PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds finally gets a settings option for the field of view in the July patch. Additionally, a standalone first-person mode for the battle royale game is being introduced. The weekly patch also fixes some annoying bugs.
Update: Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene has just announced via Twitter that they are now introducing a first-person-only server for Europe and North America with the July update. More regions will follow later. Moreover, this applies only to solo and duo matches.
Good news everyone! 1st person servers are coming to @PUBATTLEGROUNDS in our next monthly update! #MakeHardcoreGreatAgain
— PLAYERUNKNOWN (@BattleRoyaleMod) July 13, 2017
Original Announcement:
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds receives a smaller update every week and a larger update every month with many changes and innovations. This month, a field of view adjustment is coming, among other things. However, you will have to wait a bit longer for a real first-person mode, where you play ONLY from the first-person perspective.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – Finally adjust field of view
Adjusting the field of view may not be a big deal for many players, but those suffering from motion sickness, the so-called “travel or motion sickness”, may be able to play with an adjusted field of view without symptoms, whereas previously they struggled with nausea and dizziness.
To ensure that as many players as possible can enjoy PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, a slider for field of view adjustment will be included in the July update at the end of the month.
What unfortunately will not be included in the July update is a true first-person mode that does not allow switching back to the previous third-person view. Such a view is, according to chief developer Brendan Greene, not easily doable “at the push of a button”. Instead, all development teams must work together on this feature, and there are currently more pressing matters to attend to. So an official FP mode will take a little longer to arrive.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – Weekly patch fixes invisible doors and frozen airplanes
The aforementioned changes will not come until the end of July in the monthly patch. However, what is already here today is the current weekly patch. This one is a bit bigger than usual and fixes a few particularly annoying issues:
- The airplane no longer sometimes just stays in the air at the beginning of a match
- You can no longer shoot from a vehicle underwater
- If you are killed in zoom mode, you should no longer be stuck in zoom forever when being revived
- Doors no longer remain as invisible obstacles when destroyed.
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