Gentlemen, start your photocopiers! Royale is the new MOBA

it has native english now.

it is really interesting that you tried it. I have heard good things about it. That’s all the genre needs, a well optimized and feature complete BR. However, I’m pretty meh about shooters in the third person. I hate that recent trend. I’ll wait for them to add FPS

Every time I accidentally go TPP in PUBG I go “WTF is this shit?” It just feels so sluggish, so I literally can’t play it in TPP anymore.

It’s just crappy. I don’t get the trend towards it. You basically have cheats too, since you can look around walls without being visible. I just far prefer the more skill based first person mode.

Only millennials play in third person.

Has anyone played Escape From Tarkov? It’s sort of a BR game. It is pretty intense. losing everything on death, very very very advanced weapon customization, accurate damage modeling.

Yes:

It’s good, it’s tense. They seem to be going through some growing pains, but I look forward to final release.

That’s a bit different game than normal Battle Royale because it also has PvE and character progression.

I got tired of battle royale games in 1998 after playing them for years. No thanks to them all!

Yeah, I’ve been playing it in English through the Garena client and it’s not some add-on jank or bad translation so English is clearly in the game, currently you just have to use a batch file to switch it to English from Thai.

The Steam version still shows “English language not supported” however, and if this is the case at launch then you won’t see a “Play” button unless you go into your language preferences and enable Simplified Chinese.

Perhaps unsurprisingly it didn’t launch on June 1 and has rolled back to “coming soon” now, so I’m still playing it through Garena and it’s still fun. I’m learning the map more, which is most useful for how to get from A to B when the first circle is especially mean and appears on the other side of the map.

For reasons I’m unable to put my finger on, the map doesn’t feel as natural as PUBG’s original. The ROE map feels more designed - like I can see the hand of the terrain maker. It’s not the theme park in the middle filled with giant whales that does it either.

Interesting. I noticed that the game never released on steam either, and that its in Chinese. I think that will get updated though. There is not really any reason to release it on Steam to target a solely Chinese audience. I’m honestly excited for this game. Pubg nails the concept but fails in execution.

Recommend me a Battle Royale game…! As silly as this might sound… I really am struggling here. As I have shamefully stated before I indeed liked Radical Heights very much because it was so fast, was mostly about aiming and the shooting part felt right.
So today, again, I tried PUBG. While shooting feels good in this one too…the whole thing is sooo slow. Everytime I rush I get killed. Everytime I’m making top10/20 I bore myself to death and feel like the ultimate chicken… I really see no land in this game… (okay, I’m just 5 machtes in…). But could it be that there is quite some meta involved? How many games must I play before I get it? Should I read a guide?
And still: watching my killer is so boring…a match seems to take forever. Well I adapt? Despite the big ones (CoD, Battlefield) …what’s coming up that you would recommend given my stated preferences (fast, not too much meta-knowledge required, …and, oh god, no building…).

Are there still other shooters left worth diving into? Not too complex! For the first in several years I really like shooting others online… what to do? :-)

Have you checked out the new map on the experimental PUBG server? You can download the client in your Steam library (PUBG: Experimental Server) and try it for the next couple of days.

This is a smaller map? Maybe I should read this thread :-)

Yeah, it’s 4x4 km instead of 8x8 km, but with the same amount of players.

Solo is not fun. Dying from random angles, lots of pointless looting. i wouldn’t even bother. if you have a group, though, pubg is a lot more interesting. also, just land hot drop in pecado or pochinki for a while

If you’re playing solo, I would stick to Erangel (don’t play on Miramar) and parachute into cities or other hot spots like school until you get better. Playing it safe and reaching the top 10 can be really engaging, but only once you’re familiar with the subtleties of the map, where cars spawn, and you have the skills to have an actual shot at winning. If you just hide for most of the game as a solo new player, there’s just too much dead time and it won’t even translate into a tense or engaging finale as you’ll just be fodder for the more experienced players who have the loot and map skills.

Or you could try the small map on the test server, it is coming out soon on the official servers. But Erangel can be really fun to play on, even solo!

If you want a faster pace, try Fortnite BR. The only reason not to, is if you are allergic to cartoon rendering.

Yeah, and Fortnite is currently running Blitz as a Limited Time mode which siginificantly speeds up the game.

Guess you guys missed this.

You can easily play a whole match without building a thing. It is not required.