New PUBG Patch Starts Testing On PC, Improves Performance, Grenade Overhaul
A new PUBG patch is starting its testing today. The patch will be bringing a lot of changes to the game. The patch will be doing things like overhauling grenades, vastly improving the game’s performance, and removing the M24 sniper rifle from crates and is putting it down as floor loot.
While the update hit PUBG test servers yesterday, Bluehole has only now put out the details for it, and it looks like it’ll be something of a doozy, and might also help to address some of the complaints that the playerbase has about the game.
To start off with, all throwables in the game are getting an overhaul. Frag grenades are getting a huge buff in both range and damage, making them more viable if you want to flush someone out of a building’s upper floor or get someone hiding behind trees. Stun grenades will now both impair a player’s vision and hearing, and their ability to shoot accurately, meaning they can’t aim down the sights. There will also be animations to tell if a target is stunned, such as their hand going over their eyes.
Molotov cocktails have also gotten an overhaul, increasing their area of effect. Fire will also now spread along wooden floors and other surfaces, and the effect will spread if you throw more cocktails, making it harder to avoid cocktail effects inside of buildings.
The M24 sniper rifle, as we said above, is also getting changes. It will now be included among floor loot, and to compensate for its greater availability its damage has been decreased from 88 to 79. This will provide an alternative to the Kar89k rifle.
Another thing to come with the new PUBG patch is an in-house cheater detection system, which will also help with another major complaint, that cheaters and hackers are rampant in the game.
Other performance adjustments include improved character model rendering, optimized character movement while skydiving, and increasing the speed that the server transfers data around objects, which should hopefully help with the performance drop when people drive vehicles.
The new PUBG patch will be dropping today at 7 PM Pacific Time and 10 PM Eastern Time, which is also when the new leaderboard season is supposed to come out. So, once that time comes and goes, jump into PUBG and see what all’s changed.