PUBG Early Access Month 2 Patch Notes

While it was revealed that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds would be getting a new VSS Sniper Rifle added to the game, and that a monthly update would be rolling out in the next few days, Bluehole has revealed exactly what to expect in the Month 2 Patch Notes for PUBG.

Not only is a new sniper being added to the game, but a new motorcycle is being added as well.  A number of tweaks and fixes will also be addressed in the Month 2 patch, the contents of which you can find below.

You can also take a look at both the new acrobatic motorcycle and VSS sniper rifle in action in the video below.

PUBG Early Access – Month 2 – Patch Notes

Client Performance

• Improved CPU usage for world level streaming
• Improved rendering performance of fences
• Improved rendering performance of grass
• Improved rendering performance for weapons and attachments seen at distance
• Improved rendering performance by modifying certain weapon and vehicle effects that were unnecessarily rendered at distance
• Improved character animation performance
• Improved effect performance
• Improved the performance of team-mate name plate, map and mini-map in teamplay

Content

• Added VSS. A suppressed sniper rifle with permanent 4X scope & chambered for 9mm ammo. This new weapon can be found in carepackages & as a very rare loot spawn
• Added Motorbike

Gameplay

• Reduced the moving speed of the two final play zones for better engagement during the endgame
• Made a balance pass on certain weapons:
  Vector
  Reduced bullet damage slightly
  Increased deviation gain per shot
  Winchester/S686/S12K
  Reduced pellet damage slightly
  AKM
  Increased bullet damage slightly
• Fixed an issue where the players alive count would reduce when a player disconnected. Now the count will only go down upon the players death.

Action & Gunplay

• Now players can put stock attachments on following weapons:
  SKS : Sniper rifle cheek pad
  Vector : Tactical stock (for M416)
• Adjusted the color of the aiming point for the basic crossbow scope.
• Added new scope rendering method (parallax free) allowing for greater aiming precision
• Improved ADS view
• Modified recoil for following weapons: AKM, SCAR, M16, M416
• Fixed an issue allowing a player to zoom in with right click when waiting before throwing a grenade
• Decreased the time to ADS when using the 2X scope

Vehicle

• Added punctured wheel effect and sound
• Added burnt markings to vehicles after being destroyed
• Added the motorbike number plate image
• When a vehicle explodes, the fences near the vehicle will now also be destroyed

World

• Added new vegetation to the lobby

UI

• Players can press ‘delete’ to remove their marker placed on the world map
• Adjusted the transparency of mini-map grid and coordinates text to make the map more visible
• Added a dotted line towards the next play zone on the mini-map
• Modified the icon design of the First Aid Kit
• Added Thai language in language options
• Added new key bindings for hold breath, motorbike air control and switch to previous weapon

Sound

• Improved the sound of Motorbike
• Added sound for door destruction effect

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that caused vehicles to be spawned in garages consistantly. Vehicles should be spawned at a higher rate in garages, but not at 100%
• Fixed an issue that disabled bullet tracing for SKS
• Fixed a bug that caused the game client to crash when a flashbang goes off
• Partially fixed bug that caused a character to get stuck in terrain, buildings or objects
• Partially fixed a bug that caused a vehicle to get stuck in buildings, fences or other vehicles
• Partially fixed a bug that caused items to be unlootable
• Fixed a bug that caused carepackages to shake when falling
• Fixed a bug that caused a throwable weapon to be thrown in the freelook direction and not the direction in which a character is facing
• Fixed an issue with two markers being visible when placing a marker in the airplane after placing it in the lobby
• Fixed a bug that caused a player icon to be doubled up on the minimap.
• Fixed a bug that caused the same color for two teammate icons
• Fixed a bug that caused the final play zone to be created over water
• Fixed a bug that sporadically muted the rain sound
• Significantly mitigated an issue that allowed a player in a closed house to be killed by the red zone bombs
• Fixed a bug that caused animation not to stop when using consumable items while reviving a teammate
• Fixed a bug that caused a character experience the damage effect at random
• Fixed a bug that caused all teammates to enter the REVIVE state when one teammate is hit by a bomb in Red Zone while being in a vehicle
• Fixed a bug that caused the REVIVE gauge not to disappear when the character being revived is disconnected
• Fixed a bug that caused the sound volume of UMP with silencer to be too low
• Fixed a bug that caused throwable items not to drop when switching to other weapons
• Fixed a bug that caused the trace effect to not disappear after using throwable weapons
• Fixed a bug where removing the pin from a grenade was canceled by changing the throwing posture.
• Fixed an issue with compass points not matching the actual direction when in the passenger seat of a vehicle
• Added a character animation for when dragging an item into the inventory