PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will soon receive its first major monthly update. This will include performance updates, motorcycles, and a new weapon beloved from other shooters.
The developers of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds promised daily, weekly, and monthly updates at the launch of the successful battle royale shooter. The latter are expected to be the most extensive and will bring new content along with improvements.
It is now known when the first major update will arrive and what it will bring.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – Motorcycles, Vector, and the Return of the Crossbow
The first major monthly update of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will be released on April 20 at around 10:00 AM. The maintenance work should take about an hour.
To ensure that the patch causes as few problems as possible, it will be playable on the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds test server one day prior. So if anyone wants, they can immediately check out the new content. This includes among others:
- Improved client and server performance through optimizations
- Generally higher FPS and less lag
- Vegetation and object density adjusted for all graphic settings (to eliminate advantages for low graphic options)
- New weapon: Vector .45 SMG, known and loved from Ghost Recon and The Division
- New vehicle: motorcycle with sidecar
- New items like 2x Aimpoint sight and ballistic mask
- Map markers are now visible to the whole team
- Crossbow has been reintroduced into the game
- Crouched sprinting now possible
- Sound optimized (gun and step noises)
Despite the extent of the patch, the developers at Bluehole emphasize that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has not yet solved all performance issues. They are working hard to achieve a stable frame rate for all configurations as quickly as possible. However, server-side lags cannot be ruled out.
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