This week’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds PC patch has rolled out on test servers.

The update brings the first weapon skins to PUBG, which were among the promised additions first teased in the 2018 roadmap. The new weapon skins also come with a change to the UI, and you’ll be able to equip them under the customisation menu.

There are two ways of acquiring weapon skins, and both involve crates. The new crates are called Triumph, and Raider. The former is a paid crate that can only be unlocked with a Weapon Cosmetic Key, while the latter is free.

The Triumph crate joins the other crates in the drop pool, so you could end up with one when making a BP purchase. It has a 20% drop rate. Interestingly, you will be able to directly buy a Raider crate using BP.

Outside of the new additions, PUBG Corp. announced that it’s testing a new, sort-of-region-lock feature. The new system will only show players the server in their region, or the one they’re closest to. Players can jump on out-of-region servers only when they’re in a party with a player residing in that region.

The patch is live now on test servers, and will be hitting live servers following four hours of maintenance later today/early morning tomorrow. Servers go down at 7pm PT, 10pm ET, 3am UK (March 27).

Check out all patch notes below.

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Lobby

KR/JP joint server is now separated into KR server and JP server

Leaderboard for both KR Server and JP server are added

KR/JP players will be able to see and play on the server for their respective regions

Those who can see neither KR sever, nor JP server, can only play in KR/JP server if they team up with a player who can see KR/JP server

Weapon skin system

Players can select skins for each weapon

Each weapon category is arranged in alphabetical order

Weapons can be categorised as: acquired: arranged in chronological order of acquisition, equipped: arranged in chronological order of last time equipped, tier: arranged according to skin tier (descending order)

You can check details about the equipped skin using VIEW MORE button

You can use weapons section in customisation menu to equip the skin of your choice

ou can acquire weapon skins either through paid crate Triumph crate, which is a weekly random crate or Raider crate, which is a free non-random crate

New crate drop rates

New free/paid weapon skin crates are added

We will be providing 100,000 BP, 20x Weapon Cosmetic keys, 20x Early Bird keys, 10x Triumph Crates to all test accounts to test the stability of the system

New paid crate Triumph is a weekly random crate, and the drop rate is 20%

Triumph Crate can be unlocked using Weapon Cosmetic Key, which can be purchased through Steam market

There are 2 rare bonus sets that can also be an acquired alongside single skins

Survivor: 10%

Wanderer: 10%

Biker: 20%

Desperado: 10%

Militia: 20%

Fever: 10%

Triumph: 20%

Triumph crate skin drop rates

Rugged (Beige) – SKS: 20%

Rugged (Beige) – M16A4: 20%

Rugged (Beige) – Crossbow: 20%

Rugged (Beige) – S686: 20%

Rugged (Beige) – Kar98k: 6.5%

Rugged (Beige) – S12K: 6.5%

Silver Plate – R1895: 3%

Silver Plate – DP-28: 1.4%

Jungle Digital – P18C: 1.4%

Silver Plate – S1897: 0.4%

Jungle Digital – SKS: 0.28%

Silver Plate – Vector: 0.28%

Turquoise Delight – P1911: 0.08%

Silver Plate – SCAR-L: 0.05%

Jungle Digital – AWM: 0.05%

Turquoise Delight – Tommy Gun: 0.028%

Turquoise Delight – Kar98k: 0.0128%

Turquoise Delight – M16A4: 0.0128%

Gold Plate – S686: 0.0064%

Raider crate skin drop rates

Rugged (Beige) – Crossbow: 20%

Rugged (Beige) – M16A4: 20%

Rugged (Beige) – S686: 20%

Rugged (Beige) – SKS: 20%

Rugged (Beige) – Kar98k: 6.5%

Rugged (Beige) – S12K: 6.5%

Silver Plate – R1895: 3%

Jungle Digital – P18C: 1.4%

Silver Plate – DP-28: 1.4%

Silver Plate – S189: 0.4%

Jungle Digital – SKS: 0.28%

Silver Plate – Vector: 0.28%

Turquoise Delight – P1911: 0.08%

Jungle Digital – AWM: 0.05%

Silver Plate – SCAR-L: 0.05%

Turquoise Delight – Tommy Gun: 0.028%

Turquoise Delight – Kar98k: 0.0128%

Turquoise Delight – M16A4: 0.0128%

Gold Plate – S686: 0.0064%

Bug fixes