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)

[/list]

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

Hello Players!

We truly appreciated your passion for the PUBG 3rd anniversary global skin contest! Truly. To celebrate the 3rd year of our community and shine a light on your spectacular creations, we want you to help with which skins should represent this momentous milestone. There were over 1,200 entries in our communities throughout the world during the entry period (Dec 20, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020). PUBG regional offices and dev teams reviewed every entry and narrowed the designs down to these finalists.

A total of 15 finalists were selected, five for each item, from all across the globe. You can see the finalists on the official voting page of the PUBG 3rd anniversary Global Skin Contest, and choosing the winning designs to be made into PUBG skins is in your hands. Go to the voting page and choose your favorite designs! The most voted for each item (3 finalists in total) will be distributed as PUBG 3rd anniversary in-game skins for free!

• Voting page: Click here
  
• Voting Period: 01/10/2020 00:00 PST - 01/19/2020 23:59 PST
  
• 1 Vote can be cast per player, player item type

Want a chance to earn your own prize? Click the share button at the top of the voting page to send the link to your social channels with hashtag #PUBGSkinContest. We'll randomly pick 100 lucky voters to win a special gift! You must share using the rules below to be considered. Keep an eye on our social channels @PUBG for the announcement of those amazing prizes!

• Complete voting for 3 items
  
• Share the voting page by clicking the share button to your social channels with the hashtag "#PUBGSkinContest" after voting in the event period.
  
  
  • It needs to be open to the public without any restriction to view
    
  • Event period: 01/10/2020 00:00 PST - 01/19/2020 23:59 PST
• We will contact the winners of the special event through the social media account you shared with.
  
  • Winner draw and contact: Starting from Feb 1, 2020 at 12 am PST
    
  • If you don't respond to our message for 7 days, we will move forward to the next candidate.

Q. How do I know how many votes my design received?
A. The voting status for each candidate will be released at the time of the winner's announcement and will show what percentage of the total vote they received.

Q. How many winners will there be?
A. We're rewarding in three different ways. The top voted entry of each category, the 4 top candidates for each category who did not win, and 100 randomly drawn winners from among the voters who share on social media.

Q. How do I know if I won the random draw?
A. In early February, after the event, a random draw will be held. If you are a winner, we will then contact you through the social media accounts you shared. Please note, you may be excluded from the list if you do not respond within seven days.

Q. What are the rewards?
A. The Grand Prize winners will see their skin in-game, given to all players on the third anniversary of PUBG! Alongside the recognition for their great work, they'll receive some real-life PUBG merchandise including a one of a kind, special trophy.

Candidates selected for the public voting stage will also receive prizes, as will a few lucky, randomly selected voters, and other finalists will receive prizes as well. While these players won't receive a trophy, we'll still be sending out some awesome PUBG merchandise to show our thanks.

Q. When can I expect my reward to be delivered?
A. Once all winners have been confirmed, we will begin the shipping process. We will notify you once your prizes have been shipped. Please note that delivery times will vary greatly depending on your location and local shipping laws.

Terms & Conditions / Rules

• You can only vote for one finalist of each item.
  
• Once you have completed voting, you will not be able to change it.
  
• Invalid or unidentified nickname/social accounts will not be considered
  
• Any cheating or defrauding of the contest systems are strictly forbidden and will lead to the complete disqualification of your votes, disqualification from future contests, and legal action for damages incurred from you to the fullest extent permitted by law. Please play fairly.

Hello everyone,

SEASON 5 which began in October, will end soon!

Read on for more information on the SEASON 5 end date, Survival Pass, Title System, rewards and distribution schedule.

Season 5 End Date:
PC - 2020 January 14, 16:30PM PT / 2020 January 15, 1:30AM CET
Console - 2020 January 21, 1:00AM PT / 10:00 AM CET

Survivor Pass: Badlands
The premiums Survivor Pass: Badlands will be available until 2020 January 14, 16:00PM PT (Console 2020 January 20, 1:00 AM PT). Players will be unable to purchase level up items or achieve missions after the season ends. Unused level up items can be used in the future seasons.

Unclaimed skins, coupons or XP can be claimed by clicking "Claim All" button. Rewards can be only be claimed before live server maintenance on 2020 January 22 PT (Console January 30). You won't be able to receive them after the end of the claim period, so be sure to obtain all the rewards you've acquired within the season period.



Survival Title System
Title rewards can be claimed by going to "SEASON → OVERVIEW → TITLE REWARDS" in the lobby. Coupons earned during Season 5 will all be deleted on 2020 January 22 (Console January 30), so make sure to use them all.



Survival Title Season Rewards will be distributed to those who have achieved higher than a Novice title according to the achieved survival titles after live server maintenance on January 22 (Console January 30).

