PUBG MOBILE will begin pushing out the Version 4.6 Midnight Hunters update without interrupting service on September 8. The update is expected to be completed by September 9 at 11:00 (UTC+0). Any changes to the update schedule will be announced at the earliest notice. After the update is complete, the update rewards "New Theme Song - FATE" and "Theme Lobby Background - Stormcloud Bastion" will be automatically sent to your game account.
Version Highlights
● New Midnight Hunters Themed Mode: Featuring Hunters vs Vampires in a legendary battle between light and dark!
● Classic Mode: The new four-seater portable Inflatable Boat is here, along with multiple weapon balance adjustments and map resource improvements.
● World of Wonder: Brainrot gameplay will be upgraded with a Halloweeks theme for a limited time. Stay tuned!
● Key Gameplay/Event Periods: Time Zone is UTC+0
✧ New Midnight Hunters Themed Mode: 2026/9/8 at 2:00–2026/11/10 at 20:59
✧ V3.3 Ocean Odyssey Themed Mode: Returning with a splash at the end of September, stay tuned!
✧ S32 Classic & Casual Season: 2026/9/12 at 2:00–2026/11/12 at 23:59
✧ S32 Ultimate Royale: 2026/9/21 at 2:00–2026/11/10 at 23:59
✧ Metro Royale Season: 2026/9/10 at 2:00–2026/11/9 at 20:59
✧ Ranked Arena: 2026/10/1 at 2:00–2026/10/29 at 23:59
✧Crazy Chicken Day Event: 2026/9/11 at 2:00–2026/11/10 at 23:59
Rules are the same as in last version. Available in different regions on Friday/Saturday/Sunday.
Themed Mode: Midnight Hunters
● Available: 2026/9/8 at 2:00–2026/11/10 at 20:59 (UTC+0)
● Supported Maps: Erangel, Livik, and Sanhok
Themed Areas
●Revamped Urban Areas
✧ Rozhok, Mylta, Quarry, and Gatka have been occupied by vampires and transformed with a unique style.
✧ The Hunter Guild is located at Stalber and Sosnovka Military Base, serving as a large interior combat area.
Scene Mechanics
●Hunter Shooting Range
✧ A vampire hunter shooting range for practicing shooting. The better your score, the greater the rewards.
●Hunter Guild Hidden Compartment
✧ In the Hunters' Guild, the table, bookshelf, and mural may conceal hidden compartments.
●Bell Tower
✧ The bell tower in the area can be interacted with. Shoot the bell to stun nearby PvE vampires.
●Golden Bat
✧ Approach the stone statue and tap investigate to activate it. After the Golden Bat takes off, it will circle, dive, and make sharp turns, remaining visible for about 30 seconds to test your ability to track and shoot a moving target within the time limit.
✧ Shooting it down grants a bounty and random supply rewards. If it is not defeated in time, it will escape. Trigger the challenge when passing by, defeat the Golden Bat within the time limit if you can, and get instantly rewarded. You will not lose out if it escapes.
●Scream Crate
✧ A special puzzle crate that can be found in the vampire district or in the wilderness. Solve the puzzle to open the crate and claim rewards. Failing to solve the puzzle will result in the crate making a sound and exposing your location.
●NPC - Nightkeeper
✧ The pinnacle of power in the Hunter Guild. In each round, he will randomly appear in one of the Hunter Guild locations.
✧ Talk to him to learn his story and obtain supplies.
✧ Midway into the match, the Nightkeeper challenge event will also become available. Initiate a challenge to fight him.
✧ Defeat the Nightkeeper to get great rewards. However, he is very powerful, so proceed with caution.
Gameplay Mechanics
●Guild Missions: There are 6 guild missions (available some time after the match begins) for players to challenge. One of them will be designated as a special reward mission for your team at the start of the match. Completing it grants higher rewards than completing a non-special reward mission.
