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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale
- Thread starter SamuraiX-
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I love these guys. So glad to see them win.
Wow, OK, so getting a really good scope pretty much makes any weapon amazing.
As I've found recently, the thing you wrestle with the most in this game is the camera and perception. Getting a good scope immediately alleviates that and you can actually start killing people. Got like 6 kills before getting tagged in the foot by a sniper - the most kills I've had before this being 2.
Honestly, though, they have to do some heavy design work around aiming and weaponisation. Having
- hip fire over shoulder
- hip fire first person
- aim over right shoulder
- aim over left shoulder
- aim down ironsights
Is just way too many view and aiming options. Makes it really hard to get good with any of them. They need to reduce it to 2 (with one being either TPS or FPS hipfire depending on mode).
As I've found recently, the thing you wrestle with the most in this game is the camera and perception. Getting a good scope immediately alleviates that and you can actually start killing people. Got like 6 kills before getting tagged in the foot by a sniper - the most kills I've had before this being 2.
Honestly, though, they have to do some heavy design work around aiming and weaponisation. Having
- hip fire over shoulder
- hip fire first person
- aim over right shoulder
- aim over left shoulder
- aim down ironsights
Is just way too many view and aiming options. Makes it really hard to get good with any of them. They need to reduce it to 2 (with one being either TPS or FPS hipfire depending on mode).
Yup a 4x or 8x is pretty much necessary for me to have a chance at end game.
All you need is
- Hold down RMB
- Click RMB for ADS
10+ purchases later
Thanks for heads up, deleted code from the post.
You are a legend mate, cheers. Is it under your GAF name or another pseudo?
Also, I asked this way back and wasn't able to track a response, but is their any graphical change to bushes and grass long distance? If I use a bush as cover is someone 200 yards away still going to see me because it doesn't render the bush?
PushTheButtonMax
Banned
My steam name is just RED.
I literally just uploaded my new settings to the community so idk if it'll show up yet. It is the one called Battlegrounds Updated Config by RED.
Let me know if it works for you. Be warned, in other games people have thought my sensitivities are too high but I've used the controller so much I'm used to it and my goal is to be able to react as close to the speed kb/m do as I can.
I think bushes are still good long distance for the most part. Grass after 75 meters I think is not visible even to people on Ultra so is not safe. Definitely don't prone in grass if you expect anyone far away to be looking your way.
Aztechnology
Member
Edit: Nevermind, on the front page in plain sight.
jediyoshi
Member
Wat. I don't buy that there exists a significant contingent of people who are cognizant of the fact they can switch shoulders while in third person and have it make them second guess their ability to aim. I really don't buy arbitrarily limiting certain views depending on the perspective the player is already on.
I just figured at least with bushes it'd essentially say you are in "bush trigger" and while in there are not visible beyond X yard/radius. Wonder if anyone has tested the limits.
PrematureQuiche
Member
https://streamable.com/c9bek
by far the most satisfying thing i've done in this game so far. Felt so good
by far the most satisfying thing i've done in this game so far. Felt so good
EmCeeGramr
Member
Decided to be more aggressive again.
Ran in after a dude in a house, gunned him down
Sniped the winner of a fire fight
Mowed down a guy with a level 3 helmet by ambushing him a single shotgun blast to the face
Snipe a dude running for his life
Hit two more dudes without killing them
Grab a car, run down another guy
Realize I'm right near the only buildings in the circle, rush in driving over bushes since I saw movement
Drive right into the front door, pop out
Car bounces back off the wall and runs me over, guy slowly crawls off screen to my corpse
Ran in after a dude in a house, gunned him down
Sniped the winner of a fire fight
Mowed down a guy with a level 3 helmet by ambushing him a single shotgun blast to the face
Snipe a dude running for his life
Hit two more dudes without killing them
Grab a car, run down another guy
Realize I'm right near the only buildings in the circle, rush in driving over bushes since I saw movement
Drive right into the front door, pop out
Car bounces back off the wall and runs me over, guy slowly crawls off screen to my corpse
broncobuster
Banned
I suck at spotting people in windows but often I get sniped through a window on the second floor.
Also inept with the crossbow. Getting one kill with it will be as good as getting #1.
Also inept with the crossbow. Getting one kill with it will be as good as getting #1.
What?
Fahzgoolin
Banned
https://streamable.com/c9bek
by far the most satisfying thing i've done in this game so far. Felt so good
Nicely done! Yeah that is super satisfying...
My most satisfying moment so far is taking the pump shotty onto a bridge and killing 6 individuals out of their cars and creating a traffic jam.
Every match may hold a surprise outcome lol.
Had a crossbow fight against an AKM on top of two houses in the military base - I won!
Biggest win so far in the game
Rudimental
Member
So, here is another GMG 25% off code if anyone wants. Not sure if it will work for everyone, but I did check it on my account.
Edit: removed as I think it has expired now, posted another 30% off code.
Edit: removed as I think it has expired now, posted another 30% off code.
Yeah, thinking back, all the time's I've been killed in the top 3-5 have been by people who evidently had good scopes. I was easy pickings.
I'm aware of all the options - I'm saying it's unnecessary how many of them there are.
And I use swapping shoulders all the time - the camera swings out so far to your side that it's super useful for looking around corners, down staircases (that are a few feet away), through windows (that are a few feet away). Then when you get into a fight the camera's on the wrong side (eg goes into a bush) and you fuck up.
10+ purchases later
Thanks for heads up, deleted code from the post.
FYI somebody just after me said the code worked. It could be that the person I was sharing it with was in the US and it didn't work there.
