PUBG FAQ: File Editing Now Banned

Recently, the incredibly popular multiplayer shooter, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds set the record for most concurrent users on Steam , breaking the streak of the Valve-developed game, Dota 2 . At the time, the Early Access title hit 1,342,857 players, while the MOBA reached 1,295,114. Well, it seems that count is still climbing and has now reached 1,523,179 million concurrent us


Let me say that again: Bluehole expected within its first year on the market, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds would ship at best 300,000 units. It has already sold 10 million in less than six months. Again, cr


PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been getting a lot of coverage lately, Pubgplayground.Com and rightly so. Besides being one of the most popular games on Steam , PUBG will launch on concoles first on Xbox One , and has a new gun on the way. Today, several screenshots showing off the game's upcoming foggy weather mechanic were released and they the impact it's going to have isn't hard to


For the time being, though, there seems to be other priorities. Greene mentioned a few specifics, like a nighttime setting, something which fans have been requesting for quite a while. He teased that this is already being prototyped, and apparently players will be "surprised at how good it loo


Speaking to fans on Reddit during an AMA, Greene stated that he'd be very interested in pursuing a single-player campaign for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in the future. "I think the island we have could be a great location for an interesting story," said the develo

Recently, we learned that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds ' publisher Bluehole only expected the game to sell a mere 200,000 or 300,000 copies in its first year. The game had been released for only five months when it was announced to have sold more than 10 million copies through Steam Early Access.

Green shared another one of his loftier aspirations also. When asked about the potential for destructible environments to be added to the game, he said that he "would like to add more destruction," but noted that it would take its toll on server performance, so that would have to be taken into acco
This information was first spotted by reddit user Defying , when the question was asked whether it was considered acceptable to edit configuration files. In response to the question, Bluehole responded by stating the following:


Again, this is no small feat for the development team. The nighttime setting requires plenty of work in its own right, and won't be ready to go live for some time. Still, it's an intriguing glimpse into the future of the game, and a good sign that the studio is listening to player feedb


The screenshots, which you can check out below, are just a teaser for the game's next big update. Patch notes for this update will be released tomorrow. The screenshots themselves show how foggy weather will impact vision in forests, fields, and in city stre


An online experience like Battlegrounds needs to play well to keep players satisfied. When server lag reared its head earlier this summer, the team at Bluehole stayed up all night until they were able to fix the problem a distribute a pa


The question now is: where does PUGB go from here? Well, when you consider that it only broke the 1 million concurrent player threshold less than eight days ago, which means it grew a very healthy 35% since, it could and should continue to rise. Which poses another question: where does it peak? 1,500,000 seems doable. 2,000,000? Maybe? Who knows. Only time will t

"No, editing any game files to gain an unfair advantage is against the Rules of Conduct. This includes changing any game configuration files to result in changes that cannot be made via the in-game settings menu."

In case you were wondering, editing a configuration file in your copy of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds could result in getting banned from the game, according to a change that was made on the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds FAQ page.


However, that doesn't mean such a mode is going to be added in the near future, or indeed ever. Greene noted that the team at Bluehole Studio simply don't have the time and resources required to do a campaign justice — although that's not to say that this will always be the c


PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is undoubtedly one of the biggest releases of 2017, coming from nowhere in recent weeks to pass Dota 2 's concurrent Steam user record . Now, Brendan Greene, the man behind the title, has shared some of his biggest aspirations for the fut


PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is currently in Early Access and available for PC through Steam for $29.99. The game is set to launch in 2018. An Xbox One version will be available sometime this year through its Game Preview program. Although developer Bluehole Studios only expected the title to ship only 200,000 to 300,000 units , it substantially surpassed those numbers and has sold over 10 million copies since debut