There are weeks when the Steam Charts surprise us! There are weeks when interesting new and old games reappear, pushing out the dreary regulars! And then mostly there are weeks like this one, where it’s so depressingly bland that it starts raining outside the moment you glance at it. Not good rain, just bland drizzle.
OK, look, it isn’t a Red Dead Redemption 2 edition, because Red Dead Redemption 2 isn’t out for PC yet. But if I keep typing Red Dead Redemption 2 into this Google is going to be SO TRICKED and the clicks will pour in and Graham will give me a promotion!
My valiant attempt at fists-only victory in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds went up in smoke. Perhaps I'll fare better in this week's limited-time event mode, which also asks players to commit to one method of attack. The catch? It removes weapon spawns from the map entirely.
One Gun Warrior sets players loose on Erangel with just one firearm. You'll scavenge for ammo and supplies, but no weapons spawn throughout the match. You can however relieve fallen enemies of their arsenal, but can equally commit to whichever gun you've been sent in with.
Set to run from today at 7pm PDT / 3am BST tomorrow, through the same times on October 28 / 29, One Gun Warrior will operate third-person perspective only. With 100 players, it's a solo mode exclusive with weather locked at sunny.
According to this Steam Community post, here's the mode's weapon kit spawns:
Following last week's PC 1.0 Update #23 PC, PUBG has added a number of UI tweaks and bug fixes. The sum of those can be perused at the foot of this post.
Last week, PUBG prepared for Halloween by teasing Silent Hill-style nurses and Pennywise-like clowns. It's now rolled out a host of scary skins, billed as the 'Survival Squad of Horrors'.
This promo poster looks pretty cool:
"Frightfully fun Halloween costumes are coming to PUBG," reads this Steam Community post. "Starting after maintenance, you can pick up the Killer Clown, Maniacal Butcher, Ancient Mummy, and Bloody Nurse costumes in the PUBG store. Each set will be sold in individual pieces or as a crate at a reduced price, with the Maniacal Butcher costume available for 10,000 BP.
"We also want to see your best PUBG IRL pictures this Halloween! Going out in a PUBG costume? Carving a level 3 pumpkin? Putting out a supply crate candy dish? Post your pics to @PUBG on Twitter or to Reddit and we’ll share them out. We may even send a special treat to the ones we really like! Just remember to always put safety first."
Check out the Squad lineup in full at the end of this scare-filled cinematic:
With the aforementioned Halloween picture-sharing campaign in mind, I liked this Twitter person's pumpkin:
Please check to see if your cats are laying down with dogs, and if your downs are presently up, because it’ll only further confirm this week’s Steam Charts’ signs of the end times. SEVEN new or re-entries, no GTA, no Counter-Strike, no Witcher 3 – and please, look, sit down, make sure a relative or loved one is close by – Plunkbat is at #6. With literally nothing making sense any more, let’s just try to get through this – however much “this” there is left – together.
The lads are going to kill me. I promised them the stag party of a lifetime, a fifty-lad pub crawl from Zharki through Georgopol then a boat ride to Primorsk and a dune buggy race to Mylta, closing by breaking into Mylta Power in search of radioactive goop to chug. I’ve had special tour t-shirts printed. They’ve all booked this weekend off work. And now, with no notice, Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has scrapped its debut 50v50 event mode “due to a critical error”. The lads are going to be gutted. They’re going to kill me.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds was set to debut "something new to events" this weekend: a five to ten person limited-time squad mode named Platoon. Sadly, it's already been cancelled following a "critical error".
"PC Players: Unfortunately, this week's Event Mode has been cancelled due to a critical error," reads a tweet posted by the PUBG Help Twitter account. "We apologize for any frustration or disappointment this has caused. Event Mode: Platoon will not be returning next week, but will return at a later date."
Set to run till Sunday evening PDT/the early hours of Monday morning BST, Platoon would've taken place on Erangel whereby two teams (platoons) of 50 players would have faced off. "Each Platoon is comprised of 5 squads, and each squad has 10 players," reads this Steam Community post. "Players in your Platoon, but not in your squad, will have a blue circle above their head. Players in your Platoon, but not in your squad, are marked with a blue circle on the minimap."
A number of prospective Platoon players have since aired their grievances with the cancellation on the battle royale's subreddit. This news follows developer PUBG Corp's decision to compensate all PC players in the wake of widespread connectivity issues earlier this week—and the arrival of the Fix PUBG campaign earlier this year.