Though Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds now has two maps, it doesn’t have an choice to decide on which you play. While the devs do plan to add one, for now gamers have used sneaky methods to get the map they need. Some disconnect from servers if the randomly-selected map isn’t what they need. And, it seems, some make it easier by outright eradicating one map’s information. The sport does nonetheless run, however any time it tries to hitch a sport on the undesired map it’ll return proper to the menu. One participant even made a software to take away maps simply. It’s awkward that there nonetheless isn’t a map-select choice.
Let’s be clear: the desert map can do one. While it was an thrilling novelty at first and the terrain and buildings could make for fascinating firefights, it’s far too empty with too many unhealthy looting spots (although the next update will add extra buildings and enhance loot in some areas, so we’ll see) and too few automobiles and poor pacing throughout most of a spherical. So possibly you wish to skip Miramar. Or possibly you’ve performed Erangel without end already and wish the novelty. Whichever.
I’d identified of individuals quitting after becoming a member of the foyer and seeing it was a map they didn’t need, which is fairly clear from watching the numbers climb down the warm-up then drop by round 20% earlier than everybody will get on the aircraft. That sucks. It makes for emptier, slower rounds for everybody nonetheless enjoying.
This new trick, which apparently people have been doing since December, is even easier. Delete or rename the information for the map you don’t need and, as I examined, Plunkbat will nonetheless run however when you get matchmade onto the map you deleted, it’ll kick you proper again to the primary menu as a result of it may’t load the information. It takes about three seconds from clicking play to being again on the principal menu. Easy. Even simpler when you use this tool to do the renaming.
I believe that this methodology nonetheless causes the issue of matches beginning slim. After being kicked again to the primary menu, Plunkbat registered me as being within the match and requested if I wished to reconnect, so it was nonetheless holding a spot for me.
I level this out to not suggest this however as a result of, properly, it’s taking place. The sport is lacking a characteristic, and gamers are taking drastic steps to duplicate the consequences of that characteristic – even to the detriment of different gamers.
I do hope builders PUBG Corp add the map choose choice soon-ish. I don’t know if I’d use it myself–as a lot as I grumble about Miramar, a number of the lads are followers and the variability is welcome–however it could cease the phenomenon of gamers quitting. I couldn’t inform you after I final noticed a match begin with a full or near-full playercount.