✧ Repair the Seal: Find weakened Vampire Leader seals in Rozhok and the Quarry. Reinforcing the Nightkeeper's seals will trigger retaliation from the vampires. Withstand the 90-second counterattack and successfully guard the repaired seals.
✧ Hunt the Vampire: Interact with the Nightkeeper Phantom by the polluted riverbank in Mylta to accept the mission. After the mission begins, a high-tier vampire will roam the area and grow stronger. Eliminate it before it completes its evolution.
➢ Hunting Phase: The PvE enemy will prioritize fleeing and use "Bloodshadow Warp" to move around (up to twice), while accelerating its growth by absorbing Blood Pools/Blood Roses. The UI displays its growth progress.
➢ Reversal Phase: When its growth is maxed, the PvE enemy evolves and actively hunts the players. You must eliminate it within the time limit, or you will fail.
➢ Victory Rating: Determined by the elimination time and the number of survivors. A perfect elimination can trigger a finisher animation.
➢ Special Note: If a player is eliminated, they will be temporarily sealed. The seal will be lifted after if the mission is completed. If the mission is failed, the seal will still be lifted, but they will remain at low health. When a PvE enemy enters a near-death state, a portal will open, and the player must interact with it to trigger the finisher animation.
✧ Vampire Purging Area: Reach the designated area and eliminate all PvE vampires in the area.
●Bloodline Awakening (Special Limited-Time Gameplay)
✧ After being eliminated, players can choose to join the vampires and become an enemy of all hunter players. There can be up to 20 vampire players at the same time. Vampire players win immediately when they defeat all remaining hunter players.
✧ After joining the vampires, you will gain a vampiric appearance and additional basic attributes, with four skills.
➢ Claw Attack: A three-stage melee attack.
➢ Absorb: Absorb supplies on the ground to restore your own Health.
➢ Blood Sense: Detect and mark the location of a nearby hunter.
➢ Blood Amberfication: Briefly transform into the high-speed Blood Amber state, and become immune to damage during this time.
✧ Bloodline Awakening Gameplay Availability:
➢ 2026/9/18 at 2:00 (UTC+0)–2026/9/20 at 23:59 (UTC+0)
➢ 2026/9/25 at 2:00 (UTC+0)–2026/9/27 at 23:59 (UTC+0)
➢ 2026/10/2 at 2:00 (UTC+0)–2026/10/4 at 23:59 (UTC+0)
➢ 2026/10/9 at 2:00 (UTC+0)–2026/10/11 at 23:59 (UTC+0)
➢ 2026/10/16 at 2:00 (UTC+0)–2026/11/10 at 20:59 (UTC+0)
●Blood Crystal Barrier (Global Mechanic)
✧ Barriers can be generated at all building openings (windows). Approach and interact to generate a barrier.
✧ Barriers have a maximum duration per use. When the time runs out or if its Health reaches zero, it disappears and goes on cooldown. Its surface changes based on different health states. There is also a limit on the number of barriers that can be generated at the same time.
●Silvermoon Chain
✧ Basic Attack: Swing the chain to attack.
✧ Skill 1–Launch Chain (short cooldown):
➢ PvE: Hitting a normal vampire will instantly eliminate it. Hitting an Elite vampire damages its Health and shield, and if the attack breaks its shield, the vampire can be pulled to trigger a finisher. Hitting a pursuing vampire will cause it to stumble. Special note: For the Vampire Elder, if the chain hits the magic orb around the vampire's body, destroying it will not trigger a pull.
➢ PvP: Hitting an enemy deals damage. Hitting buildings or fixed objects transforms the chain acts into a grappling hook, allowing players to move around with it. Hitting an enemy transformed into a vampire automatically pulls them to the player's side. The target also temporarily loses the ability to use skills or move.
✧ Skill 2–Chain Defense: Swing the chain in hand to create a defensive area that blocks damage. This skill has a single-use duration and shield value. When the duration ends or the shield value = 0, this cast ends and enters a long cooldown.
