Well, would you look at that.
This is a case where I absolutely hate being right, but the writing was on the wall. Such a shame.
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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale
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Well, would you look at that.
This is a case where I absolutely hate being right, but the writing was on the wall. Such a shame.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
You could reach spawn island after you dropped feom the plane? Huh.
Yeah, I would still occasionally run into players who'd never been there. If you drop on the north coast or east coast, ideally while the plane is still flying, AND if you find a boat very quickly, you can get 2-3 minutes of hurried looting on the spawn island and potentially another 2-3 minutes of healing with the first aid kits you find there. You could still be screwed if you get back and can't find a car and the circle is across the world though.
Loot is military grade so there was usually a good chance of finding heavy armor / ARs / scopes / healing items, particularly since there's almost zero chance anyone is contesting it and going to murder you. Traveling there and getting back safely is the risk.
You weren't right when you said development was stagnant however long ago. We were getting regular updates updates, big and small.
chugen
Member
Cant wait to try that vaulting update in a couple of weeks!
yeee, i really hope its done well
Nothing more satisfying then beaching a boat and taking theirs kekeke
It happens so rarely that it's even more hilariously shocking when your boat is gone.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Sometimes I wonder if there's a sound glitch or someone just being insanely patient doing the single tap crouch walking, because I just had a game where someone made absolutely 100% no noise whatsoever entering my house and coming up the stairs.
edit:
*manually equips frag grenade before engaging guy*
okay good, i have consciously equipped my frag
*switches to grenade, tosses it, it's a stun, no I don't have a stun hotkey set*
????????????????????????????
Is this like that weird and infuriating thing that happens now where sometimes if you pick up an attachment it will automatically equip itself to your gun even if there's already an attachment there? (ie, pick up an 8x and the next time you pull out your AR for close/mid range, it's suddenly an 8x instead of the red dot you put on there)
edit:
*manually equips frag grenade before engaging guy*
okay good, i have consciously equipped my frag
*switches to grenade, tosses it, it's a stun, no I don't have a stun hotkey set*
????????????????????????????
Is this like that weird and infuriating thing that happens now where sometimes if you pick up an attachment it will automatically equip itself to your gun even if there's already an attachment there? (ie, pick up an 8x and the next time you pull out your AR for close/mid range, it's suddenly an 8x instead of the red dot you put on there)
Two non-bugged situations can cause that.
1. You manually equip the stun grenade by pressing the key repeatedly, but you change weapons before the change 100% finishes. Result: The previous grenade stays active.
2. You accidentally double press the grenade key.
lvl99 Pixel
Member
what is this 900mb patch just for a few bug fixes?
paperspace
Member
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Rickenslacker
Banned
Damage markers sure would be nice.
Daffy Duck
Member
No they wouldnt
PhantomThief
Banned
Wow gg
Woo-Fu
Banned
You must never play at the military base then. Is easy to jump in the 1st floor windows of the dormitories which makes for much more dynamic encounters.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Okay. Why?
Example:
1on1, last 2 alive. You might know where he is. Throw a grenade and see if it hits him -> you know where he is.
Destroys a lot of the game mechanics imo.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I didn't mean Call of Duty-like hit markers to confirm shots, I meant directional markers to know where you yourself have been injured.Södy;252250607 said:
Also, my friend always whines about not being able to click fast so I was wondering how fast people here can click per second.
I got 8.3 on http://www.mcrpg.com/kohi-click-test
Wondering if I'm fast or he's just slow.
I got 8.3 on http://www.mcrpg.com/kohi-click-test
Wondering if I'm fast or he's just slow.
Rickenslacker
Banned
A lot of things are fine, like the lack of vaulting is still fine in the game, but with the game angling on more sim elements it makes more sense to know where you've been hit (because d'uh, why wouldn't you?) so I question it as a design element. Even knowing the general direction doesn't stop the Where's Waldo element of trying to spot the errant aggressor pixels across the flora. Either way the initiator has the jump on you.
old manatee
Banned
Like 60% of the games I play end with me being killed by someone that I never even saw.
I just don't see the problem with the current system. I rarely have any issues getting a rough direction of where I'm getting shot from within the first couple of shots. Going down the realism rabbithole without a gameplay justification is also a bit pointless because there is a ton about this game that isn't realistic.
paperspace
Member
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Rickenslacker
Banned
But there is a gameplay justification, a really basic elemental one present in most shooters as representing something like the sense of pain is difficult to do outside of some visual indicator, to where it feels like a weird omission here given the nature that the design in PUBG skews towards.
