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Honestly I cannot comprehend how Bluehole has pissed away the goodwill of players for so long and shows no signs of stopping. I mean, what, it took them a year to sort out the cheating and it’s still fairly outrageous, though less common? The lobby still defaults to selections you don’t want. The X/Y mouse decoupling. The glacial pace of patch releases with frequent rollbacks? making GBS threads out hideous cosmetics when failing to add new guns/maps/vehicles/balance. The whole “one key will unlock all cosmetic crates” promise getting thrown out. Fog and rain getting clipped and still not replaced. Molotovs being useless since day 1 and never buffed. Shotguns being so inconsistent because of the pellet code. I mean I can go on and on. I really enjoyed PUBG but, christ, what the gently caress happened? The first year of development was pretty fast and responsive and then it just fell off a cliff. Miramar is still a mess. The only thing of note they’ve done in the last ~4 months is increase the frame rate and even then that’s fairly inconsistent between patches. I have no interest in Fortnite but at least Epic is handling that game properly. I’d love a retrospective on how PUBG fell apart. Was it trying to deal with cheaters? With esports? Developer churn? I’m so curious why it fell apart.
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Basic PUBG gameplay has hardly changed since release, the cheating has been constant for months and is never going to get 'sorted out', as someone who plays roughly 3 hours every two weeks I find the game is still very enjoyable, maybe if you've played the poo poo out of it for several months straight you've just grown bored with it?
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Yeah, as someone who bought it right after Miramar came out, it doesn't seem that bad at all. There's a patch every month with a bunch of noticeable changes, a new (really promising) map coming out soon and they're not just taking the easy way out pushing content out of the door, they're also improving performance and making other much needed backend changes. It still feels like an early access game, but it's not that bad.
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Pathos posted:Honestly I cannot comprehend how Bluehole has pissed away the goodwill of players for so long and shows no signs of stopping. I mean, what, it took them a year to sort out the cheating and it’s still fairly outrageous, though less common? The lobby still defaults to selections you don’t want. The X/Y mouse decoupling. The glacial pace of patch releases with frequent rollbacks? making GBS threads out hideous cosmetics when failing to add new guns/maps/vehicles/balance. The whole “one key will unlock all cosmetic crates” promise getting thrown out. Fog and rain getting clipped and still not replaced. Molotovs being useless since day 1 and never buffed. Shotguns being so inconsistent because of the pellet code. https://www.reddit.com/r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS/submit?selftext=true
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I don't think it's just overly critical reddit-style bitching. Is it really that complex to create a button to make NA -> FPP -> Squad default and save it into a local config file? Or a toggle to enable consistent V/H sensitivities? Or map selection? The player base remains huge and there is little risk of fracturing the community where wait times will be a significant problem. The competitive community will coalesce around specific modes as needed. Either way, the game remains very, very good and excited to play the new map. Of course it's hard to know before playing it, but the initial video seems like they've incorporated a lot of player feedback.
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I dunno. I guess I’m just annoyed because I really, really enjoyed PUBG and have something like 700 hours in the game and it just feels like it’s been catastrophically mismanaged since it approached 1.0. Maybe it’s just burn out since I’ve been playing it for a long time, especially since it sounds like some of you aren’t as bummed at the direction. I’m not entirely sure why there was such a change for me - maybe it was just the game getting more popular and thus becoming a bigger target for cheating or what. Maybe the new map will help. Or if they keep the flare gun side game accessible long term. I dunno. Pathos fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Apr 2, 2018 |
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Pathos posted:I’m so curious why it fell apart. http://steamcharts.com/app/578080 Man, I can't believe it all fell apart. They have had what, 8 updates since 1.0? Sure, not everyone's wish list is in every single update. But it's not like they are sitting around doing absolutely nothing to this game.  Mar 26th - Update 8 Mar 8 - Update 7 Feb 7 - Update 5/6 Jan 30 - Update 4 Jan 23 - Update 3 Jan 11 - Update 2 Dec 27 - Update 1 Thom P. Tiers fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Apr 2, 2018 |
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Thom P. Tiers posted:http://steamcharts.com/app/578080 Not really what I meant but fair enough
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I am going to miss the event. It let me practice shotgunning because even with the 1987 I could shoot like 5 times before the person in front of me could kill me with their extended mag vector.