●Twilight Bat Wings (Bat Transformation)
✧ A transformation item. Use it to transform into bat form and gain aerial mobility and battleground suppression abilities.
✧ PvP:
➢ Flying & Dashing: Fly freely and dash to nimbly move across the battleground.
➢ Blink Teleport: Consume Energy to perform a spinning dash in the direction of the joystick, allowing you to instantly engage or disengage.
➢ Attachment: Attach to a teammate's back and move together.
➢ Sonar Screech: Automatically emit sound waves to detect the location of nearby enemies while slowing them and gradually dealing damage. Hold to charge and aim, then unleash a powerful screech in the designated direction.
✧ PvE:
➢ Against PvE Enemies: Drain their Health, eliminate them, and quickly recover.
➢ Against Buildings/Fixed Objects: Allows you to automatically cling on and restore a small amount of Health.
●Blood Pact
✧ A consumable item. Using one lets you establish a connection with one teammate. Up to 3 teammates can be connected at the same time. Includes a connection animation.
✧ After connecting, a red line will appear between both players. The line has a maximum range, and will disconnect if exceeded. However, the connection will be restored when players are within range, with no time limit. If a player is eliminated, the contract ends, and the item must be used again to establish a new connection.
➢ Symbiotic Healing: A can tap the skill button to select a teammate to heal. A sacrifices X Health, and B recovers X Health.
➢ Blood Pact Summon: A can expend 30 of their own Health to initiate a summon B. If B declines or times out, the process ends and no Health is lost. If B accepts, B instantly teleports to A's side, and A loses Health.
●Hunter Bandage
✧ An enhanced bandage item. Use it to quickly restore Health for a short time.
●Scarlet Tonic
✧ A enhancement item that fully restores player Health and Energy shortly after use.
Themed PvE Enemies
●PvE Enemy - Bloodwalker:
✧ Regular Version: A basic PvE enemy that only uses melee attacks.
✧ Elite Version: An advanced melee PvE enemy that uses melee attacks, close-range dashing life-steal (attacking during its blink will interrupt the skill and make the PvE Enemy stagger), and agile evasive behavior (it may roll at high speed to evade).
●PvE Enemy - Nightbat:
✧ Regular Version: Has the ability to fly and fires small sonic projectiles.
✧ Elite Version: Can fly and fire crowd-control sonic blasts that affect both enemies and allies (it will forcibly release one sonic blast upon defeat). Nearby enemies will be stunned, and if it gets close, it will use a blood drain skill on the player.
●PvE Enemy - Vampire Elder:
✧ Summons arcane orbs that link to and empower nearby allies. The longer the empowerment lasts, the stronger it becomes, so destroy the orbs first. Once an orb is destroyed, all linked PvE enemies will lose their shields, including the Vampire Elder.
●PvE Enemy Shield
✧ Elite PvE enemies have an additional shield bar. While shielded, the PvE enemies can't be damaged, but player attacks can quickly break the shield at specific moments. Breaking the shield will stun the PvE enemy.
●Elimination Performance:
✧ When a PvE enemy is stunned by a shield break, tap the eliminate button to quickly move to the PvE enemy's location and defeat it directly. You won't take damage during the animation.
Additionally, V3.3's Ocean Odyssey Themed Mode will make a surprise return in late September, so stay tuned!
Classic Mode Updates
Vehicle Updates
●New Vehicle: Inflatable Boat
✧ Vehicle Attributes:
➢ 4-Seater Vehicle: Supports rowing from passenger seats. The more players rowing, the faster the boat moves.
➢ Portable Vehicle: It can be picked up in matches and deployed in valid locations. Retrieve it again to stow it in the backpack.
●Custom Garage Update: There is a chance for a Tracked Amphicarrier to spawn, which can be activated by spending Shop Tokens.
Weapon Updates
●Balance Adjustments:
✧ ACE32
➢ Improved animations and screen shake for better firing stability.
➢ Reduced horizontal and vertical recoil.
