Golden_Pigeon
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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale
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I call that one The Potato.
Oh, you mean Venice?
The Quarry for the big horseshoe ridge in the SW corner.
And the round-ish watchtowers we call Wizard Towers for some reason.
Shit Shack for those annoying little shacks.
Mushroom for those weird 2 story grey circular buildings that tend to be alone.
Potato for that brown hill spot toward the middle of the map.
Fiber Myalta for Myalta.
Ra's al Ghul for Rozhok.
There is discord channel that hosts 1st person custom games almost every day for few hours for all interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/PUBATTLEGR...rst_person_only_custom_games_18_games_a_week/
Mister Negative
Member
Anyone use shadowplay with PUBG? Thinking about turning it on but I've never used it before - wondering if it has much of an effect on FPS. Does the instant replay recording length you have set affect how much it hits your framerates?
Frozenprince
Banned
I have found a 98K in a cabin but that may have been early access loot table bullshit and not intended as I've only ever found one and never optics.
Waterworld
Legoland (any area with shipping crates really)
Super mountain
Poop mountain
Mansion
Crater
jediyoshi
Member
As long as you have a compatible GPU, you shouldn't have any real performance hit. The bottleneck would mostly be coming from the drive (write speed) you're recording to since it's what's constantly being written to.
Mister Negative
Member
Good to know...and it definitely came in handy. Just won the first game we played with it on and my squad mate 3v1'd a team to win it.
I definitely made sure to switch it so that it's writing to my hard disk instead of my SSD though.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Correction: The most soul crushing feeling is making it through the edge of the blue, and then the game deciding to take one more tick of health and kill you anyway.
Venice makes sense, but for some reason the nickname that stuck with me for the water town is "Atlantis".
I had a memorable duo game last night. I was matched with someone who never spoke, but they could apparently hear me since they got in a car when I asked. I think we escaped from far outside the circle, and we went on a massive high-speed, vehicle-switching driving trip to the middle of the island. I flew past obstacles, just barely missing them, and at the end curved perfectly to stop in a picket fence yard under cover.
At that point I told them they could crouch twice to praise my amazing driving, and they ran back out of the house to crouch twice. I'd like to think they almost had a heart attack while riding along, were amused, or both.
Sadly we didn't make it very far on foot, but the driving was fun.
I had a memorable duo game last night. I was matched with someone who never spoke, but they could apparently hear me since they got in a car when I asked. I think we escaped from far outside the circle, and we went on a massive high-speed, vehicle-switching driving trip to the middle of the island. I flew past obstacles, just barely missing them, and at the end curved perfectly to stop in a picket fence yard under cover.
At that point I told them they could crouch twice to praise my amazing driving, and they ran back out of the house to crouch twice. I'd like to think they almost had a heart attack while riding along, were amused, or both.
Sadly we didn't make it very far on foot, but the driving was fun.
I thought that was the case already. I've learned I can sometimes tank the barrier and heal with a medkit, but last night I was in the top 10 and died very quickly from full health in the barrier before I could make one of the really tiny circles.
I'm almost positive no one shot me and I had full or high health first, so I'm really unsure what happened.
jediyoshi
Member
It does, the last 2-3 playzones will kill someone outside at full health faster than they can pull off a health kit.
This is already how it works. It's even a bit ridiculous sometimes.
While we're asking questions about game mechanics, is there any gameplay point to the following besides visibility?
I'm guessing not, but for all I know there is some tiny additional amount of protection if you wear a padded jacket.
- Hats (e.g. baseball hat)
- Pants / shirts / padded jackets
- Protective glasses
- Boots
- Ballistic / gas mask
I'm guessing not, but for all I know there is some tiny additional amount of protection if you wear a padded jacket.
Everything's cosmetic. Ballistic mask is supposed to eventually have damage reduction/armor
therealminime
Member
I hope we get a map in the future that isn't sniper friendly. Every single game just comes down to a bunch of people hiding behind a tree sniping each other and it's boring. Getting up close and personal is so much more interesting.
I wish I could snipe someone. I've found sniper rifles a few times, but I've VERY rarely ended up with both a sniper rifle and a 4x or higher scope.
The problem is that even if I do have those, finding a spot where my back is covered and I can see people is difficult. If I go prone, I know anyone from a distance will see me through grass, and simultaneously I can't see. As a bonus, my bullets might hit the dirt.
