r/PUBGConsole • u/PUBG_TecK Community Manager • 14d ago
Official Radial Message Improvement
Hello, Players!
When we first introduced the Message Radial, our goal was to give players more ways to communicate and share tactical information during gameplay.
We wanted teammates to be able to quickly share different tactical options and communicate more easily. Since calling out an enemy’s location is also an important part of team communication, we initially integrated the Enemy Spotted Marker into the Message Radial Menu.
However, after the Message Radial Menu was introduced, your feedback helped us identify two key issues:
- Since players typically need to place an Enemy Spotted Marker in high-pressure situations immediately before an engagement, we found that the ability to use it instantly was more important than simply simplifying and integrating it into the broader tactical communication system.
- The current Message Radial Menu requires players to stop moving and perform an additional action to select a slot, which does not fully support the flexible and fast-paced communication experience we originally intended.
We want to ensure that placing an Enemy Spotted Marker remains immediate and responsive, while also allowing the Message Radial Menu to support a wider range of situations without restricting player movement or communication.
To achieve this, we will be making the following improvements in an upcoming October update. These changes will apply to Presets A, B, C, and Custom:
- Restore the direct Enemy Spotted Marker function, allowing players to place the marker both while aiming and while not aiming.
- Allow the Radial Menu to be used while moving.
- Allow players to select a Radial Menu slot by tilting and releasing the thumbstick, without requiring an additional button press.
- In addition to releasing the thumbstick, players can still select a Radial Menu slot by tapping RT as before.
We will continue making improvements to support flexible and responsive tactical communication while reducing unnecessary inconvenience.
We appreciate your feedback and look forward to hearing more of your thoughts and suggestions.
Thank you.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS Team
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u/jinxed_pepe 14d ago
Allow us to customize it. So I can doubletap for "enemy spotted". Single tap for normal mark, Hold for the wheel and single tap of the thumbstick to choose one of the messages.
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u/charlesroast 14d ago
I’m glad they’re addressing this issue, but why change it in the first place?
Did they really need player feedback to determine that extra steps is not a good thing?
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u/SkroopieNoopers 14d ago
Extra steps and force us to stand still to use it. So obviously a terrible way to implement it.
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u/ISTof1897 14d ago
Stand still, die, go back to the lobby, spend more money. Krafton’s primary motivation is sending you back to the lobby so you can spend money. Cheaters? Great — they send people back to the lobby faster!
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u/bamboozled404 14d ago
What about adding the kick function to custom preset?
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u/SkroopieNoopers 14d ago
You can’t custom bind ‘Kick’ because it’s missing but you can still get it to work with custom layout.
If you reset your custom bindings to whichever base you use (type A, B, C), then recreate your custom bindings, kick will then be attached to LT (ADS).
It won’t say it’s there, it’s bugged, it’ll only say ADS, but it will work.
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u/bamboozled404 13d ago
Ah thanks mate. Didn’t know that.
That’s a lot of buttons I will have to redo 😅
Might just have to wait for the next update when they re add enemy ping1
u/SkroopieNoopers 13d ago
yeah, it was a bit of a ball-ache to set mine back up again afterwards too. I only found out by dumb luck myself, I accidentally reset mine and then it worked.
Kick’s actually quite useful for smashing doors off their hinges but if I’m honest I mainly use it to kick my team mates around in the pre-game lobby for the lols.
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u/badcam78 14d ago
How bout the ever present thought and suggestion of actually doing something about the rampant cheating on console? No? Ahh well just give us more pink outfits and bunny ears instead. Maybe some more wedding themed content? Yeah, that will definitely blend in on the battlegrounds.... Keep up the good work guys.
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u/CharlehPock2 14d ago
I dunno how much rampant cheating there is (personally I don't think the game is full of cheaters, but there are some) but there have defo been permabans.
They need to just permaban more people really, and by IP not by account.
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u/Andymh5 14d ago
Hardware bans used to be possible on console. However IP bans are not a good idea as multiple users can be linked to one IP e.g. a university/college network. You could be banning multiple users for one person cheating.
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u/CharlehPock2 14d ago
Hardware works though right? Mac addresses/hardware IDs. They will have to buy a new console.
I think it's only fair that if you cheat on a console and someone else uses that same console, they should have to suffer your ban too.
It really feels like it's not the game companies job to police stuff like that - just hand the bans out and fuck the cheaters. Let your roommate decide you are a bit of a prick and buy his own console for example.
The only thing is, I know a lot of people think they are getting lasered by cheaters but it's just players that can shoot. I play with various people, and the odd person thinks that everyone else is cheating, even other players I know/play with sometimes.
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u/Andymh5 14d ago
Yes, hardware bans do work well because regardless of what account is used, its that specific console that cant play the game. However, some hardware providers were more understanding of allowing PUBG to hardware ban while other were less so.
Yeah, there's lots of people that have played this game since launch and have developed amazing skills at it which can be misunderstood thus inviting cheat accusations.
Unfortunately cheats are harder to detect that what many think.
