PUBG is down tonight for scheduled maintenance on Steam.
Bluehole confirmed the news earlier today, revealing that they would be taken Battlegrounds servers offline for several hours.
Maintenance is due to last around three hours, although there’s a chance downtime could be extended.
For now, Bluehole has confirmed that Battlegrounds will be offline until 4:30am in the UK.
The good news is that PUBG Mobile and PUBG on Xbox One will not be affected by tonight’s scheduled maintenance.
So those versions will remain free to play and as an alternative for anyone affected by tonight’s outage.
WHY IS PUBG DOWN?
PUBG servers have been taken offline to make way for a new update.
This new patch will be available at the end of maintenance and brings with it a host of new content and bugfixes.
Here’s more from Bluehole Inc, who explain: “Last week, we announced FIX PUBG, an initiative to tackle some of the game’s long-standing bugs and quality of life requests.
“Update 19 addressed a slew of those already and for Update 20, we’re adding a section to the patch notes to specifically cover FIX PUBG issues.
Here’s a short rundown on what’s coming to the live servers today:
- We’re implementing FIX PUBG related improvements and new content
- Adding a new AR, the Beryl M762, to all maps for wider weapon diversity and strategy.
- Adding a new Sanhok exclusive vehicle, the scooter!
- Both the scooter and 2-seater motorbike can be found on Sanhok
- Also we’re introducing more new functions such as TPP camera position setting and reporting system improvements.
- Decreased the minimum required players for starting a custom match from 10 to 8
- Please note there may be additional changes made before this patch comes to live servers
And while all this will be available to download via the new patch today, it won’t contain one vehicle fans have been waiting a while to try out.
“The Tukshai is an upcoming Sanhok exclusive three-wheeled vehicle which we’d originally planned to release in the month after Sanhok came to live servers.
“Due to higher priority development tasks and the extra fine tuning required to make driving experience of the three-wheeled Tukshai feel just right, it will now be released in September.”