Probably less drops and more stable fps.
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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale
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Probably less drops and more stable fps.
Following the same logic why aren't there 100% weapon spawns? Considering the rest of the game having 100% car spawns always struck me as odd.
Glass Shark
Banned
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piratethingy
Self professed bad raider
As someone who's won several solo games doing this, I totally agree it needed to go. Game will be better off for it.
EmCeeGramr
Member
The VSS looks amazing. And it's not just a crate drop, it's a rare world item? It's like a silenced UMP + silenced ACOG AR in one.
There's currently nothing to indicate this will slow speed dragging looting, just that something actually happens rather than your character stood there. Wouldn't jump just yet to conclusions.
too late
game's already ruined
cripterion
Member
I thought the drinking animations would make it this patch.
jediyoshi
Member
Before
When you use the hot key, an animation plays and the penalty occurs.
When you right click in the inventory, an animation plays and the penalty occurs.
When you drag in the inventory, no animation plays and no penalty occurs.
After
When you use the hot key, an animation plays and the penalty occurs.
When you right click in the inventory, an animation plays and the penalty occurs.
When you drag in the inventory, an animation plays and _______.
You'd be jumping to a conclusion if you'd assume that they wouldn't add literally the only other mechanic about it.
LiquidSword
Member
There are people that want them to keep the dragging the way it is? What? Maybe I'm missing a joke? With the competive and intense nature of this game why would you want someone to get an advantage because they picked shit up in a different way?
Seems better to me.
BleedOrange
Banned
Because it feels better to do?
Because it serves as a relatively easy skill differentiator?
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS - Early Access Highlights Week 8-9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNGSCCy7YRQ
so funny...and so many crazy plays...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNGSCCy7YRQ
so funny...and so many crazy plays...
BleedOrange
Banned
If they make me stand still while looting then its 100% a bad change.
LiquidSword
Member
Yeah ummm preferring to right click instead of drag stuff is not a skill differentiator
Managing your inventory differently should be a skill differentiator now? Wtf
A Grizzly Bear
Member
These responses to the looting animation change are crazy.
Lol catching the crate with a car is really cool
Pretty sure this is so you have the same animation when hiitting F to pickup loot. They made the right choice here, there is no real reason to have both if everyone will just do one because it is faster. The developers intended for there to always be an animation, so they are fixing this, I don't see the issue here.
Glass Shark
Banned
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Me neither, and I'm a hardened drag and dropper. But looting someone should be risky, and this makes it more riskier. Also, looting someone while strafing is, quite frankly, a bit stupid.
My favorite was the backlash against the ability to show the jungle camp spawn boxes.
"Oh no you have to memorize the exact pixels where the boxes are so you don't ward your own camp or you are a scrub"
ffejeromdiks
Banned
Lmfao at "skill" being used for being butthurt about the drag looting. It's a good change, it was obviously never intended to work that way.
Only thing i find questionable is the vector nerf, it already filled a pretty niche role, I've been saying for weeks that if it was any weaker there wouldn't be much of a point to taking it over a shotgun or a ump, maybe the tac stock evens things out though.
Only thing i find questionable is the vector nerf, it already filled a pretty niche role, I've been saying for weeks that if it was any weaker there wouldn't be much of a point to taking it over a shotgun or a ump, maybe the tac stock evens things out though.
You obviously haven't been in many threads with Yoshichan.
LiquidSword
Member
It's funny, I quit Dota awhile ago and just asked my friend like two days ago, "Hey did they ever add a menu option for right click deny?" Didn't even think about the backlash it must have caused.
BleedOrange
Banned
ffejeromdiks
Banned
Get over it? It's half a second dude, you guys are being ridiculous, I dont know how you ever thought teleporting items into your backback instantaneously via a handheld wormhole device was ever an intended gameplay feature.
PU wants every performable action to be visible in the future as evident as the drinking/healing animations that are coming, not being able to tell that someone is looting is in direct violation of that design philosophy, it's not a bad change at all, it's a bugfix.
Yeah, the crowd complaining about this stuff has clearly never played Arma and does not understand that PUBG is going for something similar, as after all, it did start as an Arma mod.
BleedOrange
Banned
I guess it depends on how it's implemented. If it takes me 30 seconds to loot a body cause I have to bend down and pick shit up over and over then that can fuck right off.
lol, little overboard there.
