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Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds is now free-to-playEveryone invited to the deadly stag party
Everyone invited to the deadly stag party
Seminal battle royale shooterPlayerunknown’s Battlegroundsis now free-to-play, inviting all stag and hen parties to parachute into holiday resorts for paintballing which accidentally uses real guns. Folks who previously paid for PUBG: Battlegrounds (the new-ish official name replacingPlunkbat) have been grandfathered into the new Battlegrounds Plus account tier and receive receive some edgy virtual clothes too. Everyone else, hey, in you come.
PUBG Free to play - Launch Trailer | PUBGWatch on YouTube
PUBG Free to play - Launch Trailer | PUBG
The devs had a free-to-play version of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds before,PUBG Lite, intended for low-spec computers. They shut that downin 2021. This here is just PUBG: BG open to all.
Free-to-players don’t get everything, mind. They can’t play Ranked mode, partially because the devs are aware that removing the price tag removes one incentive to not get banned for cheating. They can’t create custom matches either. And they gain only half as much XP for the persistent progression jazz. For that, you need Battlegrounds Plus status.
Patch Report #15.2 - Free-to-play, New feature: Tactical gear | PUBGWatch on YouTube
Patch Report #15.2 - Free-to-play, New feature: Tactical gear | PUBG
Accompanying all this ispatch 15.2, which fixes some issues while adding the new item type, Tactical Gear. These items give you new abilities in exchange for your primary weapon slot. The remote-controlled Drone can scout remote areas and even pick up an item for you, though it can be shot down, while the EMT Gear makes your healing faster and better, both for you and teamies. A new tutorial process is in too.
You can play PUBG: BG freeon Steamnow.
While Plunkbat has shed hundreds of thousands of players since its peak in 2018, it remained one of the most-played games on Steam while still charging £27. That’s pretty impressive, considering that decline is inevitable for a multiplayer shooter and that it had fierce competition from many free-to-play battle royale games—many of whom were way less janky. I’ll be curious to see what happens now Plunkbat is F2P too.
I played hundreds of hours of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds back in the day, a regular rotation of laaads on our Discord always keen to go on a nice hike, chat about our days, sing Chelsea Dagger, and maybe, just maybe, shoot someone. I wrote about it a lot, too. I enjoyed treating it as a very silly game because it is a very silly game, no matter howedgymarketing pretended it was. I wrote tourist reviews ofresortsandrevamps, scoutedswimming locations, and generally dicked about. A good time. Some of the lads are curious about a return now.
