PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) Xbox One update lets you skip matchmaking for Squad mode

Since hitting the Xbox Ane Game Preview Program before in December, PUBG has seen a number of updates to smooth out the experience and bring it closer to its much more than polished PC sibling. Now, the latest update now rolling out to the Xbox 1 version pushes the versions closer to parity with some tweaks to Team mode.

According to a recently posted tweet from the official PUBG Twitter, Xbox players volition now exist able to jump into Team manner without having to matchmake with others. This lets yous play the way as a ane, two, or three-man team without requiring you lot to team up with random players.

Xbox players, we volition be deploying a patch at 3AM PST / 12PM CET to allow you to bask Squad mode in all the ways possible.

You will now be able to play Squad mode as a one, 2, or 3-man squad without having to matchmake with other players.

— PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS (@PUBG) December 29, 2022

Squad mode is separate from PUBG'south standard free-for-all mode. Instead of placing anybody against each other in a boxing to the last man standing, Squad mode places teams of players against one some other.

This update follows a much larger ane that rolled out to PUBG on Xbox one on Dec 22. That update more often than not trended toward optimizations, improving functioning and addressing some minor bugs and crash issues. Considering some of the game's operation issues, expect more than optimization patches to follow in the coming weeks and months while it'southward yet in the Game Preview Programme.

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