PUBG Season 44: Dates, RP Reset & What Happens Next

Season 44 started with Update 44.1: live on PC on 4 November 2026, with console scheduled for 12 November 2026 (official PUBG patch notes, which note that maintenance times may change). The ranked leaderboard resets with that maintenance. Krafton has not announced when Season 44 ends and the 44.1 patch notes name no end date, so we do not project one — for scale, Season 43 ran from 10 September to 4 November 2026 on PC, about eight weeks. The one ranked-facing change in Update 44.1: the minimum achievement standards per tier were raised for Platinum and above (Krafton published no numbers); the notes list no change to the RP formula or the tier list. We update this page the moment any date is official.

Every new PUBG season starts with 5 placement matches (per PUBG Support). After placements you receive a starting tier below your previous finish and climb from there.

The honest caveat: Krafton has never published the RP soft-reset formula. Anyone quoting an exact "you keep X% of your RP" number is guessing — the only verified mechanics are the five placements and the fact that you are seeded below your previous finish. One historical exception worth knowing: Season 36 (2025) ran a one-time hard reset that set everyone to 1,500 RP; nothing like that has been announced for Season 44.

Season rewards are handed out when the season closes, tied to the tier you reached — so the final weeks are the highest-value ranked games of the season: a tier banked now is a reward banked. With no end date announced for Season 44, the safe play is not to gamble on extra weeks existing. If you are one bracket short with limited time, the pre-reset window is the single most popular moment for a PUBG rank boost — the season close is a hard deadline.

Post-reset, the grind is placements plus the re-climb. Krafton does not publish per-win RP values — gains scale with placement (finishing position is weighted heavily) and match performance, and the current system rewards consistency: official patch notes added bonus RP for back-to-back Top 4 and Top 1 finishes, so streaks climb faster than isolated wins. If you want the placements handled by a Master-level player, the placement matches service covers exactly those five calibration games, and the rank boost shows a real price and ETA for any from→to on the ladder. For how the tiers and RP system fit together, see the full PUBG rank system guide.

Season 43 ran from 10 September to 4 November 2026 on PC (console started a week later, on 17 September), back to PUBG's usual two-month cadence after Season 42 ran roughly three months (17 June – 10 September 2026) to buy development time ahead of the announced Ranked Revamp. That larger overhaul has not been detailed yet: Update 43.1 only raised the minimum performance bar for Gold and above in Solo and Duo, and Update 44.1 only raised the minimum achievement standards for Platinum and above — its notes do not mention the revamp. Krafton has not published what the full revamp changes or exactly when it lands. Until details are official we will not speculate here — we log each season's confirmed dates as they close, so this page doubles as the ladder's historical record.