PUBG Crosshair Customization and Settings Sharing

Update 42.3 opens with the RPD and the first LMG Meta Rotation. Much further down the same patch notes, under the UX/UI heading, KRAFTON added a crosshair editor with four weapon profiles and a code that copies your settings onto someone else's machine.

Neither one moves a bullet. Both change what you are looking at for every second of every match, which is why they are worth reading properly rather than skimming.

What 42.3 added, and where it sits

The Update 42.3 patch notes carry six sub-sections under the UX/UI heading. KRAFTON marks PC-exclusive features in these notes with a leading (PC) tag, and in 42.3 exactly three feature sections carry it: PUBG: Playgrounds, POBG Maintenance Mode, and Settings Sharing. Crosshair Customization does not.

The live maintenance windows in the same notes are 12 August 2026, 00:00-08:30 UTC on PC and 20 August 2026, 01:00-09:00 UTC on console. Eight days apart, which is the standing pattern the crossplay guide tabulates across recent updates.

The four crosshair profiles

PUBG does not store one crosshair. It stores four, split by weapon category, and two of them come with stated limits.

Two things follow from that table and are easy to miss. The Flare Gun and Zipline Gun do not get their own slot, so tuning the Handgun profile is also what you will be looking at when you call in a care package. And the Throwables profile is deliberately stripped down: colour and opacity, no shape, on anything in the throwables category.

The 14 things you can actually change

KRAFTON lists four elements. Counting the individual properties under them gives 14 settings per profile, subject to the Throwables and Flare/Zipline carve-outs above.

You are not obliged to build one from scratch. The notes state you can pick from preset crosshair styles or create your own, that changes preview in real time, and that they save through the Settings menu.

Reach for Outline first. It is the property that lets one crosshair colour stay legible on both Miramar sand and Vikendi snow instead of forcing you to pick a map to lose on — the same visibility problem the console settings guide attacks from the brightness side.

What the patch notes do not say

This is the half that saves you a wasted evening in the menus.

• Scope reticles are not mentioned. The four categories are weapon classes, not sights. Sight reticles remain the older, separate system: the red dot swaps between dot, chevron, three-bar and crosshair patterns in red or green, and the red dot, holo and 2x all take brightness adjustment on the mouse wheel while aiming. That is covered in the crosshair placement guide and 42.3 does not change it.
• The notes do not name the Settings tab. They say changes "can be saved through the Settings menu" and stop there. The five top-level tabs in KRAFTON's own 42.3 screenshots are Graphics, Audio, Controls, Key Bindings and Gameplay.
• The notes describe no per-weapon profile. Four weapon categories is the granularity KRAFTON published; nothing in the notes suggests individual guns get their own slot.
• The notes never say whether a settings code carries your crosshair — see the next section.

Settings codes: what travels and what does not

Settings Sharing is the PC-tagged half of the pair, and it is the more quietly useful one. The in-game panel is called Save / Load Settings, and its four buttons are Load, Save, Generate Settings Code and Enter Settings Code, under a line describing it as saving your settings to the cloud and sharing them with others.

Two practical consequences. First, a code is not a one-click copy of a streamer's setup — Graphics is excluded by design, so resolution, FPS caps and brightness stay yours, and the FPS settings guide is still the thing you tune by hand. Second, the four importable categories are the top-level Settings groups — the same tabs listed above, minus Graphics — and the notes never say which of them the crosshair editor lives under. So whether a code carries your crosshair is genuinely unstated: do not promise a teammate it will arrive, and check the crosshair after importing one.

The 90-day expiry applies to unused codes, which matters if you keep one in a Discord pin. Regenerate before you re-share an old one.

Toggle or hold on six interface actions

Six interface actions became configurable as Toggle or Hold, under Settings > Controls > Key Input Method > Interface. The notes do not publish defaults; these are the states each one is set to in KRAFTON's screenshot of that screen:

The radials are the ones to think hardest about. Hold means the wheel closes the instant you release, which is faster when you already know which slot you want and worse when you have to look. If you have ever fumbled a heal under fire in a 1vX, that is the one to flip to Toggle for a week.

The key bindings menu was rebuilt too

Key Bindings gained four new tabs — Interface, Audio, Spectate and Replay, and Observer — and existing bindings were reorganised into them. Eleven new actions became bindable under the Interface tab:

Inventory Pick Up Item, Inventory Drop All, Inventory Drop Half, Map Marker, Waypoint, Delete Waypoint, Show/Hide Airplane Path, Apply Skin, Remove Skin, Match Log, and Missions.

Inventory Drop All and Inventory Drop Half are the two that change a routine: dropping a stack split without dragging a slider is a real saving in the sort of looting triage you do over a teammate's death box.

Three smaller items from elsewhere in the same UX/UI block. Under Settings Improvements, a side navigation panel now jumps between option groups, and a reset button restores individual options to their default values. Under Key Bindings, a Clear Binding guide sits in the bottom-right corner of the Settings screen, and pressing ESC clears a binding. The notes also confirm that key binding options for Equip Decoy Grenade and Equip Spike Trap were removed, both bindings for content the game no longer has; the tactical gear guide covers what else has been cut over the years.

Quick Action Checklist

• Build the General profile first and get it right before touching the other three
• Add an outline if one colour has to survive both Miramar sand and Vikendi snow
• Remember the Handgun profile also drives the Flare Gun and Zipline Gun
• Do not expect a shape on Throwables — that profile is colour and opacity only
• Leave scope reticles alone here; those are still the mouse-wheel brightness and red dot pattern controls
• On PC, generate a settings code once your Audio, Controls, Key Bindings and Gameplay are dialled in
• Regenerate any settings code you have not used in 90 days
• Try Toggle on the Heal Items Radial for a week before deciding Hold was right
• Bind Inventory Drop Half if you split ammo for teammates