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Hello Survivors,
Welcome back to another Dev Update from the console dev team. Some of you may have noticed that there was no Dev Update for September. We had some last-minute, but very important updates on performance issues and bots recently, so we wanted to squeeze these into this Dev Update as well. Let’s go discover what these updates are.
Client Performance
We’ve been seeing reports of severe freezing in early matches where the game becomes unresponsive for a few seconds. Additionally, many of you have been telling us that loading has been super slow on Karakin – to a point where you load in towards the end of the plane path.
After some investigation, we found that these issues were side effects of some recent optimization work. As we’ve covered in our past Dev Updates, we’re always striving to save memory as the lack of available memory is the usual culprit of game crashes. In order to shave down on memory use, we made changes s...
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The final update of season 8 is here and brings a brand new tool to help you catch up to the playzone, a new mode of transportation to avoid those heavily camped bridges, some UI adjustments and more!
Take a little extra time in the Blue Zone with the new Jammer Pack! This new pack has the capacity of a level 2 bag and interrupts Blue Zone damage while its battery lasts, letting you catch up to the play zone or utilize the blue zone for a tactical advantage. The Jammer Pack drops on Sanhok and Karakin starting this update!
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Take a little extra time in the Blue Zone with the new Jammer Pack! This new pack has the capacity of a level 2 bag and interrupts Blue Zone damage while its battery lasts, letting you catch up to the play zone or utilize the blue zone for a tactical advantage. The Jammer Pack drops on Sanhok and Karakin starting this update!
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