➢ Base Damage Increase: 46 → 47.
✧ 7.62mm Rifles (including: AKM, M762, Honey Badger, Mk47, Groza)
➢ Slightly reduced camera shake and animation shake when firing.
➢ Improved firing animation speed and recoil, for better burst-fire and full-auto stability.
Scene Updates
● Interior Interactive Objects: Two types of interactive lockers will randomly spawn inside buildings to further improve the looting and exploration experience.
● Channel Buoys: Channel buoys have been added to the waters leading to the Military Base, and you can climb onto them for temporary safety if you encounter danger in the water.
● Floating Objects in Water: Supply crates will spawn on the water surface and can be looted while swimming.
Other Updates
● Parachuting Auto-Glide: While parachuting, drag the joystick upward to lock into auto-glide state. In this state, the character will lock the forward input to glide automatically.
● Erangel In-Match Missions: In Classic and Themed Erangel, specific mission items can be picked up while looting. Use them to trigger a mini mission, and complete it to earn rewards based on the mission content.
✧ Mission 1: Go to a specific location and dig up leftover combat-ready supplies.
✧ Mission 2: Hack in-match Supply Shops at specific spots through the wireless network to obtain Shop Tokens.
● Supply Shop Improvements:
✧ Improved the item layout and UI of the in-match Supply Shop, and added tab-based filtering to help players find the items they need to buy more quickly.
✧ Expanded the Supply Shop's selection, adding more basic and advanced supplies.
World of Wonder Updates
Brainrot Gameplay Updates
New Brainrots: 6 Shining Brainrots and 8 Pumpkin Brainrots added, with more updates coming weekly.
Expanded Level Cap: The level cap has been raised to Lv. 25.
Backpack Improvements: Backpack capacity is now 64.
Brainrot Upgrade Gameplay: Fuse identical Brainrots to upgrade them. After upgrading, a Brainrot's star level, size, and Gold output can be increased.
Map Update: Added pumpkin-themed decorative elements to the map.
System Update: Add local gifting and social features.
Next Month Preview: There will also be new Prismatic-quality Brainrots, new items, event tokens, and limited-time event updates. Stay tuned.
Notice: Pumpkin-quality Brainrots are exclusive to V4.6, so don't miss out.
After you level up, Brainrot and BP will be reset. Remember to synthesize and upgrade your preferred Brainrot in advance, then save it in the Brainrot Pavilion.
Editor Updates
Effects Editor: Supports custom particle and trail special effects, with flexible configuration of textures, appearance, and other parameters.
Stage Editor: Supports multi-stage management and cross-stage teleportation. It is being rolled out in phases for the initial release and can be unlocked by participating in contests.
Advanced Editor Update
Group Editing: Added module, object, and script locks to reduce data conflicts during group editing.
Resource Integration
●B.Duck Collaboration Assets: The editor now includes collaboration assets such as the B.Duck transformations, inflatable hammer, and slide.
●Alan Walker Collaboration Assets: Added 8 collaboration scene objects and 2 tracks, "On My Way" and "FATE," rolling out soon.
●Themed PvE Enemy Assets: Added humanoid vampire, ritual vampire, and ghost bride Anamika. Also added support for occluded outlines on PvE enemies.
Platform System Updates
Creation Update Reminders: Push updates to players who favorite a creation, play it often, or follow the Creator. Only available to select high-level Creators.
Creation Experience Improvements: Improved publishing, editing, and previewing, with new publishing diagnostics, data analytics, and promotion reminders.
Win-Win Earnings Model
Creation Shop Incentives: Limited-time upgrade to Creation Shop reward rates across different tiers. 0–10.8M: 83% reward rate. 10.8M–108M: 69% reward rate. 108M+: Retains 55% reward rate.
Season Updates
Promotion Match
● Season Duration: 2026/9/12 at 2:00–2026/11/12 at 23:59 (UTC+0)
● Experience Upgrade:
✧ Added a dedicated results sequence on successful promotion, showcasing a recap of your promotion journey data, including total matches, total eliminations, and average eliminations per match.
