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Scheduled maintenance is now taking place, meaning that PUBG Servers are down.
Gamers on Xbox One will be unable to access the game for quite some time tonight as Microsoft prepare to launch a big new patch.
PUBG fans on consoles will have to wait around six hours before they can start playing again, with the outage beginning at 2am, BST.
While not quite as disrupting in the UK, players in the United States will lose some prime game time, with maintenance scheduled to begin at 6pm, PST.
“Xbox players: There will be a 6 hour maintenance period on our live servers starting at May 22 6PM PDT / May 23 3AM CEST,” a message from the PUBG support team reads.
The good news is that patch notes will be available before maintenance is complete, which will likely prove very exciting reading.
This new PUBG update is expected to include many of the improvements that were put through their paces on the Xbox One test servers.
This includes optimisation changes, such as a new method of reducing rendering times.
That's on top of increased vehicle and weapon spawns for Miramar.
The new map won’t be going live today, instead, developers Bluehole Inc. and Microsoft are launching that on May 24.
So fans won’t have long to wait to see all the big changes and play Miramar on live servers.
As mentioned above, the full patch notes for this update will be released during the server downtime.
This is the latest patch in line with a big Spring update being planned for PUBG on Xbox One and Xbox One X.
Recent test server patch notes can give us a glimpse and what might be included in today’s update, which can be found below:
PUBG PATCH NOTES
Settings
- Option of turning off Aim Acceleration has been separated, and the slider that sets the acceleration degree has been changed from 0~10 to 1~10.
- Settings tab order has been changed.
- Name and description of “Control Setting” has been modified.
- Slider range of the “Vertical Sensitivity Multiplier” has been adjusted to 50%–150%.
World
- Vehicle and weapon spawns have been increased on Miramar.
Bugfixes
- Fixed bug where vertical movement speed wasn't representative of settings chosen.
- Fixed an issue where inverted control settings were being applied to the emote UI.
- Fixed a problem that sometimes messed up movement while aiming down sights in third person perspective (it was happening when aim acceleration was turned off).
- You can now freelook while automatically swimming forward in water
- Fixed an issue preventing some teammates’ map markers from showing on the compass
- Sights should no longer become blocked while in ADS position after attaching high-magnification scopes
- Fixed a problem preventing weapon display UI colorblind mode from being applied properly
- Fixed the description of the “Auto Swim” button in the gamepad guide
- Fixed some problems preventing interacting pop-ups from functioning properly in certain situations
- The in-game UI was sometimes failing to update when reloading a firearm to indicate freed up inventory space
- The interaction key sometimes failed to show when certain actions were performed in front of a door
- Emotes can no longer be used while preparing to throw grenades
- Fixed the problem causing over-the-shoulder views to sometimes lock up when opening the emotes UI
- Fixed the problem wherein turning off BGM in the lobby setting window didn’t work
- Fixed the problem preventing players from changing seats in vehicles
- The emotes UI no longer improperly displays on the victory screen
- Improved situations where other player’s motorcycle will look as if it was going under the terrain while driving.
Known issue:
After long play sessions (three or more hours) on the standard Xbox One and the Xbox One S, the game sometimes crashes. This has been a problem for some time, and we hope to solve it soon. In the meantime, there’s a simple workaround you can use. Simply restart the app every couple of hours if you plan on playing a longer play session.