Patch Note 36.1 dropped with some big changes https://pubg.com/en/news/8725
Small things are weapon balancing, notably AUG getting -1 damage nerf. As everyone is spamming 556 these days, this was somewhat predictable. Also muzzle break is getting a small recoil control buff.
Now the huge ones are the normal game features being introduced to Ranked and Custom Esports mode.
Red zones, recalls, BRDM, Tactical Gears, C4… all of these are now in Ranked.
And since this is available in custom Esports mode as well, I expect they are coming to comp sooner or later.
And if that happens, it's probably going to be the biggest change ever in PUBG esports history since land ratio circles.
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The thing about ranked is if you die, you die until the next match. There’s no second chance, you have to make your move very carefully. It was a high risk high reward type of play style.
Now imagine a strong team with 4 good players, they can just push anyone anywhere and even if they die they will just be recalled.
On one hand it promotes new players to try ranked with their team mates and one doesn’t have to spectate the whole match if they die at the beginning but on the other hand once you go higher and higher in the ladder you will get much much stronger teams who will absolutely abuse this recall system because they will get put against lower tier players often so and will steam roll lobbies.
Let’s say there’s 2 of you in a compound and 4 of them outside who wants your compound, they can just push without a second thought and even if they lose one or 2 players in exchange they will eventually win that fight and that compound. Earlier without recall you did have to think twice if the push is right or is it worthy to lose one or two players for the benefit of holding that compound.
Only time will tell. 🤷🏼‍♂️
I’ve never heard anyone wish the game was more RNG, yet they added all the stupid storms to competitive, and now the red zone is moving in that direction.
Recall system in comp would make hot drops much more viable, no?