Counter-Strike: GO, Quake Champions, Titanfall 2, Overwatch, Fortnite, Rainbow Six: Siege, really take your pick as it's in just about anything and you'd be more hard pressed to find games that don't feature it. Just a radial graphic indicator when you get hurt.
Woo-Fu
Banned
It is typically HUD indicators on the sides of the screen and/or crosshair, not on the player model itself.
I think the way PUBG does it is fine, though, as it makes things more intense. Instead of instantly knowing where you're getting shot from from the very first moment you pick up the game there is room for some skill and experience to make a difference.
PUBG isn't a twitchy shooter where most of the time you need to react instantly to getting shot, though. That's part of the reason why those direction markers are in those games. Unless you're standing still (stop doing that) odds are you'll get shot for a lot longer relative to shooters that have hitmarkers.
Also, I've never been shot, but I can't imagine you'd be able to give a very informed guess on where you got shot from instantly like a direction marker would. Even getting shot in the chest would mean the shooter could be in almost the entire 180 degree area in front of you. That's a best case scenario. I doubt you'd be able to guess the direction at all if getting shot in the leg or shoulder.
There has to be a balance between realism and gamey elements though. This is a game where you can't hold a scope to your eye and look through it, you can't carry two pistols instead of two rifles, you can change clothes in the blink of an eye, and you can bring someone back from near death with the hand of blessing, followed by completely healing their gunshot wounds in about 10 seconds.
Yeah, and that's what the current system is.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Given the TTK in PUBG it can be very heavy on reactions, but if the rationale is that having pain be invisible is some necessary skill element in a game with a generally casual pick up and play appeal, well, I'd agree to disagree. It would be akin to having no health HUD, or no ammo count and no way of checking otherwise. Something that can be played around, but why?
How is that the same? There's information about where you're getting shot from. You're just not happy with how it's presented. Having no health or ammo HUD elements is just completely removing information.
Rickenslacker
Banned
In Service
Member
I'm just saying that I really don't think not having hitmarkers is anywhere near close to not having a health bar or ammo counter. Just learn how to use the current system. It's perfectly fit to do the job without any visual aid.
Rickenslacker
Banned
just got chicken dinner in a squad.
1. landed in lipovka
2. circle had gatka, prim, and georg
3. take a dacia through the south part of yas and over to the north apartments in georg
4. loot george, circle closes in around gatka
5. make it to the yellow houses in the swamp, still a full squad
6. other teams thin each other out. last circles are really generous to us and our home
7. 8 people goes down to 5.
man, trying to imagine that last guy's surprise as the four of us rushed him, running over the hill all at once.
1. landed in lipovka
2. circle had gatka, prim, and georg
3. take a dacia through the south part of yas and over to the north apartments in georg
4. loot george, circle closes in around gatka
5. make it to the yellow houses in the swamp, still a full squad
6. other teams thin each other out. last circles are really generous to us and our home
7. 8 people goes down to 5.
man, trying to imagine that last guy's surprise as the four of us rushed him, running over the hill all at once.
cripterion
Member
How hard is it to make it so everytime you restart a game you don't have to choose Euro servers? Before it was always AS now it's always NA, are they really that daft?
Also it had been quite a while since I'd played, not even prime time hours in EU and it's a lagfest. I kill a guy that was warping around and then I get "0 killed" counter. 3 seconds later it changes to 1...
Also it had been quite a while since I'd played, not even prime time hours in EU and it's a lagfest. I kill a guy that was warping around and then I get "0 killed" counter. 3 seconds later it changes to 1...
They want you to locate shots with sound and vision and not UI elements.
That's all you need to say.
You can disagree or want it changed, but you don't need to get bogged down in this vacuous realism vs gameyness discussion.
Does Arma use directional damage taken indicators? It's the closest direct analogue.
That's all you need to say.
You can disagree or want it changed, but you don't need to get bogged down in this vacuous realism vs gameyness discussion.
Does Arma use directional damage taken indicators? It's the closest direct analogue.
Also isn't the point of using suppressors that you DON'T have directional damage indication?
Rickenslacker
Banned
Since you don't have them either way I would say no.