When I saw that Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds had given everyone on its test servers the ability to create custom matches, I shrugged. I’m sure some are interested in fiddling with circle behaviour, loadouts and vehicle spawns, but not I. I was content to continue with vanilla Plunking, especially when today’s update also includes a car and a new DMR for my favourite map.
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One of the modes PUBG fans have wanted most desperately in the game is the ability to create custom matches. It seems their wishes have finally come true, as PUBG Corp has today announced the mode is in open beta on test servers.
But, of course, there's a catch.
Custom matchmaking will be available for free, but PUBG Corp mentioned in its update notes this could change in the future. "Creating custom matches won't have an associated cost during this phase," the developer stated. "However, due to the extremely large amount of resources required to allow custom games to be available to all players, we may change this in the future to ensure everything runs smoothly and the system remains sustainable long-term."
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As part of its PC 1.0 Update #18, PUBG has also added a Sanhok map-exclusive weapon and vehicle to its test servers. The QBU is a DMR that takes ten rounds of 5.56mm ammo. It comes with a bipod, and is thus most effective when engaged in the prone position. It replaces the Mini 14 on the tropical 4x4km arena, and looks like this:
The Rony, on the other hand, is Sanhok's newest vehicle—a pickup truck "from the automaker that brought you the Mirado," says developer PUBG Corp. It continues: "This truck holds up to 4 passengers and excels at moving across Sanhok's hilly landscapes. The Rony is one of the larger vehicles on Sanhok, so it can be used for cover as well as transportation."
The Rony looks like this:
As always, once both the Rony and the QBU are successfully tested, they'll be applied to live servers. More information on both, as well as Update #18's haul of bug fixes, can be read here.
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PUBG Corp has announced Sanhok will soon be receiving two shiny new content additions exclusive to the map.
On the official Twitter account, PUBG Corp yesterday revealed the 'QBU' gun: a new DMR set to replace the Mini 14. Using 5.56mm bullets, the gun will be similar to the Mini 14, but with slightly higher bullet damage. It also comes with a handy pre-attached 'bipod' to stabilise the weapon when the player is prone, which will reduce recoil for mid to long-range shots. According to the video, the gun's damage will be the lowest of the DMRs, but on the upside, it will also have the "highest initial bullet speed", again making it useful for long-distance shooting.
PUBG Corp also revealed Sanhok will be gaining a new vehicle. Sure, it's not quite the tuk-tuk many fans on Reddit hoped for, but the 'Rony' should help players navigate the hilly terrain of the Sanhok map. Capable of holding four players at a time, the pickup will allow two passengers to sit in the cargo area and turn around freely. Business in the front, party in the back.
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While the makers of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds work away on undoing some of its more enduring technical problems, fixes are still coming for the more immediate stuff. This past week saw the launch of an update aimed at reducing lag problems on the North American servers by fixing an issue which stopped their matchmaking from filtering people by ping – which turned out to have combined nastily with a bug which set the default region to North America so many people elsewhere in the world unknowingly joined in and made everything worse. A string of other bugs and bad things have been fixed across the week too. (more…)