PUBG’s 21.2 update adds a new way for players to die

Things are getting frosty

Marco Wutz | Jan 30, 2023

PUBG’s 21.2 update adds a new way for players to die /

Welcome to PUBG: Battlegrounds’ update 21.2, which has added an additional way for you to die in the battle royale game – not only can you perish in a fiery explosion, a hail of bullets, a wave of toxic gas, your own incompetence, and countless other circumstances, now you can also freeze to death. At least it’s a more peaceful way to go, huh?

This brand-new way of leaving behind your meaningless mortal shell is brought to you by the Blizzard Zone, a new natural phenomenon seen on Vikendi. Well, “see” is relative. While you will be able to very easily identify this dangerous area by the giant column of whirling snow and ice that’s widely visible, once you’re inside the zone, vision becomes a bit of a luxury.

A soldier looks at a giant snow storm. — As you can imagine, entering this area is not very pleasant / KRAFTON

Entering the Blizzard Zone will slow you down, damage you constantly, hinder your vision as well as your hearing – the wind’s howling in there, to quote a famous philosopher –, and make vehicle control a great deal harder. Covering a large part of Vikendi, this dangerous area changes things a lot when you play this map, especially as you’re being rewarded for braving the storm. Inside the Blizzard Zone, a secret room full of high-tier loot is waiting. You just need to find the security key to open it.

There are a few additional things changing gameplay on Vikendi in this latest update, such as three new repair kits – one for helmets, one for armor, and one for vehicles. After all, you don’t want the blizzard to shred your equipment and leave you standing in the snow naked. Taego’s multidrops have also been added to Vikendi, bringing much needed supplies and loot.

Vikendi is not the only map gaining substantial updates, though. Sanhok now features ascenders at the Cave POI as well as other rocky areas, easing the ascent. The developers were also busy building some bridges to connect the northwest island and east island as well as northwest island and southwest island. A few cliff areas have been expanded with sand beaches to make traversing the areas easier.

Update 21.2 for PUBG: Battlegrounds is now out on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, you can find the full patch notes on the official website.

Published Jan 30, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg