Oct 25, 2018

Limited Time Broadcaster Royale Twitch Streamer Skins: Group 3

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Hey Everyone,

PUBG and Twitch are teaming up once again to bring you the third group of Broadcaster Royale items, featuring some of your favorite Twitch streamer gear! This group of skins will be available for $4.99 each until November 15th at 7pm Pacific and can be purchased through the game client, Steam, or directly from each streamer via their channel’s extension. Each sale directly benefits the Twitch streamer, so pick up your favorite skins and support them in-game and out!

This group’s streamers:

Ashek, BURGAOfps, CyanidePlaysGames, DiegoSimoura, Fugglet, Halifax, JB_Sniper, JennaJulien, Lil_Lexi, magalzaoshow, MisterMV, P4wnyhof, SkipNhO, SNAILKICKtm, SPYGEA, Xargon0731

NOTE: If you are having issues making purchases through the in-game store, make sure Steam and PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS each have the Steam In-game Overlay turned on.

Steam: Settings -> In-Game Tab -> Make sure "Enable Steam Overlay while in-game" is checked.

PUBG: Library -> Right-click PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS and select Properties -> Under the General tab, make sure "Enable Steam Overlay while in-game" is checked.

Oct 25, 2018

PUBG's 'One Gun Warrior' event mode removes weapon spawns from Erangel

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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:

[SR] AWM with 4x Scope, Compensator, QuickDraw Mag, and Cheek Pad
[LMG] M249 with 3x Scope
[DMR] MK14 with Suppressor, QuickDraw Mag, and 2x Scope
[AR] Groza with Suppressor, Extended Mag, and Holographic Sight
[SMG] UMP with Flash Hider, Laser Sight, Red Dot Sight, Extended QuickDraw Mag, Level 1 Vest, and Level 1 Helmet
[HR] Win94 with Bullet Loops, Level 2 Vest, and Level 2 Helmet
[SG] S686 with Choke, Bullet Loops, Level 2 Vest, and Level 2 Helmet
[Pistol] P18C with Suppressor, Laser Sight, Extended QuickDraw Mag, Red Dot Sight, Level 3 Vest, and Level 3 Helmet
[Melee] Frying Pan, Level 3 Vest, Level 3 Helmet, and Ghillie Suit
[Throwable] Ten Frag Grenades
[ETC] Crossbow with 6x Scope, Quiver, Level 3 Vest, Level 3 Helmet, and Ghillie Suit
[ETC] Flare gun (Items from flare gun airdrops follow the normal flare gun loot rules)

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.

Oct 24, 2018

Event Mode: One Gun Warrior

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS - Valor

Event Cancelled

Unfortunately, this week's Event Mode has been cancelled to an issue caused when updating the live servers in preparation for this event.

We sincerely apologize to players who are disappointed by the event cancellation, who were looking forward to playing the Event Mode this week.

More information: https://twitter.com/PUBG_help/status/1055430066803539968

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Lock and load warrior, because this week’s event mode puts your skills with a single weapon to the test! In One Gun Warrior, you’ll start out with a weapon kit immediately upon drop. You’ll have to scavenge ammo and other supplies, but no weapons spawn in the world! Kill others to take their weapons or make it through the round with your own.

Possible Weapon Kits:

[SR] AWM with 4x Scope, Compensator, QuickDraw Mag, and Cheek Pad
[LMG] M249 with 3x Scope
[DMR] MK14 with Suppressor, QuickDraw Mag, and 2x Scope
[AR] Groza with Suppressor, Extended Mag, and Holographic Sight
[SMG] UMP with Flash Hider, Laser Sight, Red Dot Sight, Extended QuickDraw Mag, Level 1 Vest, and Level 1 Helmet
Win94 with Bullet Loops, Level 2 Vest, and Level 2 Helmet
[SG] S686 with Choke, Bullet Loops, Level 2 Vest, and Level 2 Helmet
[Pistol] P18C with Suppressor, Laser Sight, Extended QuickDraw Mag, Red Dot Sight, Level 3 Vest, and Level 3 Helmet
[Melee] Frying Pan, Level 3 Vest, Level 3 Helmet, and Ghillie Suit
[Throwable] Ten Frag Grenades
[ETC] Crossbow with 6x Scope, Quiver, Level 3 Vest, Level 3 Helmet, and Ghillie Suit
[ETC] Flare gun (Items from flare gun airdrops follow the normal flare gun loot rules)

Acquirable items from world spawn:

Ammunition
Medical items
Backpacks
Gas Can

EVENT SCHEDULE

STARTS: Oct 25, 7pm PDT / Oct 26, 4am CEST / Oct 26, 11am KST
ENDS: Oct 28, 7pm PDT / Oct 29, 4am CEST / Oct 29, 11am KST

QUEUES

TPP Only (This is to help balance out the different kits since there can be so much variance.)

RULES

100 Players, in a free-for-all Battle Royale, will fight on Erangel.
This Event Mode will be open in TPP only.
Players will be given a random weapon kit at the start of the match with attachments, but without any ammunition.
Weapons will not spawn as world loot; win with your given weapon, or take them from others!

OTHER EVENT RULES

Solo mode only
Weather is set to Sunny
Red zones are enabled
General care packages are disabled
Killer Spectating is enabled

Oct 24, 2018

PUBG confirms new Halloween-themed 'Survival Squad of Horrors' skins

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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:

Oct 23, 2018

PUBG Halloween Skins Now Available!

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Frightfully fun Halloween costumes are coming to PUBG!

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. Keep an eye on the PUBG Twitter account this week for details on how you can win one of these costumes in our upcoming screenshot contest.

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.

To help all players celebrate, the Haunted Pumpkin Mask will be available in the store for only 10 BP from now until November 1st at 7pm PDT. Log in and grab your free(ish) mask before it's gone!

Suit up into something scary and haunt your foes on the Battlegrounds this Halloween!

NOTE: If you are having issues making purchases through the in-game store, make sure Steam and PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS each have the Steam In-game Overlay turned on.

Steam: Settings -> In-Game Tab -> Make sure "Enable Steam Overlay while in-game" is checked.

PUBG: Library -> Right-click PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS and select Properties -> Under the General tab, make sure "Enable Steam Overlay while in-game" is checked.

Oct 22, 2018

Steam Charts: Up Is Down Edition

Fallout 4 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)

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.

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Oct 19, 2018

Aw for Plunkbat s 50v50 event mode delayed by critical error

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

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.

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Oct 19, 2018

PUBG's new Platoon event mode cancelled following 'critical error'

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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.

Oct 19, 2018

PUBG's PC Event Mode has been cancelled this week due to a "critical error"

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS

PUBG Corp is currently engaged in a substantial effort to fix its game. I mean this quite literally: there's an ongoing campaign called FIX PUBG which is tracking the team's efforts to combat bugs in a game notorious for jankiness.

Despite this, players are (perhaps unsurprisingly) still experiencing issues with the game. Only yesterday, the developer had to give out free in-game beanies and currency to apologise for issues with PC servers, and now PUBG Corp has publicly apologised for yet another error. We only need one more problem to make a hat-trick of critical failures for the week. Wouldn't hat be appropriate.

This time, it's the game's Event Mode which is causing PUBG Corp some grief. In a tweet from the support account, PUBG Corp announced that the Event Mode would not be playable due to a "critical error". The "Platoon" event for this week - a brand new 50 v 50 mode with each team divided into five 10-person squads - will not be re-appearing next week, and will return "at a later date".