New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….

Original story (published on June 12, 2021) follows:

PUBG developer Krafton is working on launching a sequel of sorts to the original PUBG Mobile later this year. It has been dubbed PUBG New State.

The game looks pretty much alike in terms of gameplay when compared to its original but comes with enhanced and better-detailed graphics.

Moreover, it is set in the year 2051 and is thus themed accordingly with a futuristic map combined with advanced vehicles and equipment.

The has already recorded over 10 million pre-registrations on the Google Play Store within the span of a couple of months.

Krafton had earlier announced that they’ll be taking up applicants from the US for Android-only alpha testing that will be held between June 11-13.

The goal of this testing includes measuring the early version’s performance, network stability, and in-development gameplay systems.

However, there is a possible major issue that has been troubling players. It prevents them from logging in and instead throws out a “Cannot connect to the server” error.

But as it stands, the issue isn’t really a flaw in the game itself. Rather, it has to do with unauthorized logins from regions other than the officially supported United States.

Thankfully, there is actually a simple solution to work around the problem. Just watch the video guide below and follow the procedure therein.

Basically, all you got to do is run the game after installing and enabling 3X VPN. You will have to set the location to the US of course since the other regions simply won’t work.

Do keep in mind that the above procedure isn’t exactly guaranteed to do the job. If it doesn’t, then worry not, for the PUBG New State is set to be released globally pretty soon.

Update 1 (November 11)

09:06 am (IST): PUBG: New State just went live in India, but the excitement for many came to an abrupt end as the game keeps crashing and even banning players for simply having the Developer Options enabled on Android.

Some users are even facing server issues while trying to launch the game. Matter of fact, most of the recent reviews of the game on the Play Store are 1-star due to the various issues.

10:05 am (IST): It now seems that PUBG: New State is down for everyone. The game throws the error ‘Unable to connect to the server’ and gets stuck at 38% in the loading screen. Here’s a screenshot for reference:

11:30 am (IST): PUBG: New State now notes that they’ve decided to postpone the official launch of the game TWO hours to 06:00 (UTC). This, due to current server issues.

Update 2 (November 12)

12:19 pm (IST): PUBG: New State players with Android devices might find some solace in the fact that the team has rolled out an optional update to fix the system issues that were triggered by the game.

An optional update to fix system issues is now available for Android devices. This update can be downloaded through Google Play.

The update is only available on Google Play. See below for more details: https://bit.ly/30fEMaa (Source)

Update 3 (November 17)

03:20 pm (IST): PUBG New State Dev Team has confirmed that they will gradually fix the ongoing issues with the game that aren’t been fixed in the hotfix update.

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