PUBG Corp. has rolled out the PUBG update 1.68 May 6 patch for console update 11.2! This brings map changes, gameplay balance tweaks, UI improvements and loads more! Head on below for the full notes.
PUBG Update 1.68 May 6 Patch Notes (Console Update 11.2):
Update 11.2 is coming to Live Servers this week!
Our first Survivor Pass of the season has arrived, Survivor Pass: Pajama Party! Jump in-game to check out all the slumber party-themed rewards, alongside a slew of new missions to complete as you progress through the pass.
Erangel, the original Battleground is receiving changes to both Military Island bridges, allowing you more options to mount your assault or set up defenses. For those who like to set up a tent and bridge camp (you know who you are), there’s now additional cover to make use of while you patiently wait for the “brrr” of that incoming enemy-loaded UAZ.
Multiple performance and quality of life improvements are included in this update, alongside side a handful of bug fixes.
World : Erangel Updates
Military Base Bridges
Late last year, we asked players which locations on Erangel could be improved, or otherwise changed to improve gameplay. After reading your responses across multiple platforms, including previous feedback and suggestions, this update we’ve focused on introducing changes to the main chokepoints between the Erangel mainland and Sosnovka Island; the East and West bridges.
This minor rework brings structural changes to the bridges and includes the addition of new defendable positions, in addition to catwalks underneath to help fend off attacks, including those from the water. These catwalks also double as a new avenue of attack to mount an assault on those pesky bridge campers.
Give it a few rounds of play and let us know your thoughts!
- The two bridges connecting Sosnovka Island and the Erangel mainland have had major changes, including additional cover and widening of the bridges.
- Catwalks have also been added, providing additional avenues to both defend and attack from.
- The dump truck has been repositioned.
Other Map Changes
- 4th Anniversary Graffiti Contest graffiti has been removed.
Survivor Pass: Pajama Party
Turn your slumber party into a slaughter party with Survivor Pass: Pajama Party!
This pass kicks off our new way of releasing passes, which are no longer linked in time and theme to the season. This gives us more options for content, duration, and even how many passes we choose to release per year. The passes will still follow similar mechanics with missions and rewards, so pick yours up and start unlocking today!
- Survivor Pass: Pajama Party can be purchased within two different item packages.
- PAJAMA PARTY WEAPON PACK (990 G-Coin)
- Premium Pass + The Big Sleep – AUG weapon skin
- PAJAMA PARTY WEAPON AND LEVEL PACK (3270 G-Coin)
- Premium Pass + The Big Sleep – AUG weapon skin + Lv.30 coupon
- Survivor Pass: Pajama Party provides over 30 rewards as players progress through 50 levels.
- You can earn XPs by playing matches and completing missions. Additional levels can also be purchased with G-Coin.
- Survivor Pass: Pajama Party has the following mission types.
- Daily Missions, Weekly Missions, Challenge Missions.
- Survivor Pass: Pajama Party will begin after the maintenance on May 6th and end before the maintenance start on June 17th.
- Claim your rewards before the pass ends, as there is no-longer an additional grace period to claim rewards once the season ends.
- Don’t forget to make use of your coupons in the Coupon Shop before the season ends, as they’re unable to be used afterwards.
Gameplay & Balance
Reputation System Balance Adjustment
Since Update 10.2 when the Reputation System was introduced, we’ve been closely monitoring your feedback. We’ve looked closely at aspects of the system which have caused frustration and made additional changes to prevent players from abusing the report mechanic, which had allowed players acting maliciously to lower another player’s reputation unfairly.
- Spamming multiple reports through the replays system no longer unfairly impacts the targeted player’s reputation level compared to regular reports.
- Set an upper limit to the amount of reputation loss per match to prevent misuse, especially in situations where multiple pre-made squad members report their random teammate.
We have also made the following changes to speed up the process of improving your reputation with good behavior:
- Increased the potential number of reputation points available for player’s with a reputation level 1 or below.
- Also increased available reputation points for players at reputation level 4.
We expect these changes to improve your overall experience with the reputation system and allow us to better highlight players in the community who play by the rules and keep it friendly while doing so. Keep up the good work and please continue to share your feedback with us.
To prevent potential gaming of the system, we won’t be sharing all details and intricacies of how reputation progression/loss functions.
Weapon Modeling Update
- The Flash Hider model on the SLR has had major improvements to its visuals.
UI/UX Improvements
Match History & Match Report Improvements
Having the option to deep dive into your replays and match history can be great to help analyze and improve your gameplay. We want to ensure these tools are simple to use and easy to understand. With that said, we’ve made improvements to both the Match History and Match Report screens which you can read about in more detail below.
