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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale

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jim2point0

Banned
First time ever winning FPP solo when the game ends in the military base. That was fun. I absolutely would not have won if I didn't have a silencer for my AK. Thanks random dude I killed.

Speaking of random dude I killed, why do people jump when avoiding fire? I really should save that highlight just as a PSA to NOT DO THAT.
 
hououinkyouma00

hououinkyouma00

Member
jim2point0 said:
First time ever winning FPP solo when the game ends in the military base. That was fun. I absolutely would not have won if I didn't have a silencer for my AK. Thanks random dude I killed.

Speaking of random dude I killed, why do people jump when avoiding fire? I really should save that highlight just as a PSA to NOT DO THAT.
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To try to make them harder to hit. You run then jump hoping that their sights are trained in a way as that the shot hits low or misses below their body. It works but more so at longer ranges.
 
joecanada

joecanada

Member
Instead of whining in other threads I should post here . Game looks tons of fun in YouTube clips , is really cool and fun to play but the performance is really bad for me . Stutters , janky , framerates drop.

Normally this wouldn't affect my fun but at the level it's at it makes me dizzy and lightheaded..Should i ...

Adjust some settings?
Refund game and see if they improve for release?

What settings could help make it just smoother and stable? Increase fov too maybe?
I can't play as it is now.

Running a 1060 and i56500 for reference.
 
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Smokey

Member
joecanada said:
Instead of whining in other threads I should post here . Game looks tons of fun in YouTube clips , is really cool and fun to play but the performance is really bad for me . Stutters , janky , framerates drop.

Normally this wouldn't affect my fun but at the level it's at it makes me dizzy and lightheaded..Should i ...

Adjust some settings?
Refund game and see if they improve for release?

What settings could help make it just smoother and stable? Increase fov too maybe?
I can't play as it is now.

Running a 1060 and i56500 for reference.
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Probably your CPU.

I'm running a 1060 at 2560x1600, paired with a i7 6 core, and it runs fine with a mixture of High - Low settings.
 
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SkateorDi3

Member
they really need to implement a PING limit on server. We lost a squad game because our last player got killed before he could even return fire.
 
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EmCeeGramr

Member
I just had a FPP solo game where I assume either everyone died on military or there were a lot of AFKers because there were only 10 people left by the time that it got to the 2km circle.
 
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Blues1990

Member
I really like the zombie survival mode and how increasingly intense it becomes. My friends & I have come close to securing a win, but we usually make a poor last minute decision that causes us to fail miserably.
 
BizzyBum

BizzyBum

Member
Man I suck at this game. Been doing solo fpp and have gotten like 4 kills in about 4 hours. lol

How do you tend to play in solo? I feel like I'm too reckless and just rush around everywhere but that's only because I want to improve my gun fights so I'm actively looking for players but what usually ends up happening is I die from someone I never even see. I would find it boring to be that person who loots and wins games with 2 kills because I'm hiding the majority of the match.
 
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Blizzard

Banned
BizzyBum said:
Man I suck at this game. Been doing solo fpp and have gotten like 4 kills in about 4 hours. lol

How do you tend to play in solo? I feel like I'm too reckless and just rush around everywhere but that's only because I want to improve my gun fights so I'm actively looking for players but what usually ends up happening is I die from someone I never even see. I would find it boring to be that person who loots and wins games with 2 kills because I'm hiding the majority of the match.
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Whether in first-person or third-person, even expecting the areas people will run through, it's almost impossible for me to find anyone at this point. I landed in a town a few minutes ago with 6 people, saw 0. Landed in a different area, looted an entire town, got to the top 13, saw 0 people. Landed in school, saw 2 people parachute there but never found them. Landed in military base, maybe 2 other people dropped there.

It's kind of crazy.
 
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maverickjesus

Member
Got absolutely reamed out in a solo game last night by a guy who went on a killing streak with an AWM from #15 (me) to #1. God knows how many he killed before that, I was clipping him with an AK from range and he just swivelled on a dime and one-shot headshot me.

In fact, he one-shot headshot pretty much everyone from that point. Hopefully it was just mad skills and not anything nefarious.
 
