PUBG: Battlegrounds is a very different game to the one we first set eyes on five years ago and its latest map, Deston, is a clear of example of that change. With high rise buildings, new traversal mechanics, and several biomes in play, Deston, which was first pitched four years ago, is the 8x8km map players have long been asking for. However, while the general reveal of the map went down well with the majority of the player base, there was one new gadget shown that had people turning their heads for the wrong reason.
In PUBG lore, every combatant is tagged with a blue chip so that they can be tracked at all times. In Deston, this is taken to a new level with the addition of a Bluechip Detector, which allows players to see the proximate location of nearby enemies. It acts a little bit like a Heartbeat Sensor, but unlike Call of Duty Warzone, this little gadget isn't a stable part of the meta - and players are understandably concerned about its inclusion.
However, studio head Dave Curd tells The Loadout that the Bluechip Detector won't be as overpowered as it looks. "We understand that the initial reveal of the Blue Chip Detector may sound and look overpowered, but there are drawbacks," he says. "Due to the delay in detection, it does not display the opponents' position in real-time and when used in urban districts, it does not show the opponent's exact vertical position, either."
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Chicken-loving battle royale PUBG: Battlegrounds is adding its ninth map today, the near-future and ecologically compromised Deston. There’s plenty of fancy features in the new map such as ascenders to zip you up the side of its skyscrapers, and areas that only drones can get to. Sit back on your favourite airboat and glimpse the only slightly terrifying fate that awaits us all in the trailer below.
PUBG: Battlegrounds fans have long been waiting to get their hands on Deston, the new 8x8km map hitting the game today. Fans have known about the map, codenamed Kiki, for little over a year now - but the idea was actually conceived around four years ago, around the same time as Sanhok.
"We've been wanting to make a high rise map forever," PUBG's creative director Dave Curd tells The Loadout. "I remember pitching both Sanhok and a downtown style map almost four years ago. Haven was our first swing at the idea and it gave us a lot of key learnings."
But Deston is a world apart from Haven. While size is the obvious differentiator here - Deston is eight times bigger - the map has several different biomes, from vertical sprawling cities to rolling hills and dense swamps. It's been designed to not only as "combat contrasts" to force players to switch their playstyle up mid match, but as a way of ensuring that the final circle - wherever it lands - offers something different every time you play.
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