Bluehole, the developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has admitted that there are a number of PUBG problems that are costing the game players in the face of its chief competitor in the Battle Royale genre, Fortnite. Fortnite has eclipsed PUBG in terms of player numbers, leaving it to fall by the wayside.
There are a number different reasons why Fortnite is steadily getting ahead of PUBG. The game gets content updates more often, and Epic is much more on-the-ball with dealing with bugs. Fortnite is also less serious, allowing each game a large amount of variety with a number of different weapons, lootable items, and the ability to build structures on the fly.
While both PUBG and Fortnite have different methods of going about the battle royale formula, one of the crucial differences in the game includes the huge presence of hackers, something that Fortnite tolerates much less.
The hacking problem has always been there as with so many other PC games, but when PUBG game opened up servers to China the problem got exponentially worse, to the point that players quickly began demanding that Bluehole make China-only servers to alleviate the problem.
Bluehole has admitted that all of the PUBG problems have made the game fall short of its original promises. Despite the game having a meteoric rise to fame in early access before other high-quality competition came out, and still having millions of players, Fortnite continues to eclipse PUBG.
Bluehole has said that while it has made a number of meaningful additions to the game, such as a new map in the form of Sanhok, new temporary game modes, and a number of smaller adjustments, it has fallen short in a number of other areas. The company has now said that they will be focusing on some of the most important issues in the game, such as performance (especially in regards to driving vehicles) and cheating.
Mostly the performance changes include working with things in order to make the game faster and simplify its processing of changes, which would allow the game to run better even with the combined effect of vehicles on a hundred computers.
While most of these changes to address the PUBG problems are focusing on the PC for now, these changes will likely be put on the Xbox One and other platforms later.