As fairly because the Erangel makeover headlining the brand new Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds patch is, and it’s each nicer and extra noticeable than I’d anticipated, that’s not what I’ve most loved. No, the true pleasure of Update 4.1 for me is with the ability to heal whereas strolling and mechanically preserve making use of bandages till my dozy arse is totally patched. Some long-overdue quality-of-life options there. You want to grasp I’m too simply distracted by landscapes and sunsets so I get shot an terrible lot, and this makeover to date has seen me shot much more for admiring sculptures and wooden panelling in the midst of gunfights.
The makeover is each useful and beauty. Across the entire map, areas are roughed up with fascinating new cowl spots, sightlines, alternatives, and all that. And it’s fairly! More areas really feel extra distinctive, from small issues like a wider vary of paintjobs on commonly-used buildings to greater stuff like changing a vacant warehouse with a wee native museum full with a airplane hanging from the ceiling. That’s good, that.
Part of the makeover can also be hanging a great deal of banners and posters manifesting the game’s disgraceful retconned backstory. Rather than 100% undoubtedly being about drunken stag & hen weekends getting a bit out of hand, it’s now in regards to the survivor of a bloodbath working murdergames so folks can uncover their true selves. He’s at all times watching, loving watching of us get murdered, therefore all the attention imagery now up round.
Deeper within the gameguts, you’ll discover fixes, tweaks, and steadiness modifications. A gun’s fee of fireside is now much less affected by FPS, so gamers with sluggish PCs must be much less weakned and pissed off – nevertheless it’s not totally fastened, thoughts. The Blue Zone is now smaller in early levels of the spherical, the wait time between Zone phases is shorter, and the wall strikes slower from the center of the spherical onwards. And sure, after beginning bandaging you are actually capable of stroll. And you mechanically preserve wrapping on new bandages till you hit the therapeutic cap, so that you gained’t should hit the bandage key seven chuffing instances.
As is customary for Plunkpatches, some gamers are reporting this has murdered their framerates, significantly in cities this time. I don’t get that myself however, y’know, when you do you’re not alone. What a bumpy historical past this game’s efficiency has, although it’s undoubtedly much better now than the earliest days of early entry.
This replace additionally kicks off Season Four of play, with new clothes and weapon skins and issues to unlock by enjoying, a new paid Survivor Pass with much more cosmetics to unlock, and such. The missions propelling us by way of these progress paths additionally now have some workforce challenges, so we our friends can preserve dragging our go in direction of these rewards even when our physique is face-down in a ditch.
See the v4.1 patch notes for extra on all this.
The obtain is now reside and a honking nice ten gigabytes, so begin that early if you wish to crank with the lads tonight. Or uncover your identification as a assassin who’s nice at murderers as a result of life is homicide, with the lads.
I’ll nonetheless be treating Plunkbat as an out-of-control stag & hen weekend and you’ll’t cease me. Unless you catch me investigating kitchen decor. In which case you may in all probability simply shoot me within the again.
