PUBG recently concluded testing for a new type of game mode that should help prevent camping in the middle of safe zones.
There’s nothing more frustrating than getting kitted up with the perfect loadout in PUBG only to find yourself miles away from the next safe zone. All that perfect gear is practically wasted, as you desperately speed across the map in order to avoid getting caught by the approaching blue wall of death.
Worse, anyone who was lucky enough to find themselves already inside the safe zone has all the time in the world to set up ambushes and pick off those poor chumps who dropped outside of the safe zone. It’s a luck-based advantage that a lot of players have been calling unfair for some time.
That’s why PUBG Corp decided to test a new game mode called Bluehole Mode. Testing ran from December 5th to 8th in the PUBG Labs. We don’t know the outcome of that testing (yet,) but we do know how Bluehole Mode worked.
As usual, there’s the outer ring that will damage players if they get caught outside of it. However, in Bluehole Mode there is an additional inner ring that prevents players from camping in the middle of the safe zone. Players inside the inner ring are damaged in the same way as players outside of the outer ring, making the safe zone sort of donut-shaped.
That inner ring persists until the second-to-last round before disappearing. To make up for the lost territory that players could explore for loot, overall item spawn rates are increased by 50%.
PUBG Corp mentioned that Bluehole Mode was made to combat a statistical problem: players that dropped inside the safe zone were more likely to win just because they can ambush other players. Furthermore, some players that spawned well outside of the safe zone would often find themselves battling the blue wall more than other players.
So far, there’s no word on whether or not Bluehole Mode will become a permanent fixture of PUBG. Stay tuned for further updates.
Source: PUBG Corp