PUBG news: Battlegrounds making THIS big change for Xbox One release date

PUBG developer Bluehole is working on new features for the Xbox One release date and full PC launch.

In a recent blog post, the Battlegrounds developer said that it was testing new vaulting and climbing abilities.

This will make it easier to traverse the map and create new ways to ambush opponents.

Interestingly, Bluehole said that it will take at least a month to test these features, which means the full release might not happen until mid-November or later.

“For PC, we will be only focusing on doing our best to stabilise the launch build and we don’t have any plans to deploy patches to live servers except for this week,” reads a Bluehole blog post.

“However, there will be features like vaulting and climbing which will have a huge impact on the game and need to be tested for at least a month.

“We will be running test servers at least three times in preparation for that. Through these test servers, we would like to conduct large scale tests for the content and features that are not in the live build and create a foundation for a very stable official launch.”

Bluehole has also been addressing other issues ahead of launch, including handing out bans to cheaters.

More than 320k players have been banned since PUBG entered early access.

Elsewhere, PUBG was given an MA15+ rating in Australia, which is the second strongest classification a game can receive.

Interestingly, the classification page reveals that PUBG will launch with a lengthy new title on Xbox One.

The ratings page lists PUBG as “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: The Ultimate Life & Death Fight”.

Battlegrounds takes place on a remote island where 100 players compete to be the sole survivor.

Similar to games like DayZ, players must gather supplies, armour and weapons in order to defeat other players.

And in a unique twist, the battleground actually gets smaller as games go on.

“Players will enter a last-man-standing battle where they try to locate weapons, vehicles and supplies in a graphically and tactically rich battleground that eventually forces players into a shrinking play zone as they engage in a tense and spectacular fight to the death,” reads a Bluehole statement.