I just bought this and have been playing all day. My last session I just managed to break the top 10 at #8. No shelter was in the vicinity only forest. I was hiding behind a rock towards the middle of the circle and it was absolutely terrifying. Shots were coming at me from all angles. This game is exhilarating as well as completely anxiety inducing.
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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale
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A Grizzly Bear
Member
Most people operate under the same fear. I always push once I see where the circle is going to be and I'm not in it. My first solo win was in part because I was first to take up position in the final circle.
Also, don't hit up hot spots at the beginning if you want to make late game. I usually grab a vehicle and drive far away from the flight path. I usually get into the top 10 if not the top 5 going that route.
I speel my dreenk
Member
I wasn't sure whether or not you could kill someone swimming by running over them with a boat.
You totally can.
You totally can.
What do you mean by this?
Stick to the outskirts of the big cities at the beginning of the game.
I've made it to top 10 and top 5 dozens of times but still never a chicken dinner. I think it may feel worse this way..
You're not the only one. I made the top 3 on my second and third games, I've had ~5 top 5 finishes just in the last day and can consistently get in the top 10, but still no chicken dinner after ~80 rounds...
I always do something stupid like I'll forget to change the firing mode and fire a single bullet instead of a burst and get owned...at this point I feel like I spend 15-20 minutes gathering up all the first aid kits, best gear and hundreds of bullets and then I get one shot by some bastard I don't see. It's all good though, as I get plenty of lucky kills myself. The game is just incredibly random with ~99 people playing most rounds.
This was pretty funny - https://streamable.com/ql38w
PotentiallyDumb
Neo Member
I love this game even if it's frustrating at times. Solo mode needs a kill cam, sometimes I have no idea where I get shot from.
Yep I'm at like 250+ rounds now though. Still no win. I have actually started getting much better at combat now and get a consistent 4-5 kills a game. Got shot from behind going to one of the final circles earlier from way up a hill easily 200 meters a way and the douche was ticking me down even though the circle was already coming over us and we were kinda far, of course he just had to shoot at me... anyway I turned and landed a clean 1 shot headshot kill with the Kar98, could the bullet travel and drop right into his head. Felt great because sniping has been rough for me with how infrequent I get them and headshots are just out of the question usually. Fuck that guy though, ended up dying like 30 seconds later running to circle.
I get to top 10 a little more often but still luck has not been on my side.
BrettHeazy
Member
soooooooo close last night, two people camping in the shed got us with shottys
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
Thanks for the advices !!
I usually finish always in the top 20-30 since i operate under similar protocol, i always try to fly the most furthest possible and avoid contact as much as possible. So i don´t do more than 1 or 2 combat in everygame. Most of the time, i find a perfect spot in a house in the main circle but i get forced out by the finales circles and find me stuck inbetween the fleeing people. I usually get killed why fleeing, in the back, from people hiding under rocks or trees. Or those damn cruel people waiting by the rivers to shoot you while you´re swimming.
This game is the best experience and the most innovative i played for at least a decade. I think the last time i had a similar shock and awe in front of a new gameplay system was Battlefield 1942. It´s my first Battle Royal game, i had the feeling that it was better to wait until the real deal appear.
Daffy Duck
Member
I find a silencer does wonders for your chances in the final circle.
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
Always check your corners.
They'll have an article on the maps in the June issue of Game Informer.
Might as well throw in one of my decently funny clips.
So we were playing 4's and 3 of my teammates were in a small tower watching over a field, but I really didn't want to be cramped in that area with no way out if people came, so I laid out in the field and watched the tower from a distance with the idea of helping form a different vantage point if people decided to take it over. Well, I stopped paying attention and a group of 3 walked in and killed my team (sort of my fault) and while they were inside looting my teammates I decided to walk in and try to catch them off guard for some collateral damage.
