Month: January 2018

Today, developer PUBG Corp. revealed that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has passed 4 million players on Xbox One. To celebrate the milestone, the studio is giving away a whole bunch of in-game currency to Xbox players for use on loot crates.

Specifically, Xbox One players will receive 30,000 Battle Points to use on in-game cosmetic items. However, you must have purchased the game and created a character by 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET / 8 AM UTC on January 31 in order to get the bonus. The points will appear on February 1.

30,000 points actually works out to a good number of loot crates, but you can get more out of the bonus if you spread the money out over several weeks. PUBG’s crates get progressively more expensive the more you buy in a week; you can buy a max of 6 crates per week, the cheapest being 700 points and the most expensive being 7000. Buying 6 in a week would cost you 21,700, meaning that you could purchase about 9 crates if you spent the money as fast as possible. But if you spread it out and bought one per week, that 30,000 could get you 42 boxes–of course, that’d take you 42 weeks to do.

In other news, PUBG recently received a new update on Xbox One that aims to fix bugs and improve controls. It got an auto-run option, an easier way to drop weapons, and more. PUBG remains in the Game Preview program on Xbox One, and there’s still no word on when features like the desert map will arrive in the console version.

The Man got you down? Are you and your fellow citizens being trampled by the jackboots of tyrants? If so, it’s time for a rebellion. Rebelling against the forces of evil is a common setup in video games. To celebrate the selfless heroes who take up arms against their oppressors, let’s look at some of the most iconic rebellions in gaming history.

In Final Fantasy 7, it’s not just humanity in danger — it’s the entire planet. Barret knows it. Tifa knows it. And after a quick education from these AVALANCHE rebels, Cloud knows it too. The threat comes from the Shinra Electric Power Company, an evil corporation that’s sucking up all the Mako energy it can get its greedy paws on.

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The latest update for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is now live on PC. Following a longer-than-expected maintenance period, developer PUBG Corp. has rolled the recent test server patch over to the live game, improving its stability and performance.

This latest update marks the third big one PUBG has received since leaving Early Access on PC back in December, though it appears to be fairly minor on the surface. It doesn’t introduce any new features or content to the game; instead, it focuses primarily on optimizing PUBG’s performance without tweaking its gameplay.

Most notably, PUBG Corp. has added more starting locations to both of the available maps and removed weapons from the starting island before the match begins in order to reduce stress on the game’s servers. “Previously, all the players would spawn together at the same location awaiting the start of the match. Lots of interaction among multiple players in such a small area had a high impact on the servers,” the developer explained in a post on the Steam forums. “To solve this, we have introduced multiple areas where players gather before the match start. As a result, the performance, both server and client-side, has improved.”

PUBG Corp. also says that it will make additional adjustments “related to the airplane performance improvement.” Further details on what those will entail will be announced “soon.” Additionally, the studio is testing a new anti-cheating measure, though that is still currently in development. PUBG Corp. has been implementing new systems to help curb cheating, which has been a persistent issue for the game. In the previous PC update, the developer introduced a system that allows players to report a suspected cheater from the replay feature.

You can read the full patch notes for PUBG’s new update–as taken from the Steam forums–below. The Xbox One version of PUBG also received a new update recently. That patch introduced an auto-run option and made various crash fixes.

PUBG Update #3 Patch Notes

Gameplay

• Introduced multiple pre-match starting areas on both maps in order to optimize the server and game client performance
  • Removed weapons on starting island before the match start

Language

• Applied new Russian, Japanese and Chinese (simplified/traditional) fonts

Bug fixes

• Fixed the issue where players were able to slide-jump from prone