Bentley brings grand touring luxury to the Battlegrounds as PUBG makes arrival part of the spectacle

Few things in PUBG attract attention quite like driving an expensive-looking vehicle directly into a firefight, and the next collaboration is taking that idea to its logical extreme. Bentley Motors is coming to PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS on October 14 for PC and October 22 for consoles, bringing the British marque’s combination of handcrafted luxury and high-performance grand touring into a battle royale where most journeys traditionally end with somebody abandoning the car beside a tree and running for cover.

KRAFTON’s new The Art of Arrival trailer is deliberately more concerned with presence than technical details. Bentley describes its cars as “relentlessly extraordinary,” while PUBG frames the collaboration around the moment the vehicle appears rather than simply how quickly it can move between circles. The full acquisition structure will arrive alongside the collaboration, but the promotional material already points toward two of Bentley’s most important modern nameplates: the four-door Flying Spur Mulliner and open-top Continental GT Convertible Mulliner, with an additional premium Flying Spur presentation forming the top end of the collection.

Bentley is joining PUBG’s increasingly serious virtual garage

Licensed cars are no longer unusual in PUBG. What began with McLaren in 2022 has gradually evolved into a recurring part of KRAFTON’s premium cosmetic strategy, with Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Ducati, Harley-Davidson and other manufacturers allowing real-world vehicles to replace the appearance of ordinary Battlegrounds transportation.

Bentley fits directly into that lineage, but its identity is different from most of the brands that came before it. Lamborghini and McLaren naturally emphasise supercar spectacle, Aston Martin combines performance with grand touring and Ducati and Harley-Davidson translate motorcycle culture into the game. Bentley’s modern reputation is built around making enormous performance coexist with craftsmanship, comfort and almost obsessive personalisation, which makes its appeal less about looking like a pure racing machine and more about making an entrance.

That explains the trailer title. The Art of Arrival is not selling PUBG players on shaving tenths of a second from a lap time because there are no laps to complete. It is selling the absurd visual contrast of arriving at an Erangel compound or a Miramar firefight in something designed to make even pulling up outside a hotel feel ceremonial.

The Flying Spur Mulliner is the obvious four-door star

The Flying Spur Mulliner is the clearest fit for PUBG’s normal squad structure. Bentley positions the real model as the pinnacle of its four-door range, combining limousine-grade materials and rear-seat luxury with performance figures that would have belonged to dedicated supercars not particularly long ago.

The current Flying Spur Mulliner uses Bentley’s Ultra Performance Hybrid system, combining a twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 with an electric motor for 782 PS and 1,000 Nm of combined torque. Bentley quotes 0–100 km/h in 3.5 seconds and a maximum speed of 308 km/h, remarkable figures for a full-size luxury sedan designed to be equally convincing whether its owner is driving or sitting behind the driver.

Those real-world numbers should not be interpreted as PUBG performance statistics. KRAFTON’s Special Vehicle Skins traditionally preserve the underlying game vehicle’s mechanical values rather than importing the licensed car’s real acceleration, mass and maximum speed. The relevance of the real Flying Spur is instead understanding what PUBG is trying to recreate visually: a four-door machine that looks formal and restrained until its performance is considered.

That also makes it particularly well suited to squad play. A Bentley sedan has none of the obvious thematic compromise created when a two-seat supercar has to represent transportation for an entire team. The Flying Spur was designed from the beginning around four-door grand touring, so seeing several armed Survivors pile into one is ridiculous for entirely different reasons.

Mulliner is much more than another trim badge

The repeated use of Mulliner in this collaboration matters because this is Bentley’s bespoke and coachbuilding division, responsible for some of the company’s most highly personalised production cars and limited creations. On the Flying Spur Mulliner, that identity appears through a unique floating-diamond grille, exclusive 22-inch wheels, extensive handcrafted interior detailing and one particularly recognisable feature: an illuminated Flying B bonnet mascot that rises electronically when the car is unlocked.