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AcridMeat

Banned
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SLICIN EM UP
GYAAAHHHH
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Stygr

Banned
New peak at 931,017.
Close to 9 million copies
Steamspy
Owners: 8,718,648 - 8,919,106
Players total: 8,636,562 - 8,836,098 (99.06%)
Players in the last two weeks: 6,587,368 - 6,762,188 (75.69%)
Average playtime: 83 hours, 18 minutes
Average playtime in the last two weeks: 21 hours, 32 minutes
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cripterion

cripterion

Member
AcridMeat said:
Nice video/music choice. Really thought you'd have the last guy.
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lol thanks but that's the story of my life, I get some chicken dinner here and there but most of the times, I never get the finish.

Nowadays I do play this game mostly for the kills and just go wherever the circle takes me, just dicking around basically.
 
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ryousuke

Member
2 hours in, I've been #5 once and really having a blast with this game. I usually never play pvp games but damn it's good
They should add some shooting range or something, just to try weapons. My first fight was.. messy :x
 
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HowZatOZ

Banned
joecanada said:
Instead of whining in other threads I should post here . Game looks tons of fun in YouTube clips , is really cool and fun to play but the performance is really bad for me . Stutters , janky , framerates drop.

Normally this wouldn't affect my fun but at the level it's at it makes me dizzy and lightheaded..Should i ...

Adjust some settings?
Refund game and see if they improve for release?

What settings could help make it just smoother and stable? Increase fov too maybe?
I can't play as it is now.

Running a 1060 and i56500 for reference.
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What's your ram at? Also are you running in an SSD or HDD? At least 8GB of RAM is best, and running in an SSD helps incredibly.
 
cripterion

cripterion

Member
Sometimes I just want to chill and play this game without headphones, but it's litterally impossible to do, get always killed easy in the mid game, if I make it out of the early game at all.

That's something console players will have to think about too, this game is really heavy reliant on a headphone setup. Personally I never wear them when I play console games.
 
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maverickjesus

Member
cripterion said:
Sometimes I just want to chill and play this game without headphones, but it's litterally impossible to do, get always killed easy in the mid game, if I make it out of the early game at all.

That's something console players will have to think about too, this game is really heavy reliant on a headphone setup. Personally I never wear them when I play console games.
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I have a problem with my sound card at the minute (it randomly cuts out during waiting area) and its basically impossible to play with no sound - I didn't realise just how heavily I rely on directional sound in this game (both for tracking other players moving around nearby and finding/avoiding firefights.)
 
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Blizzard

Banned
HelloMeow said:
Is there a right way to open doors? Because around 25% of the time when I press F nothing happens.
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It's probably server lag or you're slightly out of range.

The last couple of days I've also started having the ghost door thing, which I guess is server desync. The door may play the sound, but it will render as open when it's closed or vice versa. That's probably going to get me killed one day.
 
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Grassy

Member
cripterion said:
Sometimes I just want to chill and play this game without headphones, but it's litterally impossible to do, get always killed easy in the mid game, if I make it out of the early game at all.

That's something console players will have to think about too, this game is really heavy reliant on a headphone setup. Personally I never wear them when I play console games.
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I don't think so. I never really use my headphones and I still do well and win chicken dinners. Try using "Volume normalization/equalization" with your speakers, it helps a lot by boosting footsteps and other quieter sounds.
 
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HelloMeow

Member
Blizzard said:
It's probably server lag or you're slightly out of range.

The last couple of days I've also started having the ghost door thing, which I guess is server desync. The door may play the sound, but it will render as open when it's closed or vice versa. That's probably going to get me killed one day.
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I doubt I'm out of range when I'm literally running into it and it tells me to press F.

By the way, the game really can't handle 100 players. Every game starts out with around 500 ms lag for everything. It's great when it works, but the game is a mess.
 
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Spartancarver

Member
HelloMeow said:
I doubt I'm out of range when I'm literally running into it and it tells me to press F.

By the way, the game really can't handle 100 players. Every game starts out with around 500 ms lag for everything. It's great when it works, but the game is a mess.
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Yep. Initial 30 seconds of looting are a nightmare
 
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Vipu

Banned
HelloMeow said:
I doubt I'm out of range when I'm literally running into it and it tells me to press F.

By the way, the game really can't handle 100 players. Every game starts out with around 500 ms lag for everything. It's great when it works, but the game is a mess.
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Because UE4 is made for 64 players max, thats why when around 64 players are alive it is good again.

