PUBG ditches its Red Bull energy drink lookalike on PC

PUBG‘s latest PC update has removed the Red Bull energy drink lookalike for one that doesn’t potentially infringe upon copyright.

Here’s what the new drink can looks like (thanks to Polygon):

In addition to the can change, the update contains a number of tweaks and fixes, as below:

World

• Added more objects around La Bendita on Miramar to increase the amount of cover

Gameplay

• Reduced the visible distance when parachuting down in order to test the optimization of server and client performance at the early phases of the game

Item

• Changed the design of the energy drink

UI/UX

• Adjusted the squad team colors (players 1~4) to better reflect their callout names (yellow, orange, blue, green)
• Adjusted squad team colors to make them more consistent between different colorblind options
• Added a function where a player can select more detailed criteria for the “Cheating” category in the in-game report tool
• You can choose multiple items or you can just report without selecting any of them

Replays

• While player’s nameplate is on (H key), now you can check the current weapon of that player by pressing G key
• Added report button in replay
• Report button pops up when pressing RMB on the player list (TAB key)
• While observing / following mode, report button appears on the timeline (J key)
• Added a care package icon changing effect according to the status
• The icon will be different when the care package is falling and looted by other players
• Adjusted replay system so that now a player can watch the replay without extra delay in the following cases
• Solo mode
  • When the player won the match
  • When all teammates are eliminated

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the issue where when a player lands from the plane the position of character teleports intermittently
• Fixed the issue where character animation is frozen when rejoining after a crash
• Fixed the issue where the red zone disappears instantly after it formed
• Fixed the issue where some vehicles spawned on Miramar are stuck to an object and unable to move
• Fixed the issue where a player sometimes couldn’t pass through a door even though it was open
• Fixed the issue where mouse cursor would disappear on a replay map
• Fixed the issue where when replay and death cam were played, the crosshair was bouncing
• Fixed the issue where the falling speed meter text was showing abnormally in Portuguese

New Contents

• Added two new crates (free / paid)
• You can open the paid crate box with the Early Bird key which is purchasable in Steam market
• In order to test the stability, 100,000 BP and 6 keys will be granted to each account (test server only)

PUBG is available as a full release on Windows PC and via early access on Xbox One.