PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS News

• Weekend Check-In First Week Period (PC & Console)
  • PST : January 21, 2022, 12 AM – January 22, 2022 11:59 PM
  • CET : January 21, 2022, 9 AM – January 23, 2022 8:59 AM
  • KST : January 21, 2022, 5 PM – January 23, 2022 4:59 PM
• Weekend Check-In Second Week Period (PC & Console)
  • PST : January 28, 2022, 12 AM – January 29, 2022, 11:59 PM
  • CET : January 28, 2022, 9 AM – January 30, 2022, 8:59 AM
  • KST : January 28, 2022, 5 PM – January 30, 2022, 4:59 PM

• Weekly Check-In Period to obtain Orbital Vanguard “Cadet Green” (PC & Console)
  • PST : January 20, 2022, 4 PM – January 27, 2022, 3:59 PM
  • CET : January 21, 2022, 1 AM – January 27, 2022, 12:59 AM
  • KST : January 21, 2022, 9 AM – January 27, 2022, 8:59 AM 
• Weekly Check-In Period to obtain Orbital Vanguard “Cadet Pink” (PC & Console) 
  • PST : January 27, 2022, 4 PM – February 3, 2022, 3:59 PM
  • CET : January 28, 2022, 1 AM – February 3, 2022, 12:59 AM
  • KST : January 28, 2022, 9 AM – February 3, 2022, 8:59 AM 
• Weekly Check-In Period to obtain Orbital Vanguard “Cadet Yellow” (PC & Console) 
  • PST : February 3, 2022, 4 PM – February 10, 2022, 3:59 PM
  • CET : February 4, 2022, 1 AM – February 10, 2022, 12:59 AM
  • KST : February 4, 2022, 9 AM – February 10, 2022, 8:59 AM 
• Weekly Check-In Period to obtain Orbital Vanguard “Cadet Blue” (PC & Console) 
  • PST : February 10, 2022, 4 PM – February 17, 2022, 3:59 PM
  • CET : February 11, 2022, 1 AM – February 17, 2022, 12:59 AM
  • KST : February 11, 2022, 9 AM – February 17, 2022, 8:59 AM

• Players may participate in each event only once per account.
• Players can press the Check-In Dinner Event banner in the lobby to enter the official event website.
• Players must press the “Join Event” button to participate in the events and receive rewards.
  • This is a crucial step for your check-ins to actually count.
• Players’ check ins will be counted when players’ cumulative Survival Time of their check-in day totals at least 1 hour.
  
  
  The Survival Time in Normal Matches, Ranked Matches, and Casual Mode will be counted.
  • We are currently fixing a PC issue where the playtime on AI Training Matches is being counted.
  • Therefore, please keep in mind that the AI Training Match playtime will not be officially counted for the check-in event.
  • The Survival Time in Normal Matches, Ranked Matches, and Casual Mode will be counted.
• PC (Steam), PlayStation®, and Xbox platform users are eligible to join the check-in events.
• Players will be able to see their check-in progress and collected rewards after signing in to the official event website.
• The obtained rewards will be automatically granted to players’ Inventories.

Do you need a PUBG guide? Now that the popular battle royale game has gone free-to-play there will be plenty of newcomers who are unfamiliar with PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Although, maybe you've been playing for years and just can't quite capture that grand victory. Either way, we've got some top PUBG tips to help you succeed.

With its numerous maps and weighty gunplay reminiscent of a military sim (which isn't surprising, considering this started life as an Arma 3 mod), new players face an almighty learning curve en route to their first chicken dinner. Once on the ground you will have to scramble together as much loot as you can find, make it to the randomly designated, constantly shrinking safe zone and duke it out with everyone else until you're the last survivor.

Knowing the maps, tools of the trade, and some general PUBG tips and tricks will help you edge your way closer and closer to that esteemed rank #1 spot. So, whether you're struggling to take down enemies over long distances, or you want to know which guns to look out for when looting, we've got you covered.

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PUBG: Battlegrounds - the game formerly known as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - still holds the record for the biggest concurrent player count ever registered on Steam. It remains one of the biggest games on the platform, but it's nowhere near those early heights, even after going free-to-play. That's just a question of perspective, though, as the newly-relaunched game has reached well over a half-million concurrent players.

After its free-to-play launch today, PUBG reached a peak concurrent player count of 668,706, as SteamDB shows. That makes it the second-biggest game on Steam today (just behind Counter-Strike: Global Offensive), and would make it the sixth-biggest Steam game of all time, behind New World, Cyberpunk 2077, Dota 2, CS:GO, and, er, itself.

PUBG previously hit a peak of 3,257,248 players in January 2018, shortly after its 1.0 launch. That remains an astronomical, seemingly-untouchable record on Steam. Only three other Steam games - Cyberpunk, Dota, and CS:GO - have topped a million players, and PUBG is the only game to top two million, much less three.

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Earlier today, PUBG: Battlegrounds went fully free-to-play - and the effects are already being felt. While we can't see any data on how it's performing on consoles just yet, its Steam player count has increased significantly.

According to data from Steam Charts, PUBG's player count quickly surpassed the peaks of the days leading up to the free-to-play update and has climbed to a peak of 667,000 players today. This is the highest that PUBG's Steam player count has been for since May 2020.

PUBG's shift to a free-to-play model brings it in line with some of its main battle royale rivals, such as Call of Duty Warzone and Apex Legends. All players will now be able to get a Basic PUBG account for free, which grants you access to most of the game's content. Existing players that had previously bought the game have been automatically upgraded to a BATTLEGROUNDS Plus account, which has access to all content and the game's ranked mode. New players can pay a one-time fee of $12.99 to upgrade to a Battlegrounds Plus account if they want to try and climb the PUBG ranks.

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