It surprisingly worked out pretty well: https://streamable.com/po54p
So we were playing 4's and 3 of my teammates were in a small tower watching over a field, but I really didn't want to be cramped in that area with no way out if people came, so I laid out in the field and watched the tower from a distance with the idea of helping form a different vantage point if people decided to take it over. Well, I stopped paying attention and a group of 3 walked in and killed my team (sort of my fault) and while they were inside looting my teammates I decided to walk in and try to catch them off guard for some collateral damage.
It surprisingly worked out pretty well: https://streamable.com/po54p
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
Really surprising that they were planning on adding others maps, this one is already crazy huge. Good stuff. I hope the game won't take the infamous road of others game of the same style.
Always check your corners.
You using auto fire from a distance is triggering me lol
Nice kill though
I mean the map is big but there is quite a lot of nothing and duplicate houses. Personally i can't wait for new maps since i'm so bored with the whole ex soviet country aesthetic that operation flashpoint started. And what the hell is going on with the graffiti on this island? Some of it is in cyrillic, some in english, and finally some in chinese.
I believe they implemented graffiti from some of their early backers and streamers.
That would explain it, but to me it looks extremely jarring when sometimes the different graffiti is pretty much next to each other, one other thing that annoys me is that in some houses there is the same set of foot prints on the walls and then as small puddles all around the ground floor, sometimes not even rotated but just scaled smaller as if gnomes had been running around the place.
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
Always check your corners.
You using auto fire from a distance is triggering me lol
Nice kill though
Hah, well I was a little preoccupied with the blue chasing me down, not to mention the sliver of health I was running on. I expected to be dropped at any moment, so just went for a reckless approach and it paid off!
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
Yes i guess you're right. Since i sucks at this kind of game (Op:flash, Arma...) this kind of setting is quite new for me.
It´s supposed to be ex-yugoslavia no ? The Chinese graffiti are always accompanied with Maoist iconography so i supposed it goes well with the presence of marxist-identitary militia, maybe. In Serbia, you can be ultra-right and display marxist iconography. Like this infamous hooligan group:
Of course, believing that such fictional militia would paint in Chinese is a big stretch.
You using auto fire from a distance is triggering me lol
Nice kill though
Is there a difference between manually tapping in auto mode and single mode anyways?
I seem to always fluff it in the final circles, even when I got the upper hands. I knew this guy was running past the fence and then I ran around it to shoot him from behind but when he figured I wasn't on the other side of the fence he turned around and shot me instantly lol.
Are you guys using Gifcam to make your gifs?
Are you guys using Gifcam to make your gifs?
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
My method is just to trim short clips (W10 Photos app is surprisingly great for this), upload to ezgif and use the conversion options on there.
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
First game in top 10, the tension was unbearable.
I spent like 20 minutes in a house watching a tiny corner.
I always get myself killed while running out the blue zone, and most of my killed are people running out of the blue zone.
I spent like 20 minutes in a house watching a tiny corner.
I always get myself killed while running out the blue zone, and most of my killed are people running out of the blue zone.
Frustration never stops.
(Though I prob would have died anyway.) It still felt wrong
One day I'll get the victory.
Don't use ADS at that range. Just hold down RMB and use the more accurate hipfire. Just aim low on the body and let the recoil pull your gun up on them and you'll win those fights more often.
Woo-Fu
Banned
Zeroing isn't as good as learning the weapons/optics and aiming off. If you learn that you can engage people at any range without having to fumble around with pgup/pgdwn for every target. Rangefinding in the game is at best an estimate anyhow.
bonesmccoy
Banned
It severely limits my chances to get into the top 10, but I really like dropping into a hot zone rather than into some remote corner of the map.
imo slap that v instead
if theyre at a certain range hipfire wont actually aim where it says it does
Gumbie
Member
Same. I play with some people who always avoid combat and play the edge of the circle. At the end of the game they're the first ones to freeze up and get killed when push comes to shove because they aren't used to fighting it out.
You using auto fire from a distance is triggering me lol
Nice kill though
Meight auto even at relatively large distances is almost always better. If you can control your spray at all, the disorientation caused by consistent fire coupled with many more rounds down range will almost always win out.
I'm gonna try that thanks.
that's a pretty fuckin lame bug if you ask me