PUBG - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Dev Tracker

Could have been so much ice cream.

I'll be honest, there's no pleasing everyone, but I always try to hear them out. I look at negative comments and try to find valuable information out of them. Doing so requires practice and I've had to develop a thicker skin throughout my career.

I love me some positive comments. If you're one of those people who leaves simple, positive comments when you don't have to - Absolute rock stars.

People who leave constructive, well thought out comments - also rock stars. I read through all of those. I find the best constructive comments tend to be the ones that talk about the experience rather than how to fix the experience.

Glad you're having a great time with the remaster. Definitely going to be catching some streams later to see how the map is playing.

Let's see how it goes- if people love it, I think anything is possible!

It's gonna be a cruel Summer...

Play them map, earn the skins- but as they say... 'WAIT, THERE'S MORE"...

I'm really excited to see it- we've really considered their feedback (overpowered big mountain/tough rivers), so I'm absolutely pumped to see it get there one day.

"Fans First" is one of our 4 pillars- so yes, we're interested in what our fans want to see, and of course, we're all following our own creative muses.

I think it's okay that we're seeing cross pollination between BR games- it's a wide genre now. If creators weren't remixing/improving each others ideas, we'd still be stuck on vanilla team deathmatch!

Make bad games, and if it's fun, keep going until they are good games.

It's very simple: first we ask "what do we want to achieve/what's the desired gameplay?" And then, we draw the rest of the owl.

I think if the glider doesn't totally break Sanhok, it stands a chance of getting into Vikendi. I think it feels fun, but let's see what yall think! (that's the beauty of a live game: things can go in, things can come out)

My task was to identify the opportunities to change/improve the map, design some town layouts, and work with our other talented developers to establish the features/lore for the season. I'm also lucky enough to work with amazing designers and artists- so lots of meetings/feedback with them, and lots of late night meetings with the mothership in Seoul! =)

Clearly my childhood is leaking into my designs.

I don't want to get too in depth into exactly how the truck works as I believe players should explore and experience the new content.

What I will say is that the Trucks have routes that they can take, but in the interest of keeping gameplay dynamic and "no two games the same", the Trucks can make decisions about paths they'll take along their routes.

As a Designer, I get this question a lot from both high school and college age people.

My honest advice is to continue to develop your passion for games. Play video games, play board games, play weird stuff you make up on the spot with your friends. Analyze it, find the fun, try some different house rules and see if you can make an experience that many people can enjoy.

Grab opportunities where they present themselves in terms of education for yourself. I took programming, math, and art classes in Highschool which helped to develop the fundamentals that I use today.

I also dabbled a lot in level editors building my own MP maps in Unreal when I was in college. I think with something like modding or building your own content it can feel a bit overwhelming in the beginning.

My advice is to start small in scope. Don't try to build an entire game straight out of the gates. Start with maybe modifying weapons or creating a small building based on re...

One of my favorite games of all time is Shadow of the Colossus, and specifically how they incorporated their level design into the different challenges.

Some of the maps that stick out in my mind are Office from Counter Strike, Terminal from MW2, Oasis from Overwatch, and The Longest Yard from Quake 3 Arena. This is by no means an exhaustive list though haha I enjoy a lot of other games in my spare time.

Our overcast weather type has a really nice rain effect that can happen at times.

It's actually pretty soothing, and I've definitely caught myself drifting off of focus at random times haha

The Loot Truck moves faster than a player running; so, you'll have to make use of your window of opportunity as the Loot Truck drives by.

One of my favorite things to do in playtests, though I admit extremely risky, is to chase one down in a vehicle.

There's nothing quite like going on a Mad Max chase through the Sanhok countryside on a motorcycle while your teammate is brandishing a Panzerfaust for some big damage.

With maps these large, we start with a generated topography making sure that we're hitting our goals for fitting the look and general design that we're going for. From there, we heavily modify the terrain to adjust to our unique locations, house sets, or map features that we want to highlight.

We always consider sight lines, cover, and concealment when making adjustments to these spaces. We strive to make fun spaces that look great and feel fair to fight in.

Originally we had talked about the Loot Truck playing loud music to notify players that it was nearby; which I call the "ice cream truck" effect, but we determined that the sound was too disruptive for combat and gameplay. We ended up cutting this part of the feature.

Sanhok is already a more aggressive map in the rotation; so, we wanted to play off of that concept and create some points of conflict that were dynamic. Originally, we had talked about making "public airdrops" which would be identified on the minimap and having players fight over them.

The more we talked about the idea though, the more we rejected it because we felt we were too close to normal airdrops and starting to step too far outside of the PUBG DNA.

Riffing off that idea though, we talked about a roaming loot pinata and how interesting it could be to chase the pinata or engage it if you felt the opportunity presented itself. The more we discussed it, the more we liked how it fit the PUBG world and the lore behind the Sanhok map itself.