortunately an error related to ping calculation occurred and the player’s location wasn’t being identified correctly, resulting in them being placed into matches in a region that didn’t provide the optimal gameplay experience,” PUBG Corp stated in today’s statement.
“Due to the large number of players affected by this issue, the gameplay experience for many players has been impacted negatively and we sincerely apologise for this.”
They say they’ve already put stay “an initial fix to prevent players from connecting to the wrong local region”, and so they anticipate to repair the remaining points subsequent week. One change deliberate is having the matchmaking for filling squads choose squadmates who converse the identical language.
The autosorting system can be imagined to be sort to gamers in less-populated areas. “In the event of excessive queue times due to a small matchmaking pool, the next closest region will be chosen to ensure players aren’t stuck matchmaking indefinitely,” the devs clarify.
Region-locking has lengthy been requested by vocal gamers to assist filter out cheaters and laggers, with Chinese gamers specifically being scapegoated for the game’s troubles. I don’t assume region-locking is the panacea some would counsel (nor that it’s all all the way down to China), however I do welcome computerized sorting to assist reduce out laggy distant gamers. If the system works correctly. Which it doesn’t but. The FIX PLUNKBAT campaign continues.
PUBG Corp are additionally as soon as once more testing adding flare guns as an everyday drop. As seen within the Metal Rain event mode (although not as widespread a drop as they had been in there), they’ll name in an armoured automobile or an extra-large provide drop. They’re once more being examined in a brief occasion mode, which is stay till the wee hours of Sunday.
“We’ve looked at your feedback from the last round, but want to gather a little more data before we pull the trigger on any changes or deploy the item to live,” they are saying.