PU is working with Epic to get the netcode work with over 64 players but like always they say "it takes time"
 
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HelloMeow

Member
Vipu said:
Because UE4 is made for 64 players max, thats why when around 64 players are alive it is good again.

PU is working with Epic to get the netcode work with over 64 players but like always they say "it takes time"
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Then they should limit the player count to 64 until the game can support more players. I don't see the point of having more than 64 players if that means the game is this laggy.
 
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cackhyena

Member
Had my best game ever last night getting third on FPP. Made a dumb mistake at the end. Managed to get to a crate no one noticed early and it gave me the AWM and an 8x. Got a head shot off at 300 meters. I haven't had that good a feeling making one since somewhere around Bad Company 2.
 
Erebus

Erebus

Member
Caved in and bought the game the other day to see what the fuss is about. I can see how it can become addictive when you master some techniques.

Right now, I'm getting my ass whopped hard especially on 1 on 1 encounters. It seems like 2 hits are enough to take me down but when I shoot an enemy they can take several hits and still live. Probably my aiming sucks but still it's frustrating because I was never that bad in other FPS.
 
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jim2point0

Banned
Erebus said:
It seems like 2 hits are enough to take me down but when I shoot an enemy they can take several hits and still live. Probably my aiming sucks but still it's frustrating because I was never that bad in other FPS.
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Might be they're aiming for your head. Or they have armor when you shoot them. You will die very fast in this game if people are getting good headshots in or you have low level armor.

Other than that, practice makes perfect :)
 
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ElyrionX

Member
Third game ever. Killed one player. Had a M416 and Kar98 with x4 scope. 13 players left. Thought I was in a good spot. Driving a buggy and just arrived in white circle. I jumped out while the buggy was still moving.

Died from falling.

FML.
 
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Swig_

Member
ElyrionX said:
Third game ever. Killed one player. Had a M416 and Kar98 with x4 scope. 13 players left. Thought I was in a good spot. Driving a buggy and just arrived in white circle. I jumped out while the buggy was still moving.

Died from falling.

FML.
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This has happened to me a few times.. suuuuuucks. One time I was on a motorcycle, doing pretty well and I accidentally hit F because I adjusted my hand and meant to turn right.

Feels bad, man.
 
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AcridMeat

Banned
It's funny, I've never lost a 1v1 for chicken, but if it's 3 left I get fucked.
cripterion said:
Sometimes I just want to chill and play this game without headphones, but it's litterally impossible to do, get always killed easy in the mid game, if I make it out of the early game at all.

That's something console players will have to think about too, this game is really heavy reliant on a headphone setup. Personally I never wear them when I play console games.
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That 11 kill game I had was with speakers...
 
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EmCeeGramr

Member
There is nothing more frustrating than landing in a town and engaging someone who completely wimps out and runs the fuck away as soon as you shoot back or they get slightly hurt (especially if they charged you to begin with) and then you have to deal with everyone who was attracted by the gunfire.
 
Meccs

Meccs

Member
Played my first two games, was 13th on the second match. Had no real clue what I am doing but killed three guys lol

Not sure yet if I like the game. It's probably better with friends but I don't have friends :|
(that play the game)

Game runs way better than expected on my RX 480 and the old i5 4570. I get pretty much 60 everywhere on high settings except the waiting area and the flyover.
 
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Flizzzipper

Member
I installed reshade and although it's cuts about 15-20 fps it looks a lot better to me and the game still runs fine with my 970/16 gb ram/ssd. I don't have it set especially bright or over-saturated. I also turned off mouse acceleration in windows and that seems to have helped. I still have my moments but I'm a lot more consistent. Especially with committing to my shots. I need to make crouching before I shoot more of a habit.

I played a lot but I picked up three solo fpp wins this weekend. Clipped my last one, love the auto highlight feature that they've added!

Winner
 
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Duffk1ng

Member
Can't survive past the first few minutes tonight. Nobody dies when I shoot them. So frustrating.

Sound is pissing me off too. I swear I can hear people firing properly over nearby bullet impacts. One guy was right next to me without a suppressor and I could barely hear him over the impacts.

Christ the next game I died even quicker because I got punched to death by a guy with no armour after hitting him 4 times with an S12k.

Ffs and in the next one I die jumping out of a stationary vehicle. What's the point?
 
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