The small snowy map of Vikendi returned to Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds with the beginning of Season 7 right this moment, having been pulled from rotation in January for enhancements. They’ve eliminated just a few villages, added extra cowl in locations, diminished the quantity of snow throughout a whole lot of the island, and, most significantly, rebuilt the scrappy outdated Dino Park (which I did already adore) because the bigger and flashier Dinoland. While you possibly can’t journey its rusty ferris wheel or the damaged rollercoaster winding round a volcano, the overhaul has added one thing you possibly can journey: new trains now trundling across the map. Pleasing.
I’ve not performed sufficient of the brand new Vikendi but to get a way of how a lot the modifications have improved the map. Having much less snow in locations ought to make folks much less clearly seen. Ride the 9 automated trains trundling between the 12 stations may appear a transparent strategy to get your self killed, however I’ve seen folks largely ignore them thus far so possibly they’re a helpful ‘covert’ strategy to journey – hiding in plain sight? I’ll must play extra. But one factor’s clear: Dinoland is rad. It now has a glasshouse with palms, a ferris wheel, a much more spectacular (and dangerous-looking) coaster, eating places, named mascots, and even these humorous image boards you possibly can poke your face by way of (sure, your faces match – in case your pal crouches).
The devs have additionally added a Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle, out there on Viekdni and Erangel. It is similar in efficiency to the Kar98okay, simply with a brand new look and sound. This is one thing they’re contemplating doing extra of.
“We want to keep adding new weapons to the game but at some point finding the exact gun you want would suffer and as the overall list grows, maintaining balance between everything would also become more difficult,” they clarify. “Because of this eventuality, we’ve decided to test out the idea of shared stat weapons.”
Season 7 has a brand new Survivor Pass, named Cold Front. Once once more, enjoying and finishing challenges will degree up your move, unlocking new beauty doodads. The free move has a handful, and the £7 paid pass has an entire lot extra. They usually observe just a few themes: cosy knitwear; post-apocalyptic raver; Celtic ravewarrior; and wacky Dinoland souvenirs like dinosaur costumes.
In a separate assertion made yesterday, the builders mentioned as soon as once more that they’re making an attempt to enhance efficiency and stability. I took an extended Plunkbreak final yr and, having returned not too long ago for that wonderfully daft LARP mode, have been stunned by how poorly the game runs now. It’s by no means been nice, hell it’s by no means even been good, however it appears significantly dangerous now.
Executive producer Taeseok Jang mentioned, “we know it hasn’t been the best year for [performance and stability] so far, with persistent network, server, and game client issues. Although providing a high level of service is always one of our top priorities, specific issues have endured for far too long and overshadow any good improvements we make. Hitching and game crashes especially have increased and remained persistent in the recent months. Your feedback has been heard loud and clear and is completely justified.”
He reels off just a few explicit focuses, in case you’re curious.
