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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale
- Thread starter SamuraiX-
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If cover is higher than weapons level, no. Basically you don't want to shoot in downwards angle if you need to be close to e.g. side of guard tower as it can force your weapon up or down.
Click once top left > matchmake ~5sec > loads lobby > synchronize and gather 100 people over a couple minutes at most before it starts
It takes top ~2 minutes and a single damn mouse click to enter a lobby, its less than most games use with a quickmatch and compared to games like Battlefield with 64 players even if it loads the next map that alone and also a wait time for a minimum playercount before it even thinks to begin the match allowing you to move is equal or longer.
If you think the current matchmaking system is abysmal you gonna have a bad time with any high cap servers of ~100 people regardless of the game.
So I decided to follow some random player in his jeep who took it across the river where the safe circle was, and I thought why the hell not, and followed in his footsteps confident that I would succeed in my little endeavor but ended up stuck with a broken engine in the water. And it was right at the edge too! Thankfully I could run up on land and be safe.
| Praxis |
Banned
Yeah, I don't really see the issue to be honest. Always considered the speed you can get back into a match one of the biggest strengths of the game.
Diablohead
Member
I've never played these games but they do look fun, but the shrinking zone stuff happens way too fast and i feel like that ruins the experiance, you have to rush or die to being out of bounds so quickly.
| Praxis |
Banned
Play wasteland or the DayZ mod instead. This is like those experiences but condensed into a short match.
God that is so stupid...
I feel the same way. I'm running for the circles for most of the game. Maybe when they add custom games, there will be options like slowing down the shrink rate or removing it all together.
I guess something like Day Z would have fit my play style better, but I already spent $30 on this. So I'll keep hoping for good custom servers for now.
Can anyone tell if the person shooting in front of me in this clip is using an M16 or M4? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaT70p8HecA&feature=youtu.be
The fact that he kept shooting when I was already behind the tree and the way I fell makes me believe it was in fact him killing me, but I'm not entirely sure what the M16 and M4 sound like respectively. So it could be that someone else finished me off which would explain this. I mean, I've been hit while just getting behind cover but this would be next level.
The fact that he kept shooting when I was already behind the tree and the way I fell makes me believe it was in fact him killing me, but I'm not entirely sure what the M16 and M4 sound like respectively. So it could be that someone else finished me off which would explain this. I mean, I've been hit while just getting behind cover but this would be next level.
If you're flying down to the extremeties of the map, make sure you find a vehicle either before or immediately after the initial 'gear up' phase, otherwise you should be just fine.
Planning ahead and moving in advance of the white circle as much as possible dramatically reduces the amount of running you have to do in the 2nd half of the match. Whenever I find myself miles away from the circle at the start, I make sure I at least have a vehicle in sight in the opening minutes. One trip right to the middle and you're sorted.
In my mind it initially sounded like an M16 hence why I was a bit confused when I saw I got killed with an M4. I figured maybe someone else finished me off from my from the right off-screen or something. Like I said: I've been hit while I just got into cover before, but never this late. Even on NA servers I haven't seen it this bad and this clip was on EU servers near me.
https://twitter.com/PUBATTLEGROUNDS/status/855974622990184449
Looks like we're going back to the everyone has 2 AR's days immediately after first looting pass. I've kind of liked it recently, as long as you get one AR, the other comes quickly when you down another player. SMG's are also fun to use, except the recoil is really unmanageable when trying to snipe players at medium range.
Looks like we're going back to the everyone has 2 AR's days immediately after first looting pass. I've kind of liked it recently, as long as you get one AR, the other comes quickly when you down another player. SMG's are also fun to use, except the recoil is really unmanageable when trying to snipe players at medium range.
When your whole map is designed and balanced around everyone having AR's you really can't go and make your game into DayZ Lite where getting even SCAR-H is up to 100% luck. There just isn't much fun in trying to challenge squad with good AR RNG when you have Uzi and shotty.
SanSebastian
Banned
Are there similar games out on the PS4 right now?
Or similar to dayz/H1Z1?
Or similar to dayz/H1Z1?
fluffydelusions
Member
ark is probably as close as you are going to get but obviously it's not a battle royale game.
ffejeromdiks
Banned
The Division has a BR lite game mode.
