On the priority list of PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds), the well-being of gamers is undoubtedly at the top. For the coming year, the team has set strong goals.
PlayersUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been in full version for just a few days. With this, the developers have fulfilled their promise to leave Early Access with the PC version in 2017.
What’s next on the agenda is likely to please fans of competitive gaming.
Fixing Rubberbanding and Looking Ahead
In an interview with Kotaku, Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene explained that the release of PUBG version 1.0 marks the completion of the core features. All basic functions are now in the game. Now the team is addressing acute issues.
“There are still crashes and rubberbanding. We are currently working on that,” Greene explains. With rubberbanding, you may suddenly be rewound in time in the game, finding yourself in a completely different spot from one second to the next. It’s as if your character is attached to a rubber band that pulls them back regularly.
A patch has already been released to address this issue:
To completely fix the rubberbanding, the developers will need more time.
More Balance for a Competitive PUBG
The focus will also be on the gameplay of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in the future to make the game more competitive and more in line with being “eSports-ready.”
Brendan Greene believes that PUBG is already competitive. However, the statistics of the game will now be examined more closely, and more work will be done in the area of “balancing.”
Mods for PUBG?
Brendan Greene does not dismiss modifications for his battle royale shooter. It would be odd since the game practically originated in a mod for ARMA.
However, Greene also explains that adding modding would be a significant step. A lot of code would need to be rewritten to make the game mod-friendly. And there is, at least at the moment, no time for that.
Custom games are expected to give players many options to customize matches to their liking. Not much needs to change in the core code for that. This is, for now, the compromise.
Additionally, PUBG aims to bring more maps – here is the desert map Miramar as a start.
Better connection to the character: Level-ups and Ranked Games
Changes for the coming year also include a better connection to the character with whom you regularly play your matches. A character level system and a kind of ranked play should strengthen the bond to your battle royale avatar.
More Cosmetic Items for PUBG
Furthermore, there will be more cosmetic items, although there are concerns about the gambling scene. In games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, items are regularly sold for several hundred euros. PUBG has already shown in the past that it is not immune to this trading.
“We can’t really control what happens on the gray market. Such things [trading with in-game items] will always be there. No matter what we do. The system we release should be fair and work on the Steam market,” says Brendan Greene.
The developers’ priority now is to make the game competitive, stable, and crash-free.
When will the next wave of PUBG players come? What about a release on PS4?
