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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale

Ourobolus

Banned
Sitting here with the network lag icon suddenly popping up. Lasted about 30 sec so far. Ridiculous. Probably dead or I hope the server died.

Ugh. Had an 8x tricked out M4 too.

EDIT: yay timeout/match is over
 
Um, so this was a first. The last guy seemed to disappear, I presume he fell through the map? He died drowning in an area where there certainly wasn't water.

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Armaly

Member
Sitting here with the network lag icon suddenly popping up. Lasted about 30 sec so far. Ridiculous. Probably dead or I hope the server died.

Ugh. Had an 8x tricked out M4 too.

EDIT: yay timeout/match is over
You know what's the worst? When you're in a firefight and the network lag pops up. Shot a dude that was jumping out of a balcony and network lag popped up. Next thing I know he's behind me with a ump when it goes away.
 
Sitting here with the network lag icon suddenly popping up. Lasted about 30 sec so far. Ridiculous. Probably dead or I hope the server died.

Ugh. Had an 8x tricked out M4 too.

EDIT: yay timeout/match is over

Had the same thing happen to me also. Was in the middle of sniping a dude from like 700 meters with an AK+suppressor+8x.
 

abelasabel

Neo Member
Um, so this was a first. The last guy seemed to disappear, I presume he fell through the map? He died drowning in an area where there certainly wasn't water.

funny how i experienced this last week. tried to ram a person with a bike through the bunker early game, missed, and fell into the abyss instead.

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Burt

Member
So let me guess servers are shitting the bed again? I got fucking killed thanks to that network lag error.

I did have to DC because of network lag for this first time ever tonight, but I played a game or two after that were okay.

I see, thanks. Im not using my headphones admittedly, as I can't get my dumb PC to pick up my mic (Cloud Core headset)

No idea how to fix it, so Im a terrible teammate that can't communicate, and theres no text chat.


Anywho, outside of the sound direction, I just feel like once I get shot at from a distance, its game over for me. Ideally, Im running into a house, but I just feel like I can't force an engagement like I can in nearly any other shooter because I either can't see the enemy, or by the time I do, Im getting shot to death.

Coupled with the terrible feeling hit detection (in terms of feedback and putting shots in, etc), it just feels unfun

For example, Ive gotten into many face to face confrontations that have just been about holding down the shoot button and seeing a lifeless/unreactive body shoot back.

Its hard to explain, because obviously when you are face to face, thats exactly how it should go down, but this game just feels like I have no idea whats going on, or die instantly despite shooting at an enemy as well.... are they just better equipped than me? Are headshots instant kill?

Lack of a kill cam really sucks because it could help me understand.

Yeah, I have a Cloud 9 HyperX with a buggy mic that only works in like half of games, so I feel your pain there. I've had

mother

fuckers

that i'll never not be angry at

shoot me because they're talking in team chat about needing an assault rifle so I drop them my extra one and shoot at it a few times to let them know and they turn and light me up because they think I'm shooting at them.

So I know how much it sucks not having a mic

But I do have to say that I've never played a game that I've felt headphones were more important than this one. I couldn't imagine playing on speakers, although I'm sure a lot of players do.

Squaring off with people in this game is just a shitshow 90% of the time, though. You'll get the jump on someone close range with your AK set to full auto and miss 8 shots out of 10 and get killed, and then the next game when you think you're learning from your mistake, you'll get in the exact same situation and die because you had your AK set to semi-auto and didn't get enough shots off before the enemy's AK peppered you at full auto.

And the truth of that is that you didn't fuck up either time, it's just the game's RNG. Some shoot outs you win, and some you lose. Gear helps your odds, but it doesn't make anything impossible.
 

HowZatOZ

Banned
I think they mentioned it's because FPP is still in beta. I've been playing from Australia on the AS servers and it feels pretty good to me. There's hardly any lag other than at the start of the game where there's a tiny delay in picking up items.

I mean yeah I understand it is in beta but you would think they'd be rolling it out to all servers to test. The more testing the better really, and it even has a beta label alongside the game itself being in Early Access. I'll give AS a try though, I'm in Brisbane so ping will probably be decent-ish. Just sucks they roll it out to NA and EU first then to AS but no communication on a timeline or anything.
 

Wardancer

Neo Member
Never underestimate the range of the uzi: https://streamable.com/npvdn (the guy in the tower had a m416 and this is just the tail end of the duel)

If anyone needs a video to show why FPP makes fields more fun: https://streamable.com/vxgnf (and also learn the secrets of field stealth... drop your shit)

Squad FPP is pretty great, and a lot of people have a lot to learn about FPP. We get overwhelming people by closing in fast over open terrain because they couldn't keep an eye on us due to a one guy putting down cover fire.
 

Oreoleo

Member
Just got back to the game for the first time in about a month (FP is great) and I'm on a new rig and everything runs great now, but the Inventory menu hitches (not the game though) for a brief moment when I open it up. Does anyone else get this? Like, the inventory will open and do a quick fade in, but before it fades all the way in it stops just for a split second. I'm assuming it's something that happened in a patch over the last few weeks and not something to do with my system, but some confirmation would be nice.
 

Oreoleo

Member
Some people are having issues with the inventory screen for some reason. Not sure why.

Could lead to a memory leak as well, from what I've heard.

Good enough for me, I can deal with it (Early Access and all that). Thanks for the quick reply!
 

Nabs

Member
Just got back to the game for the first time in about a month (FP is great) and I'm on a new rig and everything runs great now, but the Inventory menu hitches (not the game though) for a brief moment when I open it up. Does anyone else get this? Like, the inventory will open and do a quick fade in, but before it fades all the way in it stops just for a split second. I'm assuming it's something that happened in a patch over the last few weeks and not something to do with my system, but some confirmation would be nice.

I've been getting it for as long as I can remember. I have no idea what's causing it.
 

jdmonmou

Member
I got a kill when someone tried to run me over in a Darcia. I didn't have any guns, only a machete. When they missed and stopped the car I hopped in the backseat, got him with the machete, switched to the driver seat and took off. My friend calls me the Uber Killer after that. I wish I had shadowplay turned on for that.
 

Kioshen

Member
This guy's skills are awesome. He's really quite consistent and he's not a super loud and obnoxious streamer either.

https://www.twitch.tv/soltek1h



That's....a stretch lol. If that's the reason, then why wouldn't we just call it "wizard?" lol

Currently watching it and it's a nice stream indeed. I know it's there for a reason but covering up the map with hand/crosshair cam irritates me. I'm also puzzled as to why people call those buildings wizard towers or even harry potter towers. At least it's short and unique so probably that's why it stuck.
 
Currently watching it and it's a nice stream indeed. I know it's there for a reason but covering up the map with hand/crosshair cam irritates me. I'm also puzzled as to why people call those buildings wizard towers or even harry potter towers. At least it's short and unique so probably that's why it stuck.

Sometimes it's hard to see what he's shooting at, so it's cool to see the zoom cam at the bottom. And yeah, I wish I could see the map as well, but I understand why they are doing it.
 

Wardancer

Neo Member
Currently watching it and it's a nice stream indeed. I know it's there for a reason but covering up the map with hand/crosshair cam irritates me. I'm also puzzled as to why people call those buildings wizard towers or even harry potter towers. At least it's short and unique so probably that's why it stuck.

Yeh its just a short and unique name for them, like once its established in your squad you cannot really mistake the callout for anything else when someone goes "Second floor wizards tower!"

Its probably the only real consistant callout we have heh everything else is mostly "OVER THERE!"
 
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