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Harry Potter on Ice
Nov 4, 2006


IF IM NOT BITCHING ABOUT HOW SHITTY MY LIFE IS, REPORT ME FOR MY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HIJACKED
qtpie pulling in 3 mil a year from looking lazy

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mbt
Aug 13, 2012

pubg players tier list

rank s:
cool fun people who want to have a good time

rank f:
mean people who fart into the mic and post about streamers

But Not Tonight
May 22, 2006

I could show you around the sights.

where do people who chase down unarmed naked people with their fists while shouting "CHINA NUMBAH WAN" rank?

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


What are in the loot boxes

aniviron
Sep 11, 2014

loot

Captain Beans
Aug 5, 2004

Whar be the beans?
Hair Elf

Fried Watermelon posted:

What are in the loot boxes

Dope hats, gas masks and wife beaters

Harry Potter on Ice
Nov 4, 2006


IF IM NOT BITCHING ABOUT HOW SHITTY MY LIFE IS, REPORT ME FOR MY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HIJACKED

Captain Beans posted:

Dope hats, gas masks and wife beaters

is there any reason I shouldn't be opening them as I can? More rare loot as the boxes get more expensive? I seem to only have gotten duplicates

shitting stars
Jun 11, 2008

Harry Potter on Ice posted:

is there any reason I shouldn't be opening them as I can? More rare loot as the boxes get more expensive? I seem to only have gotten duplicates

All boxes drop one item, and they all drop from the same pool. The only difference between cheap and expensive boxes is the price. Box prices reset back to 700 each week and cap at 7000 iirc. All items are cosmetics such as glasses, pants, jackets, etc. You can loot duplicate items and buy/sell items on Steam for real dollars.

tehinternet
Feb 14, 2005

Semantically, "you" is both singular and plural, though syntactically it is always plural. It always takes a verb form that originally marked the word as plural.

Also, there is no plural when the context is an argument with an individual rather than a group. Somfin shouldn't put words in my mouth.

bees everywhere posted:

Cyanidewolf, IAmAhnuld and I ran into JoshOG last night, 10:28-10:35 in this video: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/141360865

The best part of that clip though is when another squad of 3 unbelievably fall for his bait and try to revive their teammates, with zero regard for the fact that there is a sniper actively shooting them in the head very accurately.

I got poo poo on by the squad to the northeast that JoshOG's group was engaging. I stole their car and it was worth it. Unfortunately our car was there as well. Always shoot out tires. :(

eSporks
Jun 10, 2011

BobHoward posted:

God drat it you have triggered my desire to nerd. Bolded is nonsense spread by people who don't understand 3d graphics programming fyi

I mean there's some grain of truth to it, in that it's possible your CPU does some work on texture data before uploading to GPU. But: this happens once, when the texture is loaded from disk, not every time a frame is drawn, and you expect less work if the texture setting is lower, not more.

The reason you expect less is that when you run a higher texture resolution a shitload of lower res versions of the same texture are uploaded to the GPU too. This is because when a texture's pixels are much smaller than screen pixels thanks to view distance, it's better to sample from a lower resolution version of the same texture that's already been filtered to look right at that distance. Google "mipmap" for more.

So, whenever a texture gets sent to the gpu, it's really several copies of the same image at different resolutions. If the highest setting is 8, when you move the slider from 8 to 7 you are telling the game "hey I don't care about looking at poo poo up close and seeing super detail so don't give the gpu copy #8", but copies 1-7 still get sent. The benefit to performance here is indirect - leaving out the highest res mipmap levels uses less GPU memory.

So in sum you don't really expect any increased cpu load at all. If the game stores precomputed mipmap levels on disk, all it has to do is leave out the higher res copies when uploading. If it's generating them on the fly, it has one (or more) less copies to generate when you turn textures down.

TLDR: please don't invent and/or spread urban legends about why an early access game has weird performance quirks, just roll with them

I'll admit I was talking out my rear end, but the phenomenon is real. Up until last year I was a phenomenal II and almost always got better FPS with maxed textures because my GPU was newer. This was in Arma, doom, and many other games.
With doom it ran at 4fps on low textures, 30 on high.

Great Beer
Jul 5, 2004

Yeah I have no idea whats causing it but I average 20 fps on low, 30 on medium. :iiam:

The Duggler
Feb 20, 2011

I do not hear you, I do not see you, I will not let you get into the Duggler's head with your bring-downs.

Great Beer posted:

Yeah I have no idea whats causing it but I average 20 fps on low, 30 on medium. :iiam:

Depending on the game putting things on low will heighten the load on the CPU, whereas medium and up are gpu based

Yodzilla
Apr 29, 2005

Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch
I'm not sure I like this new vehicle they added that may or may not exist at any give moment, it seems p unfair https://streamable.com/f411b


Also that game I had the glitch the entire back half of the match where I just receive phantom hits but it was constant and super goddamn annoying. I think the servers were just making GBS threads the bed.

