"PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" continues to maintain its position at the top of the Steam best-seller chart, as the developer announces the next set of bug fixes for the Early Access PC game. While the bug fixes have been a near weekly staple with the battle royale shooter, this week's update is going to come with a leaderboard wipe. The development team also addresses server performance issues.
'Battlegrounds' leaderboard and stats wipe
The developers at Bluehole have elected to wipe the "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" stats and reset the leaderboard after just 10 weeks of release.
No specific reason was given, but this is not an uncommon occurance for games in Early Access. The "Battlegrounds" wipe and reset will take place on Wednesday, May 31 at 3 a.m. ET / 1 a.m. PT. Those in love with their stats in the game so far will still be able to view them in-game, similar to how "Overwatch" handles stats for previous season. Additionally, Bluehole warns that leaderboard tracking will be offline for 24 hours following the wipe. The tracking of wins, losses, and other stats will return on June 1 at 3 a.m. ET / 12 a.m. PT. This marks the start of a new season of competition in "Battlegrounds."
DEV BLOG UPDATE! Today we look at what we have changed and fixed in the tenth weekly update!https://t.co/TSJ2wgs6SA pic.twitter.com/aRfAvwB8Tw
— PLAY BATTLEGROUNDS (@PUBATTLEGROUNDS) May 30, 2017
'Battlegrounds' server performance
Server performance has been a sore point for "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds," despite its popularity, and something Bluehole acknowledges as needing to be corrected.
The studio explains: "We are now in the process of profiling our servers to find the choke points and track down what we need to improve in order to optimize them over the coming month."
Fixes will be released as they are discovered. In fact, one such issue will be addressed with this week's patch, relating to vehicles.
'Battlegrounds' patch for Week 10
The latest "Battlegrounds" patch is scheduled to be released on Thursday, June 1 at 4 a.m. ET / 1 a.m. PT. It includes a game client performance improvement by simply reducing the number of effects played during vehicle crashes, along with fixes for crashes when vehicles crash or when unequipping an item.
Other bugs related to voice chat volume being too high in airplanes will also be addressed, along with issues related to bugs that crop up with the revive state. The full list of bug fixes can be found in the Twitter link above.
Console release for 'Battlegrounds'?
"PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" is coming to the Xbox One (and Scorpio) eventually. It's still a question of when, however, as Bluehole races to get the PC version out of Steam Early Access before the end of the year. Until then, Xbox One owners interested in trying out a battle royale-style game have "The Culling" coming soon.
