Hello Players!

Thank you for your enthusiasm during this first-ever community skin event for PUBG. During the voting period, players around the world cast over 470,000 votes for their favorite designs and now we're thrilled to be able to share the winners of the PUBG 3rd Anniversary Skin Design contest.

Your winners are...



Congratulations to @DY_BUDDY from China, @Karaagekun_kei from Japan, and @Seb34627111 from EU! These three winners came out on top of their respective categories to be named the winners of the contest. Let's have a look how many votes they got!





These designs will be created in-game and given to all players for free during the PUBG 3rd Anniversary. In addition to their designs being in-game, we're sending some special PUBG goods to all finalists, including special award trophies for our three selected winners. Regional community managers will contact the finalists soon through their social media accounts.

Gifts for Voters

As an added bonus for helping us decide the winners, we'll be awarding 100 random voters (who shared their vote on social media) some awesome PUBG merchandise as well. We will select and contact the winners soon, so keep a look out for a final list of winners coming soon.

• Voting event winner announcement: Feb 1, 2020 at 5pm KST
  
  • Your regional community managers will contact you through your social media account. Please note, you may be excluded from the list if you do not respond within seven days.

• Skin Release Date: Mar 23, 2020 KST
  • Further details will be announced at a later date.

Thank you again for submitting your creative work, and for voting in the PUBG 3rd Anniversary Skin Design Contest. We look forward to finding new and exciting ways for the PUBG community to show off their talents.

- PUBG Community Team

With only a 2x2 field to work with, drops will be hotter, rotations will be riskier, and the excitement will be non-stop. Not even the cover of a building can save you from Karakin's relentless fury. New Breach Points offer alternative entry, penetrable walls allow clever enemies to fire before you can even see them, and the all new Black Zone lays waste to entire structures- and any survivors unfortunate enough to be caught inside.

Karakin isn't just action though, many secrets lie below the surface of the island for those with the right tools to explore. Welcome to Karakin.


While survivors are spending time on the beaches of Karakin, Vikendi will be taking a little vacation of its own. Don't worry, Vikendi will be back, and dare we say, better than ever!

Season 6 is available now, so Squad Up, Drop In, and Throw Down!

Note: In a future update we'll be increasing Karakin loot based on player feedback received during the testing period. We're working to push this update out soon and will share specific details once finalized.

For more details, see our complete patch notes here.

Details on Survivor Pass: Shakedown here: pass.pubg.com
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1222520/Survivor_Pass_Shakedown/

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the Medieval Helmet skin was not visible when equipped by female characters
  
• Fixed an issue where players were able to prone in shallow waters
  
• Fixed a visual issue with various pants skins
  
• Fixed an issue where some face/hair icon sizes were inconsistent in the lobby

Season 6 is upon us and it brings with it a brand new island to the Battlegrounds. Karakin has risen like its namesake from the sea to bring intense action and quick gameplay to PUBG. New dangers, new weapons and a whole new island await, so let’s drop into the action of Update 6.1.



Higher tension, faster pace: Welcome to Karakin.


Karakin is a 2×2 km island off the coast of Northern Africa. It’s an arid, rocky environment that provides wide-open terrain and challenging engagements. It’s small, fast, and dangerous: Expect the tension of Miramar combined with the pace of Sanhok. Karakin is a 64 players map.

Players should expect long distance rifle engagements in the mountains, tactical urban conflict, and claustrophobic underground combat. And with the introduction of the Black Zone, Karakin reveals its twist: a map that’s layout changes every match.









Black Zone (Karakin Only)

Our new hazard, the Black Zone only available in Karakin, levels buildings into smoking ruins.

• The Black Zone is designed to push players out of the safety of a building.
  
• The hazard is random: towns and compounds can be undamaged, totally flattened, and everything in between.
  
• The mix of buildings and ruins evolves in real time throughout the match: Meaning don’t always expect that building you run to for cover to be there late in the match.
  
• Remember, if you hear the siren, and you are inside that purple circle on the minimap- evacuate!

New Throwable: Sticky Bomb (Karakin Only)


To change up siege play, we’re introducing Breach Points which can be destroyed with Sticky Bombs in Karakin.

• Certain walls and floors have breach points which can be destroyed with Sticky Bombs
  
• This feature presents more tools for our players: For campers, it allows more sight lines/windows to be created
  
• For squads going on the offensive however, there are new options for storming buildings- “Do we blast in through the back of the building, or through the roof- maybe both?” the choice is yours!
  