Rewards will be distributed sequentially and should all be distributed within one day. If you haven't received the reward after the announced date, please contact Customer Service.

Any players who are found to have obtained a Survival Title by violating operational policies may be subject to account restriction and/or removal of seasonal rewards.



Your Survivor Title will be soft reset once the new season begins, taking the players' previous season title into account when determining their initial placement in the new season.

Thanks,
The PUBG Team

Hello everyone,

Skill Based Rating test will end on PC January 2 12:00PM PST / 9:00PM CET, 2020 after its 6-week run. We thank everyone for their participation and feedback. We hope you enjoyed testing this system and we greatly appreciate all of your feedback thus far.



Be sure to participate in the feedback survey via the main menu on PC – January 2 ~ January 9. While the survey is active, you’ll also be able to review your final rating achieved during the testing period.

What’s the next step for Skill Based Rating?
We’ll be returning with another testing phase in the future after analyzing gameplay data and making additional changes based on player feedback, with the goal of providing the best player experience possible.

Thanks,
PUBG Labs team

Got some killer PUBG skin ideas in your head? With the PUBG Community Skin Contest, your ideas come to life and best of all, have a chance to be added to the game! Submit your best designs for the M416, a custom hoodie or parachute. Each item category will have one winner, with the three winning designs getting turned into official PUBG skins!

To enter, simply download the template, create your design and then share it on your favorite social media platform with the hashtag #PUBGSkinContest and tag our official account on that platform, which is usually @PUBG. Our team will choose our favorites and upload the finalists to PUBG.com. The winners will be chosen by community votes. So even if you don't want to design a skin, you can still vote for your favorites.

More information and official rules can be found below! Thank you for taking this journey with us and we can't wait to see the creativity you bring!

1. M416
   
   Templates: JPG / PNG
2. Hoodie
   
   Templates: JPG / PNG
3. Parachute
   
   Templates: JPG / PNG

Skin Designers
Download one of the skin templates above and design an M416, Hoodie, or Parachute!
Upload your artwork to your social accounts with #PUBGSkinContest and tag our official account on that platform.

• Platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Weibo

Voters
Visit the http://PUBG.com voting page once finalists have been uploaded and cast your vote! You can vote for one design per category.

• 1st Round: PUBG chooses the finalists
  
  • Judging Criteria
    
    • Creativity
      
    • Accuracy based on design guidelines
      
    • Correlation with PUBG brand identity
• 2nd Round: Public Voting on PUBG.com
  
  • The most voted items in each category will win

• Submission Period: Dec 20, 2019 – Jan 5, 2020
  
• Finalist selection Period: Jan 6, 2020 – Jan 10, 2020
  
• Public Voting Period: Jan 10, 2020 – Jan 20, 2020
  
• Winner Announcement: Jan 21
  
• Skin Release: Mar 23, 2020 (PUBG 3rd anniversary!)

*Dates subject to change. Notifications will be given in the event of date changes.

• The top voted entry in each category will be created and distributed free to all players on PUBG’s 3rd Anniversary!
  
• Winners and finalists will all receive special gifts for their impressive work!

Submission Guidelines

• All artworks you submit must use the original templates provided above
  
• You must keep your original file in case we request it later
  
• Sign your artwork with your social account ID and one of your in-game identities in the live server (Steam in-game ID / PSN ID / XBOX Gamertag) on the template
  
  • Please put your IGN or ID with the platform. (e.g. PSN ID – xxxxxx)
    
  • Invalid or unidentified nickname/social accounts will not be considered
• Artwork must be submitted through Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or weibo
  
• Submissions need to be open to the public without any restriction to view
  
• You must use the #PUBGSkinContest hashtag in your entry posts and tag the official PUBG account on that platform
  
• Submission after the entry period will not be considered

Design Guidelines

• Don’t use Ghillie suit textures or greenish camouflage color
  
• Don’t use symbols that hint at any religion, organization, or political orientation
  
• Don’t Draw over the line from templates
  
• Don’t violate the rights of any other person or company by using their trademarks, music, logos, names, or images without their express written consent
  
• Don’t use any content that is obscene, offensive; sexually explicit, derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group; promotes alcohol abuse, illegal drugs, tobacco, actual firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing) or a particular political agenda; defames, misrepresents or contains disparaging remarks about other people or companies or communicates messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or good will to which we wish to associate; and/or violates any law.

Update Dec 23: Thanks to all the feedback and participation from the community, the Motor Glider LABS test will be extended. Fly above the skies of Erangel and Miramar on the Motor Glider until December 29 11pm PST / Dec 30 8am CET!

