If you’ve even briefly stuck your head into the PUBG subreddit in recent weeks, you’ll have noticed things have taken… something of a downturn for the PC version since season 6 began. Multiple new bugs have been spotted, players have reported a severe increase in performance issues (particularly FPS drops), and one of PUBG’s prominent streamers announced he would be “taking a break” as a result of the continuing problems.
One of the biggest complaints was a perceived silence from PUBG Corp on the issues – but the company has finally responded, and an official dev letter has been published to address community concerns.
“We know the last few months have had some ongoing issues impacting gameplay and wanted to take a moment to address everything,” reads the letter on PUBG’s Steam page. “We know the below issues have been extremely frustrating to deal with and we’re sorry they’ve persisted for so long.”
On cheaters, PUBG Corp said it is attempting to find new solutions and will update players on this with a roadmap post in early March. The developer also confirmed player reports of increased FPS drops, stuttering and crashes since the January update, and explained that these are taking a while to fix because they are issues impacting specific hardware that often occur in “situations which are difficult to reproduce”. The dev team is conducting further tests to solve these, and the performance issues remain a “top priority”.
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Not all the problems have stemmed from the game itself, however, as PUBG Corp says the servers have increasingly been subject to external DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service: basically, overwhelming servers with a flood of internet traffic). These have caused connection issues such as “network delays, a significant ping increase, and severe packet loss”.