The newest Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds patch went reside at present, introducing a basic Team Deathmatch game mode. It’s being added as a part of a brand new Arcade part within the game, which can begin introducing extra various methods to play PUBG apart from the standard battle royale stuff. There’s some updates to that battle royale stuff too, although, together with a number of alterations to the brand new map Karakin, in addition to some adjustments to how grenades and throwables work.
PUBG did attempt an old TDM mode back in 2018 as a part of an occasion, however this time it seems just like the mode would possibly stick round a bit longer. It’s one of many first of some rotating game modes that’ll be out there within the Arcade, although we don’t know what the others will likely be simply but. For now, we do know these 8v8 loss of life matches will likely be playable throughout areas of seven current PUBG maps you may get a glimpse of within the trailer beneath.
Unlike the battle royale mode (however similar to most different deathmatch game modes) you’ll respawn after a number of seconds once you get killed, and often you’ll resurrect subsequent to teammates (so long as they’re not all lifeless too). There’s no knockdowns or pleasant fireplace, and to win a match your workforce might want to attain 50 kills earlier than the opposite workforce does, or simply have essentially the most kills on the finish of a 10 minute timer.
There are additionally some updates to the battle royale mode, together with the flexibility to comply with your pals when dropping in. It sounds a bit like the way in which it’s a must to comply with a jumpmaster in a Apex Legends, besides in PUBG you’ll must opt-in to comply with your squad and allow them to information you down.
Lastly, this patch has some adjustments for the new map Karakin, rising the spawn charges of first help kits and increase objects, and lowering the spawn charges for DMRs, SRs and the Winchester. A few outdated favorite weapons from the Vikendi map are making a comeback too, and there are a bunch of changes to the game’s throwables you may try in the patch notes.
