Originally posted by Siannath

Are you planning on releasing more "serious" or "military-like" skins in the future? (PC)

Originally posted by Siannath

I miss the survival tab on the post-match screen. Are you able to bring it back? (PC)

Originally posted by Siannath

We have LOTS of skins. I like skins. I paid for season passes and I purchased skins. But is a bit draining having to change every item piece by piece when you want to change your survivor looks.

That's why we requested, since long time ago, the ability to have custom presets for our survivor.

However, the way that you decided to bring custom presets for us is a bit stingy. Sorry is this word is a bad word. I am not a native English speaker, so I can lost some nuancies.

I feel like it is a bit stingy because the custom presets can only be unlocked temporarily.

I think players would feel more respected if you give everyone the hability to have the 5 custom presets unlocked forever.

Think about it: players are already paying for skins, so you also have to pay for the convenience of having 5 custom presets?

For example, Rocket League is another title converted to F2P. In this title every player have 50 presets to customize your car with lots of cosmetic items!

Maybe you could give this benefit to Plus+ players. That way, the Plus+ upgrade is more interesting for some players.

Or maybe you could give this benefit to legacy players.

I think making the 5 custom presets available for everyone permanently could even incentivize players to buy more skins!

Anyway, thank you for reading this!

PD: I posted some time ago about this with a poll, please check it: https://www.reddit.com/r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS/comments/mkys2l/poll_what_do_you_think_about_the_presets_feature/

(PC)

Originally posted by eogoifrostyo

Will we ever see a more consumer-friendly approach with the battle passes? Paid passes that will never expire and we can earn the rewards at our own pace? (PC)

Originally posted by keetyuk

Maps! They are a hot topic and map rotations evoke much emotion. Is there any chance you can be more transparent on map statistics and break down by region which maps are the most played and which maps are most often quit before starting the game.

In addition as different regions have different queues etc, is it not possible to have map availability differ by region as tastes can vary due to various reasons. And regional tastes.

Platform - PC

Originally posted by Siannath

Have you ever considered hiring some streamers like /u/wackyjacky101 for advice?

People like him can give you a lot of good insight about the game, because they play it a lot and also they tend to have very good opinions and suggestions.

(PC)

Originally posted by ChocotacoMad

what is the plan for improving anti-cheat software ?
Most of the top 500 Ranked leaderboard stats are unrealistic(eg: 12KD, 18KD, 30kD). Are you guys seriously looking into it ?
Platform: PC

Originally posted by GabenMaker1337

is map selection coming back? Dave Curd? (PC)

Originally posted by Truthful27

Sanhok is my favorite map

Originally posted by Towelie8-7

Hey Dave. Many polls here in the forum indicate that Sanhok is one of the most unpopular maps. What does your internal data show? Is there a possibility that the map rotation for season 16 will take place without Sanhok?

(PC)

Originally posted by Contibeatz

(XBOX - xAUXx Monster) Any plans to introduce something else as a reward for a chicken dinner besides just BP?? Maybe something along the lines of a crate for winning a chicken dinner whether it be a already existing BP crate or new one?? Thank you!

Originally posted by Zopper

Any chance to implement a requesting feature for missing attachments/scopes similar to Apex Legends (i.e. ping an empty attachment spot to "say" you still need it). This would help comms in randoms. Thanks for the continuous updates. (PC)

Originally posted by toilet_scholar

Casual mode is a great way to bring new players into the game. It's allowed me to bring people into the game that have either been away for a long time or are new. Have you considered removing the red zone from casual? It's really frustrating for new players to die to a red zone, particularly when they are limited to three casual matches per day. And as a follow up, have you considered allowing more than three casual matches per day? (PC)

Originally posted by Player_1038727

Hey! I'm a big PUBG fan, playing for 3 years already. Glad to see Creative Director & Senior Producer open for a discussion.

As we all know PUBG online is decreasing, the game is fading and I'm sad about it. The developers have taken a course towards monetization by increasing the number of skins in the store (and I can understand it), but this does not attract new players and does not make old ones to play more.

As a gamer, I lack motivation to have the same gameplay every day. Land, loot, survive. Every day is routine.

But there are at least two reasons that could make me spend dozens of hours weekly. Both are already implemented in the game! Why are they gone now?

#1 is Skins. Skins for playing, not for paying. In the past, there was a great opportunity of getting rare skins by completing hard, time-consuming challenges. It motivated gamers to play more and more. Moreover, it could be a partly-paid skin set. Let's say, a player can get cool rare one-styled gloves, glasses and a weapon skin for completing some tough challenges. Also he can buy jacket, pants and boots from the same set for money. Of cource, when you have the rarest parts of the set, you'll go and buy the rest. But the challenge should be really difficult and time-consuming(!), so the player would have friends appreciation and community respect (e.g.: Wow, he got The Rare lvl2 Helmet, seems like he is really good at the game, we should be careful with him!). This is the motivation #1. To brag about your skill. It can keep experienced players in the game.

