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PUBG: Battlegrounds Update 43.2 Adds Bentley Skins and a New Co-Op PvE Mode

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Krafton has rolled out Update 43.2 for PUBG: Battlegrounds, a patch that pairs a luxury car collaboration with the return of the game’s co-operative PvE series and a new Survivor Pass.

The headline collaboration is with Bentley. Three Special Vehicle Skins headline the drop: the Flying Spur Mulliner (Luxe) Sedan, the Flying Spur Mulliner Sedan and the Continental GTC Mulliner Sports Car. The skins are more than cosmetic shells, arriving with custom driving, engine and horn sounds, a panoramic sunroof and a folding soft top, supported by vehicle customization items and a Crafter Pass: Bentley. Players who complete equip missions can earn the Grand Study Custom Lobby Skin, and the Bentley trailer features an exclusive track by beatbox group BEATPELLA HOUSE.

The bigger gameplay addition is SLB: DAWNBREAKERS OF RONDO, the fourth installment of the Survivors Left Behind co-op PvE series, developed by PUBG STUDIOS with People Can Fly. Teams of up to four drop into Rondo and fight through waves of Hungers, completing missions and crafting gear as they push to activate Generators and the Capacitor and escape. The mode runs on PC through November 4, with the console window set for October 22 to November 12.

Update 43.2 also expands PUBG: Playgrounds, the game’s user-generated content space, adding winning entries from the global UGC contest run with CurseForge, rolling out between October and December. Elsewhere, the patch brings a console controller scheme, Custom Match additions and Supply Bay improvements, giving returning players several smaller reasons to log in alongside the headline content.

Rounding out the update is a new Survivor Pass, The Villains, giving players a fresh progression track to work through while the Bentley content and the Rondo PvE mode are live.

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MapleStory Classic World Launches, Bringing the Classic Era Back to PC and Mac

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The old Maple World is open again. Nexon has officially launched MapleStory Classic World, a dedicated version of its long-running MMORPG built around the game’s classic era, with the servers opening October 21 at 11:00 AM PDT on the Nexon Launcher and Steam for Windows and macOS.

The launch follows a Founder’s Access period that began October 6. Founder’s packages went off sale on October 14, and progress made during early access carries into the full launch, so returning players keep the head start they built.

Classic World launches at version 1.0.0 with the structure longtime players remember. Characters choose from four first-job paths — Warrior, Magician, Bowman and Thief — at level 10, and the level cap sits at 100. There is no 3rd Job Advancement at launch; Nexon plans to add it gradually, pacing the rollout rather than dropping two decades of content at once.

The game is free to play, supported by a Cash Shop, with Leaf Points as its currency. Nexon has kept the two versions of MapleStory largely separate: the only thing shared with the modern game is the NX balance, so Classic World stands as its own economy and community.

Nexon America’s Hanbyeol Oh, known to the community as Inkwell, has framed the project as something other than a one-to-one recreation of the game from 20 years ago — a classic world rebuilt for the players who grew up with it, rather than a museum piece.

Classic launches have become a reliable draw across the MMO genre, and MapleStory carries more nostalgia than most. With a level cap, job structure and social pace modeled on the era that made the game a phenomenon, Classic World is Nexon’s play to bring its lapsed audience home.

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