{"id":11641,"date":"2018-05-09T19:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T02:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/pubg-is-getting-a-map-selection\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:17:23","slug":"pubg-is-getting-a-map-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/pubg-is-getting-a-map-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"PUBG is Getting a Map Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dims.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Players of the popular battle-royale video game, PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds, will soon be able to choose which map they want to play in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Map Selection is a feature that has been requested by fans for months. PUBG players around the world have been telling PUBG Corp to add the feature, particularly after the players made it clear that they can&#8217;t deal with Miramar and would rather play on Eragel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Back then, the developers were concerned that featuring such ability would affect the game and create problems. However, on April 19, PUBG Corp. announced that they will be adding a map selection feature to the game soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">The Map Selection will allow the player to select and deselect maps according to their preference in the pre-game lobby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In a blog post, developers explained that the feature was added as a solution for the game&#8217;s population problem, particularly for regions such as North America and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">&#8220;We created a map selection that is unlikely to cause issues for matchmaking,&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> the developers explained. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">&#8220;With that said, we\u2019ll still have to keep a close eye on it since the feature could become problematic as new maps continue to be added.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">The feature is implemented on the test servers, but the developers made it clear that the user interface may be different in the actual game. For now, as it is featured on the test servers, players can select the maps they want to play with by clicking its image in the map selection. They can also unselect the map that they don\u2019t want. When choosing two maps, the game will randomly pick one of the two each time you start a match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Since its release, PUBG\u2019s popularity continues to rise, even paving the way for other battle-royale games to be known in the industry. The game was first released on Steam via an early access beta program on March 2017 and was officially released in December of the same year for Microsoft Windows PCs, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/category\/gaming-laptops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">gaming laptops<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, XBox One, and PlayStation 4 consoles. By March 2018, the game was then introduced to mobile users with the help of Tencent Games.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players of the popular battle-royale video game, PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds, will soon be able to choose which map they want to play in. Map Selection is a feature that has been requested by fans for months. PUBG players around the world have been telling PUBG Corp to add the feature, particularly after the players made it&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/pubg-is-getting-a-map-selection\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PUBG is Getting a Map Selection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2732,2741,2724],"tags":[770,2648,4836,4602,4837,4605,4672],"class_list":["post-11641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-gaming-reviews-news","category-news","tag-cyberpowerpc","tag-gaming-laptops","tag-map-selection","tag-pubg","tag-pubg-map-selection","tag-pubg-news","tag-pubg-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16527,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions\/16527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}