Pleads
Jun 9, 2005

pew pew pew


Yodzilla posted:

I'm not sure I like this new vehicle they added that may or may not exist at any give moment, it seems p unfair https://streamable.com/f411b

Schrodinger's Buggy

Krazuel
Nov 23, 2004

Not doing that again!


Saw this on reddit, so dirty.

Moatman
Mar 21, 2014

Because the goof is all mine.
Got my first win. Landed on a car, looted a deserted Georgopol, guessed right on the endzone, hid in a room for 10 minutes with a shotgun because someone I failed to kill was outside, and then crawled my way into a stalemate in a field with the last remaining dude until he stood up to run closer.

Yodzilla
Apr 29, 2005

Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch
The servers have been kinda brutal tonight and it's making spectator mode even laggier than usual https://streamable.com/9j2nd

Nice shootin' Tex.

Roobanguy
May 31, 2011

i finally found an awm in a box!

i grabbed the ammo and dropped it outside the safezone.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



I finally will be playing again tmrw night and it's gonna own

Preparing my butthole

Mauser
Dec 16, 2003

How did I even get here, son?!
I would love a filter on the inventory when you're picking up stuff, especially off of corpses, that either doesn't display clothing or shows it greyed out or sorts it to the bottom. Any sort of customization for the display of a stack of items would be nice.

Also, second duo round ever with my friend and we magically started off in the final circle. We both had to do some tactical piss breaks due to a lot of beer having been drunk, and ultimately came out with a win after fending off every attack on our building in pier town.

VulgarandStupid
Aug 5, 2003
I AM, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, UNFUCKABLE AND A TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT TO EVERYONE. DAE WANNA CUM PLAY WITH ME!?




funny Star Wars parody posted:

I finally will be playing again tmrw night and it's gonna own

Preparing my butthole

Same but prepare ur buttholes

Gonna have to learn how to do everything again... How do I punch?

VulgarandStupid fucked around with this message at 04:33 on May 12, 2017

Jimbot
Jul 22, 2008

Are the servers being extra laggy tonight? I'm getting killed behind solid cover. I got hit a couple times, went behind solid cover and died. Also shooting three rounds out of a double barrel.

SSJ_naruto_2003
Oct 12, 2012



Jimbot posted:

Are the servers being extra laggy tonight? I'm getting killed behind solid cover. I got hit a couple times, went behind solid cover and died. Also shooting three rounds out of a double barrel.

This happened to me in both games I played today (dying like 2 seconds after running behind cover) and i quit for the night after that

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Ok maybe I won't be playing tmrw

Tres Burritos
Sep 3, 2009

I think I have to step away from this game until the latency is figured out. That and the assorted jankiness really starts to grate once you know what you're doing.

mbt
Aug 13, 2012

Tres Burritos posted:

I think I have to step away from this game until the latency is figured out. That and the assorted jankiness really starts to grate once you know what you're doing.

you in 15 minutes: "I see two people on a hill to the southwest"

Yodzilla
Apr 29, 2005

Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch
So here's what really grinds me my gears today: wall, specifically low ones. I get that a scope is raised above the barrel and you have to adjust for range but holy gently caress it shouldn't be so easy to be behind cover, look down the scope at an enemy, fire off a few rounds, and hit nothing but the wall in front of you. From my perspective I'm a good foot above it but I guess the gun is actually way lower?

I've seen this when hiding in sheds as well where a partner will say they're aiming out a window but from my perspective it looks like they're aiming straight into the wall about six inches below the slit. Something's kinda jacked up about that right?


e: oh hey info about new maps from Game Informer https://www.reddit.com/r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS/comments/6aknl0/new_map_info_from_game_informer_june_issue/

Yodzilla fucked around with this message at 05:45 on May 12, 2017

VulgarandStupid
Aug 5, 2003
I AM, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, UNFUCKABLE AND A TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT TO EVERYONE. DAE WANNA CUM PLAY WITH ME!?




Yodzilla posted:

So here's what really grinds me my gears today: wall, specifically low ones. I get that a scope is raised above the barrel and you have to adjust for range but holy gently caress it shouldn't be so easy to be behind cover, look down the scope at an enemy, fire off a few rounds, and hit nothing but the wall in front of you. From my perspective I'm a good foot above it but I guess the gun is actually way lower?

I've seen this when hiding in sheds as well where a partner will say they're aiming out a window but from my perspective it looks like they're aiming straight into the wall about six inches below the slit. Something's kinda jacked up about that right?


e: oh hey info about new maps from Game Informer https://www.reddit.com/r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS/comments/6aknl0/new_map_info_from_game_informer_june_issue/

This is a somewhat relevant video for the same problem in another game. Just be happy its working this way and not shooting bullets from your eyes.

eSporks
Jun 10, 2011

Yodzilla posted:

So here's what really grinds me my gears today: wall, specifically low ones. I get that a scope is raised above the barrel and you have to adjust for range but holy gently caress it shouldn't be so easy to be behind cover, look down the scope at an enemy, fire off a few rounds, and hit nothing but the wall in front of you. From my perspective I'm a good foot above it but I guess the gun is actually way lower?