That retractable Flying B appears especially relevant to PUBG’s premium presentation. Early collaboration information indicates that the highest-tier Flying Spur version will showcase the mascot as part of its more elaborate vehicle treatment, giving KRAFTON another way to distinguish a top-end Special Vehicle Skin beyond simply supplying a different paint colour.

It fits the direction PUBG has taken with premium automotive skins generally. Higher tiers have increasingly included animated doors, convertible roofs, unique exhaust effects, lobby animations and other interactions that have nothing to do with winning a firefight but dramatically increase the sense that somebody owns a distinct digital car rather than a texture wrapped around an existing vehicle.

For Bentley, that is arguably more important than raw speed. A Mulliner car is supposed to feel individually specified, so a virtual version that offers no customisation or special presentation would miss much of the point.

The standard Flying Spur gives players a less extravagant route into the same car

Promotional material for the collaboration also shows a second Flying Spur Mulliner, creating a distinction between the premium interpretation and a more conventional Special Vehicle Skin. The precise crafting requirements and token costs are being reserved for the collaboration’s full launch information, so any leaked values circulating before October 14 should not be treated as final.

What is clearer is the intended hierarchy. PUBG has used this structure before, most obviously with Aston Martin’s V12 Vantage Roadster and its more elaborate Luxe version. Both represented the same underlying real-world car, but the premium skin added features such as the functional convertible roof, exclusive animation and additional visual treatment.

Applying a similar philosophy to Bentley makes sense because the brand provides numerous details that can be layered into the higher tier without changing actual gameplay performance. The Flying B mascot, panoramic presentation, exhaust effects, wheel designs, brake-caliper colours and bespoke exterior finishes can all become part of the ownership fantasy while leaving the vehicle beneath the skin mechanically consistent with everybody else’s.

That separation is essential in PUBG. A cosmetic collaboration can make somebody look wealthier; it cannot reasonably make their getaway car faster simply because they paid for a Bentley badge.

The Continental GT Convertible brings a very different Bentley to the battlefield

The other major silhouette is the Continental GT Convertible Mulliner, Bentley’s flagship open-top grand tourer. Where the Flying Spur combines performance with the presence of a luxury sedan, the Continental is the more overtly sporting half of the collaboration, with two long doors, a lower roofline and a fabric top capable of disappearing to expose the cabin.

Bentley describes the current Continental GTC Mulliner as the pinnacle of its convertible range, combining the company’s strongest craftsmanship with its latest hybrid performance technology. The broader Continental GTC family uses V8 hybrid powertrains, while the highest-performance specification reaches the same 782 PS and 1,000 Nm territory found in Bentley’s Ultra Performance Hybrid models.

None of that makes much practical sense in a PUBG match, which is precisely why the car works as collaboration material. A convertible grand tourer with meticulously stitched leather is almost comically unsuited to crossing a field under automatic fire, but premium vehicle skins are partly valuable because they create moments that feel completely out of place in the Battlegrounds.

The convertible roof is likely to be the defining interactive feature. PUBG has already implemented functional soft tops through previous luxury collaborations, and early Bentley material points toward the Continental receiving an opening roof alongside its customised bodywork and exhaust presentation. If the final release follows those details, players will be able to decide whether being shot at looks better with the roof up or down.

Vehicle customisation has become the real selling point of these partnerships

KRAFTON explained its philosophy clearly in its development roadmaps: premium automotive collaborations should recreate not only the shape of a real vehicle but also some of the ownership experience. Exterior paint, interior choices and other options are increasingly important because the studio wants players to feel they have configured “their own car.”

Bentley may be one of the best possible brands for that strategy. The real company sells an extraordinary range of paint colours, hides, veneers, stitching combinations, wheels and Mulliner bespoke options, with customers able to commission highly individual specifications rather than selecting from a handful of fixed packages.

PUBG obviously cannot reproduce Bentley’s complete physical configurator inside the Workshop, but established collaboration systems provide a useful approximation. Previous cars have allowed players to craft separate paints, wheel designs, brake-caliper finishes and other visual options, then combine them through the Customize menu to build an individual version of the licensed vehicle.

