Fried Food
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I'd pay money for a "quick match" option on the end of round screen.
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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale
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I'd pay money for a "quick match" option on the end of round screen.
After 40 hours I never thought I'd manage to pull it off.
Learned a LOT about how that last ~15 alive goes many times, finally did it right.
It was a sad game to win, as I only encountered one guy early on, who gave me his Vector which took me to victory.
RNG was the real winner here. I constantly found myself near nobody. The 2nd person I killed (3rd person left in the match) simply didn't realize I was right next to them while they were concentrating on the one other remaining person which they knew the location of. The last guy and I were poking at each other through through doors and windows (he was inside) until I finally got lucky and game up behind him.
Learned a LOT about how that last ~15 alive goes many times, finally did it right.
It was a sad game to win, as I only encountered one guy early on, who gave me his Vector which took me to victory.
RNG was the real winner here. I constantly found myself near nobody. The 2nd person I killed (3rd person left in the match) simply didn't realize I was right next to them while they were concentrating on the one other remaining person which they knew the location of. The last guy and I were poking at each other through through doors and windows (he was inside) until I finally got lucky and game up behind him.
LurkerPrime
Member
Hestisdabest
Member
Since the update I can't talk to my teammates,anyone else having this problem? I've tried muting,unmuting,rebinding the talk key,making chat from teammates only to all..Nothings working...
Cc23830
Member
if its anything like me this morning, check your mic wire, your cat might have chewed through it ffs
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blurredvision
Member
Åesop;242724204 said:
Just a complete guess on my part, but if you've ever brought up your map while sitting on Wait Island, you'll see it's the upper-right island that never really makes much sense during actual gameplay. My guess is that during that minute wait, it's loading in some of the essential assets used throughout the map so you're not sitting on a loading screen for many seconds.
My friend has gotten stuck in that gas station wall twice in the past week, so glad they're going to fix it.
Matter of fact, we won a game just last night while he was stuck in the wall. Here's me getting the last kill in duos on a silly mf'r in a bush, while my friend is stuck in the gas station wall lol: https://streamable.com/4ztzu
Back to back #3's...fuck. I looted ~20 houses in Georgopol and I couldn't find any scopes other than a red dot...Fuck...
I have a 6700K and 980 Ti, 16gb DDR4 etc and I have most settings on very low/low and textures on high. I'd say I average about 90+ fps, but it can drop into the high 50's on the sunset map. They have improved performance but the game is far from being well optimised.
My settings:
AA - Medium
Post-processing - Very low
Shadows - Low
Texture - High
Effects - Very low
Foliage - Very low
View Distance - Low
See how you go with that. Some streamers use a dedicated PC just for streaming alongside their gaming PC, but obviously that's not viable for someone starting out.
I have a 6700K and 980 Ti, 16gb DDR4 etc and I have most settings on very low/low and textures on high. I'd say I average about 90+ fps, but it can drop into the high 50's on the sunset map. They have improved performance but the game is far from being well optimised.
My settings:
AA - Medium
Post-processing - Very low
Shadows - Low
Texture - High
Effects - Very low
Foliage - Very low
View Distance - Low
See how you go with that. Some streamers use a dedicated PC just for streaming alongside their gaming PC, but obviously that's not viable for someone starting out.
Fallout-NL
Member
Does anyone know what the deal is with the foliage distance? Seems to me like there's still a distance where grass doesn't render and you can just see someone regardless of him/her lying prone in high grass or not.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
It's because you can't see the bullet travel like you can in say, Battlefield. I don't know if they're going for more realism or if it's a technical limitation right now, but I definitely wish you could see where your bullets were going so you can adjust and learn the arc of the different weapons.
Foliage setting only affects the rendering distance of trees if I'm not wrong. I keep it on ultra because I hate every kind of pop up. Grass is the same for everyone, no?
Grass has hard rendering distance that isn't affected in any way by level of graphics settings. Only reliable cover over longer range is trees, rocks and larger bushes as those render at all distances.
They really should do what ArmA does for soldiers in prone at long distance, fake sink them into the ground little bit to make them harder to spot.
wesleyshark
Banned
November, AFAIK
Yes.
Make prone more BS than it already is? No thanks. This game needs less camper's advantage not more. Everyone is so damn passive because of this and 3rd person perspective encourages you to play that way.
BannedEpisode
Member
Pretty sure You can but the bullet velocity plays a part in if you can see it. If you shoot far enough and with a scope you will see your bullet.
Try the VSS which has a slow velocity and fast dip. You can see the bullet quite easily traveling on its path.
How it's BS if you are proned in the grass, but player e.g. 100m out sees you being proned on flat coverless surface? Game already has garbage tier amount of hard cover when outside of forests or buildings [e.g. Gatka fields] so using prone to hide for at least some soft cover needs to be viable.
How grass rendering is done it isn't viable before like last 2-3 circles.
I think it'd be cool, but I don't see them making the bullet system any more complex than it is currently.
