In a couple of hours, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will probably be happening for upkeep to “reduce the character position readjustment issue.” That subject, which you would possibly higher acknowledge by the time period ‘rubber banding’ has been with the sport for ages, however the exponential enhance in latest months main as much as the 1.zero launch has made it rather more vital.
Bugs and all, PUBG remains to be one of many best PC games of 2017.
PC Players, we’ll deploy a patch to the reside servers in lower than 12 hours to cut back the character place readjustment subject and repair different bugs. The upkeep will take 2 hours from 6PM PST / 3AM CET. We will present patch notes quickly. Apologies for the inconvenience.
— PLAY BATTLEGROUNDS (@PUBATTLEGROUNDS) December 27, 2017
This tweet adopted up one which’s now been deleted, clarifying that it is a PC patch and apparently altering the wording on the principle subject from “fix” to “readjust.” So, you already know, alter your cynicism appropriately.
The sorts of rubber banding points that occur in video games like PUBG sometimes happen as a result of positional knowledge for particular person gamers on the shopper will get out of sync with what the server sees, so these positions are adjusted for the server and shoppers to be again according to one another. So sure, “character position readjustment” is technically a sound title for the problem, even when it’s not the one the group makes use of.
PUBG finally left Early Access every week in the past, making for one murderific Christmas current. That launch induced Steam’s bandwidth usage to quadruple when sending out the 1.zero replace. It appears the sport’s progress has slowed considerably prior to now month, nevertheless it’s nonetheless frequently drawing nicely over 2.5 million gamers at a time, which is a stage of success that goes nicely past astronomical.
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