New scheduled maintenance has been confirmed, which will take the PC Battlegrounds offline.
Bluehole Inc. have revealed that PUBG servers will be down for around three-hours, starting at 3am, BST.
“PC players, there will be a 3 hour maintenance period on our live servers starting at Apr 11 7PM PDT / Apr 12 4AM CEST / Apr 12 11AM KST,” the PUBG Help Twitter account explains.
“We will be moving our current test build over to live.”
As mentioned by the PUBG support team, the Battlegrounds servers are going down so that the latest update can be deployed.
This new update will be released tonight, so it means players will have to download a patch when maintenance is complete.
The new PUBG update should be available to download by around 6am, BST, or 10pm PDT in the United States.
As this is just an estimate provided by Bluehole Inc, there’s the chance downtime could take less time than initially posted.
As explained by the development team in the patch notes posted on Steam, this update is looking to make tweaks to the blue zone, as well as make changes to the Miramar map.
There are also a couple of long-requested quality-of-life changes being added through the new PUBG update.
Here’s a list of those improvements, which includes things like all in-game clothing being removed from maps, adjusted Blue Zone speed and damage and new features in Miramar.
General Gameplay
- We’ve adjusted safe zone and blue zone functionality. Also, in-game clothing spawns have been removed.
- Blue zone delay time has been reduced. You’ll be given less time to linger between phases.
- The maximum movement speed of the blue zone has been reduced. The blue zone will move more slowly toward the end of the game.
- The damage inflicted by 7th, 8th, and 9th blue zones has been increased.
- Except for the first blue zone, the probability of creating an extreme safe zone (one far away from the center of the previous circle) has been reduced by 30%.
- The final blue zone will narrow down to the center instead of narrowing down to a random spot, and the total wait time including the blue zone inactive time has been reduced. (195 seconds to 90 seconds)
- As the end of the match approaches, the safe zone will increasingly favor areas with land over areas with water.
- On Erangel specifically, the first safe zone will now be revealed 30 seconds earlier.
- On Miramar specifically, players can now see the first safe zone while flying in the airplane. (We may or may not carry this over to the next live update. We want your feedback about this change.)
- In-game clothing spawns have been removed from all maps. Other item spawn balance remains the same.
