PUBG Battlegrounds reintroduces the game’s original map, Erangel, with all sorts of content and design touches to fully harken back to the days when the game was called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and was the breakout hit of battle royale gaming.
The map, called Erangel Classic, will be available on PC from May 14th to 28th and on consoles (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X) from May 23rd to June 6th. Erangel Classic will not be available on PUBG Mobile. Erangel Classic will replace the current Erangel map in Normal Match during its two-week availability.
And by Erangel Classic, Krafton doesn’t just mean restoring topographical features or buildings that have been altered and repeated over the past seven years. Bench weapons, which are weapons laid out on a grid of picnic tables in designated locations, are returning.
The interface will also have an OG PUBG look, from the world map and minimap to The Charming. sticky Font and graphics,” said the developer. While weapon recoil isn’t a perfect match for PUBG in the original game, it’s also significantly reduced on this map.
“Erangel Classic retains the essence of the previous version of Erangel, its distinctive look and feel, while providing the fun gaming experiences that players have become accustomed to,” said Krafton. The patch notes released on May 13th will contain more.
PUBG Battlegrounds still has a strong player base
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was released in Early Access for Windows PC in March 2017. The full release followed the following December on PC, around the time it appeared in the Xbox One’s Early Access Game Preview program. The full release on this console occurred in September 2018. In summer 2021, it was renamed PUBG Battlegrounds.
Although it was not the first battle royale, PUBG was the top game even in early access, leading the genre through its hype in 2017, although it ceded that status to Fortnite in 2018 after the battle royale mode was released in September 2017 was introduced. PUBG Battlegrounds made a comeback. something, from a monthly peak in current player count on Steam of 415,000 in September to 764,034 in March, the highest monthly peak since December 2020.
According to Krafton, PUBG Mobile, which launched in March 2018, has 20 million active users. Supported by large audiences in both China and India (playing location-specific versions), PUBG Mobile surpassed one billion users by the end of 2022.