Hen-loving battle royale PUBG: Battlegrounds is including its ninth map right this moment, the near-future and ecologically compromised Deston. There’s loads of fancy options within the new map reminiscent of ascenders to zip you up the aspect of its skyscrapers, and areas that solely drones can get to. Sit again in your favorite airboat and glimpse the one barely terrifying destiny that awaits us all within the trailer beneath.
Deston is an 8km x 8km map that includes a truthful few totally different biomes, most of that are watery. There’s a flooded metropolis referred to as Ripton with huge skyscrapers to scale utilizing the brand new ascender ropes, together with grim swamps, coastal areas with islands, and a mountainous inside. Different factors of curiosity to discover embody a live performance floor that is staging the Chickysound competition, a hydroelectric dam, and a paintball area. Some areas of Deston are solely accessible utilizing drones. You would possibly wish to contemplate piloting the brand new airboats round these swamps too, or utilising the cell towers that allow you to catapult off the highest of them so you’ll be able to parachute away.
Replace 18.2 additionally introduces the brand new Workshop system, which lets gamers craft their very own skins and gadgets. You may entry this by the foyer menu for 2 forms of crafting: common (which helps you to make gadgets you’ll be able to’t purchase within the retailer anymore) and particular (which helps you to create new costume units). For crafting, you’ll have to purchase a Hunter/Archivist’s chest from the PUBG retailer, and a key for the chest too. Discovering three key fragments will allow you to make your individual key although. Common crafting requires the imprints, credit and vouchers that are available in mentioned chests. Particular crafting, in the meantime, makes use of artisan tokens additionally obtainable in chests. Krafton are promising a video to clarify the system within the not-too-distant future.
The pioneering battle royale went free-to-play on Steam at first of this 12 months, changing the sooner PUBG Lite. Free gamers aren’t in a position to play Ranked mode or create customized matches, nonetheless, they usually solely get half the XP in direction of persistent development, too.
You may learn extra about Deston and the opposite new issues coming to the sport within the full patch notes for replace 18.2 right here.