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  Steam Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/578080 THIS IS AN UNOPTIMIZED EARLY ACCESS GAME, YOU REALLY WANT 16GB OF RAM AND THE GAME INSTALLED ON AN SSD Discord: https://discord.gg/JuWK5HN - Join our Discord and play with these Forum Superstars    PlayerUnknown is the man behind the Arma 2 and Arma 3 Battle Royale mods and also collaborated with the H1Z1 team to make King of the Kill. Now he is releasing his own game, developed by Blue Hole studios (Tera Online.) It just went on Steam Early Access on March 23, 2017 and costs $30. For those unfamiliar with this game, up to 100 players start in a plane, jump out and start scavenging and fighting each other until only one remains. The playable area shrinks as time goes on, forcing players into encounters until it's over. It's a fun, tense game and each round takes up to 40 minutes. In terms of gameplay it is supposed to be somewhere between Arma 3 BR and H1Z1 in terms of realism and arcade. There are currently three modes, Solo, Duos (teams of two) and Squad (teams of up to 4.) Currently it is only for PC, but I believe the plan is to go to final build within 6 months and release for XBox One and PS4. I'm having a lot of fun with it, but it obviously needs some work. It runs in Unreal engine which tends to make things shiny and the optimization is pretty bad right now, my FPS will sometimes drop to the 30s and that's with a GTX1080. I also came from Arma 3 BR and never played H1Z1, so I wish some things were more like Arma. The bullet drop is minimal right now, but when I talked to PlayerUnknown in person he stated he wanted to make it more difficult to shoot long ranges. Also I'm not a huge fan of the map design. There's not a lot of soft cover, besides random distributed bushes, but nothing that would give you enough cover pull off a flank. Vehicle physics are wonky right now and a small lip in the road could flip your car. Some stuff the devs talked about posted:TO DO LIST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Is there bullet drop? Yes. Are the bullets hitscan? No. Are headshots an instant kill, regardless of the weapon? No, most headshots are not immediately fatal, but it depends on the weapon and helmet. What is a badness score? A badness score is an arbitrary rating produced by a robot to determine how bad you are. No one knows how the robot computes this score, but your best bet to reduce your badness score is to just get good. What is the optimal strategy to win? The best strategy I've come up with is to release your parachute really high and go to a far away location that has decent loot, but minimizes the chance of competing with someone on the ground. Then you find a vehicle and drive it to the next zone and hide it so it's not stolen. Camp with a shotgun. Repeat when the next zone is out of your area. It's really boring though. What's "zeroing distance"? Zeroing distance is the distance your sights are set to hit. If you set your zero too high and aim with your center crosshair, your shots will go over your target's head. If you set them too low, and aim with the center, you will shoot under. What am I supposed to do during the lobby? During the loading stage you need to get lucky so an M249 spawns on a table. Take the M249 and go in the middle of all the people and go prone and shoot all the bullets. This is to get their attention. Then drop all your clothes, followed by the M249. Then while still prone, position yourself in front of the M249 and move forwards and backwards so it looks like your loving yourself in the rear end. Bonus points if someone shoots your rear end in a top hat so it looks like it's bleeding. What are the best weapons? Vector, Uzi, and Crossbow. Is snow loud? I think crunching of snow being loud as gently caress but not traveling far and visibility being poo poo would be kinda neat to play on a small map. Can I play this game on the couch with a TV and Xbox controller? Yes, this is a max chill game that has native Xbox 360 controller support with force feedback. Is there loot on the starting island? Pro-tip: If you see someone go to spawn island, and decide to follow them and camp their boat, it's a good idea to loot some meds before you start camping so you don't die to the blue while you wait. 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Made a discord, come play. https://discord.gg/JuWK5HN VulgarandStupid fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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Bardeh posted:The twitch viewer numbers and concurrent players on Steam are very impressive for an early access title. I wonder if the devs expected such a big response - there's definitely been some server instability, especially at the start of games. I'm kind of confused why they have all the guns and grenades at the beginning when you're queuing up. I mean, I know it's kind of boring but it's just that much more for each player to load at once along with all the overhead for the server to process.
