The first major update for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) of 2021 is now live on both PC and consoles! Console gamers will see this as the PUBG update 1.60 January 21 patch, which brings the Update 10.2 content and new features on board.
Complete patch notes and deployment schedule can be seen below.
PUBG Update 1.60 January 21 Patch Notes (Update 10.2):
Live Maintenance Schedule:
- 1/21 2021 1 PM – 7 PM KST
- 1/20 2021 8 PM – 1/21 2021 2 AM PST
- 1/21 2021 5 AM – 11 AM CET
PUBG GLOBAL INVITATIONAL.S
Are you ready for the new PGI.S? The PUBG Global Invitational.S sets teams from around the world against each other in a week-long tournament. Teams will battle for placements in weekly tournaments and rack up prize money as the overall tournament goes on. There’s a new Pick’em Challenge available as well, giving you a chance to earn sweet PGI.S gear for predicting the winners. This will be a tournament unlike any other, so tune in, pick’em, and win!
PGI.S Lobby Update
- PGI.S themed lobby has been updated for the normal match with kickass BGM.
Other PGI.S Related Updates
- PGI.S logo graffiti has been painted around the buildings of Erangel and Miramar.
- Starting plane will be dragging PGI.S promo banners in Erangel, Miramar, Sanhok, Vikendi and Karakin.
- New PGI.S loading screen splash art has been added.
- Due to performance issues, digital screens on Erangel and Miramar will not be supported on console platforms
New Vehicle: Coupe RB
There’s a new roadrunner in town. Introducing the Coupe RB, a vintage sports car with a blazing top speed of 150 km/h, making it second (on land) in speed only to the Motorbike. The Coupe RB won’t carry your whole squad, but it will get you to where you need to go fast. Try out the Coupe RB on Erangel, Miramar, and Sanhok!
- Max capacity: 2 (Driver, Passenger)
- Max speed: 150km/h
- Only spawned in Erangel, Miramar and Sanhok
New Feature: Reputation System
Keeping in-game interactions healthy is important to us. We know passions can run high on the Battlegrounds, but toxic behaviour is never justified. To help keep things more civil while you kill each other, we’re introducing a new Reputation System to PUBG. This system will assign you a Reputation Level from 0-5 depending on how you treat your fellow players. Your Reputation Level will be displayed in the Team Finder, giving players searching for a group an idea of what kind of teammate you’ll be. Your Reputation Level will naturally increase as you play games, as long as you are not exhibiting toxic or otherwise disruptive behaviour. We hope this helps everyone have a better time on the Battlegrounds!
New reputation level will be displayed next to the players IGN.
- Reputation level designates whether a player is well-mannered or toxic towards others.
- Reputation level will be displayed in the Team Finder and team member list next to player IGN.
- Reputation levels range from 0 to 5, for a total of 6 levels.
Reputation level is affected by the following:
- Players reputation level will naturally increase with normal gameplay of Normal/Ranked Battleroyale matches.
- Leaving a match repeatedly failing to return may lead to a decrease of reputation level.
- Player’s reputation level can be decreased when reported with negative behaviour (obstructing gameplay, verbal abuse, team killing, etc.) or when banned due to violation of terms of service.
- Being reported for suspected use of cheats itself does not affect reputation level.
Ranked Mode Update
We’re updating Ranked Mode penalties to allow for a certain amount of safe time if your team never fully formed. You can check out all the details around the system and how it works below.
Leaver penalties should be waived for players who leave within 5 minutes after the plane takes off if the player:
- (1) chooses for matchmaking to find them teammates AND
- (2) the plane takes off with an incomplete team (team of fewer than 4 players in Ranked squad mode), AND
- (3) a member of the player’s pre-made team hasn’t left the match before the plane leaves.
If a player qualifies to have their leaver penalty waived, then the match is considered to be competitively invalid for that player. This means:
- No stats are recorded on their Career page
- No change is made to their RP
- No matchmaking penalties are issued
- Players will be granted any Pass XP and BP they would have earned as normal
RP Balance Changes.
- We have increased the rank point cap to 44 from the previous 39.
PUBG LABS: Arena Mode
Schedule
- 01/21 2021 After live server maintenance – 01/25 2021 4 PM KST
- 01/20 2021 After live server maintenance – 01/24 2021 11 PM PST
- 01/21 2021 After live server maintenance – 01/25 2021 8 AM CET
Arena Mode – 2nd Iteration Changes
- Perspective – TPP
- Changes in default pistol
- Changed default pistol to P18C.
- For the first Arena Mode, we received feedback that players with the default P1911 pistol did not stand a chance against players with purchased weapons. As such, we’ve replaced it with the P18C, which comes with an auto-fire mode.
- Loadout store improvements
- Adjusted the amount of ammo given when purchasing a weapon.
- Increased helmet price, which is now higher than the vest.
- Starting from Round Four, weapons purchased from the loadout store will include attachments.
- Players on a winning streak will earn bonus rewards accordingly and the teams who don’t lose any chances before the final round will be rewarded with an upgraded loadout store which has the following items:
- Care Package items.
- Special consumables like Adrenaline Syringe and the First Aid Kits.
- Pistols and shotguns can now be found under the same category.
- Loadout point balance adjustment
- Reduced points earned for a kill from 150 to 100.
- Reduced end of round points earned (both win/lose).
- Since squads with fewer players are at a disadvantage, they will earn more kill points depending on their squad size.