Match History
- Improved the overall page design and rearranged certain elements for better visibility.
- Increased size of the map images.
- Improved icon design for Last 20 Match Stats details.
- View Report is now displayed only when hovering over each match entry.
- Your Placement Trend is now displayed as a line graph, rather than a bar graph to give a more clear picture of your results.
- Replaced Avg Kills with K/D Ratio.
- Added Assists to the list of recorded stats.
- Assists have also been added to Match Reports.
Text Flow
- Text will flow horizontally if the available UI area is shorter than the length of the text.
- Text flow applies to the following UI:
- In-Game
- Custom Key Bindings
- Settings Menu
- Observer
- War Mode
QOL Improvements
Inventory Improvements
- Camera Movement Features and R-Stick Focusing/Confirm feature.
- R-Stick Movement/Confirm feature has been removed.
- Inventory Cursor Sensitivity Option has been removed from settings.
- R-Stick camera movement implemented.
- Players can use R-Stick to move their camera while in their inventory, helping increase their field of vision.
- Quick Pick-Up/Drop changes.
- From: Quick Pick-Up / Quick-drop
- To: Pick-Up half / Drop half
- Tool-Tip Pop-up Option.
- Added an option in settings to hide the Tool-Tip
Settings Improvements
- Sensitivity Settings options.
- Changed the increase/decrease value from 1 to 0.1, allowing players to fine-tune their sensitivity settings.
- Reticle Brightness Options.
- Players can set the desired brightness for individual reticle types.
Control and Action Improvements
- AIM (over the shoulder) and ADS can be maintained when holding LT (Xbox/Stadia), L2 (PS) while swapping seats and exiting a vehicle.
- Maintaining AIM or ADS while swapping seats is available on all controller presets. However, exiting a vehicle while maintaining AIM or ADS is only available on controller presets A, B, and C.
- Players using Preset C can use AIM (over the shoulder) while in a vehicle by tapping LT (Xbox/Stadia), L2 (PS).
- Changed the response time of auto-run to 0.3 secs to help reduce instances of accidental activation when leaning left using Preset A or B controls.
Store Improvements
- Item Quantity
- Players will be able to increase and decrease the quantity of the items they wish to purchase using R-stick.
- Toggle Through Banners.
- Players can use R-stick to toggle through the featured portrait banners.
- Key Binding Improvements.
- Featured Banner.
- Changed the action keys to A and X (Xbox/Stadia), Cross and Square (PS).
- Item slot.
- Changed hold to purchase to tap to purchase.
- Changed L-stick tap to R-stick tap to preview.
- Item Preview.
- Purchase Item: X (Xbox/Stadia), Square (PS).
- Select/Cancel an item: A (Xbox/Stadia), Cross (PS).
- Store Items and G-coin.
- Changed hold to purchase to tap to purchase.
Performance
- Improved client performance by disabling certain voice chat-related features when voice chat is disabled.
- Improved client FPS stability through a reduction in hitches related to optimization work.
- Optimized CPU performance by adding additional multi-threaded rendering support.
- Optimized CPU performance through animation optimization.
- Optimized some server and client performance pipelines to reduce both server and client hitches.
- Optimized smoke particles of Smoke Grenade’s to help reduce severe frame drops in certain situations.
- As part of this change, the smoke particles are now slightly more opaque. Players inside smokes will now be slightly less visible.
EU Server Relocation
As mentioned in a previous announcement, we went through a lot of testing to improve the gameplay experience in EU. As a result, moving the EU server currently located in Ireland to Paris, France may impact pings for a small number of players in or near Ireland, but the overall ping will be much improved. Therefore, with the 11.2 update, half of the Irish servers will be moved to France, and if the results are good, we will move the remaining half to Paris.
PUBG LABS: Respawn Royale
This round of PUBG LABS utilizes two different gameplay changes to create a frantic experience for squads on Paramo. The first of which is a 500% damage increase across the board for all weapons and throwables in order to create a one-shot-kill scenario. But fear not, though dying may be easy, so is getting back into the game!
In Respawn Royale, your defeated squadmates will automatically rejoin the fight after their 100 second death timer has counted down. All you need to do is stay alive as a squad until that happens! If at least 1 squad member is still standing when a player’s death timer completes, they will rejoin the fight but be careful – if your squad is wiped completely, you’ll all be eliminated from the match.
Respawn Royale takes place on Paramo with you and up to 7 other squads. To help keep the focus on the action, we’ve also eliminated weapon looting and added the choice of three different spawn kits. This kit can be changed each time you respawn, so keep an eye on the situation your remaining team members find themselves in. The Bluezone will also still function as normal, so keep on the move!
