Vaulting in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds feels unnatural

The PUBG Corporation is testing its 1.0 update for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds this week, and it’s weird. I’ve spent so many hours with this incredible, janky battle royale shooter that I’ve grown accustomed to its mechanical idiosyncrasies. But now that I can easily and effectively hop over most obstacles in my character’s way, the game just feels wrong.

This is my way of saying that the vaulting mechanics in PUBG work really well. Up until this point, players didn’t really have any options to get through open windows or to climb over small fences. Instead, you’d have to struggle with PUBG’s physics to jump over a small stone wall, or you’d have to run around it. Now, however, you can simply tap the spacebar while standing in front of a rock, and your character will clamber right up on top of it.