PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Adds A Rad Motorbike, Weapon, And More In Its Second Update

Along with the VSS, we are also adding a new vehicle in this month's update... [...]

By Nathan Birch

Your battle for survival is about to get just a bit more badass. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, the awkwardly-named multiplayer battle royal extravaganza that's been tearing up the Steam charts, drops its second monthly update tomorrow, and it includes some goodies for the game's bloodthirsty fans.

The update includes a new motorbike, which you can control in the air, allowing you to pull off some pretty sweet tricks. A new silenced sniper rifle that should make Battlegrounds' island even more hellish has also been added. Of course, there are plenty of other tweaks, balance fixes, and server improvements promised as well.

You can check out the full patch notes for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' second update, below:

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

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

Gameplay

- Reduced the moving speed of the two final play zones for better engagement during the endgame

- 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.

Balance

Vector:

- Reduced bullet damage slightly

- Increased deviation gain per shot

Winchester/S686/S12K:

- Reduced pellet damage slightly

AKM:

- Increased bullet damage slightly

Action and gunplay

- Now players can put stock attachments on following weapons:

- SKS : Sniper rifle cheek pad

- Vector : Tactical stock (for M416)

- Adjusted the colour 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

If you want to read up on every minor bug fix, you can do that right here.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds second monthly update will be available tomorrow (May 25).

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