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[TurboLibre]

For real, the matchmaking is starting to grind on me. Being matched up with English speaking players has become so rare, I can go all night without being able to communicate.

Its starting to make this a "Can only play with friends game" and most of them have moved on.

 

[Blizzard]

For real, the matchmaking is starting to grind on me. Being matched up with English speaking players has become so rare, I can go all night without being able to communicate.

Its starting to make this a "Can only play with friends game" and most of them have moved on.

I started playing with a Mandarin Chinese phrase sheet website. If I play in the evening on NA servers, it's probably 90% Chinese teammates for duo or squad games.

They're generally nice players. I think I've had exactly one creepy or obnoxious Chinese teammate, and every other horribly obnoxious teammate has had an American accent, but communication does become very difficult.

Between the Chinese players, increased queue times in solo (this tends to kill multiplayer games for me), server lag, the bizarre lack of weapons in an 8-10 game streak yesterday, lobby bugs over and over, and the continued Asian server default even after a 400+ MB patch, I'm seriously being tempted to quit playing for the first time. Obviously it doesn't matter to Bluehole since they've had my money for quite some time, but yeah.

 

[Anne]

The latency issues have basically killed my desire to keep playing this for the time being. Unfortunate because I really do like it, but I feel like I'm at my own personal limit with the amount of influence latency has on my actions.

I don't play FPS games on PC to have hilariously low tickrates and netcode like this :<

 

[Hoo-doo]

Why is it when I finally have a match where I find a 8X scope, I immediately find a ton of scopes right after?

Me and a friend found four separate 8X scopes and a 15X scope last night.

 

[demosthenes]

Why is it when I finally have a match where I find a 8X scope, I immediately find a ton of scopes right after?

Me and a friend found four separate 8X scopes and a 15X scope last night.

I'm convinced that the game has a % chance to drop thing and it changes every game. Some games I find tons of boosts, some none. Some I find every shotgun ever built and no 556. Same on thw scopes too.

 

[roytheone]

Any technical reason there isn't an option yet to immediately join another game from the death screen?

 

[Vipu]

New peak:
1,669,015

Not far from that 2mil that I predicted to hit this year.

 

[breadtruck]

Any technical reason there isn't an option yet to immediately join another game from the death screen?

LOL
Any technical reason why they haven't fixed the AS default on the loading screen?

Some people will tell you that's part of the "charm"

 

[HelloMeow]

I'd say it's incompetence.

 

[ultraspank]

268 hours in
FUCKING FINALLY
no scope.
no backpack.
no helmet
non stuffed VSS + UMP

humgggggggggghhhhhhh

 

[Fried Food]

Any technical reason there isn't an option yet to immediately join another game from the death screen?

for real, I've been waiting for this for a long time. I wouldn't expect it for a long time, if ever, they won't even fix the AS server thing and that slaps you in the face every game.

 

[nightmare-slain]

actually quite enjoying this. i'll keep it

 

[JDB]

268 hours in
FUCKING FINALLY
no scope.
no backpack.
no helmet
non stuffed VSS + UMP

humgggggggggghhhhhhh

That is one gross loadout
Congrats

 

[Spartancarver]

Between the Chinese players, increased queue times in solo (this tends to kill multiplayer games for me), server lag, the bizarre lack of weapons in an 8-10 game streak yesterday, lobby bugs over and over, and the continued Asian server default even after a 400+ MB patch, I'm seriously being tempted to quit playing for the first time. Obviously it doesn't matter to Bluehole since they've had my money for quite some time, but yeah.

This is where I'm at. Between the unfixed bugs, useless patches, endless jank, and near-constant incompetence by Bluehole I have actually had almost no desire to play this game for the past few days. Good thing I have Destiny 2 and Battlefront 2 coming up to help keep me occupied until a AAA dev puts out their own BR gametype.

PUBG's best accomplishment will be highlighting the genre and opening the door for better devs to actually get the game right.

 

[jeffc919]

New peak:
1,669,015

Not far from that 2mil that I predicted to hit this year.

Would be more if I could connect.

edit: finally got in after spamming connect about 20x. Servers must be getting slammed.

 

[Lender]

Anyone else having problems connecting?

 

[jeffc919]

Now "Host closed the connection" when I'm sitting pretty in a late circle. WTF.

 

[ultraspank]

Anyone else having problems connecting?

"servers are too busy"
"connection closed"
"too many request or whatever"

Pick one.
Or all in my case.

That is one gross loadout
Congrats

Thanks ;_;

 

[Fried Food]

what are their engineers doing that they have server problems seemingly every day?

 

[MUnited83]

what are their engineers doing that they have server problems seemingly every day?

A bit hard to keep up with servers when your userbase decides to grow one million players higher every week and a half.

 

[boneyjangles]

I can't recall a time playing this game where I went "shit...lag/latency/connectivity". It's always been fairly fine?

And as for the servers always being down... maybe I've just got lucky, but in hundreds of hours I have only noticed this once, briefly.

 

[jim2point0]

Holy shit yes! When you win because you distract your opponent enough that he forgets he's outside the playzone.

It was a good circle, too!

 

[fuzzyset]

268 hours in
FUCKING FINALLY
no scope.
no backpack.
no helmet
non stuffed VSS + UMP

humgggggggggghhhhhhh

Were you trying not to grab that stuff?

 

[MUnited83]

Awww yeah, just dropped in a place where I got a SMG supressor, a AR supressor and SR supressor lmao

 

[Tokubetsu]

Awww yeah, just dropped in a place where I got a SMG supressor, a AR supressor and SR supressor lmao

you died right after because you couldn't find a gun right?