Todays implementation of Battle Passes is like: - "Land, Loot, Get the reward that everyone has".

Daily challenges, that everyone could complete in one match, are not challenges. (Sure, they have right to exist, they are ok for new players). Personally I still play with the Toxic Beryl skin, because it was gotten for hard tasks, and I'll never change it to some paid skin. To loot smth is not a challenge (except airdrops). To ride a vehicle is not a challenge. To get the top or kills with some contidions can be a fun challenge worth playing.

#2 is Money. Surprisingly, we like it too. Long time ago, we could buy crates for BP and sell them on the Steam Trademarket for some valuable amount. Even this really motivated to play. Now the crates don't cost anything worth time spending. Why wouldn't you revive this motivation? You can create some new crates with tradable skins and integrate this crates with the Medals system:

- If every Chicken Dinner will mean getting a crate with a little chance of an expensive tradable skin, every match would be valued;

- If every 100 Kills will mean getting some random tradable weapon skin, public matches would be full of playes;

- If every 5 squad wipes in ranked (the hardest medal) will mean getting some very rare crate with a random expensive skin from the rarest set in the game, everyone would be hyped;

- If you could get a tradable battlestat pan for looting 100 airdrops, why do anything else, than play PUBG?

- etc.

This it the motivation #2. It can interest new playes that want to be paid for playing. I've started playing PUBG, when my friend told me that he earned more than game costs on selling BP crates. And I've played 3000+ hours already (but only 5 of them for the last month).

In the ideal case all skins should be tradable. If you want to have some money from this, you can create an item (for some G-Coins) that makes any skin tradeble. Why not?

(Platform: PC)

Originally posted by Bubbles_012

Hi Dave and Linn, I just want to pick your brain a little and ask why you think PuBG is so much more popular in Asia at the moment. And what are some things you could implement to win back some of the players in NA\western regions in the future.

Originally posted by 1PeePeeTouch

You are just agreeing with what the question asker pointed out. Could you please give us some information about whether or not you are planning on making any changes to map queues based on region or if you as a dev team have no plans at all to change map queues.

Originally posted by iAmCDome

Hey Dave & Team! 👋🏻

Some of the most asked questions I found:

Will we be seeing a movement feature or update, particularly rolling or sliding?

Graphics engine update coming?

Map selection for regions with high player counts?

PUBG Streamer Store (for streamer skins)

More iterations of a “bring-back” mechanic, such as defibrillators on all maps? Super People implemented this very well.

Permanent bot mode and zero bots in normal games?

And lastly, my personal question: What are the plans for Player progression, weapon progression, etc. With many new players joining, I fear they have nothing to "grind" for except for mastery level 500 and the same 20 charms...Would love to hear more on this and especially, an overhaul to the current contraband loot crate system. The shear cost and mass duplicates of "low-level" skins that players can get is very discouraging and doesn't promote more play.
I think a GREAT change to this system is in two parts;

1 - Do NOT allow duplicates from contraband crates. Instead, after each crate is opened, the chance of you getting the "better" skins increases each time.

2 - You should NOT have to "pay to win" with the progressive weapon skins. Instead, tie the weapon progression upgrades to actual missions and challenges with those weapons.

For example, "Get 5 chicken dinners with X weapon equipped", "Get 100 kills with X weapon", "Kill an enemy from X meters with X weapon" etc. And then, as those challenges are completed, the weapon then levels up IN-GAME. So the player visually see's their weapon transforming when they finish that particular challenge or goal. THIS would challenge players and encourage them to "Keep Playing PUBG".

Thanks for reading! We appreciate you all! -CDome

Originally posted by KawaiiLM

will there be a cross play between pc and consoles? (PC)

Originally posted by ASJ_sapphics

Regarding Kiki, what kinds of features can we expect to see pulled in from 2020's experimental maps? Should we expect to see it receiving regular updates after launch, like Taego? What aspect of the map are you most proud of? Any ETA on more information being released?

Unrelatedly, do you know if there have been any kills with drone packages in public matches yet, if you have the statistics to hand? Seems like one of the hardest ways to kill someone; I'm curious if it's been pulled off at all yet.

(PC)

Originally posted by Bot_TacticsGG

Thank you for the AMA.

Are we able to expect new weapons alongside the new map Kiki?

Will they be map exclusive or on all maps?

can’t wait to play it!