Early information surrounding Bentley points toward body-colour, wheel and brake-caliper customisation for the Flying Spur models, with the Continental adding further visual options appropriate to the convertible. The final list should be judged from KRAFTON’s launch announcement rather than pre-release leaks, but the direction aligns exactly with what PUBG has publicly said it wants from premium vehicle collaborations.

Special Vehicle Skins are not supposed to turn PUBG into pay-to-win racing

The most important technical rule behind these collaborations has remained consistent: the licensed body does not replace the underlying gameplay balance of the vehicle. KRAFTON’s current Special Vehicle Skin documentation explains that changing a vehicle into its Bugatti, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Ducati or other premium form alters appearance and sounds, while values such as HP, performance, weight, fuel and driving behaviour remain based on the original vehicle.

There can be visual differences because an accurately modelled real car does not necessarily have identical dimensions to a Dacia, Coupe RB or other PUBG vehicle. Glass surfaces, roof shapes and body geometry can consequently alter what players can see or potentially shoot, and KRAFTON has previously documented those differences individually. However, the studio’s intention is not to sell a faster version of the vehicle.

Bentley should therefore be understood primarily as premium cosmetic transformation, not a new automotive class. A real Flying Spur may produce 782 PS, but PUBG is not suddenly giving one squad a 308 km/h escape tool while everybody else chases them in a normal spawn.

That balance constraint is precisely what lets KRAFTON become increasingly extravagant with the presentation. Doors can animate, a roof can disappear and exhausts can sound dramatically different without changing the fundamental question of whether the team made a good decision by driving across an exposed field.

The pre-match vehicle container is likely to become another showroom

Premium automotive collaborations have also developed a small ritual before matches begin. During several previous partnerships, PUBG placed a brand-specific container in the starting area, which owners of the relevant Special Vehicle Skin could open to display their car before the plane departed.

The vehicle exists only during the waiting period and disappears once the actual match begins, making the system function essentially as a temporary multiplayer showroom. Teammates can inspect the model, climb inside and hear its sounds without affecting the match economy or providing anybody with a guaranteed vehicle after landing.

Update 43.2 material indicates that Bentley-branded containers are being incorporated into starting areas as part of the collaboration, continuing that tradition. It is an especially appropriate feature here because Bentley’s own marketing revolves heavily around presentation, detailing and the idea of an arrival being an event in itself.

Before everyone boards a cargo plane and jumps toward abandoned buildings, there will apparently be time to admire the leather.

Bentley has already visited PUBG, but not this PUBG

There is an important historical distinction around this partnership. Bentley is not entering the broader PUBG ecosystem for the first time. PUBG MOBILE ran its own Bentley collaboration from March to May 2024, introducing four models: the Bentayga Azure, Flying Spur Mulliner, Continental GT Convertible Mulliner and limited-production Batur.

The mobile partnership mapped those vehicles onto the UAZ, Dacia, Coupe RB and Mirado respectively and also introduced Bentley-themed accessories through PUBG MOBILE’s separate collection systems. The Flying Spur and Continental were therefore already established as sensible choices for a Bentley battle royale crossover more than two years before the PC and console game followed.

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS is a separate game with separate vehicle systems, monetisation and development, however. Players should not expect items owned in PUBG MOBILE to transfer, nor should the four-car mobile lineup be assumed to return intact. The current PC and console campaign is its own collaboration and, based on the official reveal material, concentrates much more tightly on the Flying Spur and Continental GT Convertible rather than simply copying the old mobile collection.

That makes The Art of Arrival simultaneously familiar and new. Bentley has seen a battleground before; this is its first entrance into KRAFTON’s original PC and console Battle Royale.

The absence of the Bentayga is particularly interesting

The most obvious vehicle from the earlier mobile collaboration that does not feature prominently in the current reveal is the Bentayga, Bentley’s luxury SUV. On paper, it would seem almost unnaturally well suited to PUBG because the game already contains several four-wheel-drive vehicles whose proportions could accommodate an SUV Special Vehicle Skin without much conceptual compromise.

