'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' Developers Test Vaulting, Climbing, Optimizations and New Cheat Detection Features
"PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" creator Bluehole is adding several new gameplay features to their hit game. Among other things, the studio is introducing vaulting and climbing as new means of getting across obstacles in the map.
Bluehole announced the new update via a blog post on Friday, Oct. 27. Just before the weekend, the studio revealed that they have a new test build that players can try out.
"We're excited to share that we will be running the test servers for PC 1.0 for the first time next week! We would like to invite our players to test vaulting & climbing and other existing features and systems we have modified," Bluehole shared in their update.
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These features are now available for trial on the "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" test servers, which will be up for a few days while players are trying out the new features. A complete list of the changes Bluehole has implemented will be coming in the form of patch notes later this week, but for now, the studio has gone ahead and highlighted a few key features of their update.
Key features that have been added to the test server include vaulting and climbing, as well as client and server optimizations, changes in vehicle driving, and an overhaul of the ballistics system.
With the current settings, in-game obstacles of up to 2.3 meters wide, like cars, tables and similar objects, can be mantled as Polygon notes. The player character can leap over these things with a weapon in hand; any larger and the avatar pauses to holster their weapon before tackling the obstacle.
The update also adds new measures to identify and eliminate cheaters from multiplayer games. "For a very long time, our development team has been analyzing data from a large pool of users who show abnormal gameplay behavior to build a system that helps us positively identify cheaters," Blue hole said.
"We are now able to use the system to identify and ban these users more proactively. Using this system," the studio noted, adding that they have succeeded and finding and banning about 20,000 of these problem users in just one day.