Originally posted by Cheap_Wrongdoer_1026

I played every version of PUBG (Mobile/PC/Stadia) without Console . I literally love this battle royale with 4 years. But you need more changes and things in PUBG for future . Please make more better performance and playable for every pc. I think your team make do well everything in future cause I still well satisfied.

Originally posted by SurvivorNumber1

Hey guys

Any idea when we can expect to hear or see more info/gameplay of the new 8x8 map KIKI?

I’m anxious to see the actual map and POI, super hyped for another big map. Maybe you can share some details on it? 🙏

(Xbox)

Originally posted by Apprehensive_Sky621

Hello, is there a possibility that in the map rotation they will ever remove the sanhok map? It really is something that bothers me, since before it became Free to play, 8 out of 10 games I entered that map, which made me go out to the lobby and wait 2 or 3 minutes to start another game. The truth is that now it is easier for games to come out, always 10 seconds or less, which is appreciated, but I really hate sanhok, they give it a priority that is in my opinion unnecessary, it is not even played in tournaments, they could take it out just like that in the same rotation they take out for example: vikendi.

I can't understand why sanhok is always there and they never take it out.

PS: Sorry for my bad English, I used the translator.

Platform - PC - Steam

Originally posted by mbcowner

im curious , why Krafton does not go after some of the more obvious groups providing cheats and take them to court and sue them as activison is doing ? It would seem that you all are aware of at least some of them , why not try to sue them . Win a few court battles worth millions and i bet it would really make people think twice about trying to spend time making cheats to sell as much.

Originally posted by ruroni85

First a few comments. ~3k hours here, and I took most of 2021 off. PC.

1. The onboarding system for new players seems to be really well done. The revamped training mode and addition of the AI training rounds are very welcome.
2. I'm hopeful for enough of the new influx of players to stick around to keep the queues healthy. North America has been slim pickings from time to time.
3. Quality of life improvements such as action queuing are very much appreciated.

Questions

1. Performance has come a long way over time. It's also been interesting to see how far the dev team has come since the original version of Erangel. There are some incredible views and areas that are downright divine that put me in a happy place. I like to get "lost" in the brush sometimes and really put myself there while I hunt other players. On that note, what further optimizations are on the way? Can we expect Nvidia technologies such as Reflex, RTX, and DLSS? The latter of which has been teased since 2018.
2. I appreciate the addition of new items that add a twist to the core gunplay. Although it's still early, the most recent EMT gear and drone additions seem to have a ton of potential for squad dynamics. Not everyone on the squad is a gun whiz, and I suspect your question about finding more ways for players to have fun may come true. It's also nice when not everyone is using the exact same guns (what seems to now be the Beryl+DMR meta). The shotgun range and pistol damage (and movement) buffs were most welcome to add a bit of variety (to the detriment of assuming players). For a long time now I've tried to switch things up just for the challenge, and it's nice that there are more viable weapons. Have balances changes in the last year or so had the desired effect? Are there some concerning trends in weapon or item use? Lack of use?
3. PUBG's first iteration of building destruction in Karakin was interesting, though I've been looking for something more believable. For instance planting C4 on a static building should really level it and create convincing debris. How about with the introduction of mortars now? Are there technology limitations here or is it a conscious gameplay choice? For instance it's hard to justify picking up a panzerfaust. But what if I could blow a hole in a wall on a house in Vikendi that wasn't a predetermined cutout like on Karakin?
4. Wallbanging from Karakin was also nice, though it doesn't seem the cheap drywall "hint" is necessary and it could be applied more liberally to existing maps, such as any presumed wall made of sheetrock. Is that a potential incremental change? Infeasible? Technically challenging?

Originally posted by Delzaugh_

First off, good start of 2022! A few short questions, hope you get around to them. (Tried to not repeat questions already asked )

Q1: are you intending to keep this up for 2022? Or are we back into a long 'slumber party' period?

Q2: would a change of communication approach be considered? Staying quiet for 6 months then dropping: delay for 6 more, is not something that goes well. How about monthly Dev Blogs again? Or W.I.P. communications? ( Alex Dev's tweet of today is good example of improved approach!)

Q3: any plans to change/improve PUBG's to interact with communities. ( Pleas don't say Partners, cause most of them are extremely negative or are only out for themselves) EX: You introduced Racing mode to Partners only, who barely host events, cause they are focused on streaming. Give community a bigger voice/interaction, as that's where your playerbase lives...

Q4: Do yourself see PUBG:BG still going strong in 2 years? Or do you believe at that time, we will see the next generation of main game in the PUBG universe?

Q5: when was your Last WWCD?