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[Playerunknown's Battlegrounds] Only You Can Prevent Blue Circle Deaths!
Grunt's Ghosts
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Playerunknown's Battlegrounds is a 3rd Person Shooter Battle Royal game published by Bluehole Inc. and made by Brendan Greene, a modder on Arma 2, who built his own game after the success (but never ending beta) of DayZ and H1Z1. In this game, players skydive on to a large island, filled with towns, ruins, and military bases, all filled with randomly spawned weapons. The players gather gear and start killing each other until they are the last man standing. The game makes sure that players are pushed together by placing a circle on the field in random locations and periodically decreasing in size. Those outside the Blue Wall suffer damage until dead or inside the wall. Each match takes about 30 minutes from start to finish and is really intense. It is currently available as an Early Access Game on Steam. The game has three game modes currently; Solo, Duos, and 4 Man Teams. There are plans for a 1st Person Only version of all the modes. There are also plans for an Xbox One release to the game in September of this year and a PS4 release later.
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I honestly think the price point is very reasonable, but don't quite have the disposable income or stable enough internet to make the plunge myself. I'm keeping an eye on it though, as it seems like something I could spend a lot of time on.
Playing these types of games with ESP is, eeeehhh, not fun to me.
But man, as soon as that mode drops I'm gonna be all over this.
I've watched all of jackfrags, levelcaps, and matimi0s feeds and they are having a blast
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This game is so intense. It's the first game in years that has made me drop my mouse from being startled (some guy with a shotgun out of nowhere). It gets worse as the round goes on too, getting down to the top 10 is so stressful.
There is a lot of room for strategy too. You can drop with the herd into a popular town, hope you make it through the opening scramble, and just pull loot off dead bodies. The few people that leave the town alive will be geared up for the rest of the match. I like to pick a small town on the late end of the air drop, and not right under the plane. You can get a good amount of distance out of the plane, if you hold W and stay horizontal. It takes longer to get geared up, but most of the time you will approach the circle from a different angle than most people, which is a huge advantage.
Then I played, dropped down north east of the Harbor Town (the town that's flooded), landed with five other guys and got a machete and preceeded to cut them down like I was Jason Voorhees until one got a Uzi and when full auto on me.
It's the little things that makes me smile.
a very bitter end.
The game is dayz without the fluff or zombies plus the circle mechanic to force engagements. Its bite sized, 10 to 20 mins per session? very fun. very janky and in early access.
Will be on more tonight!
Am @mojojoeo on steam add me and lets rule the island together.
Still, people who turn down their graphics settings get a really big advantage since it disables like 90% of the grass and foliage.
@mojojoeo I'll message you tonight and we can team up, yeah? I'm not great but I'm not terrible.
Coolio, we usually run 2-3s. should be able to get a full group maybe tonight.
The proposed 'hardcore' 1st person mode locks the graphical settings for grass and shadows to high.
You cant cheat foliage
Im desperate for that mode.... they are adding it as fast as possible.
I don't mind the 3rd person just for situational and body awareness which is so important for games like these, to make sure you're ass isnt poking around a corner, but it is pretty ridiculous that it gives you xray vision for just looking around corners.
They could do the mechwarrior online thing where if you use 3rd person, it launches a little camera drone into the air that everyone can see.
Is it ever nighttime? It was raining a few times when I played, and that was cool. I remember dayz at night being a friggin nightmare.
Nightmode is planned, along with first person only servers and a ton of other things.
List is here and in the OP.
3rd person is a little cheesy, but you just have to cheese right along with it. Learn the system, so you know what corners you can peak, and how other people are going to use it against you. It will be fun to see how first person only server change the flow of the game though. It could make camping in houses a bit stronger (can't corner peak through the outside windows), but it also makes it harder to hold a house because you will expose yourself anytime you look out a top floor window.
This game is awesome.
This could bring up a whole other list of issues. What happens when an object has a slightly larger hitbox than what is visible? Wouldn't it be annoying to have some tiny object (like a window bar) completely hide someone out in the open? Some people would have issues with you being able to magically see what your teammates can see too.
Even with a 3rd person solution, I don't think they would bother. Why go through all the trouble when most of the playerbase is fine with the way 3rd person works now, and the rest are fine with first person only servers?
All day today it seems that I've been running into laggy servers. Shot a guy who was standing still while I was on the second floor of a building, AKM with a 4x scope. Dude gets hit, but walks off then I see the blood splatter two seconds later. He takes a shot at me, I move out of the way, crouch down and reload then die from a headshot.
Later, I shot a guy in the back with a double barrel shot guy, then switched to pistol and put two more shots in him before he turns around and hit me with a shotgun, killing me after I get off two more shots.
I know it isn't my internet because I left and played Battlefield 1 perfectly fine afterwords.
I hope they seriously fix their servers. In a game where procession is key and lag is death, having two seconds of lag is too much.
My first win! I went for a long distance drop to the villa (just outside of it), and someone landed right next to me. We both rushed to the good loot spots, but I jumped and saw a M16 on a patio on one of those bad loot houses on the outside of the compound. I quickly got it and shot the guy in the back as he entered the big 3 story house. I got super lucky and got a 4x scope, 2 med kits, AK, ammo, enough other meds/energy, and 3/2/2 gear... I didn't loot anything else the rest of the game. I took a vehicle to the farm ridge, the cliffs in between the two bridges to the military island. It's a great spot to defend, cover on one side, other 3 sides have impassible cliffs. The circle ended up on the military island, so I had to drive across one of the bridges (one of the more dangerous parts of the match). I found a house with an attic that only had one small window, so I camped there most of the rest of the match. A few people died downstairs, or trying to get to the house. My second kill was against someone that tried to rush the stairs with a shotgun, we both almost killed each other. I backed off and used a medkit, he healed too, but came back trying to throw a grenade. He got the throw off, but I easily killed him. Even in the tiny attic it didn't do any damage.
At this point there was only 3 remaining. The circle forced me out of the house, but I filled up on energy, used a first aid kit as the circle hit me, and came out of the house after the blue wall had passed. I think this saved me because neither of the two remaining saw me leave what was easily the most dangerous spot of the previous circle. I had to use my last med kit on the last fight. Luckily, the final circle forced both of us out of cover. I gambled and waited for him to move first and nailed the head shots. When this game is good, man, it's good.
We started across the map from the first point. Our car ran out of gas in the blue. we hoofed it. lost a comrade to the blue, kept on death marching.... kept on barely surviving
fought our way up and back down the mountain by the mil base.
the next to final circle was 12 folks...the final circle was a divot in a small wooded area 3 v 3.
tensions were high.... 2nd place.
I WANT THAT CHICKEN DINNER SO BADLY.
Purely from a spectator standpoint I kind of wish players were dropped at random points on the map instead of being able to dive out and basically choose where they want to go at the start.
As it stands now I'm really sick of watching matches play out at the 3 maybe 4 spots everyone goes to loot at the beginning, like the college or the town that's right near the college.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
its just not as guranteed. ill take a shotgun and a 45 early with no drama while i get vests grenades and meds. I can find a longer gun as i go.
also people are sloppy looters. I oft find good stuff behind folks as they did not do a good enough search.
Yeah my early game is usually just being where people aren't; at a minimum you'll get a pistol. The only thing might screw you early is finding a shotgun and have nothing but open ground to cover.
Double barrel can be good out to 100m... past that.... you have only your moxie and whatever god you pray to.