If I crouch, I can't see through windows, and I'm easily visible anywhere outside. I can crouch in a bush, but that's still visible from a distance. If I stand up, I can see through windows, but then I'm easily visible from the outside if someone has a scope.
*edit* I wish there was a practice mode with just sniper rifles where people could deathmatch.
Comrade Doggo
Member
A practice mode would be probably the most welcome addition for me. I have similar issues with sniping and just shooting from a distance - I don't get experience enough with it to really figure out zeroing distances properly with different scopes, and when I do get the opportunity I give it up to my more experienced friends rather than missing a ton of shots and giving away our position.
therealminime
Member
Yeah this is definitely what I want more then anything right now. Being able to figure out long range combat and how many of the more obscure weapons work would be very welcome.
I just realized this game has a built-in feature for assholes.
I got matched with a random duo who was screaming racial slurs into the mic. I acted normal until the first building, picked up an assault rifle, and immediately teamkilled him. Checked and balanced.
*edit* The crossbow is the ultimate practice mode weapon. In a real game the chances of me actually killing someone with it and being able to reload are pretty darn low.
I got matched with a random duo who was screaming racial slurs into the mic. I acted normal until the first building, picked up an assault rifle, and immediately teamkilled him. Checked and balanced.
*edit* The crossbow is the ultimate practice mode weapon. In a real game the chances of me actually killing someone with it and being able to reload are pretty darn low.
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
It's one of the greatest game feature.
Comrade Doggo
Member
I feel like the internet can be summed up pretty accurately in the plane and in the pre-game lobby. It's basically like reddit/4chan threw up in a video game lobby.
Such a shame.
In a world where people weren't assholes, It'd be cool if they had some mandatory mic servers, so people hiding upstairs would have to control their breathing when someone else is in the same house downstairs..
PetriP-TNT
Member
Racist Island and the Bigot Plane are quite often really souring my experience. Of course I can turn off the voice chat, but that's like shoving your head into sand like an emu. Are online shooters really the concentrated essence of garbage human beings? Most likely. I mean things like CS:GO are as bad, but at least there's not fucking 100 of them on every match.
darkwing-buck
Member
Oh wow, the VSS is a laser with the cheek pad.
Comrade Doggo
Member
It's occasionally generated some pretty funny events (like someone playing Jump Around into the mic and about 40 people in a circle all jumping in somewhat-unison) but the amount of just screeching into the mic cancels it out.
jediyoshi
Member
Welcome to online voice chat everywhere.
therealminime
Member
Yeah I really hope for some FPS only servers down the road. It'll be a very different game. Way more intense too.
Hip Hop
Member
Have there been any word on wether thats happening?
I really want first person only servers.
also, i really need a new map. As much as im enjoying the game, the map is getting really stale.
Agent_Carnage
Member
Is there a way to turn off Prox chat? It seems lately if I get killed someone spouts out some random racial or some sexist slur for no reason.
therealminime
Member
Yes, under sound, at the bottom, switch voice channel to none. Say goodbye to all voice chat in game. Or set to squad only or whatever the wording is.
Agent_Carnage
Member
Thanks. I was getting tired of hearing crap.
You can toggle it with Ctrl-T
EmCeeGramr
Member
Second #2 since the reset and after a bunch of incredible VSS kills I finally got a circle where the other dude had that long craggy hill covered in grass in the field southwest of the school and I had the... 100% empty field to the north of that.
It's undoubtedly more work to implement and test, but the idea went through my head -- why not have the best of both worlds? Keep third person, but players will be invisible unless your character actually has line of sight to them. Bam, all the comfort and fun of third person gameplay but none of the weird third person camera spying.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Yeah the first person servers can't come soon enough. I'm beginning to wonder if it's going to get scrapped =/
You can increase render resolution to counter that, but i think that pixel crawling in a game when you have to spot pixel movement is not a great approach.
I think it would just be very unclear when your guy has line of sight or not and therefore whether there's actually nobody in a given place or if it's just your character model whose direct line of sight is blocked. Without any visible fog of war, that is, at which point I think going first person may just be the more comfortable option.
Blam
Member
Yeah it's pretty nauseating.
Was there a new patch yet? That's what I've been waiting for to come back since I've been busy playing Tekken. Was looking at steam stats though and just saw this game is over 200,000 concurrent users right now, never seen it that high. Hot damn, wish I was the creator of this game 
It's about 1/3 CS:GO player numbers and that took years to grow to that level.
It's about 1/3 CS:GO player numbers and that took years to grow to that level.
You can thank the 3rd person for this too.