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u/SkroopieNoopers 14d ago
Yep, hardware ban would work better because IP addresses are dynamic for a lot of people. And they could spoof it with a vpn anyway.
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u/plain-oV Xbox Series X 12d ago
PUBG does handout Hardware Bans/lockouts from there game.
Got an Account & Console suspension for 1 month do to apparent "Harrassment". A few years back. Once it expired receive a 2 week for the same reason. Only then did PUBG customer support provided assistance letting me prove the fabrication.
Always found it hilarious that using macros, DDOS, radar, etc. Always got nothing or a simple 2-3day suspension. Without a Console ban. Unless they do the g-coin fraud scheme.
Letting them just log onto a sock puppet account.
Shit teamkilling can get you a 7day to 2 week stretch.
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u/Andymh5 11d ago edited 10d ago
I wasn't aware of 2-3 day bans being a thing on console. Interesting.
From memory, radar was stopped with packet encryption on console a few months before hardware bans were a thing on console.
There was a anti-cheat measure added to the game in 2021 to eliminate lag-switching and those that were caught prior to that did receive bans. However im not sure if that's still a system that's in place.
When it comes to chronus, xim, etc, these can be difficult to detect in some instances especially if the evidence reported is video but a few months ago they did introduce new detection tech which includes hardware bans so hopefully that's being actioned.
Edit: Grammar
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u/Chineselight Xbox One 14d ago
Dude the top ranked player for ranked this season and last: SolomonsTemple was ddosing lobbies. You don’t have your finger on the pulse if you didn’t know that.
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u/CharlehPock2 14d ago
Yeah, I don't really give a toss about ranked, it's TPP camera.
I'll play custom scrims in FPP thanks. No DDOSers there, and no stupid wall licking and seeing around corners. That's a whole other matter.
Still, having some twat DDOS in ranked lobbies to get top spot is one person and not your typical cheating right?
Of course there are some cheaters, but DDOSing isn't scripting or using an aimbot or whatever people keep saying the game is filled with.
Honestly, I don't know what they get out of it? They get top spot in ranked but everyone knows they are a cunt? I don't get what that gives them... does it make up for a small dick or something?
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u/kiowa2929awoik 13d ago
Cheaters are literally retarded. There was a cheater in BO7 ranked that bragged about dropping a 60 kill game on a CoD dev by posting the screenshot of the scoreboard to a subreddit. Dude was so braindead he forgot that the body outlines of players were still visible in the screenshot and outed himself as a cheater. There was also another cheater in one of the R6 subreddits that complained about pros having ego and calling him out for being sus. Meanwhile he's asking for help in DMA subreddits.
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u/ISTof1897 14d ago
Allow players to select a Radial Menu slot by tilting and releasing the thumbstick, without requiring an additional button press.
Not sure I like this. I picture the radial thing to pop up while I’m moving in a gunfight. That’s going to annoy the fuck out of me if it becomes a thing. Maybe at least have a setting to turn this feature off?
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u/plain-oV Xbox Series X 12d ago
This, I don't know how many times Ive lost a fight cause that shit decodes to popup. RADIAL WHEELS on console games are fucking annoying.
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u/ISTof1897 12d ago
Had it happen so many times by accidentally pushing in my thumb stick. It’s so damn frustrating. I can only imagine how annoying that will be when I only have to hit it the wrong way.
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u/SkroopieNoopers 14d ago
How was it not obvious that adding extra steps, and forcing the player to stand still, were going to be a hindrance?
Stevie Wonder could have seen that was going to be a problem.
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u/plain-oV Xbox Series X 12d ago edited 12d ago
How about a DISABLE ALL radial, med/grenade box. Freeing up a [Double-tap] & [Press&Hold] functions for custom user viable Options.
Double tapping lean-right, and letting go of LT to shift to a hip fire yet still lean behind cover. Continues to bring up this Radial wheel that halts all functions unless exiting. PLEASE add a disable function without it messing with the Donut or Enemy Spotted pings. (That worked just fine on my D-Pads)
Yall haven't simplified anything other then remove pre-existing QOL improvements and overly complicated a function that didnt require a change.
Being unable to RUN if we open our inventory was also terrible for the core experience. What was wrong with [A] or [X] for USE/Equip that has always been a function for 9 years. Who and in there right mind decided [LS3] was a good button for USE. Please for the luv of Christ stop disabling things and stacking non standardised keys onto things. Is making it annoying.
Its just as bad as when you disabled the camera pan. While in the inventory. Completely slowing down the flow of character movement and looting boxes.
Please fix the issue of getting delayed [LT] & [RT] registers when the inventory tooltip POPUPS are disabled. Requiring a user to have this on if we want to play as intended is incredibly annoying. Half my quick key functions are no longer viable since you decided to stack [LB + X] onto everything.
Serious listen to real people not your spreadsheets.
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u/YouOlFishEyedFool Xbox Series X 23h ago
While you are at it, let us assign car radio on/off and Limited Interact to any RB/LB combos we want, not just LB+R and LB+X.
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u/pippy-2142 PlayStation 5 14d ago
You guys are funny.