PUBG Lite Launch:Beta Servers go Live at 2:30PM Today, Here's how to Download and Install the Game
It's the
D-day for the lovers of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds as the Lite version of
the battle royale game, PUBG Lite, will be launched today i.e. July 4. The
registrations for the game opened last month on June 20, and if you have
registered for beta testing then you'll be able to play the game from today
onwards. Registered users will get access to access to some in-game treats like
a Tiger-finish M416 skin, and a Cheetah pattern parachute skin.
Meanwhile, PUBG
Lite developers are now allowing gamers in India to download and install PUBG
Lite before its launch.
As
of now, the PUBG Lite servers are under maintenance. The game will start after
the maintenance work gets completed. As per the PUBG website, the maintenance
drive for the PUBG Lite servers will start from 10:30 am and last for four
hours till 2:30 pm in India today.
Meanwhile,
if you want to Pre-download and install PUBG Lite then follow the steps
mentioned below
How to download PUBG Lite
Even
though the game is not launched yet, you can still download PUBG Lite, register and be ready for it. Here are
the steps.
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To download PUBG Lite first
you have to visit the official website.
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Click on register and make a new account if you have not already.
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Once the new account is created make sure one of the gaming services is linked
(Steam, PSN, etc) for the rewards.
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Click on the big yellow download button on the top right corner and install the PUBG Lite application
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Run the ‘PUBG Lite’ application and log in using the account you just created.
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Once logged in if you are in one of the countries that don’t yet have PUBG Lite, it will read,
“PUBG Lite is unavailable
in your region.” Otherwise it will just download the game automatically and you
will be able to play it.
PUBG
Lite is a free version of PUBG for gamers who play on the PCs. At the moment,
PUBG's mobile version is available for free to download and play on the
smartphones, and is available on both the Google Play Store and Apple's App
Store. PUBG Lite was already available in few countries and now it is set to
make its way to India. An additional Hindi language option will also be made
available.
In addition to India, PUBG Lite beta will also get off the ground on the same
date in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri
Lanka. Although the release list is big, not all of them are getting the
advantage of pre-downloading the game today.
Earlier, PUBG confirmed through its official Facebook page that the game's Lite
version is coming to India. "We are thrilled to announce that PUBG
LITE will soon be expanding to India!" the official page of PUBG LITE stated.
"We are very pleased to be able to introduce PUBG LITE to users all over
the world. We have a lot of passionate PUBG players in South Asia, so it
represents an important area of focus for us," Brady Choi, VP and Head of
PUBG LITE at PUBG Corporation said in a statement.
Pre-download is opened for the regions listed below:
- Afghanistan
- Bhutan
- India
- Maldives
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Sri Lanka
PUBG Lite is a toned down
version of the original PC version. It is compatible with lower-end PCs and
laptops, so you don’t need a dedicated GPU to get the best experience as an
integrated one should be enough to run the game smoothly.
Minimum System Requirements:
-OS: Windows 7,8,10 64Bit
-CPU: Core i3 @2.4Ghz
-RAM: 4GB
-GPU: Intel HD 4000
-HDD: 4GB
Recommended System Requirements
-OS: Windows 7,8,10 64Bit
-CPU: Core i5 @2.8Ghz
-RAM: 8GB
-GPU: Nvidia GTX 660 or AMD
Radeon HD 7870
-HDD: 4GB
A free to play PUBG with lower
system requirements
The
developers behind PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds have announced a dedicated team
has been working on PUBG Lite in secret. PUBG Lite will be a shrunken down
version of the PC game designed to run on older GPUs or even integrated
graphics, and it will be available completely free. There’s no release schedule
yet, but the beta is already available in Thailand and is coming to other
regions soon.
PUBG
Lite is cut down in the ways you’d expect, at least for now. The two largest
differences are that it only has PUBG’s original map, Erangel, and that first
person is unavailable. The developers have
said that it still features solo, duo and squad modes, but that
feature modes might be added later. While many MacBooks meet the system
requirements, it currently does not support macOS.
The
minimum requirements for the original PUBG calls for a mid-tier quad core CPU,
8GB of RAM and a GTX 960, but those specs can’t quite run the game at 60 fps on
very low. Up until now, the only option budget gamers have had is to run the
free PUBG mobile app on an Android emulator, which is about as bad as it
sounds.
The minimum specs for PUBG Lite is a Core i3 that runs at least 2.4Ghz, with
4GB of RAM and Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics. The recommended spec is a
Core i5 that runs at least 2.8Ghz, 8GB of RAM and a GTX 660 or Radeon HD 7870.
If you happen to know your Fortnite trivia, you may have realized that the
world’s most popular battle royale has the exact same requirements.
Comparing
the recommended and minimum specs of the two PUBG games, it seems that PUBG
Lite picks up about where PUBG becomes unplayable. For anything less powerful
than a GTX 970 or GTX 1060 it makes sense to choose PUBG Lite, as the higher
frame rates will make for a more pleasant experience, despite some visual
compromises.
Speaking
of visual compromises, PUBG Lite only takes up 4GB of storage, compared to
PUBG’s 30GB. While there are fewer maps, that’s still a potentially large
shrink in texture file size.
The
Intel i5-4430 that PUBG says is the bare minimum for the full PUBG scored 479
points in Cinebench, way back in 2015 when we tested it.
While I don’t have an old i3 that PUBG Corp says is the minimum for Lite,
locking my own system down to 2 cores 4 threads at 2.4Ghz brings down the
Cinebench score to 270 points (56%), and that’s with modern IPC and RAM.
On
the GPU side, the recommended GTX 660 is about 40% as powerful in 3DMark as the
GTX 960 PUBG recommends as a minimum. Integrated graphics is around 5-10%
depending on how modern it is. Either PUBG Corp has worked miracles to optimize
the game, the visual quality has been completely ruined, or they’re being
overly optimistic with the specs to draw players away from Fortnite.
Games
with such low system requirements that still manage to look good usually use
cartoon-style graphics, like Fortnite or Overwatch, or very basic geometry like
CS:GO. Could PUBG Lite be successful using either of those? The obvious real
goal of PUBG Lite is to poach the free-to-play everyone-can-play business
strategy from Fortnite, but add the realism and feel that made the Battle
Royale genre so popular in the first place.
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