PUBG

It's been a while since we covered a PUBG update, but patch 9.2 seems quite an interesting one. The main features are a new vehicle - the Dirt Bike, but the one that will change how players use vehicles is the ability to fire a sidearm as a driver. Only pistols plus the sawed-off can be fired by the driver, and there are limitations on the arc of fire if there are any passengers in the vehicle, but it's a welcome feature.

In addition to the above, there are a bunch of gameplay changes, bug fixes and map updates.

There is a full writeup on Shacknews

The developers behind PUBG have announced some of the changes coming in the 5.1 patch. Of interest will be a race track on the Miramar map, along with some general tidying up. How you will be able to race on a race track with people shooting at you is a bit of a mystery, but should be fun.

As usual, further details can be found on Shacknews

The developers of PUBG have announced that the forthcoming Autumn update will enable cross-platform play between Xbox One and PS4 players, but not PC. There was no indication that they will ever support PC - maybe because of the obvious advantage keyboard/mouse players have over controller for games like this.

You can read more about this on The Verge and IGN

Bluehole have released a couple of announcements of things to be coming our way in the near future:

• Map Selection - the ability to let you choose which map you want to play on ahead of match-making


• Weapons Balance - various new attachments, and moving some of the better items from random loot locations to the care packages

There are no dates on these new features - hopefully soon though, particularly for map selection!

ShackNews have published a couple more good PUBG articles covering recent developments:

• Battle Royale Juggernaut


• Bullet Penetration


• How to Stay Alive in PUBG

The producers of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds have started to fight back against the heavy cheating that seems to be blighting the game. Whilst some of the measures they are taking could inconvenience some players, most regular players would be unaffected.

Read the press release on Steam

Another sort of guide from Shacknews covers reported crashes following the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The developers are aware of it, but no fix is imminent at this time.

In addition, at the bottom of the page there's an interview with the PUBG developer. This was recorded prior to the full 1.0 release - some interesting stuff in it.

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More from Shacknews' series of PUBG guides. These two cover weapon muzzles and improving your FPS:

• Weapon Muzzles


• Improve your FPS

Shacknews have started posting a series of PUBG guides. The first two cover weapon attachments:

• Sights and Grips


• Magazines and Stocks

Hopefully more to follow soon...

This last year saw a couple of great BobLAN events, and the switch of this site to SSL. PUBG was a big hit at the last LAN, and now that it is in full release, it should be improving steadily in the runup to the Spring BobLAN!

Thanks for the past year go to:

• [DFC]Lynx for hosting the best LAN parties ever
• Pup and Trebz for sending in the photos from November - it's great to capture the group at the LANs, and to see how little the line-up has actually changed over the years
• }data{ for continuing to host this site, and enabling the Let's Encrypt auto-renew functionality
• Let's Encrypt for providing free SSL certificates to hobbyist sites like ours, who otherwise would not be able to afford one
• @Scott_Helme for providing his securityheaders.io site, where we were able to go from an F security rating to A+ with a few simple tweaks to the site's header information

All in all, a pretty good year. Here's to an even better 2018...