After playing ~10 rounds of Blackout between PS4 and Xbox One, I still prefer PUBG on Xbox One despite the performance issues.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, it feels amazing playing a Battle Royale game like this on console at ~60fps (I know Fortnite is there, but that game feels completely different). But I just like the mechanics and affordances PUBG gives.
For example, the directional sound seems much more effective in PUBG. In Blackout it’s just too difficult to hear people around you, and I don’t like that crouch-walking is pretty much silent in Blackout.
I also don’t like the weapon drops as much in Blackout. It just seems like a muddling excess of way too many similar weapons, compared to the much clearer differentiation between weapons in PUBG.
Healing is also way too prevalent in Blackout, and way too quick, yet time-to-kill is too short, which leads to very strange encounters where everyone just ducks out of the way quickly, heals, and comes back.