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"PUBG" Just Received The 4.3 Update & Survival Mastery
PUBG Corp. announced this morning the latest additions to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with the 4.3 update, as well as adding Survival Mastery. The update itself adds in a double-barrelled, pump-action, DBS shotgun to crate drops, which holds 14 shells and can do two shots per second. This is basically their way of getting close-quarters combat over within the late game. New challenges and bug fixes have also been added, which you can read more about here. As for Survival Mastery, we have more details about that below.
New Feature: Survival Mastery
"Develop your not-so-killer instincts."
We are excited to introduce the Survival Mastery system, where players can develop their less-than-lethal aspects of PUBG gameplay. This companion system to Weapon Mastery, which allows players to progress their skill in gunplay, will also introduce new ways for players to express their personalities on the Battlegrounds with new rewards and PUBG ID.
- Survival Mastery is a new progression system where players increase levels by gaining XP based on the players' survival patterns.
- The system operates all the time without being affected by seasons. The Level cap for Survival Mastery is 500.
- Players can earn XP in the following situations:
- Looting
- Using items during combat
- Combat
- Reviving a teammate
Match summary timeline
- The match summary timeline recaps all survival actions performed in a match
- Players can check survival actions they have performed in their previous match in a timeline sequence from Mastery > Last Match Tab
- The activities below will be shown in the timeline, along with other XP earning activities.
- Landing point
- Location where players perform certain actions
- Damage dealt and received
- Distance a player travels using vehicles
- Surviving Blue Zone phases
Survival style showing players' playstyle
- In Mastery > Survival tab, players can check their recent survival playstyle from the analysis of all players' data.
- Survival style tracks your recent playstyle by analyzing data of all the players playing PUBG. It includes the following information:
- Average engagement length
- Average engagement distance
- Items looted per game
- Distance traveled per game
- Hot drop rate
- Damage taken per game
- The 3 most prominent of these traits will be displayed