Changing Weather
Most battle royale games only feature a few different maps. Although they are large enough to promote different types of strategies, the fact remains that there are only so many battlefields the player has to prepare for. Different weather conditions could really mix things up.
If it’s sunny outside, then the player doesn’t have to really worry about much of anything. It’s just a normal battlefield. Windy conditions would affect the trajectory of bullets and arrows though. Rain would diminish the effectiveness of molotov cocktails and make it harder to view other players through a scope. Snow would make it very dangerous to go outside, as footprints would make players easy to track. Hail would make a light plinking noise whenever it hit something metallic, making it harder to discern the sounds of other players in big cities, while also giving away the position of any player who’s lying down prone with a frying pan on their back.
These five weather patterns alone would force players to adopt at least five different ways of playing on only one map. Things could be made even crazier by occasionally changing the weather while the match is going on. Forcing players to react to the weather mid-match in only some of the games would create an interesting start to each battle. For example, a player scavenging for items while it’s still sunny out might grab a red dot sight even if they have a scope on their rifle. If it were to start raining, a red dot sight would prove infinitely easier to use. Players mostly scavenge for things they need at that moment. The possibility of the weather changing at some point would force players to always be thinking ahead to what they might need eventually.
