PUBG Test Update: Two New Weapons, Optimization and UI Improvements

Bluehole released a new update for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which will be available on the Test Server for a limited period of time. The update contains two new weapons, improvements to the user interface, client optimization and other changes.

Test Schedule (UK Time)
[This week]

• November 22nd 07:00AM - November 24th 07:00AM

[Next week]

• To be announced early next week.

Region & Modes

• NA - SOLO & SQUAD, First-person / Third-person
• EU - SOLO & SQUAD, First-person / Third-person
• ASIA - SOLO & SQUAD, First-person / Third-person

Change Log

Optimization

• Optimize character animations
• Added LODs to further optimize weapon rendering for long distance
• Optimized various world effects
• Optimized various UI elements
• Optimized the sea by reducing wave effects
• Decreased terrain loading time
• Decrease memory usage of characters

Animation

• Additional vaulting animation for objects with a height of approx. 60 cm or lower (when holding down the Shift key)
• Greatly reduced jacket/coat clipping issue when moving in ADS while leaning

Gameplay

• Reduced the hit damage for hands and feet and increased the hit damage on thighs and arms.

• The healing period for bandages has been reduced to 4.5 seconds from 8.5 seconds. The casting time and the amount of health restored are the same as before.
• Players can now parachute and land on certain areas that were not previously accessible, including the outskirts of the island
• Added markings for zeroing distances on 15x scope reticle texture
• Added new 4x reticle for 7.62mm weapons
• Added new 4x reticle for sniper and SMG weapons
• Added blur effect on the outside of scopes
• Bullets now penetrate water based on the velocity of projectile (the faster the velocity, more shallow the penetration)
• Lowered camera position when proning in third-person
• Decreased firing rate of SKS and Mini-14
• Increased sprinting speed while holding DMR in hands (now as fast as assualt rifles)
• Decreased recoil for Mk14
• 8x and 15x scopes cannot be attached to an M16A now

Items

• Added 2 new weapons.
  - Added DP-28. DP-28 will be spawned in world. It has a 47-round pan magazine for 7.62mm. Sights and a 4x scope can be attached. It has low firing rate but a long effective firing range with high damage
  - Added AUG A3. The AUG A3 can be obtained from care packages. It's a variant of a bull-pup assault rifle that uses a 5.56mm 30-round magazine as standard and 40 rounds when extended. It has high muzzle velocity, high rate of fire and low vertical recoil.
• Kar98k will no longer be included in care packages. World spawn rate of Kar98k will remain the same

UI/UX

• Applied a new font for English
• Improved designs for in-game HUD, option window, inventory, menu screen, and system message box
• Improved Solo/Team Play UI
  - Moved health bars of team member(s) from the top left corner to the bottom left corner
  - Changed colors and markings in the mini map, world Map, and team list UI
  - Added indicators for team members to check their status (vehicle, parachuting, alive/dead, DBNO, connection status, etc.)
• Improved interaction HUD
  - If there is no more room left in the backpack, the font will turn red to show that items cannot be picked up
• Improved the mini map and the world map
  - Decreased the saturation of the mini map to further emphasize information of team members
  - Adjusted the colors of the world map to increase visibility of markers and other information
  - Players can check team members’ FOV direction through the world map and the mini map
  - When team members get on the same vehicle, a single indicator will appear
• Moved the kill log from the bottom left corner to the top right corner
• Modified the design of the health bar to show the point for 75%. The bar will not turn red when health is below 75%
• Added killcam feature that can be found in Settings. Now players can check killcams in the result screen
  - For Duo and Squad modes, killcam can be checked after all team members have died

Sound

• Changed the lobby music
• Improved vehicle engine sounds
• Added a sound that will be played around the edge of the blue zone
• Added three different sound effects for the red zone
  - Sounds of bombs being released
  - Sounds of bombs falling
  - Sounds of bombs exploding
• Added sounds when character jumps into water. Sound will be different based on the speed

Language

• Added four languages: Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Mexico) and Chinese (Traditional)

Bug fixes

• Fixed camera jittering for passenger sitting on the back of a motorcycle with sidecar
• Fixed the issue where animations are not played when bandages are used consecutively
• Removed the pink circle that appeared on certain buildings when parachuting
• Fixed the issue where shooting was possible when vaulting
• Greatly reduced blurriness of the reticle while in ADS mode