✧ Improved the guidance notices shown when rating points first reach the promotion threshold, and when the Classic bonus point limit is triggered.
S32 Classic Season
● Updated Season Rewards:
✧ Platinum: Updated Season Set, Season Bonus Point Card ×2.
✧ Diamond: Updated Season Firearm, Main Page Info Card.
✧ Crown: Updated Season Parachute, Rating Protection Card ×3.
✧ Ace: Updated Season Backpack, Season Mask, MVP Badge.
✧ Ace Master: Updated Season Helmet, Cover, Squad Results Pose.
✧ Ace Dominator: Updated Badge Display Emote, MVP Emote.
✧ Conqueror: Updated Dynamic Avatar Frame.
✧ Path of Glory Exclusive Rewards: Dynamic Nickname, Intro Animation, Dynamic Avatar. Obtainable upon reaching Ace Dominator 30 Stars.
● New Themed Mode Rating Protection Event: 2026/9/8 at 2:00–2026/9/26 at 23:59 (UTC+0)
S32 Casual Season
S32 Ultimate Royale
● Season Duration: 2026/9/21 at 2:00–2026/11/10 at 23:59 (UTC+0)
● Bonus Points Event: 2026/9/22 at 2:00–2026/11/10 at 23:59 (UTC+0)
✧ Get +10 points for the first 3 matches of the season played in Miramar/Rondo.
● Rating Protection Event: 2026/9/22 at 2:00–2026/10/11 at 23:59 (UTC+0)
✧ Your rating will be protected for the first 2 matches every day at the start of each Ultimate Royale season.
System Updates
Flash Crew
● Quick Team-Up: A quick team-up button has been added to the top of the crew list. Tap to intelligently apply to join a crew or recruit teammates based on your target mode and crew preferences.
● Crew Descriptor: A descriptor will be added to every crew based on how you engage with it to help you quickly identify its purpose.
● Crew Chat: Invite messages for team recruitment, Popularity Battle, and more now all support sharing to crew chat. Your highlight moments in-game, such as ranking up and earning a title, will also be automatically shared to crew chat. You can disable sharing in the privacy settings.
● Flash Lobby Improvements: A new filter feature has been added to the Flash Lobby, allowing you to precisely find the team experience you need based on crew characteristics. The information display has been improved to help you quickly identify high-value crews.
Card Collection System
●Card Token Pack (New Gameplay)
✧ Open Card Token Packs in the Card Collection System. Packs contains a small amount of Card Tokens, with an extremely low chance of yielding the current Holo Card.
✧ How to Obtain:
➢ Pick up in Classic Mode or Metro Royale and bring it back to the Lobby.
➢ Play any mode for a certain amount of time to reliably obtain one.
●Daily Perk Card
✧ Added a new Daily Perk Card feature. Tap the button on the main card collection UI to view it. Three cards will be refreshed daily, and the refreshed cards can be redeemed with Card Tokens. After redeeming, players can directly obtain that card. Cards refresh daily, and rare cards also have a certain chance to appear.
● Annual Upgradable Firearm Acquisition Rules
✧ The annual upgradable firearm from Card Collection is a 5-level JS9 firearm finish, the first upgradable JS9 finish.
✧ After collecting a certain number of cards, you can obtain this finish directly when the next version goes live.
✧ For players with unfinished collection progress in V4.6 card collection can continue in V4.7 to complete the objective.
✧ Special cards grant extra progress bonuses.
In-Match Social Features
●New Voice Type: Personalized Voice
✧ A personalized voice tab has been added to the voice pack section of the inventory system, where you can view and preview all personalized voice content.
✧ Personalized voices are available in multiple languages, and players can freely unlock them using Perk Vouchers.
✧ Unlocked voices can be placed in the quick wheel and list just like voice pack content for use in matches.
