Why PUBG Is Finally Adding Teammate Respawn Features

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For a long time, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds--more often just called PUBG, but oddly now redundantly named PUBG: Battlegrounds--drew a clear line in the sand between itself and the other big games in the genre it helped birth. Warzone introduced its second-chance system, the Gulag, Apex Legends has always starred hero characters with unique abilities, and Fortnite, well, you know Fortnite--it's the one with lightsabers and web-slinging.

For a long time, PUBG stayed true to itself as a gritty, slow-and-steady survival shooter that, I argue, boasts unrivaled tension even today. But more recently, PUBG has gotten more experimental and a bit looser with its realism in an apparent effort to bring popular mechanics from other battle royales into the genre's progenitor. Some maps now use a Gulag-like system to win back your right to carry on in a round, a particular backpack can protect you from Blue Zone damage for a limited time, and in the new 23.2 patch, players can now respawn allies at designated zones akin to Fortnite's Reboot Vans, Warzone's Buy Stations, or Apex Legends' Respawn Beacons.

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Using the new Recall system, players can retrieve their fallen allies' Blue Chips, then bring them to one of several Blue Chip Towers around the map to revive them and get them back into action. Enemies can even steal the Blue Chips of other teams, but may then drop them once more if or when they're eliminated. Players can also find and use Blue Chip Transmitters, allowing them to