• And for explorers, we’ve hidden many secret areas for those players with a spare Sticky Bomb or two, and a keen nose for loot

Finally, to make interior gun fights a little more interesting, we’ve added bullet penetration to our weakest walls in Karakin. Getting brief glimpses of your enemies through damaged drywall, and deciding to take the fight or regroup- gives players more options.

At PUBG we are dedicated to providing new experiences for you, the player, and pushing what’s possible in our genre. We can’t wait for you to experience it for yourself!

We heard your feedback during the testing phase and initial launch of Karakin and have now implemented a hotfix to increase and rebalance loot on our newest Battleground.

To ensure you can drop in and loot up quickly above around, we’ve rebalanced loot spawns to improve your overall experience. There’ll now be much more loot to go around for you and your squad.

We understand and agree that feeling a need to rush and breach a tunnel each match to get that sweet, sweet loot just didn’t feel great. So, we’ve increased above-ground spawn rate of healing and boost items, as well as scopes to get you battle ready quicker. We hope this will allow you to explore Karakin more freely without feeling required to breach a tunnel just to find enough of that sweet, sweet loot to survive.

Please keep the feedback coming, it’s appreciated as always and we look forward to continually improving Karakin alongside our passionate community.

Detailed changes

• Increased 2x, 3x, 4x scopes
  
• Increased healing/boost items above ground
  
• Modified ratio of total SR/DMR muzzle attachments due to increased spawn rate of those weapons
  
• Decreased number of melee weapons, canted sights and magazine attachments
  
• Removed Sawed-off from Karakin

Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee.


Motor Glider will be available on live servers from Jan 15. For more information, please see PUBG LABS Report – Motor Glider.

• Motor Glider is available on Erangel and Miramar
  
  • 10 Motor Gliders will spawn across the map each game, across 40 potential locations
• Motor Glider has two seats; one for pilot and one for passenger who can shoot and use any weapon from the backseat
  
• To takeoff, you must gain the necessary speed of 65 km/h then pitch up with the S ke
  
  • You’ll start to take off automatically once you hit 70 km/h
• Motor Glider’s fuel consumption rate is tied to the engine speed – the more throttle you apply, the faster you will run out of gas
  
• Motor Glider will be spawned without gas. Fuel up before starting the engine
  
• There’s no maximum altitude you can reach, the sky is the limit! But engine will start losing power the higher the altitude you are at
  
• Controls:
  
  • Use W/S keys to control the pitch and A/D to control the roll of the aircraft
    
  • Adjust the throttle by holding Left Shift and Left Ctrl keys
    
  • Hold Spacebar when on the ground to engage handbrake

Community Missions

• Whether you have purchased Premium Pass or not, all players can join together to fill the Community Accomplishment Gauge, then claim in-game skin rewards and unravel the hidden story of Karakin
  
• The mission gauge can be filled by finding collectibles on the Battlegrounds
  
  • Players who find and open special Cardboard Boxes will be able to loot one of the 3 different objects
    
  • When collected, they are reflected on the Community mission accomplishment gauge as follows:
    
    • Disc piece: Counts as 1 point toward Community Missions Goal
      
    • Broken disc: Counts as 2 points toward Community Missions Goal
      
    • Old DVD: Counts as 3 points toward Community Missions Goal
• On the Community Mission tab, you can see your achievement score and earn XP in proportion to the individual contribution score

Season Mission

• There are three tracks of Season Missions
  
  • Each track will be released monthly on January, February, and March
    
  • Tracks that are locked will show the time left before it is unlocked

Progression Missions

• Players can earn large amount of XPs when completing Progression Missions
  
• Tracks 1, 2 contains a set of 8 missions each with each mission difficulty increasing gradually allowed for all players
  
• Track 3 contains a set of 10 missions with each mission gradually increasing difficulty for players with the Premium Pass
  
• Milestones are completed when a set goal has been achieved related to daily, weekly, and challenge mission
  
  • Example: Complete 70 total daily missions

Challenge Mission

• These are challenging missions which require using designated weapons.
  
