So, are you in the queue for a liver transplant yet?
I feel like duos and squads are more hit and miss. Sometimes you get wiped all afternoon. Other times you play three games and have more fun than you’ve had in weeks. Each individual solo game is consistently interesting because the top 10 is consistently interesting. It’s just a bad joy per hour tradeoff.
The funny thing is the game wore me down so much I don’t even mind it anymore. I still bitch about the fundamentals of the design, but I’m content to go rummage through houses for 15 minutes to get to the good part, even when I haven’t been drinking. God help me.
Now I just feel bad. That guy was having the game of his life until he stood up into my sights.
Stats website in case you haven’t seen it:
I’m really curious how they scrape all that data.
That’s a fantastic site, thank you!
Had one of my best dinners a few days ago in a duo. My three kills of the game were of the last 4 other players alive and after my partner had died, and culminated in two perfect grenade throws. Watching the replay, it was just unreal how lucky i was with the throws as both were at suspected targets I hadnt seen. I’m absolutely certain they flagged me for cheating.
For those that haven’t checked it out yet, the replay tool is fantastic, allowing you to spectate (see everything as the opponent sees it), follow (free camera behind the opponent), or just free camera anywhere in a 500m radius of yourself. Other than the somewhat wonky controls (q/e control elevation of the free camera, up/down arrows speed of the replay, j pulls up an overlay allowing you to select any point in the recording), this totally surpasses my expectations.
Snagged my first-ever dinner (duo) last night. I had made it to #2-3 a number of times, but the adrenaline of being at the end always seemed to make my mouse move wildly when I tried to shoot. Not this time, though (mostly because I didn’t realize I was the last until it was over).
It was a constant game of swimming, driving, sprinting, and overall spending far more time outside the blue circle than I ever have previously. My buddy and I had landed on one of the islands to the east on the desert map and proceeded to have a short shootout with a few guys from the other island before making our escape in a boat just as the circle passed over us. Those other guys didn’t make it.
After beaching along the south coast and driving north for the circle, we were ambushed at a small village but somehow broke contact while hiding in a shed that happened to contain an M4 to complement my Kar98k and replace the crappy pump shotgun I’d been lugging around since the beginning of the map. The circle collapsed down to one of the fields in the middle of the map with my buddy and I stuck behind two hay bales and a half dozen teams on the ridges around us. Careful sniping, favorable circle locations, and incredible luck saw us combine for 7 kills in about 5 minutes before my buddy went down and it dropped to 1v1.
It was his Kar98 + M4 vs my Kar98 + M4 with him in an elevated position, but he had to run down the hill after the circle collapsed and I had the opportunity to empty an entire extended mag at him.
This game is so damn great at creating memories.
Heh, it took me a long time before I even got my sights on a target. So many deaths where I never saw the guy.
The other funny thing about your story is it took me 150 hours just to get comfortable taking a Kar98k. I was so bad at shooting.
I’m actually going to change my mouse setup this week to see if it helps. I think my sensitivity is probably way too high.
I absolutely love the settings in PUBG for varying mouse sensitivity based on what scope you’re using. I wish more all games used that.
3 million players confirmed on Xbox.
Has everyone here been streaming in the HypeZone on Mixer?
Thank god that article had a link to that. It’s a streaming platform that I’ve never heard of. Does Xbox have some kind of partnership with them? I thought Xbox was all-in with Twitch?
There are currently 2100 people watching PUBG on Mixer. For comparison, there 110,000 people watching on Twitch.
Microsoft bought a streaming company called Beam in 2016. In 2017 they relaunched it and rebranded it as Mixer due to trademark issues that prevented them from expanding Beam across the world.
Mixer has been steadily increasing in popularity over the last year. HypeZone is a pretty cool idea too - it automatically looks at different PUBG streamers who are close to the end of a round to more easily find the most exciting parts of each match.
Anyway, I’ve played ~10 hours of PUBG on Xbox so far and am absolutely loving it. Nice to see the 3+ million people playing it already!
Great idea, terrible name.
Off the top of my head, I would call it DinnerTime. Funny yet appropriate. HypeZone sounds like suits trying to be hip, which, well…
Got my first chicken dinner on Xbox! Solo, 9 kills too. Man this game is a thrill.
Grats! It’s a real rush, for sure!
Should be closing in on 600 hours played by the end of the month lol… Highlight for me so far was winning a duo with my 11 year old daughter last week. She’s only played a handful so it was more me just ordering her around and trying to protect her. Felt like I was trying to escort the president the last few circles. Stay down! STAY BEHIND ME! We had no healing items. She had like 2 hp left and I was at 75%. Killed two people in the last two circles to clinch it. I would NOT of won that solo as I would have been running around way more than I should be.
4 million players on Xbox One. Beastly.
Has anyone tried on Xbox? Are the controls okay? Not too complicated to figure out?
I’ve only played a couple of rounds on a friend’s PC last year, but since buying it on Xbox I’ve played 100+ matches and 30+ hours on that platform. One chicken dinner in Solo, another in Duo.
The game was extremely rough when it released last December, but they’ve patched it at least once a week since then and it’s improved substantially with frame rate improvements, crash fixes, control improvements, gameplay tweaks, and all the usual stuff like what the PC version previously got.
Today it’s in a weird spot where the latest update regressed frame rate and lag rubber banding a little bit, but the developers acknowledge that and they’re working on a hotfix for later this week.
Overall though, I think it controls really well especially considering that they didn’t simplify things at all. You can do everything you can do on the PC version, from leaning, to running in one direction while looking in another, to holding your breath while aiming, and all of the other mechanics that ArmA-like simulations enable. This is in addition to all of the inventory management in the game and the need to move that stuff from a mouse interface to a dpad / bumper / button interface.
To accomplish all of this, they had to innovate the control scheme quite a bit, so it took an hour or two for me to get really comfortable. It all feels very natural now and I can manage my inventory or do things in-game very quickly. Still not as fast as with a M+KB, but far better than I thought they’d be able to pull it off.
I’d recommend checking out the controller layouts and maybe even printing it out to reference while you’re still getting used to things.
Original layout at launch (most of this is still the same):
Patch which added a slightly alternate control scheme option:
Patch which added auto-run:
Is this the beginning of the decline of PUBG?
http://www.githyp.com/february-marks-the-first-month-that-pubgs-player-base-has-declined/
What I want to know is how much of that decline is because of cheaters being banned, reducing the population of (and incentive to) play exclusively to farm items to sell on the Steam marketplace?
Considering that over 1 million cheaters were banned in January alone, and an additional 1 million cheaters were banned in the month before then, I’d be curious to know how many of those cheaters playing an order of magnitude more than the ordinary player artificially increased the game’s concurrent numbers?