Instead, the promotional focus is on the Flying Spur and Continental. That suggests KRAFTON and Bentley wanted the collaboration to emphasise grand touring and luxury presence rather than obvious off-road utility, which fits the “Art of Arrival” campaign considerably better.

It also creates a more distinctive collaboration compared with previous SUV-heavy partnerships. Aston Martin already brought the DBX707 into PUBG, while Lamborghini introduced the Urus S alongside its sports cars. Bentley could easily have repeated that format with Bentayga, but choosing the Flying Spur places a full-size luxury sedan at the centre instead.

Whether additional Bentley models appear later has not been announced. For now, the reveal should be treated according to what KRAFTON has actually shown rather than assuming that every car from the 2024 PUBG MOBILE event will eventually migrate across.

The Flying Spur is a particularly strange replacement for ordinary PUBG transportation

There is something inherently entertaining about using a Flying Spur in PUBG because its real-world purpose is almost the opposite of the environment awaiting it. Bentley designs the car around isolation from road noise, elaborate cabin materials, passenger comfort and effortless high-speed travel; PUBG roads are full of potholes, sudden embankments, abandoned vehicles, gunfire and players who regard crashing through a fence as normal route planning.

That contrast has always been one of the strengths of licensed vehicle skins. A military-looking SUV appearing on Erangel feels expected. An immaculately detailed Bentley being driven down a dirt road with three helmeted passengers hanging rifles out of the windows does not.

It also changes how players perceive what is mechanically still familiar equipment. Vehicle choice in PUBG traditionally revolves around practical questions — seating capacity, terrain, speed, protection, fuel and the amount of attention the engine creates. A Special Vehicle Skin adds an entirely irrational factor: whether the squad would rather look spectacular while making exactly the same tactical decision.

Bentley is almost a pure expression of that irrational factor.

The collaboration arrives with Update 43.2

Bentley will enter the game as part of Update 43.2, with PC maintenance and deployment scheduled for October 14 before the console version follows on October 22. The update is considerably broader than the automotive partnership, so players returning specifically for the cars will also encounter several changes elsewhere in PUBG.

The headline gameplay addition is SLB: Dawnbreakers of Rondo, the next iteration of the Survivors Left Behind PvE experience. Rondo becomes the setting for another fight against the Hungers, with generators, escalating nighttime threats and a structure centred around surviving until dawn. Communication tools are being adjusted as well, including improvements to the Message Radial and world markers, while console players receive new control presets intended to provide both a more familiar shooter configuration and a more consistent PUBG-specific alternative.

Bentley therefore functions as the premium collaboration accompanying a normal live-service update rather than as the sole reason for the patch. That is consistent with KRAFTON’s recent cadence: major IP and automotive partnerships increasingly sit alongside mechanical content rather than replacing it.

PUBG has deliberately turned luxury cars into collectible endgame cosmetics

There is also no avoiding the monetisation context. Special Vehicle Skins have become some of PUBG’s most elaborate premium cosmetics, and previous automotive collaborations have commonly revolved around Crafter Passes, temporary collaboration Tokens, Loot Caches and Special Crafting.

McLaren established much of that structure, and later partnerships expanded it with increasingly extensive customisation and higher-end variants. Aston Martin’s Special Crafting, for example, allowed Tokens to be exchanged for the vehicles themselves alongside paints and other themed items. KRAFTON has subsequently revised parts of its monetisation and Workshop systems, but the basic principle of earning or acquiring temporary collaboration currency and spending it on limited premium content remains familiar.

At the time of the Art of Arrival reveal, KRAFTON has not yet provided enough fully indexed official information to responsibly quote Bentley Token prices or exact Crafter Pass requirements. Pre-release community reports contain numerical values, but the official collaboration launch is close enough that there is little reason to present leaked pricing as confirmed fact.

The safe conclusion is that Bentley will use PUBG’s premium vehicle ecosystem, while exact costs, Token requirements, bundle composition and availability periods should come from the final in-game and official store documentation once the PC collaboration opens on October 14.

