The PlayerUnknown’s Battleground meta can’t handle vaulting

Climbing and jumping over obstacles in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a pain in the ass right now, and that’s what most players are accustomed to. So with developer Bluehole demonstrating vaulting and climbing over fences and onto roofs, the millions of people who regularly boot up the last-person-standing shooter better get ready to change their strategies — especially in time for our Games Industry Family Chicken Dinner Tournaments.

During the PC Gaming show at E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo industry show and now fan event) in Los Angeles this past June, Bluehole revealed that it is bringing mantling (the term game designers use for jumping over walls while) into Battlegrounds. This will remove janky interactions where players have to struggle to jump, crouch, and move forward in quick succession to climb through an obstacle such as a window. Instead, your character will hop over most objects and walls with ease and fluidity. You can see a work-in-progress video that Bluehole released yesterday below — and if you’ve spent any time with Battlegrounds, you’ll recognize this is a huge change.