 

[shiyrley]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I just got 3rd in a solo match, killed 6 people, but lost a 1v1 firefight at close range and that was it

 

[Vipu]

This is where I'm at. Between the unfixed bugs, useless patches, endless jank, and near-constant incompetence by Bluehole I have actually had almost no desire to play this game for the past few days. Good thing I have Destiny 2 and Battlefront 2 coming up to help keep me occupied until a AAA dev puts out their own BR gametype.

PUBG's best accomplishment will be highlighting the genre and opening the door for better devs to actually get the game right.

If you think any AAA dev will make some game right you havent played AAA games.

 

[BigEmil]

Been playing this and Fortnite solo often and I'm still not really enjoying this genre will it improve if i play with friends? Got about 15 hours in PUBG, 3 hours in Fornite

 

[Battlesmurf]

(Yes, very much so. Solo is interesting, but squads with communication are really something else. Game shines that way. Custom matches with 6 players is crazy fun, too. Some of the less big streamers host those on weekends and it's great). - to the guy above me

For real, the matchmaking is starting to grind on me. Being matched up with English speaking players has become so rare, I can go all night without being able to communicate.

Its starting to make this a "Can only play with friends game" and most of them have moved on.

Get versed in LFG circles ("looking for gamers") as well as the Discord channels for this game.

Gaffers are all over it too.

You have a ton of options- give them a shot and I'm sure you'll be pleased. It's saved my ass a few times to play with friendlies. Good luck!

 

[Lender]

Servers offline on a sunday evening. Lovely.

 

[JustinBB7]

So I just died while wearing a level 3 vest, the guy was far away and had a shotgun. I shot him at least 4 times with m16, yet he gets me with a shotgun from 100m away. Like fucking really? This game is a joke.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

I don’t think I can play this game solo anymore, at least not for awhile.

Bust it across the map on a bike to a place far away from the plane (going vertical over Novo basically) down to Primorsk. Look for a couple minutes (circle over YAS) then go to loot the warehouses.

Get gunned down by some motherfucking hiding in a corner. Now I got. A glimpse of him after the first shotgun blast, he literally had nothing but a two pump, no helmet, no vest, nothing. Dude blasted over there and just sat there for 5 minutes.

 

[Tokubetsu]

he might have heard you?

 

[A Serious Man]

I don’t think I can play this game solo anymore, at least not for awhile.

Bust it across the map on a bike to a place far away from the plane (going vertical over Novo basically) down to Primorsk. Look for a couple minutes (circle over YAS) then go to loot the warehouses.

Get gunned down by some motherfucking hiding in a corner. Now I got. A glimpse of him after the first shotgun blast, he literally had nothing but a two pump, no helmet, no vest, nothing. Dude blasted over there and just sat there for 5 minutes.

I did this to two players in duo the other day. Plane was far south, we took a car into north George and started looting. I was still looting the first floor of an apartment building when a bike pulled up, two guys hopped out and opened the door right in front of me. It was like the scene in Pulp Fiction where Bruce Willis kills Travolta when he walks out of the bathroom. The guy opened the door, stared at me for a second and then I unloaded a shotgun into him and his friend. Just shit luck on their part.

 

[Tokubetsu]

Yeah camping does happen solo, especially late circles when they just push right into the center of it but if it was still early game chances are they just heard you pull up and got in an advantageous position.

That's a risk you run when don't loot where you drop.

 

[Erheller]

~50k Gamescom Crates left. All 12k crates that were selling at 3.46 are finally gone!

 

[frbrr]

~50k Gamescom Crates left. All 12k crates that were selling at 3.46 are finally gone!

was worried they might drop a bit after the 12k hump, but they just keep going up.
kind of bummed i didn't invest more :/

 

[hououinkyouma00]

I think it’s just more salt then I need in a game when I play solo. I did get a win just now, but I forgot about the AS bug and was in an Asian server.

Never once got in a gunfight, just used positioning to pick people off with a M16.

I still will probably just stick to duos though.

 

[JDB]

I try to avoid buildings as much as I can in solo past the initial looting phase. If there's even the smallest hint of someone having been nearby I don't enter the building.

 

[MUnited83]

you died right after because you couldn't find a gun right?

almost

Spoiler

only found a shotgun. At least it was that one you can put AR attachments too so I had some silly fun at killing a couple of people with a silenced shotgun

 

[The Hamburglar]

There's a pugb discord you can use to play with people. Never use the matchmaking.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I have 5 gamescom crates

Should I sell em
Or open em

 

[Yudoken]

I have 5 gamescom crates

Should I sell em
Or open em

Sell them later. They will only get more expensive.

 

[Eggiem]

I have 5 gamescom crates

Should I sell em
Or open em

Wait,then sell them. Price is still rising.

 

[Vipu]

I have 5 gamescom crates

Should I sell em
Or open em

Open

 

[JDB]

Open them.

 

[jim2point0]

I'm never going to open them because they require keys, and I refuse to spend money on crates in this game. The Cosmetics are mostly garbage and I'm not willing to bet on getting anything good from the crates to sell.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

I'm never going to open them because they require keys, and I refuse to spend money on crates in this game. The Cosmetics are mostly garbage and I'm not willing to bet on getting anything good from the crates to sell.

What I love are the hats.

Helmets, anyone?

Oh well, fools and their money part in favor of me on the Steam Marketplace.

 

[Luminaire]

So my friend got pounced by a car.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Sell them later. They will only get more expensive.

Wait,then sell them. Price is still rising.

Open

Open them.

O:

I should say Ive already made the money I spent on buying them back by selling the yellow tracksuit tops(I still have one left)

Hmm

Decisiins..