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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale
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A single right-click with your weapon to zoom in with ironsights or optics. Hold right-click to zoom in 3rd person view.
Not hearing anything except shots cracking at your feet is worse. Where the FUCK is that coming from!?
As someone who's just played my first 5-6 matches (on solo), I'm loving the game. The jank, while completely expected and understandable in EA, is real though. The most irritating thing is the doors not opening/then they open but you cant pass bug. I spend too much time flailing at doorways- it hasn't killed me yet but I'm gonna be a salt mine when it does. That and inventory sluggishness. I look forward to that stuff getting ironed out.
Still, the jank level is nothing compared to Dayz, which is in an embarrassing state compared to this.
How's the Gaf discord? Welcoming to relative noobs (who don't suck at FPS but are still getting to grips with this one)?
You maybe noticed already, but there's a small red indicator between you and your crosshair when you're in third person if your bullets are going to be obstructed.
Still, the jank level is nothing compared to Dayz, which is in an embarrassing state compared to this.
How's the Gaf discord? Welcoming to relative noobs (who don't suck at FPS but are still getting to grips with this one)?
You maybe noticed already, but there's a small red indicator between you and your crosshair when you're in third person if your bullets are going to be obstructed.
Human Trashcan
Banned
I really hate the crosshair/aiming. You never know if your bullets are actually going to go where your crosshair is or into a wall or whatever. When you're crouched against something your bullets often go into objects in front of you even if it looks like your barrel clears the obstruction. I hope this is something they address somehow.
Frozenprince
Banned
Hah. Yeah I had a match last night where I cornered a guy inside a building from the outside. Had a vantage view from the window. Shot two point blank double barrel shots and both went into the wall despite my clearly aiming high.
He pulls a pistol and kills me in one shot.
Was so pissed.
Human Trashcan
Banned
I actually didn't know/notice that. Must be pretty subtle. I'll look for it.
There should be a red circle in 3rd person view that pops up when your barrel is being blocked by an obstacle.
Felix Lighter
Member
Also bullets travel in a realistic parabolic trajectory. The scopes are sited in at a range so the angle of the barrel actually aims slightly up so ranges shorter than the zeroed distance will be high and ranges longer will be low.
jediyoshi
Member
The framerate inconsistency this patch is killing me. So many situations where I have needed quick twitch aiming to kill a guy, I have failed because of framerate hiccups.
I had the settings on medium, might just turn them on low to see if it helps. It's really frustrating though.
I had the settings on medium, might just turn them on low to see if it helps. It's really frustrating though.
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
Very welcoming, i am mostly useless but was greatly received.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Had a Pulp Fiction moment just now where I sprung up on someone caught unawares in the bathroom and hosed him with bullets.
TheAquaticApe
Member
Dang! Was so close to my second chicken dinner. Killed 4 but died at #10. A guy just lit me up from behind and that's all she wrote. Such a fun game.
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
Quote the first post.
My new solo style is to play pure stealth until Im in the top 10, get what I need and find a hole to crawl in.
Im a 20% top t0 finisher now, but only 1 win still, those last circles either make or break you.
I joined the GAF Discord, so hopefully I'll get into some duos or squad with yall. I keep hearing squads are way more relaxing and fun. Solo is like being hunted by 99 murderers.
Im a 20% top t0 finisher now, but only 1 win still, those last circles either make or break you.
I joined the GAF Discord, so hopefully I'll get into some duos or squad with yall. I keep hearing squads are way more relaxing and fun. Solo is like being hunted by 99 murderers.
Sorry never heard of such a problem.
You should check their Steam forums and see if anyone else had a problem like that or if there's an official solution.
Otherwise you can make your own thread.
Fried Food
Banned
server optimization won't fix the second 1 (pbly not the first either), you get hurt if you jump out of speeding car.
I know that you get hurt from a speeding car, i was expecting to get damaged. I wasn't expecting teleporting 5 meters behind the car with a text of getting run over by the dude i was chasing.
30 km/h is an survivable speed to jump out of, i'm pretty sure that i have done it many times at that speed in the past.
