Final Test For PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Third Map Starts Today
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been playing a bit of catchup in the last few months. They’ve been falling behind Fortnite in many areas, including revenue, Twitch and Youtube views, and more. To help spice things up, they’ve been doing some improvements to the game like Events and new weapons. But, they’ve also been testing out the third new map for the game, which is now being called Sanhock (it was being called Codename: Savage). And if you’re wanting to help test out the map, today is the start of your last chance.
You can play the map now until the 14th, so don’t miss out on your opportunity. As for what’s being highlighted in this final test phase, here are some of the Patch Notes:
- We’ve applied the same weapon balance and item spawn changes from the current PUBG live servers (see patch notes #12)
- We’ve adjusted item spawn balance for Sanhok specifically:
- Increased the overall item spawn amount
- Adjusted the AR spawn balance in the world
- Increased total amount of AR
- Slightly decreased spawn ratio for M416, but the total amount spawned will remain similar to before
- Increased spawn ratio for M16A4, AKM
- Increased total amount of AR
- Before boarding the plane, you can now throw apples (found in your inventory)
- Changed Redzone rules
- Generally, redzones will no longer appear inside the safe zone (white circle). There are some exceptions when the blue circle is too close to the white circle.
- With this change, it becomes a bit more risky to play outside of the safe zone.
- Generally, redzones will no longer appear inside the safe zone (white circle). There are some exceptions when the blue circle is too close to the white circle.
It should be noted that this is for the Steam version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, not the Xbox One version, which is still in its “preview” form on the system. Which is another thing that many feel needs to be done soon. We’ll have to see how it goes for them.
