“It’s time to FIX PUBG,” declare the makers of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds as they launch a brand new marketing campaign detailing the various technical enhancements and fixes they’re engaged on. Framerate stuttering, rubberbanding gamers, desynced murders, and people dastardly cheaters are among the many issues the devs record, element, and plot the demise of on the new Fix Plunkbat campaign minisite. They’ve been placing out fixes and tweaks for so long as the sport’s been in improvement, and spoke just lately about big future fixplans, however laying all this out clearly is a transparent assertion of intent for the following three months. It begins right now with a giant patch, which mockingly has introduced a giant new downside too.
Developers Plunkcorp launched the marketing campaign on this morning’s announcement:
“‘FIX THE GAME.’
“This is a phrase we’ve been listening to so much recently. Since we launched PUBG as an Early Access sport final 12 months, the sport has grown exponentially, and we’ve been lucky sufficient to have tens of millions of extremely passionate gamers such as you. However, we haven’t at all times been capable of meet your expectations. Simply put, the sport nonetheless has many unresolved points.
“The backside line is, you’re the rationale for our success. You’ve caught with us, and now it’s time for us to ship the fixes you’ve been asking for.”
The Plunkfix site exposes their plans in shocking depth. It explains every downside, particulars causes, and lays out how they plan to repair it, with a timeline and all. They gab about bettering the server tick price so play feels smoother, lowering desync so fewer pictures bend round corners, amping up anti-cheat, fixing bugs, and optimising the dickens out of every little thing.
Fixing Plunkbat isn’t new, after all. Many patches over the course of its developments have tweaked, optimised, and glued an ideal many issues, and far is clearly in a greater state than it has been at occasions. But they evidently really feel strain to not solely do higher however talk higher, attempting to show the tide of opinion. It’s nonetheless the most-played sport on Steam by far however with Steam playercounts declining (which head honcho Brendan “Plunk” Greene says he’s not concerned about, that it’s simply the sport settling down) from ridiculous ranges to merely monumental ranges, stressed gamers do appear to be complaining extra. Fixing the sport’s technoguts lays strong foundations to construct a steady and long-lasting sport upon.
The first patch of FIX PUBG launched this morning, after per week in public testing. It brings bullet penetration so forearms don’t block deadlier pictures, simpler methods to drop particular portions of things with sliders and hotkeys, an finish to the frustration shuffle of attempting to swap weapon attachments with a full stock, the flexibility to mute particular person squadmates, extra choices to set (or unset) framerat caps, just a few extra buildings and helpful panorama options throughout Erangel and Miramar, and many extra. See the Update #19 patch notes for extra on that.
For me, the actual spotlight is new ‘Cloudy’ variants of the Erangel and Miramar maps the place climate adjustments dynamically throughout matches, rolling by means of cloud, rain, and fog. I’ve missed rain and fog so very a lot.
Progress comes at a worth. In this case, the sport now appears extra unstable at launch. I’ve had it crash at launch for the reason that patch, and I’ve seen others report it failing to hook up with the foyer.
“We are aware that some players are unable to connect to the game lobby and our engineers are working on a fix,” the Plunkbat help Twitter said at 5:38.
“Our engineers are still hard at work to fix this issue ASAP,” they adopted up at 9:51.
Plus ça change and many others.
