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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale
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Åesop
Unconfirmed Member
Did you set up your Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator?
Fried Food
Banned
everyone was getting lag on the test servers. how many more people need to experience the problem? And don't tell me they didn't know people where having problems.
I kinda wish they had just rolled back the patch once they realized it was going to be a huge issue to fix, the first ~10 minutes of the game are now practically unplayable on the OC servers and it's especially bad if you're looting or fighting around areas that need jumping like the crates.
Totally ruined the game for now
Totally ruined the game for now
You mean like Overwatch is? Wouldn't it be weird if PUBG started moving in the direction of Overwatch with respect to microtransactions..
I think microtransactions for cosmetic items are great. With respect to watered down gameplay for consoles -- I'm not sure what specifically that means, but PUBG is going to be a console game as well. I don't mind playing this kind of game on a gamepad -- in fact, I prefer it -- As long as it's a level playing field and most/all other players are also using a gamepad.
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Åesop
Unconfirmed Member
Gotta figure out the economy of all of this. Don't care about the costumes and stuff. Would love to fund some other games
Like got a Gamescom crate. Hold onto it or sell asap?! Ahhh. I'm bad at this lol
The value will increase a lot, once it's not available anymore after gamescom.
Daffy Duck
Member
Hahahaha just tried a game, i enter a room and warp back outside into the corridor.
Diprosalic
Banned
is this game still extremely buggy or is it just me?
i guess my CPU bottlenecks it but here are some things i regularely get:
- 4-5 seconds of screen freezing during the jump section
- buildings not fully loading for 1-2 minutes (can't enter them if they're not loaded)
- constant stuttering
- loading screen never disappears (the game runs, i can jump out of the plane/walk around but the loading screen never goes away)
- several other problems
if i get into a game without problems it runs fine for the rest of it.
i guess my CPU bottlenecks it but here are some things i regularely get:
- 4-5 seconds of screen freezing during the jump section
- buildings not fully loading for 1-2 minutes (can't enter them if they're not loaded)
- constant stuttering
- loading screen never disappears (the game runs, i can jump out of the plane/walk around but the loading screen never goes away)
- several other problems
if i get into a game without problems it runs fine for the rest of it.
WhateverItTakes
Banned
Hmm. I've got the app on my phone and use 2 factor, yet I still can't sell for a week. Oh well, still crossing my fingers the School Jacket is worth something by then.
EDIT: Okay seems like the case for everyone. Maybe it's their way of stopping prices be artificially inflated? Idk.
Skyfireblaze
Member
Does anyone else have the problem of textures and models not really loading at high quality unless you stand directly next to them after the update? Trees especially looks like smeared blobs most of the time.
Lemonte
Member
Do you have game installed on normal HDD? SSD is pretty much must have for this game.
Skyfireblaze
Member
Hmm I would disagree with that one, I have the game installed on a regular 7200rpm Toshiba HDD and I have none of the problems the poster mentions. The only thing I really notice in term of HDD performance is that the initial loading into the warm-up zone takes a long time but otherwise it seems fine, I still always make it before the plane-phase starts.
Daffy Duck
Member
Are these lag issues solely on FP servers or is it all of them?
This is literally unplayable, I know they are working on it but it's soooo bad
This is literally unplayable, I know they are working on it but it's soooo bad
Well it seems it wasn't enough of a problem that they thought it was okay to rollout. I'm not excusing the performance issues, it bloody sucks that I join up to an OC game and get nothing but stuttering and warping where it means the first 10 minutes are entirely unplayable. My friend accidentally killed me through FF because of the bugginess.
Am I upset? Yeah. But it is Early Access. People keep saying "oh but you can't sweep away these issues just because it's in Early Access still." That is entirely understandable and there does need to be some standard of patch rollout in check to ensure things don't go as bad as they currently are. But, the standard of Early Access is to test, break, create and frustrate. You should know that when you come into a title that is deemed Early Access and that it will not be completely polished and will be buggy at times. It is the nature of development and the option is there for you to join in and be a part of that raw developer-customer relation.
Just read up a bit, everyone is experiencing these issues. It is due to the recent patch having bad performance.
