The largest city in the region, Los Leones features ample shopping, a skyline filled with new construction, and a glorious, golden-hued City Center. Players should secure high vantage points by exploring the numerous construction sites, and loot for gear in the cavernous, abandoned commercial buildi
Ever since it parachuted onto the scene, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been proving itself to be a force to be reckoned with in the gaming landscape. It’s a meteoric rise not seen since Minecraft made its early access debut back in 2009. With thousands of streamers broadcasting their skills and new players jumping in every day, its popularity is well on its way to rivaling that of the sandbox juggernaut. Where did this kind of game even come from though? New styles of gameplay don’t just spawn from the ether; they all have their origins. In the case of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and the battle royale arena, it all started with a minor PC shooter called ARMA 2.
Update: Watch the world premiere desert gameplay trailer for PUBG above. The game releases as a preview game on Xbox One on December 12th and PC, releases in full 1.0 on December 20th. Below is original article with details on Miramar’s locations and new guns. The millions upon millions of active players landing, looting and surviving the battle royale action of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds ** are intimately familiar with Erangel, the game’s base map (and currently, only map). Soon however, as PUBG prepares for its Console Games On Mobile debut exclusively on the Xbox One family of platforms, so to will a brand new map in all-new environment.This desert map has been teased for months and today its official name was finally revealed: Miramar . Many details of the map and how it’ll play different than Erangle are intentionally being held secret so players can experience it and learn live, helping undoubtedly bring it to the top of streaming services like Twitch. Related: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Breaks More Records; Gets Own Company** However, we already know there will be new vehicles and yesterday evening a new weapon was revealed which will be exclusive to Miramar: the Winchester Model 1894. Not to be outdone, PUBG Corp partner Nvidia – who have provided sponsorship and GeForce video cards for several PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds events/tournaments, exclusively debuted another new weapon on their official blog. Details below on the new map, and new weap
S12K: Vikendi is riddled with towns and other urban dwellings, which is a natural environment to pull out any shotgun including the S12K. This shotgun is death incarnate in the hands of players that are stuck in any kind of intimate skirmish. It has a unique rate-of-fire which enables players to “blast away” at a blazing speed. With an extended magazine, a player can tear down an entire squad within seconds. However, it’s not recommended for open areas, as its range simply won’t do any adequate dam
The year of 2009 is shaping up to be one of the more important years of modern gaming. This was the year that saw the birth of many of the current giants of the industry. It was the year that saw the real beginning of the Assassin’s Creed series, the beta release of Mincraft, and was the year when Uncharted 2: Among Thieves released and blew away all expectations. It’s also the year that saw the release of ARMA 2, the game would come to serve as the spawning point for both PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (aka “PUBG”) and the battle royale arena genre in general. Upon its release, ARMA 2 was received as a competent, though mostly unremarkable, tactical shooter. Still, it managed to gain a small, but healthy, following thanks to its wide variety of weapons and realistic ballistics. Left to its own devices, ARMA 2 would have faded into obscurity as its player slowly bled away but that’s not quite what happed. See, the game also happened to attract a strong modding community, one that would propel it back into the limelight three years later.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds offers the chance to explore and scrap through the three gigantic maps of Miramar, Erangel, and Sanhok–with Vikendi having just recently entered the Public Test Server to boot. One’s tasked with scrounging for consumables, armor, and weapons to survive matches populated with up to 100 players, as a storm circle slowly encroaches and forces those still alive to duke it out in tense, ever-closer firefights. This can be done as a Solo endeavor, or in Duos and 4-person Squads, but the goal essentially remains the same no matter the size of the team, and that is to be the only survivor(s) at the end of the ma
Currently referred to as the R45, the new revolver is a six-shot, desert map replacement for the R1895, chambered for .45 ACP ammo. Unlike the R1895 it replaces, the R45 will not support a suppressor, though you will be able to add a red dot sight to improve your aim. And another differentiation from the R1895 is the use of speed loaders, enabling you to load all six rounds simultaneously, greatly accelerating reload times, putting the R45’s reload speed more in line with other PUBG pist