Fortnite can run on a potato and PUBG knows it.
The folks behind PUBG are currently testing a new version of the game known as PUBG Lite. This new version is designed to run on lower spec machines. Oh, and it will be free.
It’s a smart move, although I would have liked the standard PUBG to have been better designed on the backend. The game is a beast to get running on high, even on bleeding edge gaming PCs. Just look at the Xbox One version that was nearly unplayable on the standard Xbox One .
But PUBG never really had to worry, and as the game grew the team just kept doing the bare minimum. Then Fortnite came around offering a free game that can run on anything. PUBG has been playing catchup ever since.
What’s interesting with PUBG Lite is that it’s going to be a completely standalone game and have it’s own dedicated development team. This leads me to believe that the original PUBG simply can’t be fixed to make it work better on more machines. That code must be a mess.
Having a free PUBG experience that runs on more machines is a smart move, but one that could divide the community. What sort of focus is going to be put on the game and what will the future of the original PUBG face?
I can easily see the free PUBG Lite quickly surpassing the paid PUBG. There is already some precedence for this as hardly anyone plays or talks about the original paid Fortnite, with development on that title either dead or so really, really slow.
Check out the new specs for PUBG Lite below:
Minimum system requirements
- OS: Windows 7/8/10, 64-bit
- CPU: Intel Core i3 2.4GHz
- RAM: 4GB
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
- HDD: 4GB
Recommended
- OS: Windows 7/8/10, 64-bit
- CPU: Intel Core i5 2.8GHz
- RAM: 8GB
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7870
- HDD: 4GB
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