It shall be a white Christmas in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds this yr, because the snowy new map Vikendi has launched on the primary shopper. It’s a mid-size map, 6x6km, with thrilling spots together with a cosmodrome, fortress, and dinosaur park. Here’s a little bit festive secret for you: all these assault rifles, pistols, shotguns, grenades, bulletproof vests, and bins of ammunition are lovingly hand-placed for you by Father Christmas earlier than the beginning of the spherical. If you solely discover horrible loot, properly, clearly Santa is aware of what you’ve been as much as this yr.
Vikendi is now reside for everybody, after a stretch on the check servers. It’s a snowy Soviet-y panorama, one other place deserted by humanity, however an actual attention-grabbing place with landmarks together with sizzling springs, a fortress, an area launch website with a rocket and area shuttle, and, better of all, a dino park. Having not performed Vikendi on the check servers (Destiny 2 is consuming up my FPS time as of late), I’m excited to discover all this. The dino park is especially good.
You’ll discover big fibreglass dinosaurs, dodge ’ems, a rollercoaster, present outlets, a maze with dinos lurking in dead-ends, a smoking volcano housing an academic part with an actual dinosaur skeleton… fairly pleasing. And sure, you’ll be able to run alongside the rollercoaster tracks.
As is the way in which, Vikendi does just a few issues in another way. The SCAR assault rifle is changed with the G36C, and snowmobiles are added to zip throughout snow and ice sooner than different autos (however chug alongside slower off the white stuff).
See the patch notes for extra on right this moment’s replace, which additionally consists of new parachute management choices to make gliding and diving simpler, some overhauled menus, and a wee M16 nerf.
Like Sanhok earlier than it, Vikendi’s launch is accompanied by a brand new Survivor Pass. It’s principally Fortnite’s Battle Pass, levelling up as you play and full challenges to unlock beauty doodads like clothes, weapon skins, facepaints, and emotes. And as in Fortnite, all gamers get a barebones go providing a small variety of objects to unlock however paying for the Premium go will get you far more.
The Vikendi Premium Survivor Pass prices £7.49/€9.99/$9.99 on Steam and yup, it additionally sells elective degree boosts to skip the grind. The Pass’s page explains (and exhibits) extra.
Resident guidemen Dave and Ollie have written a Vikendi guide, if you happen to’re in search of some tricks to get began. Just ignore their part about the place to loot; as I’ve defined, loot is decided solely by how properly you behaved this yr.
Plunkbat has a 33% low cost till January third too, bringing it right down to £18.08/€19.99/$19.99 on Steam. Pay three quid additional and also you’ll get that Vikendi Pass bundled in too.
