PUBG Mobile Tops 400 Million Downloads, June PUBG Console Update Revealed

Tencent Games and PUBG Corporation have announced that PUBG Mobile has crossed 400 million downloads and 50 million daily active users mark outside China. The development comes on the heels of PUBG Mobile 0.13.0 update, which went live on Wednesday. Meanwhile PUBG Console Development team has revealed what PUBG console version gamers can expect to see in June update. The update will bring weapon mastery system, a third controller preset, and more. The June patch is scheduled to be released on June 27 PDT for Xbox One and PS4.

In an announcement for the PUBG Mobile 0.13.0 update, Tencent Games and PUBG Corporation revealed the titbit about reaching the new milestone of 400 million downloads outside China. The milestone comes less than six months after the PUBG Mobile game had surpassed 200 million downloads. While PUBG Mobile was seeing 30 million daily active users in December 2018, the number has now risen to 50 million.

According to an analyst report released earlier this week, PUBG Mobile also became the world's top grossing mobile game. It overtook Honour of Kings by raking in $146 million (roughly Rs. 1,000 crores) last month. While Play Store and App Store revenues accounted for $76 million, rest came from the Chinese version of the game “Game for Peace,” as per analytics firm Sensor Tower.

On the PUBG console version end, the game's console team on Wednesday revealed on Reddit that the game's June patch is coming soon and will bring a number of new features and enhancements.

“The next patch is currently scheduled for June 27 PDT and will introduce some highly demanded features to the console experience, including the auto-equipping of scopes, magazines and muzzle attachments, a tactical marker communications system for those players without access to mics, and a new controller layout scheme for better mobility in battle,” KooSung Jeong of PUBG's console development team wrote on Reddit.

“Vikendi and Erangel will both get loot rebalances and the highly anticipated Weapons Mastery system makes will make its debut on consoles,” Jeong added.

Here's the full changelog of the June patch for PUBG console version

• Weapons Mastery

  • New progression feature in PUBG with unique, awesome, and free rewards

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  • New avenue for players to improve their weapon skills

• Tactical Marker

  • The map now has six marker options to choose from depending on the situation

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• Second Erangel Loot Spawn Rebalance

  • Increased spawn rate of AR, DMR and SR

  • The featured map will be changed to Erangel from Sanhok with the June Update

• Vikendi Loot Spawn Rebalance

  • Blue Zone adjustment

  • Increased spawn rate of AR, DMR and SR (especially SR)

• Auto Equip Attachments

  • We understand that handling attachments with the controller can sometimes be difficult and players would sometimes avoid early combat due to having insufficient time to equip attachments

  • To solve for this, we created an auto equip attachment feature to reduce time when equipping needed attachments. Less time in your inventory means more time for battle!

• Controller Preset C

  • Like the above auto equip feature, we are focusing on improving overall player experience during battles

  • On the controller, leaning is configured to thumbsticks and we understand it can sometimes affect your movement and aim

  • Controller Preset C moves the bindings of leaning from the thumbsticks to the bumper buttons, as well as making a number of other suggested changes.