The collaboration arrives just as Bentley itself is changing rapidly

The timing is interesting outside PUBG as well. Bentley is currently in the middle of one of the largest technological transitions in its history, combining increasingly powerful plug-in hybrid V8 systems with continued development of its first fully electric vehicle. The company’s Beyond100+ strategy has evolved as the luxury market has changed, but electrification remains central to its longer-term direction.

The current Flying Spur demonstrates that transition particularly clearly. A sedan historically associated with large combustion engines now combines a V8 with electric assistance while producing considerably more total power than many older pure-performance Bentleys. The Continental GT and GTC ranges have moved through the same technological shift.

At the opposite extreme, Bentley has also revived the Supersports philosophy with a deliberately purist, rear-wheel-drive Continental, demonstrating that the company is not attempting to define its future through one type of powertrain or customer. That wider context makes the PUBG partnership less unusual than it initially appears: Bentley has become increasingly active in presenting itself through entertainment, digital platforms and culture alongside conventional automotive marketing.

A battle royale is still one of the stranger places to demonstrate the brand, but it is no longer completely outside its orbit.

Mulliner makes digital ownership unusually appropriate

What makes Bentley particularly compatible with PUBG’s premium car system is the importance of individual specification. Real-world Mulliner exists partly because two wealthy Bentley customers do not necessarily want their cars to look identical. Paint, stitching, leather, veneers, metal finishes and bespoke commissions become part of the product rather than secondary accessories.

Digital ownership obviously removes the physical craftsmanship that makes those real options expensive. There is no artisan stitching virtual leather inside a PUBG model. But the philosophy of giving players multiple paints, wheel combinations and other details translates unusually well into a Workshop-based customisation system.

For KRAFTON, that gives the cosmetics more depth. One licensed model can support a whole collection of components rather than existing as a binary owned/not-owned item. For Bentley, the collaboration can represent a real part of its brand identity instead of merely placing a Flying B badge on a generic luxury vehicle.

It is exactly the “joy of ownership” KRAFTON identified in its 2026 roadmap when discussing future premium-car collaborations.

The Art of Arrival knows that subtlety has no place in a starting island

The trailer’s restraint is therefore slightly deceptive. Bentley traditionally sells itself through elegance, quiet confidence and craftsmanship, while PUBG’s premium vehicle culture has become increasingly theatrical. Putting those ideas together is unlikely to produce anything particularly discreet once players begin opening Bentley containers on the starting island.

That contrast is probably the entire appeal. A Flying Spur is designed to arrive somewhere important without needing to shout about it. A PUBG Flying Spur arrives surrounded by dozens of players punching one another while waiting to board a military transport plane.

The same vehicle can then spend the actual match bouncing across Miramar, racing a Blue Zone, stopping abruptly because somebody heard suppressed shots in a compound and eventually being abandoned with two destroyed tyres after its occupants decide continuing on foot is safer.

No Bentley advertising campaign would normally approve of that treatment.

PUBG does not need approval from the suspension.

October 14 will reveal exactly how expensive this arrival is

For now, KRAFTON and Bentley have accomplished the first stage of the reveal: establishing the cars, the tone and the platform dates without burying The Art of Arrival beneath a catalogue of Workshop currencies. PUBG x Bentley launches for PC on October 14, 2026, before reaching PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on October 22, alongside the console deployment of Update 43.2.

The full collaboration information will determine the practical details — how the premium Flying Spur differs from its standard counterpart, which base PUBG vehicles each skin can transform, exactly what can be customised and how many Bentley Tokens each part of the collection requires. Those are important questions, particularly given the cost associated with PUBG’s previous high-end automotive content, but they should be answered from the final release rather than estimates circulating before it.

What the trailer already establishes is much simpler. PUBG’s garage has spent years becoming more extravagant, and Bentley may be its most unapologetically luxurious addition yet. The Battlegrounds have never cared how you arrive as long as you survive. Bentley is here to argue that the first part still matters.