It was another busy weekend for the brilliant minds behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. We learned players will soon have another means of avoiding incoming fire and hostile gazes. The game’s design lead also confirmed leaderboards will be reset more frequently during PUBG ’s last few months in Early Access, with the next reset coming early this week.
Over the weekend, Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene published an update on PUBG ’s Steam page that confirmed an impending leaderboard reset and more frequent resets going forward. Greene revealed plans to reset the leaderboards on Tuesday, July 31, and that monthly resets will be part of the experience for the rest of PUBG ’s time in Early Access. It’s unclear whether or not that schedule will change after the full version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is released later this year. But the brain behind one of the most popular games of 2017 did at least explain the rationale behind the game’s newly-shortened seasons.
“We understand that these seasons may seem short,” he wrote. “But for us to fully balance the ELO ranking system we need to update frequently based on data from the previous seasons.”
Interestingly, Greene also confirmed there will now be a 24-hour window of exclusively unranked matches before each new season begins.
Here’s how he broke it down on Steam:
On July 31st 02:00 UTC / 11:00 KST match data will stop being recorded. Any matches played after this time will not be reported to the leaderboard.
From July 31st 02:00 UTC / 11:00 KST to August 1st 02:00 UTC / 11:00 KST the servers will be in UNRANKED mode whereby no match data is recorded.
On August 1st 02:00 UTC / 11:00 KST the next season on the leaderboards will begin, and all match data will be recorded once again.
Greene also used his personal Twitter account to tease some new animations being prepared by a member of the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds dev team. The new rolling animations appear to take players from the upright position to prone with a bit more urgency than the standard transition. It should also make it harder for someone firing at you, or trying to line up a shot, to send you back to the menu screen.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is currently available in Early Access. The full game is expected before the end of 2017 and an Xbox One port is slated for early 2018.
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