Weapon Damage
In Respawn Royale, the damage of firearms, melee weapons, and throwables are increased by 500% in order to provide a one-shot one-kill experience.
Spawn Kits
- Spawn Kit Options
- DBS
- DBS + Hologram
- Desert Eagle + Red Dot Sight
- Smoke Grenade X 2
- AWM
- AWM + 3X Scope
- Stun Grenade X 3
- Crossbow
- Crossbow + 4X Scope
- Ghillie Suit
- Sawed-Off
Respawn Cycle
Once knocked out, you will immediately switch to spectating mode and a 100 second respawn timer will display on your screen. During this period, you will have the option to select which kit you wish to spawn with.
Service Schedule
After completion of maintenance on May 6th.
- PDT: May 6th – May 10th 0 AM
- KST: May 6th – May 10th 4 PM
- CEST: May 6th – May 10th 9 AM
Settings
- Paramo
- FPP, TPP
- Squad(No 1-man Squad)
- No DBNO
- Spawn
- Items
- Panzerfaust
- Grenades
- Molotov Cocktail
- Vehicles
- Secret Room Key
- Deathcam, Observer and Replay are not supported
- Participants
Notes When Playing in LABS
- LABS games do not provide XP for gameplay rewards
- LABS gameplay will not be applied to Career
- LABS gameplay will not count for your Survivor Pass missions
- LABS gameplay does not provide BP or additional rewards
Items & Skins
Item Tier Adjustment
- We have adjusted the tier of certain common, gray rarity items to improve consistency among similar item types. The adjusted items can now be exchanged for 60BP each.
- This has already been implemented as of Update 11.1. Originally intended to be deployed with Update 11.2, but was deployed in advance with a related bug fix by mistake.
End of Sales Announcement
- The following items will be removed from the shop after the maintenance! Grab’em while they’re hot.
- Road Warrior – Helmet (Level 1)
- [BATTLESTAT] Rip Tide – M16A4, P18C, Vector, SLR, Beryl, S12K, MP5K, QBZ, P92, SKS
- [BATTLESTAT] Finish Line – G36C, Skorpion
- [BATTLESTAT] Convergence – S686, UMP45
- [BATTLESTAT] Bloody Snowday – SCAR-L
- [BATTLESTAT] Danger Zone – Mk47 Mutant
- [BATTLESTAT] Firestarter – QBU
- [BATTLESTAT] Spartan – P1911
New Items
New animated PUBG ID Nameplates
For people looking to add a little more flair to their PUBG ID Nameplates, our first set of animated nameplates are now available in the store. They’re available to pick up individually or as a discounted pack, so take a look and spice up your style!
Sales Period – Batch 1
- KST: May 6 2021 2 PM – May 5 2022 2 PM
- PDT: May 05 2021 10 PM – May 4 2022 10 PM
- CEST: May 6 2021 7 AM – May 5 2022 7 AM
Nameplates – 500 G-Coin
- Vikendi Bird
- Hand Drawn Holdup
- Dogs of War
- Searchlight
- Feline Fury
- Retro Ride
- Bark at the Moon
Sales Period – Batch 2
- KST: May 27 2021 2 PM – May 26 2022 2 PM
- PDT: May 26 2021 10 PM – May 25 2022 10 PM
- CEST: May 27 2021 7 AM – May 26 2022 7 AM
Nameplates – 500 G-Coin
- Two Smoking Barrels
- Adrenaline
- Julie
- The End
Note
- Animated Nameplate animations will be active on the following screens:
- Career > Survival
- User Profile
- End-game screen – Opponent’s PUBG ID
- Spectator – Spectating player’s PUBG ID
- Death Cam – Killer’s PUBG ID
- Animations are not active on the following screens:
- Match Report > Survival, Overview
- Team info in the in-game system menu
G-COINPACK
Sales Period
KST: May 6 2 PM – June 17 2 PM
PDT: May 5 10 PM – June 16 10 PM
CEST: May 6 7 AM – June 17 7 AM
Contents
- Sheepover G-Coin value pack.