Players can find information on LABS Skill Based Rating via the "PLAY → LABS" menu in the lobby.

The Motor Glider is available in PUBG Labs on Dec 19 11pm PST - December 29 11pm PST.

You’ve been hittin’ the roads on the battlegrounds pretty hard, but where we’re going, we don’t need roads. Final boarding call for the Motor Glider mode only available for a limited time. Take to the air in the new Motor Glider and get the drop on enemy squads wherever they are. 

The Motor Glider can transport you and a squadmate in the air and get you to the far side of the circle in no time. To take off, you’ll need to get the speed up to 70km/h (so not quite the 88 miles per hour you’d need for time travel) and once you’re moving you can use sticky throttle to lock in your forward acceleration. Be careful around the rotor or you’ll learn who wins in a faceoff between your face and a mower.  

While in the air, using the high ground to their advantage, passengers can rain shots and molotovs. Only the engine can be destroyed with wings taking less damage compared to the body, but the tires can’t be damaged - so you’ll be able to keep it moving even after your engine is disabled by gliding and landing. 

PUBG Labs is a space where we introduce experimental in-game features to you, the community, and collect your feedback. The most important takeaway from PUBG Labs is your valuable opinions!

Please feel free to let our Community Managers know about what you think of your experience on whichever social platform you prefer, just tag us @PUBG. The Motor Glider is available in PUBG Labs on Dec 19 11pm PST - Dec 22 11pm PST.



"Fly like an Eagle."

• 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.
  
• 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

• Period: Dec 19 11pm PST – Dec 22 11pm PST / Dec 20 8am CET – Dec 23 8am CET
  
• Perspective: TPP/FPP
  
• Mode: Squad
  
• Map: Erangel, Miramar
  
• Maximum Player: 80
  
• How to join: Click the banner on the left bottom above the ‘START’ button

Welcome back survivors. We hope you’ve enjoyed all the updates and content we’ve brought to you in 2019 and we can’t wait to show you what we have in store for 2020. Patch 5.3 is here and we’re taking the opportunity to make a number of QOL updates and a special holiday themed lobby. Thank you for your commitment to our game and we’ll see you all next year!

For full patch notes, click here: https://www.pubg.com/2019/12/11/pc-update-5-3/

Survivor Pass: Badlands is in its final sprint, so finish off those missions, unlock those rewards and get ready to celebrate all of that sweet, sweet loot.
You can get all of the details of our current Survivor Pass here: http://pass.pubg.com

Hello players,

Last August, the PUBG sound team announced a sound improvement plan for the second half of 2019. We wanted to give you an update on what’s been done so far as well as what still needs to be worked on.

First off, we adjusted the volume of sound effects such as "flies" which was high on the list of most inconvenient sounds. We also dealt with "red zone", "vehicle engine" and "wave" sounds which were louder than necessary and offered more of a distraction than information.

Conversely, the "Footstep Sound Rebalance," which was an attempt to improve auditory information, unfortunately included some unintended side effects and we had no choice but to roll back those changes.

The PUBG Dev Team fully understands the great impact and importance of sound in PUBG and wants to make sure we approach this delicate but important feature of the game much more carefully, which unfortunately means a slight delay on a few of the sound elements planned by the end of the year, including our fix for the rolled-back Footstep Sound Rebalance.

[ Postponed items ]


Our view that the audible range and sound drop-off distance of footsteps require improvement has not changed. However, as you can see from the image below, our 1st rebalance had an area that caused problems while expressing a sense of distance. We understand something like this needs to be approached very carefully to preserve the PUBG gameplay experience, and therefore we are currently working on the rebalancing with deeper analysis.



Our goal is to provide clear and informative soundplay without the need for excessive volume adjustment and without harming overall gameplay. Moreover, we promise to do our best to ensure that cases like the previous release and rollback do not reoccur by improving our verification process before releasing to players.

While we cannot give an exact schedule for these delayed improvements at this moment, our goal is to have all these issues addressed by early 2020. We agree that we can do better in regards to sound and are actively working towards that goal. Thank you for your patience and we’ll be sure to release additional information when we’re ready to roll these improvements out.

- James from PUBG Sound Team

It's been a hell of a year here at PUBG. Thanks for taking this journey with us. As we approach the holidays we're hard at work on some exciting new features for you to play in 2020. As season 5.3 starts to wrap up, we're ending the year with a number of quality of life updates to give you a better PUBG experience. Read through the patch notes below for new settings, blood effects and skins that have landed on the Battleground.

