Battle royales have come a great distance since PUBG’s preliminary launch in 2017, with every new launch making an attempt quality-of-life enhancements to iron out ache factors within the style. Dying in group play has at all times been a design problem: whereas it is enjoyable to cheer in your pals from the sidelines, you may be left twiddling your thumbs whereas they run, gun, and scavenge.
Apex Legends tackled this sore spot by way of a respawn beacon, and PUBG is following its instance in replace 23.2 (opens in new tab). Dying bins—self–descriptive containers that drop upon loss of life—will now comprise Blue Chips on the maps Erangel, Miramar, and Deston.
As soon as you’ve got swiped a Blue Chip, you may must both take it to a Blue Chip Tower— mills unfold all through the map—or use a Blue Chip Transmitter, which might be obtained throughout play. Doing so takes 10 seconds, throughout which you may be utterly motionless and weak.
There isn’t any stealthy method to pull this off: each the tower and transmitter produce a loud noise that may let your enemies know you are making an attempt to replenish your ranks. The concept is to protect the impression of loss of life that is core to the battle royale expertise whereas offering a sliver of hope for lone survivors.
The system has just a few different limitations. Firstly, the Blue Chip system is proscribed to bigger maps, because it’s designed to curb irritating early deaths in longer video games. It additionally turns into unavailable after Section 7, so there will be no shock deployments ruining the previous few minutes of a match. Moreover, it is not a right away resurrection, you may have to attend to your pals to drop in at first of a brand new section.
This is not the primary return system PUBG’s tried. Comeback BR, launched in replace 12.2, is a map–particular system that drops gamers right into a second enviornment to combat for his or her lives once more, so long as they will duke it out for lengthy sufficient. It will nonetheless be current on this replace, simply restricted to smaller maps based on the dev assertion: “However why restrict it to Erangel, Miramar, and Deston? Smaller maps have shorter play occasions, making it sooner to start out a brand new recreation upon loss of life. And we have determined so as to add the Recall system solely to maps with out the present Comeback BR.”
The patch additionally features a map icon for not too long ago–exited automobiles, updates to the Down However Not Out mechanic, and a protracted–awaited clan system (opens in new tab) with its personal development system and rewards. Replace 23.2 is scheduled to drop on Could 16/17 for PC and Could 24/25 on consoles.