Playerunknown's Battlegrounds
 

anybody playing this? didn't see a thread for it

it's in early access and coming to xb1 and ps4

just got 3rd place in a match, so tense when there's only a few people left

http://i66.tinypic.com/25uh5eb.jpg

really fun game

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I just got this over the weekend. Solo is pretty intense. The most kills i've gotten in a game so far is 2, haha. Highest i've lasted is around #30.
squad play is fun. My buddy picked up the game last night so i'll have to try to play Duo with him once he figures it out

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Is it coming out for PS4? I thought it was an XB1 exclusive? (timed exclusive maybe?)

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This just hit my radar this weekend. Probably going to get it soon even though I haven't gamed on PC in ages.

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Looks pretty damn sweet... I'm going to pick this up.

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It's a timed exclusive. It will be coming out on PS4 after they just haven't said how long.

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I played as a Duo team with my buddy last night. Headsets with mics are a must since you cant type out chat. First game he got shot right when he landed, haha. I ended up killing the two guys that killed him but then died when i tried to run down a team while on a motorcycle.
We did have a fun game where we actually had time to get geared up (rifles with scopes!) and lay an ambush. A team in a dune buggy came by so we unloaded on them. they killed my teammate but i killed one of them. Then it was 1 vs 1 with both of us hiding behind trees. I would have killed him when i ran up to his tree but i ran out of ammo, haha. I ran back to my tree to loot my dead teammate but the enemy got me before i could reload.

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played a ton of this over the weekend and holiday. Got a chicken dinner (i was dead but watched while one of my squad members won). I think the most people i;ve killed in a game is only 3.

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I'm still playing this game like crazy. I got #2 in solo; still have not won the solo chicken dinner. I've been getting a lot of top 10s in solo and squad. squad is great if you have a decent team but with match making, i only seem to get a good team (one that sticks together, doesnt DC, and talks on the mics) like 10-20% of the time.

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Coming to XB1 December 12

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Also part of the B2G1. For $20, I'll give it a shot.

https://www.target.com/p/playerunkno...093#lnk=newtab

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^ Good idea. I'll order one as well.

I know they did the same thing with ARK, but it seems so weird to release a physical disc for a game that is in "Game Preview Edition".

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It's just going to be a code in a case just like the Cuphead physical release that is coming out.

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Looks similar to the Battle Royale mode in Fortnite?

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Almost exactly... I wish PUBG was on PS4 so I could compare.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkai.../#6526a6d76800

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Fortnite ripped off the battle royale mode from PUBG. PUBG is more realistic, though, with better bullet physics; like CS:GO.
its a real thrilling game

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Damn, I forgot this is coming out next week on XB1. My Target order just shipped. Looking forward to finally playing it after hearing so much about it.

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It was released yesterday for the Xbox One. Servers were at the max.

First time playing the game, I had a lot of issues adapting to the controls. I usually play Gears of War.

First game I was able to stay alive until there were only 38 alive. I died because I didn't know how to read the map, and go to a safe area. I didn't shoot any gun or kill anyone.

Second game I died pretty fast, I was 70 or something. I tried shooting someone but it didn't work.

Did some reading and found out how to load your gun. It doesn't autoload automatically the first time. It doesn't have auto aiming either so...

Third and last game, I was number 9! I was able to shoot someone, but my rifle wasn't automatic or something, really hard to aim too. So I tried to shoot someone, I'm not sure if I hit him with any of my bullets.

It was late to me, so that was all. By the third game I was really excited about the game.
If I learn how to shoot it will be awesome! :lol:

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I got my copy in the mail yesterday but didn't get around to installing it yet. Figured it would be pretty broken for at least the first week or so, if not longer.

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I think just about everyone dies their first game from not realizing the gun doesn’t auto load when you pick it up.

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on the PC, you have to push a button to switch from "single shot" to "auto fire". I heard that the best way to get far in the game on xbox right now is to get a car and run over people. The lack of aim-assist has it so most people cant hit you if you keep moving around.

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I was second place in my last game yesterday!

And I killed one person.

Yeah, there's a button in the controller to change from single to auto, I discovered that yesterday. I don't remember which right now, though.

So, basically the way it works for me is to hide. LOL! The one I killed yesterday was at the beginning of the match, poor guy was naked with no guns. In previous matches I had some fire fights that I lost.

So, in my best game, I was lucky to choose the play where the map was going to be restricted at the end, so I didn't move a lot. I was hidden in an open garage, with a car!, and I stayed there until it was only 6-8 people left. I went into the car and started driving in the small playing area. There was another guy un a car that started hitting me. So at the end it was just 4 people. Two of us in two cars, and two people on foot. They were able to kill the guy in the other car, I was trying to run over them, but one was really well protected by some rocks, the other one was near a tree, he started moving and I went after him. The killed was given to the other guy though. And then my car exploded and I died. Good times!

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I watched a long game play video on this - don't think I would be able to get into it - I do love the non-invincible feel to it and how threatened you feel but overall it just doesn't look all that exciting to me.

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Turns out it's a slip of paper in a thin cardboard box. Not even a case. :(

My son tried our copy yesterday. He sort of liked it, but wished it had a tutorial. He couldn't figure out anything initially.

The map is weird, I couldn't tell where he was in it. He asked me how to move to the restricted area and I had no idea which way he should be moving.

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It's a fun game for a while, but I became pretty tired of it when I realized a) I'm terrible at it, and b) your best chance of winning is to just hide for as long as possible. Plus, it's always been full of jank and never really ran well, and, from what I saw in a digital foundry vid yesterday, it doesn't look like much has changed with the switch to consoles.

Fortnite BR is the better version of this type of game, imo.

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I thought the same, that I wouldn't be able to get into it, too old for this. But I'm having fun. First, if you like COD, or Overwatch, or those kind of shooters, this is not that kind of game.