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Perestroika posted:Anyways, if you manage to find a silencer for a long gun (i.e. assault or sniper rifle) then grab that poo poo and never let it go even if you don't have a corresponding weapon yet. They're ridiculously useful, as most firefights happen at range and sound is usually the primary way of localising where you're getting shot at from. A friend of mine managed to snag a silenced SKS with a 4x scope, and he could just sit in cover all day long popping dudes in the head who had no idea where to even look for him. I did this... The rest of my squad died, but I went to a group of buildings. From there, I could see a house in the next compound with dudes in it. I kept popping their heads, but they'd be knocked out (DBNO) and I wouldn't be able to finish them because that would drop them under the window sill. Still, I'm sure it was scary as hell for them and I got a ton of damage points. Unfortunately, then the circle moved and I got hosed out in the open. Reminder: Hollywood movies are stupid, if you're sniping a target from inside a house, don't stand right by the window. Take a few steps back, you'll be less open from other angles. VulgarandStupid fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Mar 26, 2017 |
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VikingSkull posted:Also a good rule of thumb is unless you're really good, always snipe with a buddy. If you're solo in a house and sniping because that's what you did in Battlefield, you're gonna get flanked really hard. Shoot and move. The other thing is you don't have to shoot at your enemies right away. If you're playing with a team or partner and the target doesn't see you, it's best to wait until a couple of you have shots lined up before you open up. Especially if you're a bad shot, don't give your position away for no reason.
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Close your external doors because people drive their cars up and they're pretty easy to headshot. If you leave the doors open, they're either going to drive off or pretend to drive off and camp you.
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VikingSkull posted:So today I was playing and was plinking at a guy around 350m from me, maybe 400 I dunno. Early game, found an AKM and started chasing him down the river like 5 minutes in. I normally would've ran but we were late jumpers and went for distance on the drop and not speed, and in the circle so what the hell, right? Well, I get a boat on the coast of the river we were by, to catch him as I found a 4x and extended AKM mag and stopped to equip them. There was a cliff side, and I saw him drop into the water in a tiny cove. Gotcha, bitch! I run up there, put the nose of the boat into that cove, and jump on top. He's swimming and trapped and cant stand up due to the walls being so steep. Shotgun blast to the head, can't loot from the top I jump on in to get his stuff. Optiquest and I were in a Duo taking heads, when we find a tunnel system. We keep fighting it out, and eventually choose to stay under the tunnel. Unfortunately due clearing the other tunnel exits. Soon enough, it's down to Opti vs another duo, but Opti is trapped under and the other guys on top. It comes down to the circle deciding if, and despite Opti hammering his boosts and bandages, the guys on top were able to get a little more centered on the final close, so we got 2nd.
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a glitch posted:Is this worth buying for someone who hasn't played this kind of game before? Closest thing I've done would be loving around in Minecraft and ARK. The concept seems really cool but it would be a totally new kind of game for me. It's really unlike those games, because you don't build or craft. I wouldn't say its a survival game, really. It's a combat game with a looting mechanic, almost like Quake if you didn't start with a shotgun. There's no eating or drinking, besides medical stuff, just looting for guns, accessories, clothes and armor.
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Nazzadan posted:Melee just seems so buggy. I landed on a building with 3 people not in my squad and was lucky enough to pick up an Uzi real fast, and had 3 people punching me the entire time I reloaded the gun and mowed them all down. I think I took like 1/16th of my bar in the entire altercation from 3 people punching as fast as they possibly could. Confirmed, melee is bad and laggy https://www.twitch.tv/videos/131657391
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AndrewP posted:People are saying if you turn off shadows and foliage to the lowest setting it makes people easy to spot. I don't bother because I'd rather my game not look 2005-era for a slight tactical advantage. You basically can't hill peak anyone because of the grass if you don't turn foliage down. Good luck.
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AndrewP posted:I imagine this will get fixed soon but what an odd thing for the guy who made his name through ArmA of all games to overlook. I mean not to rag on PU or anything but it's not like he is really a programmer or made the engine. There is a Korean studio developing this, and he is telling them what to do. The foliage texture issue is an issue with Unreal, and I'm sure he wants to fix it.
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AndrewP posted:Fair enough. Get good. The biggest thing new people try to do is kill too much, which is a horrible idea when you suck at shooting. It's best to wait for ideal moments, for example sneaking up to the building a guy is in and then gunning him down when he leaves. If you take shots at someone in the distance, you're telling all of the aggressive players in half a in "hey come gently caress me." So don't shoot if you don't have someone caught in the open, unless you really have to. This may not even result in more kills, but you'll survive longer while everyone else wipes each other out and you get more points. DreamShipWrecked posted:I had no idea that PlayerUnknown was an actual person, I had assumed that it was the typical monkeycheese name that gets slapped on things Yeah, he's a real guy, I met him at PAX and talked to him for a little while. Seemed nice and normal enough, but you can tell he doesn't create most of the content just give direction. Take, for example, the running with SMG animation, its straight out of an anime or every other Korean f2p shooter, not tacticool at all.