100% worse? Or do I misunderstand you, because that's some serious hyperbolic shit.
Looting will be more risky, and if you can't deal with it, then don't.
Like hitting F to pick up something.
Looting a body should be a risk, and realistically, you would have to pick up each item instead of it automagically going into your inventory. It is just like how there is an animation for landing from the parachute, or changing positions between stand, crouch, and prone, or how ADS takes some time, healing takes time (and will have an animation during the process). This game is meant to have a feel similar to Arma, which is a realistic military sim with authenticity. Arma makes some abstractions, but often only when necessary, such as crosshairs, because if you were "hip" firing in real life, you would have a good sense of where you gun is pointing. In game that isn't as good, so an abstraction has to be made.
BleedOrange
Banned
It will unequivocally make the game feel worse to play, for me. Looting in the last couple of circles is already extremely difficult, even with tab looting.
Surviving the last third of the game is almost always determined by one two things:
1. Getting looted in the early game, either due to a lucky loot table where you dropped or the lack of enemies to contend for loot with
2. You got looted by scavenging the corpses of players you slay.
#1 is pure luck, #2 is where a measure of skill is required.
What this change does is makes looting during the last 1/3 of the game much, much more dangerous, even when it was before, and therefore disadvantageous. So the change indirectly buffs the first scenario, while nerfing the last scenario.
It is placing more emphasis on luck and RNG and less emphasis on efficient looting and strafing.
It is a bad change.
A Grizzly Bear
Member
I made my comment general just because I didn't want to highlight the tired shtick of hyperbolic overreactions.
JonnyKtyler
Member
PlayerUnknown has said that he wants there to be some kind of tradeoff / risk associated with anything. That's why healing items take so long to apply and why they are making it so you can't skip the loot animation. It makes sense and is intended.
Picked this up a few days ago after another GAF member wanted to play. I had my eye on it for awhile but didn't pull the trigger since I had no one to play with and it was still in it's early stages.
Having fun so far. Got top 10 a few times, and even #2 once where I died in the stupidest way possible when I couldn't scale a cliff and had to eat the blue.
Having fun so far. Got top 10 a few times, and even #2 once where I died in the stupidest way possible when I couldn't scale a cliff and had to eat the blue.
BleedOrange
Banned
Looting (even Tab/Drag looting) is already a huge risk during the last 1/3 of the game. People are so close together that if you engage another player without a suppressor then a third party is bound to hear, and make their way to you to mop up. If you get caught looting you are 100% dead. Making looting take longer in the last 1/3 of the game is a bad change. You should be rewarded for slaying other players, not penalized.
I don't care about realism. This is a video game lol. This change makes a video game I like to play feel worse to play.
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
I play all my solo game the same way: i go the farthest place possible with 3-5 houses easily reachable. There i found usually what i need, i take a car and go then in the middle of the circle and hide in a house.
In 95 % of the case, i end in top 20 without having to fight a player. So i don't think it's luck. I understand that my way of playing could be heavily boring for a lot of people, but i am enjoying it greatly.
I almost never loot a corpse, since i already have everything i need.
veryslowhand
Banned
how welcoming is this game for players not very used to shooters?, been watching some streams and I´m tented but haven't really play a shooter in a long time.
Then you want a different video game, because PUBG is intended to be realistic by the developers. H1Z1's Battle Royale/King of the Kill/whatever it is now, is probably more what you want, and it doesn't have quite the same goal.
ffejeromdiks
Banned
I love how you're saying this like you HAVE to loot the bodies. It's putting emphasis on risk vs reward, not RNG. It also adds a element of " should I wait to kill this guy until he's in a better spot for me to loot him...oooor shoot him in an open field"
Regardless, you shouldn't be looting bodies in the final two circles anyway.
BleedOrange
Banned
Not very welcoming at all. This is on the complex end of the spectrum of shooters, both when it comes to controls/shooter tropes and general tactics.
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
I think it's fine. The game is much more about positionment, patience than aiming skill imho.
Edit: it depend heavily of you're gaming style. If you want to drop where everybody is dropping, you'll need crazy FPS skills to survive.
If you play very passively, you'll be fine.
A Grizzly Bear
Member
When I started I hadn't really played a shooter in awhile outside of R6 on PS4. There's still a learning curve because you have first person and third person shooting, both of which can be viable in different situations. I'd say go for it and make sure to join the GAF discord so you can group up.