The journey firm behind Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds right now added a brand new stag weekend vacation spot, the roasting North African island of Karakin. The new map is the smallest thus far, solely 2x2km however nonetheless cramming in 64 gamers. It’s hazardous too, as a result of its new ‘Black Zone’ bombings can outright destroy buildings and the brand new sticky bomb weapon lets gamers blast holes in some partitions too. With Karakin coming in, PUBG Corp are making area by rotating Vikendi out for some time. And lads? Pack sunscreen.
Karakin is a Morocco-y, Algeria-ish, Tunisia-like kind of place with a number of small cities, some farms, a dock, and loads of palm bushes. Though it’s small, it does have loads of cowl between the knobbly panorama and gert large rocks littering it. Cover is much less dependable on Karakin than different maps, thoughts.
The most dramatic risk of Karakin is its random Black Zone bombings, that are much like ye olde Red Zone bombings however solely final a number of seconds and may truly destroy buildings and kill folks inside. Players may also bust via sure partitions utilizing the brand new sticky bombs, and bullets penetrate some notably skinny partitions too. Hunkering down is loads much less secure right here.
Karakin’s launch right now comes after every week on the general public take a look at servers, throughout which the devs gathered some suggestions they haven’t had time to behave on. “In a future update we’ll be increasing Karakin loot based on player feedback received during the testing period,” they are saying. They plan to make that change that “soon.”
The snowy map Vikendi is gone from the map rotation for now. It’s nonetheless playable by selection in customized matches however gained’t come up randomly. The devs say rotating maps will assist keep away from new maps messing with queue instances, and Vikendi is the primary going out as a result of it’s a bit iffy. They clarify that “while Vikendi is on vacation we’ll be going in and doing a bigger revamp of the map than we’ve previously done.” In the meantime, they’re contemplating including its unique MP5K and G36C weapons to a different map’s loot pool.
A brand new season begins right now too. Season 6 brings a brand new cross with 100 new ranges to grind via and unlock beauty bits. Once once more, a free observe provides a number of goodies however you’ll get far more if you happen to pay £7.49/€9.99/$9.99 for the Shakedown Survivor Pass.
Inspired by the brand new map, this season’s new clothes and skins have lots of Moroccan/Algerian-ish woven patterns. Some are actually fairly good by the requirements of this game’s god-awful style.
See the update 6.1 patch notes and season 6 subsite for extra on all the pieces.
