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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ Month 2 Update Adds a Motorbike, Sniper Rifle, & More

Quite the hefty update.

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer Bluehold has released the full patch notes for the game’s month 2 update coming later this week.

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The patch notes come via a post over on the game’s community hub on Steam. Alongside a slew of bugfixes in the hope of making the survival title more stable for players, the month 2 update also brings with it some neat new features. Players will be able to get their hands on a new motorbike to traverse the island on, as well as a sniper rifle to help pick off targets from afar. Additionally, the month 2 update also includes a targeting fix to improve accuracy when shooting down a scope.

You can check out the full patch notes for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ month 2 update below:

Known Issues

  • Localization of ‘VSS’ and ‘Vector’ for few country is not applied properly
  • There is an issue that occasionally causes a white line to be shown when the player is on the airplane
  • There is an issue with PhysX which causes the motorbike to move in non-natural fashion after hitting the terrain when upside down

Anti-Cheat

  • You will no longer be able to remove shadows by revising the .ini file

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 care packages & 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
    S1897/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
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  • 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 consistently. 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 care packages 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 to 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

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ Month 2 update is due to go live Thursday, May 25 at 1 AM PDT/ 4 AM EST.

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