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Well, unfortunately "Battlegrounds" is an awful name in itself, so putting PU in front of it is better than nothing. You should also probably just get past the name of the game, and you know play it. It's fun.
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Whatup, longest kill?  A buddy of mine was somehow creditted for a 2.7km grenade kill, though. So... uhhh.
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I do that jump down all the time, its way faster and you hardly take any damage. I actually once camped that landing once, during beta, when the circle closed on the apartment complex. It was pretty awesome, no one had any idea where I was.
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buglord posted:yo my dudes how do i traverse giant swaths of no mans land without a vehicle or scoped weapon to defend against hill wookies? My last handful of deaths have involved me being picked off from afar by some invisible spirit. Plan ahead better. If you're really stuck out there, it can be really tough. Some strategies involve moving when others' are engaged in fire fights and when it's really bad, toss some smoke grenades. A lot of people forget those exist. Unfortunately, the map design is rather bland, so there are no sprawling lines of bush cover or random stone walls in fields.
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I'm guessing the complaints about the circle speed at the end are from Arma 3 BR players. It works slightly different than in PUBG. First of all the circle isn't visible, but can be seen on the map and GPS. Secondly, it doesn't move in a wave, it moves more abruptly but you can go outside of the circle during the countdown period which allows for flanks and maneuvers. I like the BR system better because you can deal with no-man's-land more easily, but I understand why the circle needed to be visually represented for dumb baby newbies, too.
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I'm getting sick of every round ending with tree and hill peaking, they need to get some actual soft cover and variety in the map.
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LuciferMorningstar posted:Pretty much this. If you liked DayZ for intense and high-stakes shootouts, then this is for you. I thought GoonZ only enjoyed looting Stary Sobor for hours on end, then getting wiped because they never looked around.
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If there is ever going to be a survival mode, it would be 100% a mod. PU wants to make a finished product and that's easier to do with a smaller scope. Either way, I'm not sure what PUBG would have that's better than what Rust already has.
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There's a new type of unlockable... it's hood ornaments. https://youtu.be/Cp4ZbGGiql0
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Nazzadan posted:15 hours played and I only just played my first 2 solo games. Wow, it's a totally different monster than squads. I think it might be more fun alone VikingSkull posted:Solo is really fun, yeah. It's far more stressful IMO, Duo is sort of similar and Squads are either a poo poo show of hilarity or a Spec Ops simulator depending on your team makeup. It depends on your squad. If you're new to the Battle Royale game, you're probably deadweight on a squad, dragging your buddies into firefights where they'll be effectively outgunned. People have been playing Battle Royale/H1Z1 for years, so you're up against pretty stiff competition.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:I know it's probably too "arcadey", but I really wish there was a killcam in this game, at least when playing on solo. It's all fair and well to get evaporated from three hundred yards away, but I would like to actually KNOW who shot me and how. You can't have it in duo or squad at all unless you are the last teammate. I hope that makes sense. Solo, maybe, but then it would give a lot of people's secret spots away.
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This game is a lot less RNG than Arma 3 BR. In the mod, you can't choose when or where you get out of the planes, it just ejects you based on the order you joined the server. Also it's way less forgiving because the mod isn't so popular that you can be in another game within a minute. Any time I die, I try to look at it like what can I do better next time. And not just like "herp derp shoot better." Usually it's something like don't just drive up to a set of buildings because they look closed. Maybe park a little further so I don't alert any possible campers.
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SnoochtotheNooch posted:gently caress nerds in ghillie suits. Also gently caress m4s. I've killed a few dudes in ghillies so far, don't know if I've ever died to one. Since most people peak trees at the end and there's so little actual soft cover, I don't think a ghillie helps all that much.
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It's pretty funny that people use the ingame voice chat because it's obviously not a good set up by default. I was playing Squad and my group went to Yasnaya, and another group drives in. One of the other goons hears and and watches it from a little bit away in the north east, by the base of the mountain. I flank south of them and duck by a low external wall. I watch a dude go into a house, and rush him with my M16 while he's looting. After he dies, I leave the house and go back to my original spot but I hear him saying "yeah this guy just killed me, hes standing over my body looting me right now." So, wait at the wall again and see a guy try to rush the house, and gun him down before he gets inside. I end up wiping the entire squad, I think some of my teammates shoot at them, but never actually hit but they did give me some good intel. Anyway, more important than in-game voice being hilarious and bad, there are lessons to be learned here. Bad intel is worse than no intel. Also, always use third person peak, I don't think I've ever hit V to go into first person except by accident. Thirdly, the M16 is awesome in burst, up to about medium range. Bonus lesson: Audio is messed up during spectator, don't call shot location by sound for your buddies, unless you want them to turn around and get shot in the back of the head. Call visuals for them.
