Overview
- Rollout is phased: Android begins at 6:30 am IST (30%), reaches all users by 11:30 am, iOS opens at 9:30 am, and the full APK posts on the official site at 12:30 pm.
- Frosty Funland blankets Erangel with Penguinville/Penguin Town, mini-events and seasonal gear including Magic Ice Skates, Penguin Snowmobile, Winterland Kar‑98K, Salted Fish Rocket Launcher and Swordfish Syringe, plus a Porsche supercar in Speed Drift.
- Anamika, the Haunted Indian Bride, appears as an India‑exclusive NPC with loot, hourly rewards and triggerable boss encounters; she is active 9 pm–midnight in the HUB and all day in Erangel.
- POWNIN, a recruitable AI Ninja Penguin companion, supports combat with shuriken attacks, teleport assists, self‑heals via canned sardines and shared supplies for squads.
- Metro Royale returns as an extraction survival mode with its own seasons, progression tracks and a Command Centre for NPC relationships, while the A16 Royale Pass offers 100 tiers of icy cosmetics such as Glacier MG3, Glacial Phantom and Crystalborn Emperor.