PUBG now lets you bring friends back from the dead
PUBG: Battlegrounds is changing the rules around player deaths in the battle royale, bringing a new revive system to the game called Recall. The mechanic will let players respawn a dead teammate, and will help “alleviate the sense of frustration felt upon death during team play,” PUBG: Battlegrounds developer PUBG Studios says.
PUBG Studios is also bringing official clan support to PUBG: Battlegrounds with patch 23.2.
PUBG: Battlegrounds’ new Recall system is mostly straightforward, and comes with the necessary amount of risk and rarity that such an impactful change warrants. Here’s how it works: Players need to acquire an item called the Blue Chip dropped by a player’s deathbox in order to revive them. They then need to take that chip to a Blue Chip Tower location, or use a rare item called a Transmitter, in order to Recall their dead teammate back to the battlefield. Players can snatch enemies’ Blue Chips from a deathbox to prevent them from being respawned.
Recall is initially limited to PUBG: Battlegrounds’ larger maps: Erangel, Miramar, and Deston. The full breakdown of rules related to Recall, Blue Chip Towers, and Transmitters can be read in Krafton’s official patch notes. The feature goes fully live on PC on May 17 and on consoles on May 25.
The other major feature in patch 23.2 is Clans, which offers PUBG: Battlegrounds players a new level progression system. Up to 100 players can join a clan, which offers XP and Battle Points (BP) bonuses when playing with clanmates. Starting a clan requires Plus Status and costs 15,000 BP, but joining one is effectively free.
In an email interview with PUBG Studios production directors Taehyun Kim and Sangkyun Kim, the developers explained more about the impact of Recall and
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