- Considering player feedback on how hard it is to win the next round after losing your items upon defeat, you’ll now get a small bonus to help you rebuy the gear you need.
- UX improvements
- To help reduce confusion during combat, we’re disabling kill feed messages from the other arenas, so now only events within your current arena will be shown.
- There were quite a few players leaving the game after losing their first chance, thinking the game was over. We’ve added a message to let players know they’re still in it!
- When starting a new round, map features such as zoom option and markers will revert to default.
- Addition of the reporting system
- Players in spectate mode can now report other players for cheating or behaviour that goes against our Rules of Conduct.
Gameplay
Stunt Emotes
And you thought flips were cool. Now you can trigger random stunts while mid-air on the Dirt Bike to really style on your enemies. There are a total of 6 new stunts available and best of all, they’re easy to perform. Simply hold down the L3 while in the air on a Dirt Bike and watch how cool you are.
- New Stunt emotes exclusive for a dirt bike has been added.
- 6 new default stunt emotes can be played.
- The Stunt Emotes are triggerable only mid-air on a Dirt bike – and when the player is not about to hit something.
- Hold L3 to trigger a random stunt emote
- Release L3 to stop emote
- Please note that the Horn functionality has been replaced with the Stunt Emotes for the Dirt Bike.
Other
- Adjusted the reload animations of M416, Scar-L, QBZ, G36C to better match the reload speeds.
- The reload animations adjustments are a follow-up to the Balance tweaks to the 556 guns in the 9.2 November update.
- Haven gameplay mode update
- Haven’s selectable gameplay mode has been updated
- Duo / 1-man-duo → Squad / 1-man-squad
Inventory Improvements
To maximize PUBG’s strategy and the core fun of the Battle Royale, we continue to make improvements, including reducing the steps of unnecessary controls in console PUBG gameplay. The ‘Auto Attachment Options’, ‘Controller Preset C’ and ‘Custom Key Binding’, which were updated in the past, are good examples. We hope that the ‘Inventory Improvement’ will also be an update that will satisfy the survivors.
Of course, we don’t want this change to give a negative impact on the UX experience that has already been learned, but to improve the inconveniences. Please, continue to send us your feedback!
- Keep the existing movement controls and added grid controls
- You can navigate around the inventory from right to left and top to bottom with the D-pad and R-stick.
- (Tap) R-stick will function the same and the select(A) key.
- Intuitive improvements on item pick-up/drops
- Added the ‘Quick Pick-UP/Drop’ feature to allow rapid item distribution between squad members.
- You can quickly adjust the number of items you wish to pick-up/drop by using the R-stick.
- Weapon/attachments UI/UX Optimization
- Removed the unnecessary steps when selecting attachment slots in weapon slots.
- Swapping from main weapon 1 to 2 can easily be done by selecting the new ‘Weapon slot change’ key.
- Displays all attachment slots regardless of weapon type, and intuitively displays the availability of specific slots.
- Applied animation to provide feedback on actions such as equipping/removing weapon/attachments
- Button guide improvements
- Button guides are displayed at the bottom of the inventory in the same location and content.
- Tool-tip visual improvements
- The tool-tip visuals have been improved to enable intuitive information recognition.
QoL Improvements
Notification System
- Select the top right notification centre icon to see stacked notifications.
- Pressing the Option button calls the menu on the top right corner
- L-stick/D-pad can move the selection on the menu.
- Pressing button A can enter a menu(news, notification, system menu)
- Pressing the Option button/button B closes the called menu
- When acquiring an item or a currency from out-game event etc. will toggle a notification.
- The time displayed in Stadia’s Notification System is not the player’s local time, but Stadia’s machine local time.
- A message will be shown on the notification centre in case of item or currency is soon to be expired.
Store QoL Improvements
- Opening crates upon purchase
- Players now can open purchased crates(Set, crate, random rate items) right way in “Purchase complete” pop-up screen.
- New ‘move to store’ button has been added when browsing empty item category in customize tab.
Performance
- Enhanced CPU performance by reducing physics calculation costs of invisible physics actors (vehicles, characters).
- Optimized hitching and fps drops occurred when loading maps (when entering and manoeuvring the world).
- Reduced the hitch occurred when updating a character.
- Optimized memory usage to reduce crashes.
Skin & Item
- Graffiti Themed Skin – 8 set items, 29 individual items, 2 not for sale items
- Sales Period:
- 1/21 2021 2 PM KST – 1/20 2022 2 PM KST
- 1/20 2021 9 PM PST – 1/19 2022 9 PM PST
- 1/21 2021 6 AM CET – 1/20 2022 6 AM CET
- Lunar New Year – King and Royal Bodyguard – 6 set items, 9 individual items, 1 event item, 4 not sold separately items
- Sales Period:
- 2/3 2021 11 AM KST – 3/17 2021 11 AM KST
- 2/2 2021 6 PM PST – 3/16 2021 7 PM PDT
- 2/3 2021 3 AM CET – 3/17 2021 3 AM CET
- PGI.S 2021
- Sales Period:
- 1st:
- 1/21 2021 2 PM KST – 3/27 2021 5 PM KST
- 1/20 2021 9 PM PST – 3/27 2021 1 AM PDT
- 1/21 2021 6 AM CET – 3/27 2021 9 AM CET
- 2nd:
- 2/27 2021 11 AM KST – 3/27 2021 5 PM KST
- 2/26 2021 6 PM PST – 3/27 2021 1 AM PDT
- 2/27 2021 3 AM CET – 3/27 2021 9 AM CET