"Bloody realistic"

Blood Effect Improvements

• Headshots including the neck area produce more distinct visual effect to ensure clear identification of hit
  
• Blood splatter will be shown on walls and floors if the character is hit near it
  
  • The size of the blood splash is unified across all color settings
• Blood impacts on characters will now provide a more precise visual representation of which body parts have been hit

• Reduced the maximum number of uses per Vending Machine from 15 to 10

• Increased the overall number of spike traps spawned

This update was applied on Jan 7, 2020 PST

Erangel

• Increased AR spawn amount by 20%
  
• Slightly decreased Gas Can and Handgun spawns

Miramar

• 22% increase to overall loot spawned
  
• Additional 22% increase to total number of ARs spawned
  
  • This means the total number of ARs spawned on Miramar is now 44% higher than before

"Your Settings, Anywhere, Anytime"

Cloud Saving

• Settings now can be saved to the cloud in the settings screen
  
• Saved settings can be loaded in the settings screen when needed
  
• This also allows players to load their account settings even when playing on a new PC
  
• Settings that are dependent on hardware cannot be saved
  
  • GRAPHICS: All settings in the GRAPHICS category except "Language Setting"
    
  • GAMEPLAY: "Inventory Character Render" setting cannot be saved
• The Cloud Saving option can be found at the bottom right of the SETTINGS screen
  
• Test Server settings will only be saved on to the test server account

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens"

Favorite Weapon

• Players can now choose their "favorite weapon" in the Mastery tab
  
• The weapon of choice will show up as the first weapon stat in your PUBG ID, regardless of whether the weapon has the highest level or not
  
• A grey star will show up when player's mouse is hovered over it. Clicking the star will favorite the weapon
  
• A gold star will show up next to a chosen weapon when a player favorites it
  
• Players can only favorite individual weapons and not categories
  
• There can only be one favorite. That's just logical
  
• The favorite weapon will always show up at the top of players' list, even when the sorting feature is used

Lobby Theme

• Lobby background will change to a HAPPY HOLIDAYS theme once the patch is updated on live servers
  
• To set the winter mood, the lobby music has also been changed

Weapon HUD Improvement

• Heal and acceleration icons on the weapon HUD will now flash when activated

Esports Mode

• Boats and Aquarails now have fixed spawn locations and numbers on Sanhok

Observing UI Improvement

• Enabled rear camera flip (180 degrees flip) by pressing Ctrl+R key during freecam perspective
  
• Enabled adjusting camera movement speed during observing
  
  • Speed up: =
    
  • Speed down: -
• Bullet tracer setting indicator will now be shown on the bottom left of the UI

• Old replays cannot be played due to a version update to the replay system.

• All PGC signs and banners on Miramar have been removed

• The current season of both the Survivor Pass and Survival Title System will end on January 14 PDT
  
  • Starting January 1st,  there will be a countdown on the Survivor Pass lobby banner notifying players of the pass end date
    
  • A pop-up message will be displayed to users purchasing Premium Pass and Level-up items, alerting them of the time left until pass end
• Premium Pass and Level-up items can be purchased until the Pass period ends

The following items will be added to the Store after Update 5.3 hits live servers:

• Added 2 BattleStat weapon skins (QBU and P1911)
  
• Added 2 BattleStat weapon skins (SKS and P92)
  
  • Purchasable with BP
• Added 3 Factory Worker skins
  
• Added 4 Punk Destruction skins

• Crates requiring keys to unlock are no-longer included in the pool of Random Crates purchasable with BP
  
  • For more information, please go to the following link: Dev Letter: Improving Crate Content
• Random Crate contents and percentages have been adjusted as shown below:

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where the reticle would shake when ADS with a 6x Scope equipped
  
• Fixed an issue where character movement would stutter when firing the DBS in certain situations
  
• Fixed an issue where BRDM collision damage was higher than intended
  
• Fixed an issue where a disconnected player could float when displaced by a prone character

World

• Mitigated an issue which causes players to be bumped into the air when moving close to certain objects

Custom Match

• Fixed an issue while observing and using the x-ray feature where the character outline is not visible after a player is revived
  
• Fixed an issue where healing items would not show while spectating in free cam when in observer mode

UI/UX

• Fixed an issue where only the ammo of one weapon is updated in the inventory when holding more than one weapon using the same ammo type
  
• Fixed an issue where the character size would show incorrectly in lobby when moving to lobby after seeing preview of PGC 2019 bundle
  
• Fixed an issue where character rendering is done late when changing gender while creating a character
  
• Fixed an issue where item equipped icon and new item notification icon would appear at the same location in CUSTOMIZE menu

Skins & items

• Fixed an issue where [BATTLESTAT] Refined Mictlantecuhtli Groza kill count would not be displayed correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue where character thighs would be displayed incorrectly when certain skins are equipped.