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If you would like a code to try the 4x4 map in beta: https://mapbeta.playbattlegrounds.com/
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Hockles posted:If you would like a code to try the 4x4 map in beta: Just got a key, thanks.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:http://steamcharts.com/app/578080 The problem is that a lot of the big, pressing things they're working on fixing aren't flashy, like implementing ping locking, developing anti-cheat solutions, and making the game more stable in general That means the choice ends up being between continuing to work solely on those (and have absolutely nothing to show until it's ready to go live), or develop content in parallel (and get people complaining that the above 'isn't being worked on' + while complaining that the released content feels too small and slow as if the entire dev team isn't working on it (which they aren't)
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Honestly if you guys want to get good at PUBG, the best thing to do is go play counter strike and ARMA 3. In a game of PUBG, you might have 10 encounters with players if you are lucky. In a CSGO deathmatch, you will have 10 enemy encounters in a minute. Its just a far better use of time if you are practicing aiming. Much better for developing muscle memory. ARMA 3 is great for learning how to shoot long distances because the gunplay is very similar to PUBG and there are missions where you will start out with sniper rifles.
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oddium posted:tired: ping lock china R6 Siege when
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So this was a first time thing for me.  
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Thom P. Tiers posted:So this was a first time thing for me. Achievement Unlocked: Become a Literal Ghost
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Got a key, can't wait to check out tinymap tonight E: does tinymap have a real name and how bad is it
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oddium posted:tired: ping lock china Goddamn Frontlines was a good game, rip How many games have literal RC bricks of C4, RC minigun tracked drones and such as class loadout tools?
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Evilreaver posted:Goddamn Frontlines was a good game, rip Call of Duty
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Thom P. Tiers posted:So this was a first time thing for me. What am I looking for here?
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The Mash posted:What am I looking for here? i think green blood?
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That person has absolutely zero health and is still alive. There isn't even the tiniest sliver of red in that bar.
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oddium posted:tired: ping lock china actually that's wireless 
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The Mash posted:What am I looking for here? Sweet release probably. No ammo, no health, no vest, outside the circle.
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Count Bleck posted:Sweet release probably. This is a deathcam screen. I ripped his vest off and he ended with zero health. About a half second after I took that screen, his health upticked from a boost. Seems there is a bug/delay in that if you get knocked to zero health but your boost is just about to tick you up, you live! That's the only thing I can think of to explain it. He was inside the circle (it was closing in on us).
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It's likely that very small health ranges, like 1-4hp just don't register on the health bar UI. Possible that it's a bug related to having a boost running and then being reduced to 0 or -1/2/3 that will be healed with the next pending tick, but my money is that its just a visual thing and the player really did have a health total of >0 at all times.
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fargom posted:It's likely that very small health ranges, like 1-4hp just don't register on the health bar UI. Possible that it's a bug related to having a boost running and then being reduced to 0 or -1/2/3 that will be healed with the next pending tick, but my money is that its just a visual thing and the player really did have a health total of >0 at all times. Yea, but I've seen the smallest sliver of red before on deathcams and it was shown as 98-99 dmg with website trackers. Maybe the game couldn't handle me ripping his vest, knocking to zero, and an uptick in boost all at the same time. My theory is he rose from the dead. Fitting it was Easter when this happened.
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fargom posted:It's likely that very small health ranges, like 1-4hp just don't register on the health bar UI. No, that shows up on the health bar.
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I had an empty health bar with no boost the other day. Same thing happened to my buddy. Both occasions were from taking damage from flipping vehicles. I wouldn't be surprised if you don't die at zero health lol
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is the beta key site a phishing scam or not. if it is you legally have to say
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oddium posted:is the beta key site a phishing scam or not. if it is you legally have to say It's legit, I got a key. It might have still phished me but that's ok, I like jam bands (no I don't, death to jam bands.)
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I used the key and am downloading the PUBG: Closed Experimental Server right now!
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Xenaero posted:Glad they chose the worst possible fuckin method for granting access to the 4x4km map preview: keys via social media Late to this party but yeah, they gave away infinity keys on their official website today and you didnt need to be a pc gamer subscriber or a twitch lord.
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patonthebach posted:Late to this party but yeah, they gave away infinity keys on their official website today and you didnt need to be a pc gamer subscriber or a twitch lord. The other giveaway keys (not through the official site) didn't even require you to own the base game. The official site checks your steam listing for ownership first. But yeah, at this point it's just a matter of your own effort to get access if you already own the game so who cares.
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Can anybody point me in the direction of where I'm supposed to get this beta build, is it just going to be the normal test server? I haven't been able to suss out any actual links to the game so far, and yes I know it's another 80 minutes or so from being live.
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highme posted:Can anybody point me in the direction of where I'm supposed to get this beta build, is it just going to be the normal test server? I haven't been able to suss out any actual links to the game so far, and yes I know it's another 80 minutes or so from being live. Once you have your key paste it into steam product activation. There is a client separate from the test server it has you download.
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