History VideoGame / PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds

* PaletteSwap: With the introduction of the "Specter Slayer Set" in PUBG Mobile's A-series Royal Pass, players with enough pearlescent cards were able to change the palette of this set into many popular superhero colors ranging from Spiderman, Iron Man, and even Deadpool. Afterwards, many players had fun customizing the colors of these sets in subsequent royal passes.

* CoolGuns: The R1895 is a unique Russian revolver that, along with being one of the oldest firearms featured in the game, can be fitted with a suppressor. [[ShownTheirWork Just like in real life.]]

** Going to battle wearing only underwear might increase your survival chance especially early on, due to the skin color and underwear color blending in with the world.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: ''Game For Peace'', which is basically modded (some players reported that their profile carried over) and reskinned ''PUBG Mobile'' for China only. All bullet impact is replaced with plasma impact, defeated enemies willingly give their items in a crate and then wave at you before disappearing, Chinese airshow in the menu and escorting the transport plane... Supposedly ''Game For Peace'' was made because Tencent was frustrated that their ''PUBG Mobile'' was refused approval for monetization. ''Game For Peace'' (later in late 2020 retitled to ''Peacekeeper Elite'') since then has all but replaced ''PUBG Mobile'' in China.

* TheMoralSubstitute: To comply with demands from the Chinese government, Tencent released a version of PUBG titled ''Game For Peace'', which is [[{{Bowdlerize}} less bloody]] and more patriotic, paying tribute to the Chinese air force.

''[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt PlayerUnknown's]] Battlegrounds'' (often shortened to ''PUBG'' and since 2021, often officially titled as such) is a popular [[BattleRoyaleGame last-man-standing online shooter]] developed by the eponymous PUBG Corporation, a subsidiary of ''Videogame/{{TERA}}'' creators Bluehole Studios (as of 2019, Krafton Game Union) of Korea. While the "core" version of the game is currently only available on PC via Steam, official editions with slightly different content are also available on Xbox One, [=PlayStation=] 4, iOS, and Android, with the mobile versions handled by Creator/TencentGames' Lightspeed & Quantum development team.

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''[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt PlayerUnknown's]] Battlegrounds'' (often shortened to ''PUBG'') is a popular [[BattleRoyaleGame last-man-standing online shooter]] developed by the eponymous PUBG Corporation, a subsidiary of ''Videogame/{{TERA}}'' creators Bluehole Studios (as of 2019, Krafton Game Union) of Korea. While the "core" version of the game is currently only available on PC via Steam, official editions with slightly different content are also available on Xbox One, [=PlayStation=] 4, iOS, and Android, with the mobile versions handled by Creator/TencentGames' Lightspeed & Quantum development team.

''[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt PlayerUnknown's]] Battlegrounds'' (often shortened to ''PUBG'') is a popular [[BattleRoyaleGame last-man-standing online shooter]] developed by the eponymous PUBG Corporation, a subsidiary of ''Videogame/{{TERA}}'' creators Bluehole Studios (as of 2019, Krafton Game Union). While the "core" version of the game is currently only available on PC via Steam, official editions with slightly different content are also available on Xbox One, [=PlayStation=] 4, iOS, and Android, with the mobile versions handled by Creator/TencentGames' Lightspeed & Quantum development team.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: ''Game For Peace'', which is basically modded (some players reported that their profile carried over) and reskinned ''PUBG Mobile'' for China only. All bullet impact is replaced with plasma impact, defeated enemies willingly give their items in a crate and then wave at you before disappearing, Chinese airshow in the menu and escorting the transport plane... Supposedly ''Game For Peace'' was made because Tencent was frustrated that their ''PUBG Mobile'' was refused approval for monetization. ''Game For Peace'' since then has all but replaced ''PUBG Mobile'' in China.

* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: Quite possibly the first time this trope has ever used a creator's Internet screenname rather than their real name or a conventional pseudonym. Considering Greene couldn't legally use the name of the original mod, or even an acronym like ''VideoGame/{{Dota 2}}'' did, he had to do ''something'' to make it clear that this is the real deal, not one of the several imitators that had already sprung up.

''Battlegrounds'' currently has five maps in regular rotation: a massive 8x8 km [[{{Ruritania}} Russian island]] called Erangel; a sprawling 8x8 km [[SouthOfTheBorder Mexican desert region]] known as Miramar; a small 4x4 km [[HolidayInCambodia southeastern]] [[EastIndies Asian]] island named Sanhok; a medium-sized 6x6 km European [[WinterWarfare winter-themed]] map named Vikendi, a tiny 2x2 [[{{Qurac}} North African]] island named Karakin and an 8x8 grand South Korean rural peninsula called Taego. An additional training map called Camp Jackal was added in 2018.

* SoftGlass: In both senses of the word -- you can smash through a window by ''calmly climbing through it''.
* SoftWater: Zigzagged; you can survive a long fall if you land in water, but jump out of a boat moving at top speed, and you're dead the moment you hit the water. It is also realistically bullet-resistant, especially for higher calibers.

* ThirstyDesert: Downplayed with Miramar. Most of the map is desert, befitting of the Latin American region it takes place in, but there are bodies of water within it, and coastline makes up much of the map's southern border. Karakin has similar geography; surrounded by the sea with several small oases dotting the play area.
* TitleDrop: A partial one; in Season 4's cinematic trailer, just as it closes, the man running the game calls it his Battlegrounds.

** Melee weapons are fairly useless once guns are found, and while equipping a pan can also save your life, this is the least realistic aspect out of all melee weapons as in real-life frying pans are not rated to stop bullets, especially not high-powered rifle rounds.
** Helmets only protect the parts of your face they physically cover. While the level 3 helmet has an armored visor, Level 1 and 2 helmets don't, so a shot to the face is generally still a one-hit kill.

** On a related note, the [=Kar98k=] rifle has been rechambered for the generic 7.62 round to avoid having to add its own unique ammo (7.92x57mm Mauser) into the game. In a case of AluminumChristmasTrees, many post-war users of this German rifle, particularly those that don't have any other weapons chambered for that round (eg. Israel), had them rechambered for 7.62x51mm NATO.