Compsiox
Banned
What even happens in that mode. I remember everyone going to the darkzone after like 15 minutes and then that's it
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
isnt h1z1 on ps4 or coming to ps4?
H1 has been coming to ps4 and xb1 for a few years and still nothing. Pretty convinced PUBG will beat them to consoles at this rate.
Diablohead
Member
What would be cool is if matches had special settings like a pistols and shotguns only match, or regular loot, or reduced loot like it is currently, I mean that sounds fun on paper but I bet people would complain about pistol starts in a game like this.
NightStalkerCB
Neo Member
Finally got my first win with a buddy in duo. Had a good day so far, we've reach 2nd and won one game.
On patch day they ran different custom lobbies. One was pistols only, one was shotguns only, one was more aggressive blue circle etc.
Compsiox
Banned
Use first person for better accuracy.
Good word of mouth. It's an amazing game for EA and it's got a huge amount of potential. It helps that it's taking what made other battle royale type games good and mixing it with Arma-style gunplay.
Om a side note, I've found the M16 to be accurate most of the time, if I hold breath while burst firing. Single shot I'm fine to take aim and fire without steadying my shot because I presume the recoil is far less to the burst fire. Sure it's not as easily accurate as the other guns but it's definitely a powerful weapon if used right.
Full auto is a terrible idea most of the time so that's probably why single fire is default. Being able to set the default in the options would be nice, though.
Compsiox
Banned
Just bought the game but when I load it up, it says Connection Closed and I can't play
Is there a fix for this?
Verify integrity of the files and try restarting steam, also make sure battle eye isnt open when the game isnt open
It shows. Game is laggy mess today.
Didn't work for me D:
Deputy Dangle
Member
I've noticed that awareness and positive word of mouth have been spreading to outlets like Giant Bomb and Waypoint within the past couple weeks. Hearing Austin Walker talk about it recently made me take the plunge, despite being very wary towards these open world survival games due to their often rocky lifespans. The perception surrounding the game has seemingly grown more and more positive overall since launch. I can certainly speak to how much I've enjoyed my time with it.
Kadin
Member
At what point does this connection closed message happen? Are you getting into the main menu and able to select to enter a match, etc.?
Not at all. I literally just installed the game. I see a loading screen with an AK then it goes into the Connection Closed screen with 2 reconnect buttons but both of them don't work.
Updated my router firmware, checked my firewall, validated files, etc etc. Not sure what the issue is
The acceleration of the zone reduction at the end of the match is brilliant. My third round I survived down the last 20 by sneaking and avoiding combat, but I stayed on the outskirts of the zone too long into the match and ended up basically sprinting and healing through the final contractions of the blue electricity while bullets (and even a vehicle) were flying past me. It was so ridiculous that I just found myself running and giggling maniacally until some guy finally shot me in the face.
It's self-replicating now. These are the final days.
Kadin
Member
It sounds like you're not even able to establish a connection to them. Trying pinging the address below, it's the server I'm connected to atm when playing.Not at all. I literally just installed the game. I see a loading screen with an AK then it goes into the Connection Closed screen with 2 reconnect buttons but both of them don't work.
Updated my router firmware, checked my firewall, validated files, etc etc. Not sure what the issue is
server-54-230-141-38.sfo5.r.cloudfront.net
Not sure how to ping an address
but when i put it into the chrome address bar I get an ERROR: The request could not be satisfied.
I'm guessing it's some kind of ISP/Firewall issue from what I'm reading online (can't find an actual solution)
A lot of people in universities seem to be having the issue but I'm playing from home so I'm not sure what the problem is.
Currently using Time Warner (Spectrum)
Kadin
Member
If you're using Windows 10, open a command prompt by right clicking Start, click Run and type in 'cmd' without the quotes then Open.
Then type 'ping server-54-230-141-38.sfo5.r.cloudfront.net' again without the quotes. Should give you 3 results showing some time in ms which should be <100. If it times out completely, that's an issue.
Then type 'ping server-54-230-141-38.sfo5.r.cloudfront.net' again without the quotes. Should give you 3 results showing some time in ms which should be <100. If it times out completely, that's an issue.