It isn't specific to PUBG. If I recall correctly it was part of Valve's answer to market gambling/laundering to stop you instantly buying items and fluctuating their prices or something. Doesn't help that the mobile app is trash and hasn't really been kept to the standards of the desktop client.
Lemonte
Member
I had similar issues Diprosatic and they went away after I moved game to SSD. Maybe it's combination of many things. idk
I do now
don't understand why they wouldn't mention that in the first place
Yeah and then they hold it for 7 days if it's the firsrt time using it.
Diprosalic
Banned
i'm having those issues for the past few months.
normal HDD, i might move it to test it.
Skyfireblaze
Member
Now that you say it, I wonder if it's a general issue with UE4 games and fragmented HDDs. I had similar problems with the Lawbreakers Beta on PC which I installed on another HDD and resolved them by moving it to my Toshiba HDD. Both Lawbreakers and PUBG run on UE4 and since SSDs can't get fragmented in a normal sense it would make sense that your issues disappeared after you moved the game to your SSD. Doesn't help that these games are so huge either.
Diprosalic
Banned
Ahh well in that case I have no clue sadly. Hopefully you can get the issues solved and into winning those chicken dinners.
Skyfireblaze
Member
Seems UE4 games really need that HDD/SSD performance, I'm glad his solution helped in the end
Sounds like PUBG
But then you watch guys streaming who finish under the last 10 every game.
PUBG is a decision making game. The luck has effect in every match but it's more about you taking directions and assuming risks.
In time, you will know safe routes, spawn points and which weapons are better. Just enjoy your time and play as you please, you are going to have chicken dinners, sooner or later.
Daffy Duck
Member
Nah got to number 4, had a great position and got killed where the circle was going to end.
Got to complacent with my position.
Got to complacent with my position.
Diprosalic
Banned
i'm already eating well with those issues but now you'll have bring a crane to get me out of my room.
Seems UE4 games really need that HDD/SSD performance, I'm glad his solution helped in the end
i have all my games on the same HDD and i had no problems so far. only PUBG seems to demand that SSD.
Hate having a healing standoff in the final circle, for whatever reason I alwayse lose out.
I'm fully loaded on painkillers and have like 2 med kits and 2 first aids.
But as soon as I start taking damage the med kits never want to activate. I have to wait until I've lost 30% * 40 % of health and then I can start taking the med kit(that's the big full health one)
Just bad serverlag or bad coding?
I'm fully loaded on painkillers and have like 2 med kits and 2 first aids.
But as soon as I start taking damage the med kits never want to activate. I have to wait until I've lost 30% * 40 % of health and then I can start taking the med kit(that's the big full health one)
Just bad serverlag or bad coding?
Daffy Duck
Member
IIRC you can only use the first aids at a certain level of health.
Edit: Yep, if your health is 75 or above you can't use it.
Not so sure on the med kit though.
First aid kits and Bandages should only be usable when under 75% health, the Medkit should be usably and anytime (the big open box)
Heh no, there was severe rubber banding going on, lagg where you walked into a door and then suddenly where back outside the house several meters to the left etc.
Nah, played a lot of 3rd person games yesterday and I've never had such bad lag in the game. Teleporting everywhere especially in early game, it was really difficult to loot. I've never had such bad lag that I struggled to loot or get through doors. Something got messed up with the patch. Definitely worse than normal, though I did get lucky and had 1 or 2 games without heavy lag and the match I just won today wasn't very laggy. Though that might be because I did land far away and avoided everyone in early game.
Spartancarver
Member
Does this fix the Duo FPP glitches or just lag?
Gumbie
Member
Spartancarver
Member
Good. Moment to moment gameplay in FPP is far superior to TPP but the glitches and lag were nuts
They just tweeted that it should be fixed this morning.
Last night they had literally a message that they were working on the lag issues on the main menu.
And, as mentioned above, it's been fixed just recently (though I'd love to hear confirmation of it from actual players).
I've over 200 hours in already and am still playing.
no issues here regarding lag since the update.
Yeah it was the big med kit, it should work after 1 pt of damage.
Always craps out though :'(
OnionPowder
Member
My friend had this happen once, try switching weapons if you can't use consumables.