PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

I'd be surprised if some other Battle Royale doesn't go open Beta at E3.

This is the wrong time for performance/de-sync to be an issue. I went from 140fps in the lobby/ 80-100fps in game to 40fps in the lobby/40fps in game.

Where do you go to see concurrent players on steam?

That's always been my biggest complaint with the game. Shots where I know I should have hit, but because of their crappy coding or optimization or whatever the hell it is, I end up not only not hitting them, but getting obliterated by someone else.

Similarly, I thought you weren't supposed to ever be able to be one-shot with a level 3 helmet on, but it seemed to happen pretty much 100% of the time to me. Meanwhile, I'll hit someone in the head (at least on my screen) 2-3 times with a KAR before they go down.

Hand damage is probably the worst fucking thing in 1v1 combat. Depending on your angle you either have a mega advantage or disadvantage. Shooting some one who is aiming up at you means their hands are blocking most of their face and negating like 50% of the headshot chances. Meanwhile if you're looking down your big fucking moonpie face is ripe for owning.

SMG's are great, but I think they're pretty balanced for most maps outside of Sanhok. They go to complete shit beyond 100m and you either have major damage dropoff or bullet drop. In Miramar the chances of using a SMG are wayyyy less likely than on Sanhok or Erangel. Erangel I think currently has the perfect mix of close/medium/long range battles. Miramar is almost always building dicktouching or 300m+ snipe battles. Sanhok is 200m or less, every time. I'm fine with that. It just means I'll rarely ever use an SMG on Miramar and less likely than an AR on Erangel.

Patch Notes

Gameplay

• Both the Lightweight Grip and Half Grip can now be attached to the Vector.
• Some minor weapon balance adjustments:
  • First shot from the M16A4 now has less recoil.
  • Decreased the spread of shotgun pellets.
  • Shotgun chokes and duckbills are now less effective at decreasing spread (so the effective spread for a shotgun with a choke or duckbill will be similar to before)

UI/UX

• CUSTOMIZATION > GEAR tab has been added. Go here to equip parachute skins.
  
  
  
  
  
• Tooltips for weapon attachments have been edited to make them more intuitive.

Localization

• Added support for Ukrainian. Thank you to all the Ukrainian players who participated in the translation process!
• Game lobby now supports multiple languages.
  • Multiple languages will be applied to various lobby components such as lobby menus (Play, Customization, Store, etc.), the options menu, and crates
  • 19 different languages are supported

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where certain buildings in Miramar were shown with default textures
• Fixed some walls in Miramar that could be partially passed through
• Removed the white mark that appeared alongside the aircraft icon on the minimap
• Scope reticle settings should no longer reset when weapons are dropped and picked up again
• We’ve improved the holographic sight’s reticle. It’s now the same size as a character silhouette seen from 100m away
• Certain animations on the buggy and minibus have been fixed
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused characters to sit at odd angles if entering into vehicles from a prone position on a sloped surface
• Fixed an issue causing red dot and holo sight reticles to get smaller and blurry when swapping weapons
• “Damage-received” sounds should no longer play after winning a game

New Crate - Aviator

• A new crate (Aviator Crate) with new outfits has been added. Find it in the STORE menu
  • Aviator Crate requires an Aviator Key to be opened
• TEST SERVER ONLY: For testing purposes, we will provide 100K BP, 20x Weapon Skin Keys, 20x Early Bird Keys, 20x Aviator Keys, and 10x Aviator Crates to all test accounts.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Added new parachute skin
  • The "Bengal Tiger" parachute skin can be purchased separately as an individual item for $4.99(price will vary slightly in some regions, based on global exchange rates). It can be purchased only once per account.
    • Bengal Tiger is unable to trade in Steam market
  • It is purchasable in STORE > ITEMS menu
• Remember that the Target Practice Pan skin will no longer be available after the planned 5/17 update!
  
  

• “Damage-received” sounds should no longer play after winning a game

Probably my favorite fix for this patch. Had a game scare the bejesus out of me on the win. Last guy was changing sides around this building and shit shack long enough to just take a few hits and hide again to heal. We both had to go heal and that sound scared the fuck out of us. He apparently got bored with life and the blue zone killed him.

Crates > FPS fix.

Almost like they want as much money as possible before E3 because they know their game is unfixable

yeah im not spending money on this game anymore.

probably gonna sell my skins while i can.

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS - Steam Charts

38% loss in player retention rate since January.

Does that account for test/experimental ?

I bet it doesnt.

Muurloen said:

Does that account for test/experimental ?

I bet it doesnt.

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What is that, like 7 days total the experimental has been up during that time period? Your math does not compute.

So a huge dent in that is the Ninja Fortnite bubble. That shit started in January if I recall. Then, Ring of Elysium has been out in China for a while and it's TPP which Asians prefer so it'll cut into the China/Korea market for PUBG for sure.

Overall I'm not surprised. They've been just ping ponging good and bad changes non stop. As soon as they do something most deem "good" they fucking undo it (blue circle speeds) or they have some other major issue tacked onto that patch (FPS drops/stutter).

I'm with Shroud saying that this game won't ever be "perfect" or close to it until PUBG2.0 basically. Their servers are just not set up correctly for this. It's unfortunate as I think this is my favorite style of PUBG currently, but I'm waiting for a big dick company to bring out the MMORPG BR with fucking squads of wizards and rangers and tanks and healers. That shit will be awesome.

Then again, sometimes you just want to shoot people in the face.

The gamble crates are even shittier than the CSGO ones item wise, and that is saying a lot. Yay, I just spent $2.50 on an item that sells for 5 cents!

Xevy said:

Then again, sometimes you just want to shoot people in the face.

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I've pretty much quit for now while I get my face shot off in Tarkov.

Cybsled said:

The gamble crates are even shittier than the CSGO ones item wise, and that is saying a lot. Yay, I just spent $2.50 on an item that sells for 5 cents!

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That's the whole reason they disabled trades too. When items are so rare and thus valuable, they have to be sold on a third party site because the value exceeds the sell amount limit on steam market. So they get greedy and want ALL of their % instead of increasing the drop rate to bring the value down.

It's like the fake IRS/Tech support scammers in india. They try to milk thousands out of individuals instead of saying "well if you pay $50, we'll put a note on the account and back off" I have a feeling the gullible people would pay that $50 MUCH more frequently than the thousands that they demand to "call off the arrest warrants" etc. (saw that today on Kitboga's stream) Refused to let him fake pay even $300 as an installment. flat out said "no, $2,000 or you're arrested" - Bluehole has the same stupid mindset of trying to milk high dollar amounts instead of 1) making the more rare skins appealing and 2) increasing the drop rate of the rare skins.

On the other hand. I did get the purple quality Desert scarf out of the new aviator case today. hoping that sells decently when the market lets me.