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ItheWelp87 posted:Feels good man, but how come my points are so low European exchange rate.
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I can't seem to hit anything with an M24. It feels like it's subject to more bullet drop than even ARs, and you can see the bullet in flight which further obtructs you. I've had like 4 or 5 now and I'm not sure if I've ever had a hit, certainly not a kill.
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afkmacro posted:Hadn't seen it posted so ... I tried this, but I didn't like it. I could barely see anything when zooming in with a scope, and it pulls the FOV back a bit too far.
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I made some pretty ghetto adjustments to the damage table in the OP. It looks like with most ARs, you can expect it to take 4 hits to the body to kill. Also there doesn't seem to be damage fall off or bullet velocity fall off yet. Hopefully that comes. VulgarandStupid fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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Nfcknblvbl posted:Yeah, sticking outside the blue circle early game doesn't hurt too much especially when you're all decked out in gear and 50 bandages. Last night, the driver in my group crashed our car right when we finally made it into the circle, and another squad opened up on us immediately, it was a bloodbath. Please drive safe out there, guys. For whatever reason, bandages take up a ton of inventory space, or there are some weird thresholds. A lot of times I'll drop all my bandages, pick up another item and then pick up the bandages again, and I'll have all of them but 2. It's strange. Also, yeah, unlike in Arma 3 BR, taking a lot of damage from the circle or even gunfire doesn't mess up your aim or hinder your mobility, which I think is a mistake. Also, visually, it can be very hard to see and shoot through the blue barrier. It seems easier to shoot from outside-in then inside-out which, is problematic.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:I hope they add in land mines and grenade launchers and poo poo. They will probably add mines at some point if I had to guess, but probably not the launchers since people complain about them a lot in Arma 3 BR seeming unsporting. Also between the machine gun and the tommy gun don't leave much need for a mini gun. Mining random main roads in Arma rocked though. Trip wires would only take out the wheels, usually, but you could hear the explosion from a mile away.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:I guess launchers might be unsportsmanlike, but I like the idea of Top ten ending up with OP weapons to raise the steaks. People don't like getting 1 hit kill, if its not a sniper rifle, preferably a crate gun, and a head shot. And I'm not saying that grenade launchers don't take skill to use, but its not fun when someone only has to land a shot in your vicinity. I do wish that hand grenades had a longer range, though. The molotovs are like laughably bad right now.
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I think deserts would be the coolest, to really give you that Mad Max vibe. Vehicles kicking up huge dust clouds would be awesome. But, they'd have to scatter dunes, rocks and bushes, so there's some cover. Really, the worst part about the current map are there are only 4 types of cover. Buildings, trees, hills and rocks. Soft cover is basically non-existent right now. Changing the ground from green/brown to white or yellow wouldn't really fix that. VulgarandStupid fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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Paradigmata posted:Does this game have a Lore or something? I would assume if there was a lore that implies that those Battle Royale happen more often you could spread more crashed planes and burned out cars over the whole map as cover, or add some artillery holes and fallen over trees at some parts of the map. At the moment it just seems like you are being dropped with the first 100 people on this empty island. It's a dystopian future where Trump gets another 4 years, and then declares himself dictator for life. Battlegrounds becomes the only way for the population to distract themselves from the drudge of life under Trump. There. That's the story.
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So this happened today... https://www.twitch.tv/videos/133962166 And it actually seems like it would be an amazing idea for a game mode/mod. Cops vs robbers, cops get the slightly faster car, robbers try to get away without crashing with cops in hot pursuit.
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Whats the trick to getting scopes to work? I put a red dot on and it worked one time I zoomed in, the rest of the games my guy just half assed raising his gun up to aim and both my 4x and red dot didn't work. Also sks or m16 or ak? Whats your favorite loadout? I'm really good at navigating and hiding Click right click, don't hold.
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Mursupitsku posted:Is there any chance that this game runs on a laptop with i7-7500U, Geforce 940MX and 8GB memory? I think it clears the recommended requirements but I fear that's not gonna be enough. This game seems like the perfect game to scratch my Dayz itch. Probably not until its optimized.
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VikingSkull posted:The 4x is useful for sure, but I feel like it limits my peripheral vision too much. Its tough to use, mostly because of the rendering issues with the game. You should probably give it to whoever has the best computer.
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:I wish airdrop crates came down quicker It's the lag that's slowing down the rate that the crate falls, as crates are supposed to land inside the next circle.
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