My bad I misread your comment saying only at a distance. I didn't play arma, how did hitboxes work in that scenario? Did you just have two separate hitboxes? One for people far away from you and another for people close?
It's more optical illusion than anything else. Basically after X meter they render layer of ground Y cm above actual ground creating visual of player model slightly sinking into the ground.
It doesn't alter hit boxes of player model in any way, just makes it harder to spot without optics. Just like if player was in prone in the grass.
Not perfect demonstration, but gives you idea about how it works:
It's more optical illusion than anything else. Basically after X meter they render layer of ground Y cm above actual ground creating visual of player model slightly sinking into the ground.
It doesn't alter hit boxes of player model in any way, just makes it harder to spot without optics. Just like if player was in prone in the grass.
Not perfect demonstration, but gives you idea about how it works:
I like that! Hope they implement it, or just go for the Squad route when the game is more optimized and force render grass out all the way regardless of settings.
Edit: I'm wrong about Squad.
What distance is 'all the way'?
How does Squad handle it? Because I can't imagine that they just render all the grass.
I'm wrong about it rendering 'all the way out'. I think servers can force settings to be locked to require a specific setting (i.e. Shadows turned on). Perhaps PUBG could do the same, but increase rendering distance on grass based upon graphics settings and matchmake based on user settings.
Their goal is to force same baseline of graphics [grass, shadows...] for all users no matter level of personal settings in the BG, eventually.
LOL, nice!
Fallout-NL
Member
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I've noticed the VSS does show you the bullet compared to other guns, so you can see the arc of it.
They should do like Metal Gear Solid and make the last few bullets tracer rounds.
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I had a cuhrazy match last night. Was doing squad, my friend headshots a driver and we pin down a group and kill a couple of them. I down one of the guys, and I guess his friend ditched him cause I got the kill confirm after the blue field enclosed there.
So then me and my other friend go to some other apartment buildings, I'm staking out a mini tower trying to catch up the stragglers we left behind, but they never came. So this is where the first bit of fuckery comes up. I say 'Let's go back to the car' and IMMEDIATELY hear the car speeding off into the distance. That was a hilarious bit of comedy.
So then we go into a wheat field, and I see a plane flying in our direction. And I say 'Watch it drop a care package on top of us.' AND THE MAD PLANE DID! RIGHT ON TOP OF US! So we get into a little bushy place to cover the care package, and shit pops off. We see a jeep closing in, and then a Buggy from the opposite side, they start shooting at each other, I'm just taking pop shots while my friend is prone covering me. As I'm taking pot shots, a car pulls up behind us with 3 people. My friend kills one, I take one down with an AKM, leaving the last guy. My friend got downed at this point, so it's me and the last guy. We switch to our secondaries, he had the double shotgun and I had the regular shotgun, and he missed his shots and I hit some of mine, I reload once and finish him off. It was amazing.
We didn't win because I got cocky and fired out of my league at someone in high ground, and we died.
boneyjangles
Member
They have them, fire any sniper rifle without your effects detail on low.
I'm with you here - I feel like I've spent most of my time sneaking around and finding stuff, not a lot of gunplay, which leads to me screwing up once I'm in the last 20 or so.
I think I'm just the opposite. I'm semi-decent at the ranged encounters (I at least win some of them) but I'm getting slaughtered in close quarters. Some of it is just total BS / netcode / server de-sync / whatever, because I'll have what should be an insurmountable element of surprise and unload a clip into the guy only for him to turn around and 1 shot me, but other encounters are just me getting outplayed. For what it's worth I always aim for center mass in a frantic close quarters fight and I often lose to someone that headshots me, particularly with a shotgun. I've started avoiding buildings in the late game in favor of laying low in the hills, rocks, etc. I don't kmow if it's a good strategy but my success rate for encounters with someone entering a building I'm in is just laughable. I seem to do at least a little bit better outdoors.
Trojan
Member
I'm the exact same as you. I am so much better at mid-range/distance encounters than CQC. With headshots being 250% damage bonus, someone who's a sharp aim in CQC just needs one shotgun blast to the head to end it.
Tokubetsu
Member
one tip I can give you guys for CQC, is it feels like when shooting in third person most ppl tend to aim lower/move around with crosshairs lower. Try to break that habit. Like you guys said, you're definitely getting hit with headshots. That close you really want to be hitting top of chest and higher.
BizzyBum
Member
One of my squadmates might have been having the same issue pre-patch, but I think it sorted itself out a few games later. Not sure what was going on.
Human Trashcan
Banned
I've had it lock up on the loading screen since this update, which never happened before. Just stays on there forever and I have to use task manager to quit the game.
TheWorthyEdge
Member
Where do the Snipers mostly spawn? Haven't got a single damn one...
Anywhere where weapons spawn. I don't think it would make a lot of sense to make a certain weapon more likely to appear at a certain location. People would just go there en masse.
That said, then: sniper rifles mostly spawn where you find more loot. Dense areas like Pochinki.