• Weapon lists:
  
  • Skorpion (Handgun)
    
  • Win94 (SR)
    
  • QBZ (AR)
    
  • AKM (AR)
    
  • QBU (DMR)

Earn Level-up items for the Next Season

• You can claim level-up items for the next season as a premium pass mission reward
  
• These items are non-marketable, and they will be activated when the next season (Season 7) starts
  
• Level-up Items in the Survivor Pass List
  
  • 5 Levels coupon x2
    
  • 1 Level coupon x5

• Rewards for Survivor Title System Season 5 will be granted at the beginning of Season 6
  
• SP will be soft-reset, with your performance in Season 5 counting towards your starting SP in Season 6

Firing mode change improvement

• Added an option to gameplay settings which allows you to set a second firing mode preference for AR and SMG weapons which have 3 firing modes (Single, Burst, Auto).
  
  • This will allow you to have burst fire weapons be set to single shot upon equip, while also having other weapons in that category still be automatically set to auto.
    
  • Selecting auto as first and single as second preference will have weapons without auto fire be automatically set to single fire.

Vikendi has been removed from public matches temporarily and will be replaced by Karakin.

Dev note: We’ve been thinking a lot about how we could add our new map without negatively impacting queue times, as Karakin would become the 5th map in our rotation and add additional queues to the list. Our solution is the introduction of rotating map slots. A rotating map slot is a non-permanent map slot that will change from time to time. The goal is to provide stable matchmaking times while keeping map choice fresh. For our first rotation, Vikendi will rotate out to make room for Karakin. Maps that are rotated out will still be available for play in custom games.

Speaking of Vikendi, since we launched the snowy slaughterhouse back in December of 2018, we’ve received a lot of feedback. Performance, spawn balance, and even buildings were all places with room for improvement, some of which we already attempted but we feel we can still do better.

That said, while Vikendi is on vacation we’ll be going in and doing a bigger revamp of the map than we’ve previously done. When it’s time for it to come back, there will be plenty of new stuff for you to explore and enjoy. Until then, trade in your snowballs for sticky bombs and hot drop into the new hotness! Additionally, we know many players love the Vikendi exclusive MP5K and G36C so we're looking to potentially add these weapons to the loot pool of another map in the future. We'll keep you updated once details have been confirmed.


Map Selection

• AS, KR/JP, SEA, EU, RU
  
• Replaced Vikendi with the new map, Karakin (Vikendi will still be playable in Custom Matches)

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Featured Map & Random Map

• NA
  
  • Featured Map: Karakin
    
  • Random Map: Erangel, Miramar, Sanhok
    
    • The Featured Map option may be disabled and Karakin added to the Random Map pool if players experience issues with long matchmaking times.
  • Vikendi is now unavailable in public matches and only available through custom matches.

All Random Maps

• OC, LATAM
  
  • Replaced Vikendi with the new map, Karakin. Vikendi will still be playable in custom games.
    
  • There is an equal chance to play on each map.

Mastery System

• PUBG ID will now be shown on the end of match screen and while spectating players

Known Issue: Character model is not shown on PUBG ID.

UI/UX

• Added ‘PASS’ button to the main menu
  
  • You can view Survivor Pass by clicking it

Replay System

• The replay system has been updated. Replay files from previous updates are now unavailable for use

Gun Handling Sounds Improvement

• Improved reload and weapon switching sound effects
  
• Modified reload sounds to be more realistic, through adding audible player interaction with the reload operation.

Sound segmentation related to the mechanical properties weapons during aiming/scoping

• In Aiming/Scoping, the degree of trembling sounds related to weapon attachments details varies depending on the type of weapon.
  
• Sounds are divided into two, Handgun and non-handgun, and handgun has less trembling or no attachment detailed sounds compared to non-handguns.

Vaulting Sounds Improvement

• Improved detailed expressions on objects such as hand-to-body contact, collar-to-shoulder squeaks, etc. during vaulting
  
• When vaulting, sound outputs correct material sounds (Concrete, Metal, Wood)

Karakin known issue: Sound in and above bunkers isn't working as intended in certain situations. Currently, it can be difficult to distinguish the distance of players from your position while underground, or whether they're above or below ground while in the vicinity of a bunker.

We're working to resolve this issue and improve logic related to sound in and around bunkers. As this is a complex issue, it will take some time to be resolved and we expect to push the updated sound logic to live servers in the April update.

Vikendi

• Further lowered the volume of wind sound effect in the moonlight

World Origin Shift

• Optimized the world location calculating process to reduce occurrence of hitching.

