The spooky season is beckoning, which means we're starting to hear about the Halloween-style events developers are cooking up for the biggest and best PC games this year. One of the first we've heard about for 2021 is coming to (the newly rebranded) PUBG Battlegrounds, with some suitably spooky makeovers of the battle royale game's base map, Erangel, on the way.
"Trick or treat! It's that season of the year again. To maximise the Halloween vibes, we have finished decorating some parts of Erangel," Krafton announces in the PUBG patch 14.1 test server notes. The map's school, hospital, and starting island areas have been given a Halloween-flavoured makeover ready for this year's most spine-chilling of days. There's a new themed weather that brings "unique moon colour and fog in certain areas", which applies to PUBG's normal and custom match game modes. With the changes, the chance of getting Halloween-style weather is now 30%.
Elsewhere, you'll find care package smoke colours have been changed to "Halloween colours" - presumably bright orange, black, and that kind of thing - as well as mummy coffins scattered around the three areas mentioned above. The game's lobby has also been updated with a Halloween theme on the test servers.
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