Holy complex sentences Batman. I never said there's "a significant contingent of people who are cognizant of the fact they can switch shoulders in third person", and I didn't say they should limit views depending on the player's perspective. I simply pointed out that it's (IMO) flawed/fluffy design that they should refine.
My core point is that there's no need for all the options and the game would be improved if they tighten then. The design would be tighter, leaner, and possibly more fair.
PUBG is capturing the best tense combat vibes I've had since The Last of Us's MP - but in TLoU MP you could only hip fire and aim over shoulder (contextually sniper rifles would let you ADS). It never felt limiting, it felt perfectly balanced, and there was less to learn, there was less to fiddle with, while also meaning some players wouldn't be using one view while others used another. If people would see around corners or over things, it was always in a predictable way (as mentioned above I often use aim-over-shoulder in PUBG and swap shoulder to left or right because it gives you such a wide camera berth - one you can use to look straight down staircases, through windows that are a few feet away, etc).
Like, this made sense in ArmA 3 which is a military simulation - but PUBG isn't a military simulation, it's a sandbox multiplayer game. These mechanics should be more refined and tight, IMO.
Edit: here's a coincidence - new player below on this very page demonstrates exactly what I'm talking about:
There's no need to give us so many options. Make it hipfire plus one aiming option and everyone will learn to aim equally.
Thanks pal. Letting my American friend try it, will see if it works for him (the last one didn't.)
Edit: didn't work for the American. Must be EU only.
How does one sell clothes and where are they sold?
cripterion
Member
My 5th game after picking this up yesterday, oh goddamn heart was racing towards the end. This is definitely a fun game.
Hope they have the cash to do some qol improvements and implement more features soon.
Same here.
Noticing a pattern whereby the winner is always in insanely good cover. As per that photo above, I've lost several times in top 3 to somebody standing in a doorway. It's hard to see them and they get a perfect bead.
This is exactly what I'm complaining about above. It's an unnecessarily complex system.
You're best single right-clicking to use ironsights for everything - EXCEPT shotguns which you should never aim for, you'll just slow yourself down.
Aiming over shoulder is useful at mid range.
Steam marketplace (easily accessed via your steam inventory, for instance) but I wouldn't bother - can't sell the starter clothes and most other crate clothes sell for like 30 cents at the most.
Last night I was #2 in a game where the endgame area was in an open field, with two trees - both of us were behind one. And of course the other guy gets the new area whereas I get screwed. All he had to do was wait.
Interesting, TY.
I was going to say - if the winner's not in a doorway, they're behind a tree.
Damn trees.
This works 3rd person or 1st person?
cripterion
Member
Well sometimes you just get lucky, I started playing today and scrapped by twice in the top 10 but it's definitely tense and I feel I got lucky a few times lol
I don't think there's a particular strategy to win, but I definitely learned my lesson as to when to engage or not in fights.
Also I was wondering if some players spawn with weapons? Do you get to have weapons if you are a high level character? Some people go down as soon as they land.
Yes. Right click once for Ironsights, same in both modes.
You're best playing in 3rd person all the time you'll see around corners. Others will do it to you all the time.
No, penetration is not in yet. It will be added later though.
Could have been a hacker or shooting around a corner with third person
Yes there is bullet penetration on certain objects and proper bullet penetration coming in a future update but there shouldn't be bullet penetration on buildings, probably another glitch. Heck I just got insta-killed from 150meters away by a shotgun in my last match, my squad was going mental at it.
Player who killed you with a shotgun maybe was just 20 meters away from you, but in your screen it was 150 meters. This can happen if server desyncs really badly or he/she used lag switch.
Hit detection is client side, stuff like this can happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WLAUxslWwM
TheVoidDragon
Member
The game is about £20 on GreenManGaming at the moment, i'm quite tempted to get it as the £27 the game usually is a bit much for me. Have they said anything about the game being in the Steam Summer sale, though?
baddvision
Member
game's so amazing. each match has a hilarious, and intense moment. i was hiding in a bush near a house, some guy drives by jumps out his car, and runs into the house. i gta it, and do doughnuts for the rest of my match, placing 8th ahaha!!
bonesmccoy
Banned
Sorry to keep harping on this but mmmaaaannnnnn the loot bug is killing my enjoyment of this game right now.
Played 4 rounds last night. In the first 3 rounds, the best weapon I was able to find was one of those auto shotguns - mostly it was just pistols.
Then in my last game, the 2nd house I searched had the following:
- SCAR
- AKM
- M16
- SKS
- UMP
Along with all tiers of vests, pistols and your garden variety shotguns. The ARs were literally piled on top of themselves.
Played 4 rounds last night. In the first 3 rounds, the best weapon I was able to find was one of those auto shotguns - mostly it was just pistols.
Then in my last game, the 2nd house I searched had the following:
- SCAR
- AKM
- M16
- SKS
- UMP
Along with all tiers of vests, pistols and your garden variety shotguns. The ARs were literally piled on top of themselves.
Worked for me - thank you! Can't wait to jump in.
piratethingy
Self professed bad raider
maaaaan crashes have gotten even worse for me
for whatever reason this morning i have crashed out of all 4 games in a row. felt like i was finally having some decent luck with it last night after updating videocard drivers.
so frustrating, especially with a computer that should be able to run this twice.
for whatever reason this morning i have crashed out of all 4 games in a row. felt like i was finally having some decent luck with it last night after updating videocard drivers.
so frustrating, especially with a computer that should be able to run this twice.