✧ Personalized voice also supports setting the sync range for in-match playback. You can set it to range sync, so nearby players can also hear your voice content.
✧You can also disable personalized voice content from non-teammate players during the match in the settings.
Firearm Combat Power
● Reach Transcendent level with each firearm each season to unlock the season-limited firearm counter finish. Firearm counter finishes can be switched and equipped in The Lab.
Derivative Creation Camera
● Camera: Upgraded camera features, new creative widgets such as screen, emote, frame, lighting, and filter, and upgraded the interactive experience. Currently available in Home and WOW, and coming to Classic Mode in a future update.
● Album: The album UI has been updated. Photos taken from all sources can now be managed in one place, with support for filtering by mode, and the Memory Vault feature has also been integrated. Photos saved in the album will retain more information.
Metro Royale Updates
Season Update: Chapter 34
● Season Duration: 2026/9/10 at 2:00 (UTC+0)–2026/11/9 at 20:59 (UTC+0)
● New Season Collectibles:
● New Vampire Bases Added to Matches: Some buildings in Arctic Base will be replaced with vampire bases. Vampire PvE enemies guard Scream Crates. Defeating vampires and opening the crates both have a chance to grant high-value sellable items.
● New In-Match Golden Bat Statues: A Golden Bat Statue will appear at specific locations in Arctic Base. Interact with it and defeat the Golden Bat within the time limit for a chance to obtain a high-value sellable item.
Home Updates
Item Updates
●New Style: Cyber Nexus
✧ Available: 2026/9/13 at 00:00 (UTC+0)
✧ Cyber Nexus (Maple Courtyard) style items will be available in the Home Shop/Lucky Spin/Mysterious Merchant Crate/Craftsman Pass.
✧ Purchase the new Home style items to get Style Points. Reach a certain amount of Style Points to redeem amazing rewards.
Event Update
●Home Competition:
✧ Submission Period: 2026/9/8 at 00:00–2026/9/25 at 8:59 (UTC+0)
✧ Selection Period: 2026/9/25 at 9:00–2026/10/25 at 9:00 (UTC+0)
●Style Voting:
✧ Event Period: 2026/9/8 at 0:00–2026/10/22 at 8:59 (UTC+0)
✧ Cash Draw Announcement: 2026/10/22 at 9:00–2026/10/30 at 23:59 (UTC+0)
●Feast of Shadows:
✧ Event Period: 2026/9/13 at 00:00–2026/11/8 at 8:59 (UTC+0)
✧ Feast of Shadows can be started in any Home.
✧ Players join the feast as seekers by default. Beware of the specters lurking in the dark, and catch them to earn search points.
✧ Speak with the butler to switch to the specters. Hide carefully and scare the hunters in front of you to earn fright points.
✧ During the event, each player's search points and fright points will be displayed by default in the Home. Raise your points and go to the Event Center to claim rewards.
Popularity Battle & Team Popularity Battle
●Popularity Battle Event
✧ Registration Period: 2026/9/8 at 00:00—2026/9/19 at 8:59 (UTC+0)
✧ Battle Period: 2026/9/19 at 9:00—2026/10/19 at 9:00 (UTC+0)
● Team Popularity Battle Event:
✧ Registration Period: 2026/10/13 at 00:00–2026/10/21 at 8:59 (UTC+0)
✧ Battle Period: 2026/10/21 at 9:00–2026/11/6 at 9:30 (UTC+0)
Security Center
●Eagle System
✧ The Eagle System now supports Metro Royale.
✧ Adjusted the per-match broadcast limit for the Eagle System to 3.
✧ Increased the daily broadcast count for Eagle System Investigators. Active Investigators receive additional daily broadcasts.
✧ Improved the design of the report feedback window and the Eagle broadcast text.
More exciting content is on the way! Please follow the official announcements for the latest information! Feel free to share any feedback you have regarding the update with us. Let's create a more exciting battleground for everyone together!
PUBG MOBILE Team
September 7, 2026