PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds gets 3D voice positioning

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting a new voice technology that could help give players better positional awareness. The Battle Royale shooter is massively successful, but many of its 10 million owners still struggle to figure out how to convey information about their positions and enemy movement to their teammates. Bluehole Studio announced today that the developer is introducing Vivox’s positional 3D audio for voice communications in Battlegrounds.

With Vivox, a person next to your right ear in the game will sound like they are that close when they speak. If another teammate is in the distance behind you, you’ll hear that as well. The idea is to introduce more realism to Battlegrounds, but this will also provide important tactical information. If you can tell where your squadmate is when they scream, “Contact right in front of me,” you could react faster with that extra information.