I mean, yes, you can try to kill as many people as you want, but you won't survive too much. I like to play it as a survival game, so yeah, hiding helps a lot. People are getting cars too, so they can last more in the game.

Yesterday, I had one interesting game. I was #8. The game started and I landed in a crowded area, that it seems more people chose too. I went to a house, and it was already picked up, think I only found a 9 mm. I tried to go to another house, and they started shooting at me, I ran away and I lose half my health. I thought I wouldn't last too much. Somehow, with only one gun, no meds, I was able to reach the top 10. I was sneaking most of the time, and in the final circle there was one guy with a car. When I was going through the ground I found a corpse! I looted him, got one med kit that replenish my health, one rifle, etc. I was ready for the final battle! Then playing zone was restricted again and I couldn't run fast enough and died! LOL!

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Oh boy, did I have an interesting time with this one over the weekend. This is easily the roughest state I've seen a game in this generation. I've heard this game in janky (and that's some of it's charm), but I would call it downright broken in the state it's in currently. My frustration really peaked when I was in the final 10 and my controller randomly disconnected and I was shot while my truck hit a tree. I even swapped controllers thinking it might have been a battery issue, but nope, happened to me again a couple games later. It's also unacceptable to parachute to the ground and have to wait 10 to 15 seconds for the houses to populate in. When you first drop to the ground, all of the houses look like melted wax and you have to clip though them to enter. And I won't even start on the frame rate issues.

I think it has potential to be a cool survival type game but it's not even close to where it needs to be. Even as a game that is a work in progress, it should have never been released in this state. I get that this is the major holiday release for the Xbox, but it's making it look that much worse when your brand new console is running a game that has the frame rate dipping in the teens.

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I've been number 2 three times now. :)

I read that if you disable the game DVR functionality your game should perform better. I haven't had any serious issues though, and I'm in release date, first generation, Xbox One. And I play from an external drive.

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I saw a patch come through yesterday and played for a bit. They did a decent job of cleaning up the pop ins while landing. But the framerate seems to have gotten worse in some situations now. I was also feeling pretty good in a match yesterday. Was in the final 10, just driving around the circle in a Jeep and then BAM, game crashed and back to the title screen. So I think I'm going to table this for a bit until they work out some more issues.

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I played 4 games on the PC after the update. The new map is crazy

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If the game crashes back to the title screen, after you continue, it tells you that the session is still on, if you want to continue. If you haven't died yet in the game, you can login back. I like that "feature".

Yesterday, I land and go into a big house, check one room, found some gloves, and look at one space I haven't seen before in any house, like there is ground there, instead of regular floor. I go to check it, and when they want to return they appear. The stairs. So now I'm trapped under the stairs! LOL! No one checked that house. But it was part of the main action. So I survived there until the last 28. And yeah, I died when I was out of the playing zone.

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So I got this with Xbox One X. Man am i terrible. Haven't killed anyone in several matches. :lol:

I will say, it looks like absolute shit on Xbox One X. Not impressed with the visuals at all.

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It's just not a great looking game, imo. Fun, sure, but the graphics aren't selling anybody.

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I cant imagine having to aim with a joystick; its difficult enough with a mouse

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This is not a game about killing other players. It's more about surviving until the end. And that means avoiding players as much as possible.

I mean, like most games, you can play it as different as you want, but you won't survive too much.
Also, there is luck involved. Example: you choose one big house as your landing spot, there are a lot of guns and ammo there, and that ends up being close to the final spot. You can spend most of the match there, until the last 20 or so. I've read of people hidden in the bathroom with a shotgun just waiting for someone to enter, doing that for more than 20 mins.

In most of my matches I don't kill anyone. If I'm lucky I kill one person. But there was this match were I didn't chose "wisely" my landing spot. Yeah, it a couple of houses, found a powerful shotgun immediately, but then people started coming. I killed 3 people in that house in less than 10 minutes. I think I wasn't even top 10 in that game, and I died because I was out of the safe zone! LOL!

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BTW, I haven't had any crash with the latest update. Xbox One OG with no DVR.

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usually when i play solo on the PC, i try and land on one of the big roads off the flight path a bit, i find a car (eventually get a non-side car motorcycle) and then go to one of the towns far from the flight path; usually one in the circle. If a crate falls in that area, i usually try and get it since early on, if the circle is mostly out of the flight path, there wont be many people around. It gives me time to loot and then i can set up myself on the less populated side of the circle.
if you land and loot right away, then if the circle is far, you have to run around looking for a car at the same time as everyone else.

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I've still yet to kill anyone in this game. It's frustrating as fuck.

I had a good game today. Landed around nobody. Found a fuckton of weapons/upgrades/armor. Nobody to use it on. Made it through 2 or 3 shrink downs of the map. I'm creeping toward new area, in grass. No way anyone could see me. All of the sudden I heard a vehicle in the distance, squashes me flat. No way he could have seen me, yet he did because he went off road to hit me. Made it to #24 which is my best, but still shitty. I am glad I didn't pay for this game, because I probably would've been pissed had I done so. Just not my cup of tea.

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I was finally able to play some squad matches with three other friends over the weekend. A lot more talking and it changes the game a lot. Shifts it from a quiet game where you are constantly listening for noises around you while feeling paranoid, to seeing all the dumb shit you can come up with four people riding around in trucks, being loud, and not really caring how far you get in the match :lol:. I can't remember another game that shifted tones more than this one depending on how you decide to play. Still fun though. And I got my personal best with eight kills in one match.

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30k battle points for anyone who "purchased" game and has account before Jan 31st. Points will start to show up on Feb 1st: https://majornelson.com/2018/01/25/c...s-on-xbox-one/

Basically for cosmetic shit.