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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale
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BleedOrange
Banned
https://www.reddit.com/r/PUBATTLEGR...the_looting_system_went_from_being_quick_and/
Be sure to voice your opinions, one way or another.
Be sure to voice your opinions, one way or another.
you're confusing cause and effect. the loot isn't good because a lot of people land in those places, people land in those places because the loot is good.
Stay close to the edge of the circle. Don't go towards the middle. Follow these rules and you'll mostly always get to the top 20. If you want to get better at the game, you'll just have to play more.
Zomba13
Member
So whenever a player is closish to me I get a little bit of lag or fps drop or something. It makes fighting a bitch if they get close but it also gives me this weird sixth sense pseudo wallhack where if I get a judder I'm fairly positive someone is close/in the building even if they aren't moving at all and behind walls etc.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Okay, if you want to wake yourself up, go to milbase.
I had a really weird round where I got two guys then VSSed a guy on the scaffolding (I was actually pretty proud of myself since I got him running down the stairwell). At first I wondered why I was able to kill him with just 3 shots (the last one well after he should have healed) which revealed to me that apparently only a single painkiller had spawned in the entire base, no other meds. I spent the rest of the game playing the circle and trying to flank people, which ended up with me playing cat and mouse in the woods with like 2HP left for a full minute and a half. I launched a guy with a grenade and managed to get one shot on him before he blinked at me and I fell over dead.
I had a really weird round where I got two guys then VSSed a guy on the scaffolding (I was actually pretty proud of myself since I got him running down the stairwell). At first I wondered why I was able to kill him with just 3 shots (the last one well after he should have healed) which revealed to me that apparently only a single painkiller had spawned in the entire base, no other meds. I spent the rest of the game playing the circle and trying to flank people, which ended up with me playing cat and mouse in the woods with like 2HP left for a full minute and a half. I launched a guy with a grenade and managed to get one shot on him before he blinked at me and I fell over dead.
BleedOrange
Banned
As soon as you find a 4x or 8x at Sosnovka Military, go on top of the radar array (we call it Trump Tower in our friendgroup) and take that bitch over.
EmCeeGramr
Member
I actually found a 2x, 4x, and 8x and had both the VSS and a silenced M4. That's where I VSSed the guy and I wanted to feel like a silent god. Sadly, nobody showed up except for a distant car or two before the circle shifted east.
If your hardware isn't the greatest, you could try relaunching the game after each round. It's a bother, yeah, but it seems to work.
robotzombie
Member
really amazing when you get the jump on someone, shoot them 20 times with an akm, get network lag AFTER that, the lag stops and somehow you were killed by them with an ump...
PRBoricua
Member
Mobo: Asus Maximus VII Hero
CPU: Core i5-4690k (OC'd to 4.4 ghz)
GPU: EVGA GeForce 1080 FTW (No OC)
RAM: 16GB DDR3
I mean ... I know this is a CPU intensive game but is my chip already being bested? Do I need a i7 or something?
I got the same CPU as you, and a 970 as the GPU, and I haven't crashed in ages. What's your in-game settings?
BronsonLee
Member
HOLY SHIT FIRST CHICKEN DINNER
I scoped out where I thought it was going to end and just hid in the river and slowly picked the bones
I AM THE SWIM THIEF
I scoped out where I thought it was going to end and just hid in the river and slowly picked the bones
I AM THE SWIM THIEF
ffejeromdiks
Banned
This is the complete opposite of the truth, first person amps up the tension in a huge way, it's friggin' terrifying as it should be, you have to be on alert all the time without the crutch of the third person camera, it's anything but boring, I bet you're saying this after just watching some streamer play it without even trying it yourself, otherwise there's no way you'd say something as silly as "it's more boring".
"Splitting the community" on a game that currently has 200,000 people playing? Oh god no! How will you ever find a game!?!? Third persons always going to be the more popular choice, so what is it that you're complaining about exactly? You're never going to have an issue finding a game in pubg.
PRBoricua
Member
Screen Scale: 100
Anti-Aliasing: Ultra
Post Processing: Ultra
Shadows: Very Low
Textures: Medium
Effects: Medium
Foliage: Very Low
View Distance: Very Low
I've played with all of these effects with very little success one way or the other. Another thing I've done is do a completely clean install of my graphics drivers with Display Driver Uninstaller.
This is the error I get on every single crash as of the middle of July. Before that there was no error message, the game would just boot me.
OnionPowder
Member
Friend and I driving around and i found this squad, tried to run one over and it ended like this
After that my teammates remaining fought that squad and one of them ended up killing all 3. He looted up and ended up winning the game after that. Was a pretty rollercoaster.
After that my teammates remaining fought that squad and one of them ended up killing all 3. He looted up and ended up winning the game after that. Was a pretty rollercoaster.
Just got second place with a Red Dot AK and a shotgun. Played it cool and slow and got a kill to put me into second.
Then I went full Tropic Thunder and ran around in the open with my shotgun... Not realizing the full range of the circle was well out of it's effective range. Should have used that AK.
So close I can smell my first dinner!
Then I went full Tropic Thunder and ran around in the open with my shotgun... Not realizing the full range of the circle was well out of it's effective range. Should have used that AK.
