UPDATE ONE: PUBG PC servers are now down for maintenance and are not expected to be back online until around 6:30am in the UK.
The new downtime is so that Bluehole Inc. can release update 22, which has extensive patch notes that can be found below.
ORIGINAL: Bluehole Inc. has released the latest news concerning their plans to take PUBG servers down today.
Scheduled maintenance is set to commence shortly and will mean many PC players will be unable to access live games.
This is being done as part of the release of PUBG PC update #22, which includes a meaty amount of changes and features.
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PUBG downtime is scheduled to begin at 1:30am in the UK and will last roughly five hours.
It means that the main PC game servers will be offline until around 6:30am, unless Bluehole Inc. requires more time to complete the maintenance.
If this happens, it will be up to the development team on when PUBG will be live again.
When maintenance has finished, every player will be required to download update #22, before joining live servers again.
So to recap, maintenance starts on Oct 2, at 5:30pm PDT / Oct 3 2:30am CEST / Oct 3 9:30am KST and will last 5 hours.
“Strap on that level 3 helmet, cause the competition on the battlegrounds just got a little more fierce,” a message from Bluehole Inc confirms.
“Update 22 is bringing a long-awaited Ranking system to PUBG, allowing you to put everything you’ve learned to the test as you climb the ranks.
“We’re also squashing another collection of FIX PUBG bugs, adding a convenient new wheel menu to health and throwable inventories, adding a way for you to upgrade your duplicate or unwanted skins, and by very popular demand, bringing back map selection.”
One of the main areas of the game being updated is the anti-cheat features, which is getting a notable upgrade.
“As part of our ongoing efforts to combat cheating, we’ve developed a new anti-cheat system in-house at PUBG Corp. which we’re now bringing to live servers, after an extensive period on our test servers. This system is being used in addition to our existing anti-cheat solutions.
“Expect to see a new popup when you start the client. To help us refine our anti-cheat service it would be helpful for us if you play with the “Enable Anti-cheat” box checked, if you experience issues you can disable this.
“We’ve fixed previous compatibility issues experienced by some players, although we’ve kept the option to disable the new anti-cheat system while we go through the final stages of testing in the live server environment. Once testing is complete, you will be unable to disable this system.”
Highlight from today’s PUBG patch notes can be found below:
FIX PUBG Update
QoL
- WHEEL MENUS: Added UI that allows players to access a quick-select wheel (similar UI with the Emote system) for the quick selection of items without opening the inventory or pressing individual hotkeys.
- MINIMAP: Players can now further magnify the minimap.
- PLAYER ORDER CONSISTENCY: Player order between the lobby and in-game is now consistent so that players will have fixed numbers and colors based on lobby order when they enter a game.
- FRIEND UI: Friend UI has been improved to show logged out / disconnected teammates.
Bug Fixes
- CHARACTER MOVEMENT #01: Fixed the issue where players could sometimes climb stairs much faster while moving diagonally next to the wall.
- DBNO PLAYER WALL PENETRATION: Fixed the issue where sometimes a downed players’ character model would penetrate walls.
- UNDERWATER: Fixed the issue where players could hold weapons while moving close to rocks while underwater.
- SLIDING FIX #01: Fixed the issue where characters would look like they were sliding while standing up if they took out a weapon and stood up at the same time.
- SLIDING FIX #02: Fixed the issue where a player appeared to slide when standing up or moving while going prone before landing from a certain height.
- STUN AND ONFIRE ANIMATION: Fixed the issue where Flashbang and Molotov stun and on fire animations could be cancelled when repeatedly crouching/standing up/prone/or equipping a weapon.
- ARMED ANIMATION: Fixed the issue where characters occasionally appeared to be unarmed when they were actually armed.
- PLAYER UI: Fixed an issue where the player UI would sometimes disappear in the observer’s view.
- ADS BUG #02: Fixed the issue where ADS worked unreliably when ADSing right after equipping a weapon.
- VEHICLE INTERACTION: Fixed the issue where a player sometimes received collision damage from a motorcycle when another player picked up the motorcycle.
- CHARACTER POSITION #03: Fixed an issue where a character sometimes rotated even though its feet were fixed when the screen was rotated more than 180 degrees left or right.
- CHARACTER MOTION #01: Fixed the issue where a player was sometimes shown as scoping when taking steps next to a wall.
- VAULTING: Fixed the issue where characters could vault over other characters when positioned at certain heights.
- CHARACTER MOTION #02: Fixed the issue where a player would sometimes clip through the floor of a building when disembarking a motorcycle.
- REPORT SPAMMING: Fixed the issue where a player could be reported multiple times by playing the replay over and over.
- LOBBY HP BAR DISPLAY: Fixed the issue where a character’s HP bar was sometimes shown in the lobby after exiting the server replay.
- POPPING #01: Fixed the issue where a character’s animation popped upward when getting close to the wheels of a buggy.
- POPPING #02: Fixed the issue of where a character’s animation popped upward when crouching and standing up near a vehicle.
Rank System, Leaderboard, Region Renewal
- Server/region will now be decided automatically depending on the player’s local region
- If you group with a player from another region, matchmaking will automatically decide the best region to play on
- Implemented Rank System
- There are 8 total ranks
- Rank will be assigned based on Rank Points earned
- To earn your first rank, you will need to play 10 provisional matches
- Rank promotion/demotion will be decided by total rank points as indicated in the chart above
Statistics Page Renewal
- Improved the UI of the Career and Leaderboard screens
Career
- Improved UI to show rank, KDA, Avg. damage, etc. more clearly.
Leaderboard
- Will display up to 100 ranks