The long-promised choice to decide on which map you play on in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds is “almost complete”, builders PUBG Corp said at this time, although we might want to wait just a little longer. If you fancy skipping one map or enjoying a selected one, you’ll have that choice. The devs had expressed issues that including map choose would possibly enhance matchmaking instances an disagreeable quantity however, after analysing information from tens of tens of millions of matches, appear assured that it shouldn’t trigger issues. They shared a have a look at the work-in-progress choice and yup, it seems easy sufficient.
Map choice has been one of many prime requests since Plunkbat’s second map, Miramar, was added. While Miramar has improved with updates and renovations, at first its tempo and play was too totally different in disagreeable methods – and I’d nonetheless typically slightly play Erangel. Some gamers even resorted to deleting one map’s files as a canny trick to skip it.
The official map choose choice shall be just a little pop-up menu in the identical spot as different matchmaking choices. With a thumbnail for every map (in case you neglect the identify), you’ll merely want to pick and deselect the maps you do and don’t need to play. If you may have a number of maps chosen, the sport will choose one for you.
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PUBG Corp clarify that the potential of growing wait instances was “the most troubling issue” as they thought of including map choice, however for now they don’t assume it’ll trigger issues.
“We analyzed tens of millions of matches and sorted the data by server, mode, and time to make sure map selection wouldn’t break the game for anyone,” they mentioned. “We wanted to make sure that we could create a solution that worked for every region’s players, even the ones with a naturally low server population.”
The sport could solely have two maps proper now, however the small 4x4km third map is in closed testing and another 8x8km map is because of observe. With that in thoughts, PUBG Corp say they’ll control the consequences of map choice, “since it could become problematic as new maps continue to be added.”
It’s not prepared simply but, thoughts.
“Work on the feature is almost complete,” they are saying, “and we plan to release it soon after implementing it on the test server.”
I want they’d use this chance to carry again the fog and rain variants of Erangel. I do know they have been much less fashionable for playstyle and efficiency causes however ah, I actually actually loved the number of seeing or listening to much less. Or maybe they take into account a variant which borrows the ever-changing climate system from the third map, Codename: Savage. I miss the climate.
For a view on the broader state of the sport, Rich McCormick final night time checked out it in his Update Night column.
