Before the days of Call of Duty: Warzone and Apex Legends, there was PUBG. While the battle royale genre has become more crowded since PUBG was released in 2017, the game has managed to stay popular and continues to receive support. Recently, the developers at PUBG Corporation released a new update for the title that adds an interesting new mechanic to the gameplay.
As part of patch 14.1, the developers brought many changes to the battle royale. While the update contained tons of content including modifications to several of PUBG’s maps along with fixes for bugs and glitches, there’s one particular feature that should have an interesting impact on battles. Players can now pick up and carry downed teammates as well as downed enemies.
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The PUBG Corporation gave more insight into how the carry mechanic will work in matches. According to the developers, there are both positives and negatives to consider when using this ability. When carrying a downed survivor, players can use them as a shield to block enemy gunfire. However, this extra shielding is balanced out by the inability to sprint, crouch, jump, prone, or hurdle. While many weapons can still be fired when carrying downed players, throwables, melee weapons, and the Panzerfaust rocket launcher can not be used. Furthermore, a player using the Carry feature can only hip fire their weapons.
There are some pros and cons for the downed players being carried as well. While carrying a downed player can help them get to a safe place to be revived, their bleed-out timer will be shortened when being moved. Additionally, even though downed players can look for enemies during transportation on the back of another player, they can only look in the direction their teammate turns them.
Besides this new gameplay mechanic, the update made numerous other changes to PUBG as well. Amongst the many changes, the developers made revisions to the terrain and structures around Pochinki, a popular landing spot on the map Erangel. Changes to the 8x8 map Taego were implemented as well. These changes included a map exclusive feature called “Error Space" that spawns map-exclusive loot inside of marked zones across the map. In addition, parts of the Erangel map received a new look for Halloween.
This recent update for PUBG seems likely to change up the way fights unfold in battle royale matches. It will be interesting to see fans' reception to the new Carry mechanic as well as the creative ways players decide to use the ability in the heat of battle.
PUBG: Battlegrounds is available now on Mobile, PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.
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