PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Admits They've 'Fallen Short' In Communication; Talks About Development Plans

Since PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds officially launched in December, the dev team hasn’t exactly been Johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to addressing player complaints and communicating with the community. A fact that PUBG Corp freely admitted to in a dev letter recently posted on the game's Steam Community Page.

“Although we’ve made some meaningful improvements to PUBG, we’ve fallen short in other ways. Players have rightfully called us out for failing to address complaints about performance, and recently we haven’t done the best job of communicating about the changes we’re making to the game. Today we want to change that by talking in-depth about the things we’re prioritizing. We’ll also tease some of upcoming content we plan to add to the game.”

So, what’s keeping the devs busy? “We look at feedback from players around the world when determining our priorities,” says the devs. “We’ve heard your voices, and as a result we believe that the biggest issues which deserve our attention are performance, server-side optimization, and cheating.”

“Cheating is the area where we’ve made the most progress in recent months. We’ve introduced a variety of encryption based solutions to make it harder for hackers to exploit vulnerabilities. We’ve also banned hundreds of thousands of cheaters’ accounts and refined the process by which we identify cheaters—most cheaters are now banned within hours of using an exploit. We’ve also begun taking serious legal action against the people responsible for creating hacks and cheats.”

Players can also look forward a new Southeast Asian-inspired map called Sanhok. Sanhok will feature new weapons and vehicles including PUBG’s version of Bangkok’s Tuk-Tuk called the Tukshai. The map is currently in testing and is scheduled to go live in June. You’ll find screenshots of the new map down below.