So close I can smell my first dinner!
Not true:
It's Early Access. They're working on optimisation.
Yeah he streams PUBG(and Quake Champions of course): https://www.twitch.tv/fatal1ty
Confidence Man
Member
Are people invulnerable underwater? If so it's bullshit. I just unloaded into a guy swimming right toward me in the shallowest possible water and didn't get a single hit.
EmCeeGramr
Member
https://twitter.com/PUBATTLEGROUNDS/status/892929724908838912
Water is really weird. It's basically a magical solid surface in regards to bullets right now. You can toss grenades, but bullets won't pass through. There were also weird methods to get around this, like driving a car underwater and then shooting from the window, and crouching at the water's edge and wiggling the tip of your barrel until it went through the water, at which point you could shoot because the actual surface wasn't in the way, but those were patched. Some people have defended this by saying that most small arms calibers really do drastically slow down, divert, or fragment upon hitting water at those speeds, but it is ridiculous in shallow water, yeah.
Water is really weird. It's basically a magical solid surface in regards to bullets right now. You can toss grenades, but bullets won't pass through. There were also weird methods to get around this, like driving a car underwater and then shooting from the window, and crouching at the water's edge and wiggling the tip of your barrel until it went through the water, at which point you could shoot because the actual surface wasn't in the way, but those were patched. Some people have defended this by saying that most small arms calibers really do drastically slow down, divert, or fragment upon hitting water at those speeds, but it is ridiculous in shallow water, yeah.
ffejeromdiks
Banned
Removing the delay from the F loot is probably the best compromise they could come to until they can figure out a better solution.
paperspace
Member
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Twin Tails
Member
very glad they removed that shit
wesleyshark
Banned
Having all looting be instant is the best solution for now. It's cool to see devs react so quickly.
OnionPowder
Member
Finally getting good with the Kar98k. I am just absolutely in love with this gun.
https://streamable.com/i7sp9
https://streamable.com/i7sp9
Tokubetsu
Member
https://www.twitch.tv/fatal1ty
yeah he does pubg now mainly iirc lol, i ran into him in quake champions recently too though
Attleborotaco
Member
Watching TimTheTatman's stream and this amazing moment/glitch happened. I died of laughter.
https://clips.twitch.tv/StupidSuccessfulNigiriKevinTurtle
https://clips.twitch.tv/StupidSuccessfulNigiriKevinTurtle
broncobuster
Banned
I got so lucky in a match. My jeep flipped to its side to where I could sit in behind the driver seat and nobody noticed me. The circle kept narrowing with the jeep within the borders. I relaxed and watched as 15 players became 9 then 5 then 3. One player even hit behind the jeep and didn't notice. Last guy is maybe 20 feet away from me at this point, looking in the opposite direction, and healing up from his wounds. Casually exit the vehicle and take him out.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
So the lag tonight is unbearable. I really hope they're prioritizing it. It's consistently shitty.
ffejeromdiks
Banned
They'll definitely be back as soon as they can figure out how to make looting fair across all methods.
BleedOrange
Banned
They made the right decision
Edit: also lol @ all the people saying "but its a bug!". You don't get to decide what is a bug or not, the dev does. And in this case, the developer considers it a feature.
paperspace
Member
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But the people with Johnny #5 reading speed skills will be disappointed!
Like anybody was reading it when they dragged it that fast...
BleedOrange
Banned
And the game will still play better than if you guys had your way.
ffejeromdiks
Banned
Take it up with the developers "Added slight delay when using the drag-and-drop feature on items in inventory UI. We implemented this delay to provide a fair gameplay environment to all players"
The fact is, the mechanic was unfair towards newer players, that's just how it is. I've got several casual gamer friends into the game now and it's always a hard conversation to explain to them what drag looting is and why they should be using it, something so essential to early game survival shouldn't be so obtuse.
I'm quite fine with this, seems like the crazy ones that though drag and dropping as a skill differentiator and how they are totally better for using it because they were literally skipping a animation others weren't able to are the ones that are probably pissed right. So much for their skill ceiling.
BleedOrange
Banned
Easy fix. Fix the tooltip. There's always going to be esoteric strategies in games that aren't readily accessible. In this case you can either let it remain esoteric or just fix the tooltip.
Oh yeah man. We're so pissed that the game is better. You and everyone who wanted a delay on drag-looting would have made the game worse, and we're lucky the devs didn't agree with you.
Increasing my FOV in first person usually helps a lot with motion sickness if you haven't tried it. 95 FOV is usually pretty good.
It's an unintended feature. Pretty sure they weren't actively designing the game so that drag and drop looting was not playing an animation. And the devs were changing it originally, so clearly they thought it was not working as intended.
You need to chill out.
Feel so dumb. Down to the final two in solos, we can't see each other because Sosnovka hills. I try to be a little too sneaky and let myself fall into the blue. And I couldn't get out in time. 
Ah well, that's how I got my only solo win, seems fair to lose one to it. Now to just never do it again ever.
Ah well, that's how I got my only solo win, seems fair to lose one to it. Now to just never do it again ever.