Latest PUBG Patch Now Live Bringing New Emotes, Achievements, and More

The world of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has seen some massive changes over the last few weeks, especially after the development team’s latest anti-piracy action went belly up fast. In tradition of fast trigger updates, the latest PC patch is now live and brings with it the usual optimization as well as a few new in-game goodies!

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Twelve new emotes, 37 new achievements, in-game friends list, and more. Most of it was covered during our preview yesterday, but a few things have been tacked on now that the patch is live.

Client Optimization

Improved real-time response by reducing input lag
Mitigated the frame drop issue caused by the map loading process
Reduced burden on GPU by optimizing buildings in Erangel
Optimized the beginning and the end of effects
Optimized vehicle physics when driving under a certain speed

Server Optimization

Optimized server network performance
Optimized vehicle physics when driving under a certain speed

Lobby

Added PUBG friends list
- Up to 50 people can be added as PUBG friends
- Players with PUBG accounts can search and add friends freely regardless of the platform they are using (including Steam, Mail.ru and DMM)
  - Friend list is a one-way follower concept, not a mutual acceptance between players
  - PUBG friends list is independent of the Steam friends list. You don’t have to be friends on Steam to be friends in PUBG
- Up to 30 players you were recently in a team with will be shown on RECENT
Added main menu voice chat
- You can chat with the players in your team while still in the main menu
- When using the voice chat, a speaker icon will be displayed on the right of the player’s name
*Removed the function of being able to invite a player from their career screen due to a technical issue

World

Made holes in the ceiling and floor of some high buildings, so that it is easier to move between different levels, to improve the gameplay experience on Miramar

Gameplay

Added 37 achievements on Steam
Added emote system
- 12 default emotes will be provided now, and more emotes will be added in the future
- While holding the emote menu key (default is ~), emote can be activated by left-clicking the emote or hot key of emote you want to use
Fixed the blue blood effect being more visible than the red blood effect when player gets shot
Added material for crops, rubber, cloth, paper and cactus
- When shooting or attacking with a melee weapon, the right effect for each material will be displayed
Changed the gun scope view to be more realistic
- Expanded the field of view through the scope
- Added a parallax effect when moving weapons fast
- Added color, vignetting (darker edges), chromatic aberration (color difference caused by light refraction) and distortion effect on the edge of scopes
*Player can no longer lean while jumping
*Increased the radius of explosion effect considering the actual effective radius

UX/UI

Redesigned the 9 vehicle status icons to work better with 4K resolution
Replaced the red cross icon with a red tire icon for a broken tire

Sound

Added a hit sound effect for crops, rubber, cloth, paper and cactus material
*Removed ambient noise and lowered the overall volume
*Implemented the Doppler effect for the airplane engine sound – the pitch of the airplane engine sound is now different depending on the distance and the direction of movement of the airplane

Bug Fixes

Fixed a square-shaped border on the sea that could be seen when flying in the airplane
Fixed an issue where a player could die instantly when vaulting and climbing
Improved problems where characters would get stuck or die during vaulting, and be able to look through walls.
Fixed some incorrect UI and in-game text
Improved problematic character animation where the character would move abnormally if multiple actions were performed in sequence
Fixed abnormal appearance of some clothes, such as costumes overlapping or missing
Adjusted the locations of items that would spawn in places that players cannot reach
Fixed an issue where the mouse sensitivity option could not be set to 59
Fixed an issue that allowed a character to crawl quickly through a certain combination of controls
Fixed the issue of overlapping footstep sounds in FPP mode
Improved an issue where three-wheeled motorbikes would suddenly flip whenever the server performance deteriorated
Fixed an issue where a player would have a slower falling speed when switching seats on a three-wheeled motorcycle mid-air
Fixed an issue where underwater bullet penetration effect was not being applied sometimes
Fixed an issue where a player was unable to cancel fueling up a vehicle, even though cancel was clicked
Fixed an issue where throwables that had already exploded mid-air would still make a popping sounds on the ground
Fixed an issue where sometimes a downed player was able to drive a vehicle
Fixed an issue where after reconnecting a vehicle was intermittently invisible or the character and camera were misaligned
Fixed an issue where the character of a player with a new account would not show up in the main menu when forming a team
Fixed an issue where the shadow of a character was too sharp regardless of the distance
Fixed an issue where when jumping out of the airplane, the character fell to a fixed position, no matter the flying direction
Fixed an issue where when player tried to ADS with scope attached weapon, some of the scope exterior parts were shown late
Fixed an issue where the adjusted zoom level in 8x scope reset after swapping to your other weapon(s)
Fixed an issue where the item quantity adjustment popup window displays automatically when picking up/discarding items from the Inventory screen
Fixed an issue where sometimes the lung capacity gauge was not in sync between being in the water and out of water
*Mitigated an issue where when exiting the parachute mode, player could take excessive fall damage
*Fixed an issue where the relaxed state gun animation was not shown properly