PUBG is ready to get a number of new options all through 2024 that promise to vary the sport considerably.
The free-to-play battle royale, which stays one of many most-played video games throughout console and PC through Steam six years after launch, is getting destructible environments, a transfer to Unreal Engine 5, consumer generated content material, and extra over the course of this 12 months.
Developer Krafton additionally signalled new collaborations (these have develop into a giant a part of PUBG not too long ago), enhancements to matchmaking, and the promise of elevated anti-cheat measures.
On destructible environments, Krafton stated gamers will be capable to strategically destroy sections of buildings or construct defensive obstacles, which in flip would open new assault routes or safe areas. The concept is the destructible environments will add a “dynamic” new layer of technique and techniques to the sport. Anticipate a preview in an April replace, with enhancements to comply with.
Krafton additionally plans gunplay updates to launch each two months as a part of a drive to “foster a secure ecosystem and supply a larger range of decisions to gamers”. Gamers can take a look at weapons within the Arcade’s Gunplay Labs forward of their launch correct. Krafton can also be engaged on survival-focused objects and bettering modes for a extra “informal” gaming expertise, which suggests the developer is eager to develop the sport’s viewers. The transfer to Unreal Engine 5 “marks the beginning of an thrilling journey”, Krafton stated (PUBG is presently constructed on Unreal Engine 4).
In the meantime, consumer generated content material offers PUBG Fortnite vibes. The purpose right here, Krafton added, is “to empower gamers to create and interact with their content material and foster a vibrant, creator-driven ecosystem”.
PUBG launched on PC through Steam in March 2017, and went on to develop into one of many largest video games on the earth. In January 2018, PUBG set Steam’s all-time peak concurrent determine for a single recreation with an unbelievable 3,257,248 gamers on-line on the identical time. Since then, PUBG has launched throughout consoles and on cell, the latter of which has seen over one billion downloads.
Whereas the console and PC model of PUBG is much from the heights set throughout the recreation’s early years, it stays massively standard, with a whole lot of hundreds of individuals taking part in on Steam at any given second.
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