I've seen this when hiding in sheds as well where a partner will say they're aiming out a window but from my perspective it looks like they're aiming straight into the wall about six inches below the slit. Something's kinda jacked up about that right?


e: oh hey info about new maps from Game Informer https://www.reddit.com/r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS/comments/6aknl0/new_map_info_from_game_informer_june_issue/
I was bitching about this the other day. I get its realistic, but games don't need to be realistic to be fun. In real life you have a decent sense of your surroundings and know when your gun is pointed at a wall. Game spaces always lack all of that body awareness sense. Hipfire I can kinda understand, but ADS is dumb. Just put the camera in the mouth and call it a day.

mbt
Aug 13, 2012

while you studied the blade, I studied the car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fod_heZCRRs

also i do a sick nasty spin which was 100% intentional

mbt fucked around with this message at 07:34 on May 12, 2017

Jerkface
May 21, 2001

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE DEAD, MOTHERFUCKER?

Fallen Rib
I just had back to back 2nd place finishes, both times the final circle was closer to the other guy and gave him better cover :negative: First one was a field with hay bales and he happened to get 2 on his side while i got jackshit. Second time we both had trees on 2nd to last circle but then the final circle was on his side and I had to run through empty terrain to get to it, died in the blue a step from reaching it and being able to dive prone behind someones car :( Both games I had a lot of skirmishes and some kills, which is a lot more fun than the usual top 20 looting empty houses followed by being sniped by some guy behind a tree unceremoniously while never really seeing anyone.

I wish they would make 4x scopes not suck rear end.

Static!
Jul 17, 2007

Hold on, I'm watching this...

Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:

while you studied the blade, I studied the car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fod_heZCRRs

also i do a sick nasty spin which was 100% intentional

I drive like this every game. I played wayyyy too much NFS: Most Wanted and the cars handle exactly like that.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
https://streamable.com/0od36

The uzi will definitely do in a pinch.

https://streamable.com/7n08f
I almost set a friend on fire.

https://streamable.com/nzwc5
We sniped some people (find Waldo who downed our guy in the next clip and win a prize)

Also we had the most amazing save
https://streamable.com/q4en2

But we won that poo poo

https://streamable.com/e4ajj

Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 08:15 on May 12, 2017

Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Today I headshotted a friend, killed him again later on that match, ran over my team with a car and tossed a grenade that blinded us all. My friend died to fall damage while on the gas. It was a great day at PUBG.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Party Plane Jones posted:

https://streamable.com/0od36

The uzi will definitely do in a pinch.

https://streamable.com/7n08f
I almost set a friend on fire.

https://streamable.com/nzwc5
We sniped some people (find Waldo who downed our guy in the next clip and win a prize)

Also we had the most amazing save
https://streamable.com/q4en2

But we won that poo poo

https://streamable.com/e4ajj

I love that these are all the same game

Studio
Jan 15, 2008



Is there an indicator that you need to pump your shotgun? It's v. annoying having to fire again to trigger it, especially if you interrupt the pump with a reload.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe

Athanatos posted:

I love that these are all the same game

The next match we found 2 crates and every single person had a sniper rifle and we all died to one dude with a suppressed vector. A shameful death.

edit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r889ILX2Ydk

AR sound dropoff video.

Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 09:37 on May 12, 2017

LampkinsMateSteve
Jan 1, 2005

I've really fucked it. Have I fucked it?

Krazuel posted:



Saw this on reddit, so dirty.

If it really does trap them, I'm such a sadist, I would have shot the tyres out and left on foot. After telling them my plans over local VoIP.


I had a very gentleman-like conversation with a guy I had downed just before I executed him with a shotgun from a foot away. Most civilised.

Lysandus
Jun 21, 2010
This is a good as I'll ever be

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Yodzilla
Apr 29, 2005

Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch

VulgarandStupid posted:

This is a somewhat relevant video for the same problem in another game. Just be happy its working this way and not shooting bullets from your eyes.

I think you forgot to include a video but I've seen third person games where the bullets come from the camera and not the player. You can imaging the problems that causes!

eSporks posted:

I was bitching about this the other day. I get its realistic, but games don't need to be realistic to be fun. In real life you have a decent sense of your surroundings and know when your gun is pointed at a wall. Game spaces always lack all of that body awareness sense. Hipfire I can kinda understand, but ADS is dumb. Just put the camera in the mouth and call it a day.

Yeah agreed. The lack of awareness due to not actually being in a place is an interesting problem to solve.

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