After fighting over that delicious Chicken Dinner on tropical islands and deserts, PUBG has now decided to set you up for an Arctic exploration – well, not exactly! – and fend off the enemies to be the last man standing on the much-awaited snow map, which has officially been dubbed Vikendi.
Vikendi is unlike any of the existing PUBG maps, sitting right between Sanhok (4×4) and Erangel (8×8) with a 6×6 sq. km area, and the mobile game developers have once again done a great job replicating the elements of the map from the original PC game. Enough of the map hullaballoo, let’s talk about the gameplay in length.
Once you download the map and get through matchmaking, the spawn area now sees you involved in snowball fights, instead of apples but it’s a fun way to learn how to throw grenades and annoy other players around you. The snowballs are spread across the spawn area and you’ll need to pick them up to join the fun.
However, if you ask about my favorite place to drop and loot up, well, I really love the SpaceX-style Cosmodrome, which looks to be an extension of the radio tower on the Military Base seen in Erangel. There’s a ton of loot up for grabs here, not only out in the open expanse but also in the observatory and buildings around it.
PUBG Mobile also brings along a new vehicle, the snowmobile, and while I found it easier to drive on snow, it doesn’t run equally well on roads and the patches of grasslands – leaving you (and the teammate, if you’re in a duo match) open to shots from enemies. This plight is vice-versa for all other existing vehicles, that are a bit difficult to control on snowy slopes.
All this is great but I have a two major qualms qualm with Vikendi, with the first being a low number of hiding spots and second, low spawn rate of vehicles on the map.
As I already said, I was mostly running to find my way across Vikendi as the number of snowmobiles or other vehicles was especially low. I couldn’t find a single vehicle in a match that I scored a Chicken Dinner on the snow map and had to run through all the circles closing in on me.
Ever since PUBG Corp started teasing the upcoming snow map earlier this year, we knew that one of the core components of the action would be footprints. Yes, footprints. When you walk on the snow on Vikendi in PUBG on PC, Xbox or now even PS4, then you leave behind a trail of footsteps that could come in handy to track enemies as the circle closes in.
PUBG Mobile Vikendi Map: Chills and Thrills
Though Vikendi may not present you with thrill and combat right off the bat, like the 4×4 Sanhok map does, it certainly adds value to the franchise and gives the mobile users yet another reason to explore as they continue to be on the lookout of that ‘Chicken Dinner’ with every landing. Maybe a frozen one, this time around?
