The Bluehole studio team in charge of the development of PUBG on Xbox has just announced the return of the test servers, for a limited time, in order to test the rotation of maps between Miramar and Erangel before integrating it on the live servers. . The developers therefore published a press release this Saturday morning in which they announced the return of the test servers for three days, but with the possibility of extending it further. This test includes both Miramar and Erangel maps so developers can experiment with the matchmaking system before integrating the desert map on the live servers. Which means, in other words, that players can therefore, each time they start a game, land on one of these two cards, randomly selected by the game. The developers add that map selection will be implemented soon on Xbox, but it will take a little longer. Note that the first 150 players to report a bug on the test servers will receive rewards.
Test Server Schedule
Day 1 - Saturday May 5, 14 p.m., to Sunday May 6, 8 a.m.
- Sunday May 6, 17 p.m., to Monday May 7, 8 a.m.
- Monday, May 7, 17 p.m., to Tuesday, May 8, 8 a.m.
Menu settings change
- Game settings are now grouped by category.
- Added colorblind option.
- Crosshair settings have been added.
- Added a new cursor interface.
- Added option to adjust controller vibration.
- Added option to set deadzone on left analog stick.
- Aiming acceleration can be disabled if set to 0.
- Those who have previously set it to 0 should perhaps set it to 1 to keep the same sensations as before.
- Gamepad functions have been updated.
Staves have been changed to be more realistic
- Widening of the field of vision.
- Added a parallax effect when rapidly moving weapons.
- Added vignetting (darker edges), chromatic aberration (difference in color caused by refraction of light), and distortion effect on the edge of staves.
Off-game menus and UX improvements
- The "cancel matchmaking" interface has been improved. You can now cancel matchmaking by pressing the X button on any screen except the Settings menu.
- We improved the UI that indicates matchmaking is in progress. The progress time is now displayed. When a matchmaking is found, a countdown appears.
- The transition speed between menus has been increased.
- Two new menus have been added: Personalization and Store.
- To get a box, go to Store then Cashier.
- To open a box you received, go to "My Items" located in the Store.
- On test servers, the number of crates that can be purchased per week has been increased to 100.
- After launching the game, only one loading screen appears instead of several.
A few more changes
- Emotes have been added. For them to appear, press LB and RB at the same time, and to choose them, use the right analog stick and press R.
- We've added some on-screen contextual pop-ups that explain button functions.
- Added new grenade effects and animations.
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue where sometimes players would get stuck in a leaning position.
- Fixed an issue that caused slowdowns while sprinting.
- Player can no longer see through walls when lying down near houses with stone steps in Miramar.
- In spectator mode, water sometimes slows down inappropriately after changing perspective.
- When preparing to throw grenades, the projection visualization no longer inappropriately penetrates through objects.