Edit: yep, survived going 60, lost 3/4 of my hp.
Hot damn I don't think a game has ever gotten my heart pumping quite like this one. Just scored my first Chicken Dinner after a little over fifteen hours and 60 odd rounds. After a couple of top threes I finally had a round where I didn't end up sandwiched between two other players and instead got to watch them duke it out before killing them both. Almost choked like hell on the final kill though.
Played first person mode for the first time on a custom server yesterday, and the current version of this is just awful. Two things that stood out was the tiny FOV and the fact that you have the height of a hobbit. But I'm not sure fixing that will make it that much better because camping in this mode is even easier than in third person mode. Whoever gets the firsts shot on someone will definitely win because it's hard to get visual on your attacker (especially compared to third person mode).
In short, I'm not going to play in first person again.
In short, I'm not going to play in first person again.
julesodies
Member
They should remove free look. Sometimes I think im sneaking up to somebody and he just turns around and starts shooting at me straight away. Pretty far off so they couldnt have heard me either
Yeah, let's not.
tamaster92
Member
Uhh custom server? As far I know there are only official ones?
Felix Lighter
Member
A lot of streamers have been given the ability to set up and run custom servers with a lot of options including first person only.
PotentiallyDumb
Neo Member
iosa
Member
That moment you have 15% health remaining, with no remaining meds, 2.5 km away of the blue circle and you are just ready to die, but this happen :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhvhStZPyw
Almost died too because his box appeared late but I finished the game in the top 20 with 6 kills, and died because my character didn't want to go prone after the last kill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhvhStZPyw
Almost died too because his box appeared late but I finished the game in the top 20 with 6 kills, and died because my character didn't want to go prone after the last kill.
This is why im mad, custom game button should be somewhere on REALLY GOOD SPOT so people see it.
Its easy to see already but not too easy cuz most people dont even know there is custom games.
I would so play 1st person games all day if there was players but there isnt.
Camping easier? How??
In 1st person both players always have equal chance, in 3rd person usually 1 guy have edge over the other.
How is it better that if the guy who gets shot have suddenly better chance to win because he can peek behind corner without risk?
This is pretty good vid to show how stupid the 3rd person is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMYLj26v-6k
Specially the very endgame when both people can just wait behind object never showing themselves, when in 1st person both have to peek and show themselves if they want to do something.
Diprosalic
Banned
had the best round ever yesterday.
- landed pretty much in the spot that would end up being the middle of the last circle.
- got a supply drop delivered to my front steps with a tommy gun.
- camped in house, went to eat dinner
- came back after 15-20 minutes
- killed 1 person, won.
- landed pretty much in the spot that would end up being the middle of the last circle.
- got a supply drop delivered to my front steps with a tommy gun.
- camped in house, went to eat dinner
- came back after 15-20 minutes
- killed 1 person, won.
You're literally answering yourself there. So, as you're implying, if you can't peek behind a corner, then you can't see the camper (who's hearing you and) waiting for you.
jediyoshi
Member
It's been maintaining the most played non-Valve game on Steam by a good margin for a few weeks now.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
http://steamcharts.com/app/578080
Before I played this and just watched people I thought I would be a coward and just get good weapons, make a beeline towards the middle and just camp.
But actually playing it I never do that, it just seems boring. There is such a good feeling in outmaneuvering or stalking someone and getting the drop on them.
But actually playing it I never do that, it just seems boring. There is such a good feeling in outmaneuvering or stalking someone and getting the drop on them.
Raylan Targaryen
Member
Remember when everyone thought this was going to be a one week game like a lot of other BR games? Good times. PUBG has the 6th highest peak player count of all-time (189k) two months after it launched and it's still growing. Only behind Dota/CS and then Fallout 4, GTA V and No Man's Sky, three of the most hyped games in recent times. It'll probably pass NMS within a month.
Aren't there only like three BR games?
RadioactiveLobster
Member
I'm waiting till they get first person only up to par with the ArmA mod. It needs to have proper freelook and, for me at least, TrackIR support.
Until that becomes a thing I'll just keep playing the ArmA III mod version.