- Sheepover Sleep Mask
- Sheepover Pajama Top
- Sheepover Pajama Shorts
- 1050 G-Coin
Labor Day Sets
Sales Period
- KST: May 6 2 PM – June 17 2 PM
- PDT: May 5 10 PM – June 16 10 PM
- CEST: May 6 7 AM – June 17 7 AM
Contents
- Streetwear Bundle (990 G-Coin)
- Hipster Jean Jacket (700 G-Coin)
- Hipster Skinny Jeans (350 G-Coin)
- Hipster Canvas Shoes (150 G-Coin))
- Coffee King Uniform Bundle (900 G-Coin)
- Coffee King Hat (200 G-Coin)
- Coffee King Apron (200 G-Coin)
- Coffee King Leggings (700 G-Coin)
- Sporty Bundle (1090 G-Coin)
- Retro Track Jacket (700 G-Coin)
- Her Galaxy Shirt (200 G-Coin)
- Her Galaxy Shorts (350 G-Coin)
- Soccer Cleats and Socks (Teal) (150 G-Coin)
- Victory Dance 48 (500 G-Coin)
- Victory Dance 49 (500 G-Coin)
New Worker’s Gloves
Sales Period
- KST: May 6 2 PM – June 17 2 PM
- PDT: May 5 10 PM – June 16 10 PM
- CEST: May 6 7 AM – June 17 7 AM
Contents
- Worker’s Gloves (Yellow) (300 G-Coin)
- Worker’s Gloves (White) (300 G-Coin)
- Worker’s Gloves (Black) (300 G-Coin)
The Greatest Show on Erangel! Circus Sets
Sales Period
KST: May 20 2021 2 PM – May 19 2022 2 PM
PDT: May 19 2021 10 PM – May 18 2022 10 PM
CEST: May 20 2021 7 AM – May 19 2022 7 AM
Contents
- Circus Star Bundle (1290 G-Coin)
- Circus Star Uniform (1190 G-Coin)
- Circus Star Shoes (200 G-Coin)
- (Bonus) Circus Star Hair
- (Bonus) Circus Star Makeup
- Ringleader Bundle (1490 G-Coin)
- Ringmaster’s Tophat (300 G-Coin)
- Ringmaster’s Jacket (990 G-Coin)
- Ringmaster’s Vest (300 G-Coin)
- Ringmaster’s Pants (500 G-Coin)
- Ringmaster’s Boots (200 G-Coin)
- Sideshow Bear Costume Set (1290 G-Coin)
- Sideshow Bear Mask (600 G-Coin)
- Sideshow Bear Costume (800 G-Coin)
- Sideshow Bear Feet (200 G-Coin)
- (Bonus) Clawing Grizzly – Emote
- Harlequin Helmet Pack (1000 G-Coin)
- Harlequin – Helmet (Level 1) (500 G-Coin)
- Harlequin – Helmet (Level 2) (500 G-Coin)
- Harlequin – Helmet (Level 3) (500 G-Coin)
- Harlequin Weapon Pack (1980 G-Coin)
- Harlequin – AKM (990 G-Coin)
- Harlequin – SLR (990 G-Coin)
- Magic Bullet – Groza (990 G-Coin)
- Bigtop Backpack Pack (1000 G-Coin)
- Bigtop Backpack (Level 1) (500 G-Coin)
- Bigtop Backpack (Level 2) (500 G-Coin)
- Bigtop Backpack (Level 3) (500 G-Coin)
- Victory Dance 50 (500 G-Coin)
Explore Rugged New Looks: EXPLORER Sets
Sales Period
- KST: June 3 2021 2 PM – June 2 2022 2 PM
- PDT: June 2 2021 10 PM – June 1 2022 10 PM
- CEST: June 3 2021 7 AM – June 2 2022 7 AM
Contents
- Pathfinder Outfit Set (1190 G-Coin)
- Pathfinder’s Uniform (700 G-Coin)
- Pathfinder’s Skirt (700 G-Coin)
- Pathfinder’s Shoes (150 G-Coin)
- Survivors Biker Outfit Set (1190 G-Coin)
- Survivors Biker – Helmet (Level 2) (300 G-Coin)
- Survivors Biker Vest (700 G-Coin)
- Survivors Biker Shirt (200 G-Coin)
- Survivors Biker Jeans (350 G-Coin)
- Survivor’s Biker Shoes (150 G-Coin)
- Hiker’s Outfit Set (1190 G-Coin)
- Hiker’s Neck Scarf (350 G-Coin)
- Hiker’s Overshirt (700 G-Coin)
- Hiker’s Shorts (350 G-Coin)
- Hiker’s Shoes (150 G-Coin)
- (bonus) Hiker’s Tanktop
- “Range Shredder” Zima (990 G-Coin)
- “Snake Hunter” BRDM (990 G-Coin)
- Victory Dance 51 (500 G-Coin)
- Victory Dance 52 (500 G-Coin)
Streamer’s Pack – MOZZ