The following items will be added to the Store after Update #6.1 hits live servers:

• Added 5 Golden Dragon skins
  
• Added 4 Golden Phoenix skins
  
• Added 9 Seollal skins

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where camera view is located incorrectly when changing seat to driver’s seat during ADS
  
• Fixed an issue where M249 iron sight was displayed incorrectly
  
• Fixed an issue where hold option for prone isn’t working correctly
  
• Fixed an issue where character's upper body would be displayed incorrectly after using a throwable while sitting on the backseat of a motorbike on FPP

UI/UX

• Fixed an issue where the character’s overhead UI isn’t aligned with the character model
  
• Fixed an issue where incorrect UI would be exposed after pressing certain keys
  
• Fixed an issue where the helmet equipped on Customize is visible on the character’s head on PUBG ID

Custom Match

• Fixed an issue where the weapon crosshair was exposed overlapped when moving to the next round in war mode while holding a weapon
  
• Fixed an issue where red dot sight was not included in the war mode support spawn kit

Sound

• Fixed an issue where the ambient noise is louder than intended in certain weather types on Vikendi.

Skins & Items

• Fixed an issue where Tommy Gun skin texture is displayed incorrectly
  
• Fixed an issue where the lower body would be displayed incorrectly when putting on certain PGI skins on a male character

Welcome back to PUBG Labs intrepid survivors!

We hope everyone had fun flying the unfriendly skies above the Battlegrounds in our Motor Gliders. We've loved seeing your reactions to the winged wonders as you took to the air, and been more than impressed with many of your dog fighting abilities.

Thanks to the monumental amount of support we received for the Motor Glider we will be releasing it to Live Servers on January 15th. The majority of the mechanics for the aviary asset will remain largely the same as we described in our PUBG Labs: Motor Glider announcement with a few changes. Console players will be able to take flight with the launch of Season 6.

• Motor Glider will be available on Erangel and Miramar
  
• Motor Glider has two seats; one for pilot and one for passenger who can shoot and use any weapon from the backseat
  
• Motor Glider will be spawned around the map
  
• To takeoff, you must gain the necessary speed of 65 km/h then pitch up with the S key.
  
  • You'll start to take off automatically once you hit 70 km/h.
• Motor Glider's fuel consumption rate is tied to the engine speed - the more throttle you apply, the faster you will run out of gas.
  
• Motor Glider will be spawned with empty gas. Fuel up before starting the engine.
  
• There's no maximum altitude you can reach, the sky is the limit! But engine will start losing power the higher the altitude you are at.
  
• Controls:
  
  • Use W/S keys to control the pitch and A/D to control the roll of the aircraft
    
  • Adjust the throttle by holding Left Shift and Left Ctrl keys
    
  • Hold Spacebar when on the ground to engage handbrake

We will be adjusting the spawn rate to optimize where and how often the gliders spawn. During LABS, we used to have 10 motor gliders spawned in 10 spawn locations, so 100% spawn rate on each location. We'll be changing this to 10 gliders randomly spawned in 40 spawn locations, so a 25% spawn rate on each location. As this is a new content, we'd like to test the spawn balance, so the spawn rate is likely to change a few times.

The largest change to the way Motor Gliders operate is that we're challenging you to give it the gas. All Motor Gliders will start on empty to keep you on the edge of your seat until you're in the air. Can you get her fueled up before the enemy is on you?

There are many plans in the future for Motor Glider. Our first plan is to add key binding options for each controls. Please look forward to upcoming changes to be made on the flying vehicle.



Breaking It Down

Survivors that dropped into Motor Glider mode played on average 4 times and 55mins per day.

60% of the time the motor glider was destroyed via crashing, so you know - fly better.

The sharpshooters among you were able to bring down gliders 25% of the time with their gunshots. 13% of the time the Glider succumbed to the Redzone.

The fight for the glider led to a lot of players going down early in the match. An average of 30 people per match got their bells rung by enemy punches. 10 people per match were Motor Glider Roadkill.

By spawning the Motor Glider with no fuel players will be forced to loot first and take to the skies a little later.

We're finding the glider is a great early phase tool, but later in the game, the advantage is limited, so use the glider early and after Phase 2 you may want to keep it grounded.

As always, we'll be listening to player feedback to balance the features and availability of the Motor Glider.

Thanks,
The PUBG Team