PUBG breaks half-a-mil simultaneous player record, overall second after DOTA

[theninja35]

8 hours ago, Misanthrope said:

Anybody else still doesn't gets this game? The premise doesn't seems all that compelling to me, just something a GTA V modder would have come up with for example. Maybe I'm waaay off but it seems like a popular push-back reaction to modern FPS titles and their completely stunted innovation for now years: people are so desperate to play a decent shooter than they'll take even a mediocre one with a somewhat clever mechanic just as long as it's new and not just another Re-skin of Battlefield or CoD.

Actually, Player Unknown was the lead developer for the infamous Arma 3 mod 'Battle Royale'. So it is something a modder would have come up with lol. The mod is a whole lot of fun for messing around in, though.

 

2 minutes ago, Serin said:

Don't get it. PUBG is just a (somehow) worse version of ARMA 2/3 wasteland mod.

(See above) It's actually based on his (Player Unknown's) Arma 3: Battle Royale mod lol

[rattacko123]

8 hours ago, The Benjamins said:

it is fun and popular due to its uniqueness. I  don't know of another game that plays like it.

It plays like minecraft hunger games  

[LHJKO]

8 hours ago, tom_w141 said:

Console and PC release will be simultaneous so actually it should explode again. I know console players are eager to play. I have ~200 hours on it so I'm not hardcore but its fun and addictive, even with its poor optimisations, single map and server instability.

 

Plus at release the number of maps will increase from 1 to 3. Which is huge imo. Would add loads of variation to gameplay.

the cancer of using a controller on that game what will it have aim assist how is that gonna work with snipers its gonna be horrible 

[Not_Sean]

5 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

It does has a familiar ring to it:

 

 

LOL.. really ok so in COD you choose your loadout before the fight. you dropped in fully equipped and the maps are TINY!  you also have respawns.

 

Really bad arguement its a completely different game. Please next tell me how PUBG and Wow are basically the same game since you loot and its 3rd person. 

 

Thats also like saying oh CS:Go, Overwatch and Quake are all the same game because you run around with a gun. The core dynamics of each game and the style of play is completely different. 

[Not_Sean]

1 minute ago, Vernw3 said:

the cancer of using a controller on that game what will it have aim assist how is that gonna work with snipers its gonna be horrible 

you mean i won't be walking around a field and just die from a KAR in a bush.. hahaha you have my interest  

 

[Misanthrope]

3 minutes ago, Not_Sean said:

LOL.. really ok so in COD you choose your loadout before the fight. you dropped in fully equipped and the maps are TINY!  you also have respawns.

 

Really bad arguement its a completely different game. Please next tell me how PUBG and Wow are basically the same game since you loot and its 3rd person. 

 

Thats also like saying oh CS:Go, Overwatch and Quake are all the same game because you run around with a gun. The core dynamics of each game and the style of play is completely different. 

Oh you consider getting just a basic weapon at the start an innovation? Cause I remember that shit from the late 90s with Quake.

 

Or is it the no re-spawn thing until the round is over, again going back all the way back to Counter Strike?

 

I applaud them for putting together all of these elements together in a cohesive game mode. It's still not all that interesting, I'm glad you're enjoying it but I am so far not impressed, nothing you've said compels me to try.

[Serin]

14 minutes ago, theninja35 said:

Actually, Player Unknown was the lead developer for the infamous Arma 3 mod 'Battle Royale'. So it is something a modder would have come up with lol. The mod is a whole lot of fun for messing around in, though.

 

(See above) It's actually based on his (Player Unknown's) Arma 3: Battle Royale mod lol

Close enough, been a couple of years since I wasn't bored to death with ARMA's various mods.
Its interesting how such an old concept can pop up and gain almost instant popularity. 

[Not_Sean]

Just now, Misanthrope said:

Oh you consider getting just a basic weapon an innovation? Cause I remember that shit from the late 90s with Quake.

 

Or is it the no re-spawn thing until the round is over, again going back all the way back to Counter Strike?

 

I applaud them for putting together all of this elements together in a cohesive game mode. It's still not all that interesting, I'm glad you're enjoying it but I am so far not impressed, nothing you've said compels me to try.

you don't get it, you get ZERO weapons.. not a basic one, nothing. and the RNG means you can't just go to the same weapon spawn and get the same one you never know what gun you'll get, find a sniper doesn't mean you'll find a scope. find a SMG and next find a 8x scope. its adapting to what you can find and movign between area's without getting rekt. 

 

Its closer to Insurgency than CS if you want a FPS comparison. 

 

CS:GO before the round starts you buy your weapons and than play you choose what you want/can afford. there is no rounds. once you dead you out. its start all over again. Even the plane that you choose when to jump out of is different each time. car spawns are random. Its never the same game twice EVER. think Diablo but 1 life only. what makes it stand out is you have no idea where the other 99 players are and on a map its size means you have to constantly be on the look out. 

 

sorry man but there really is no other mainstream FPS like it, Yes a few mods but this is the first Stand alone FPS like it.

 

no one is making you buy it, if it doesn't appeal to you thats fine but don't go attacking the game saying its just a mod or doesn't do anything new or is boring cause its none of those.  

[Misanthrope]

4 minutes ago, Not_Sean said:

you don't get it

No I do not, I've been saying. Get over it already.

[Droidbot]

12 minutes ago, Not_Sean said:

you don't get it, you get ZERO weapons.. not a basic one, nothing. and the RNG means you can't just go to the same weapon spawn and get the same one you never know what gun you'll get, find a sniper doesn't mean you'll find a scope. find a SMG and next find a 8x scope. its adapting to what you can find and movign between area's without getting rekt. 

 

Its closer to Insurgency than CS if you want a FPS comparison. 

 

CS:GO before the round starts you buy your weapons and than play you choose what you want/can afford. there is no rounds. once you dead you out. its start all over again. Even the plane that you choose when to jump out of is different each time. car spawns are random. Its never the same game twice EVER. think Diablo but 1 life only. what makes it stand out is you have no idea where the other 99 players are and on a map its size means you have to constantly be on the look out. 

 

sorry man but there really is no other mainstream FPS like it, Yes a few mods but this is the first Stand alone FPS like it.

 

no one is making you buy it, if it doesn't appeal to you thats fine but don't go attacking the game saying its just a mod or doesn't do anything new or is boring cause its none of those.  

OH WOAH! Random spawns? That's such a sick new feature.. totally not ripped from all the other KoTK/Zombie Survival games. Fucking Unturned (yes, blocky Zombie survival shitbox in Unity) has that feature. 

 

The game itself plays very similar to Minecraft Hunger Games from what I've seen, not a new concept by any means. 

Think about it - find weapons, battle to the death, and eventually have a deathmatch. 

[Phate.exe]

8 hours ago, tom_w141 said:

Haha yes what fools! *turns down his settings from ultra*

I just got the game last week.  Pretty sure I'm gonna be running it at 1080p, weird stuff happens when you try to run it at 4k.  Like menu's not scaling and getting cut off badly, lol.

 

Based on how the graphics looked, I was expecting the Fury to eat it up.  That's not what happened at all.

[tom_w141]

Just now, Phate.exe said:

I just got the game last week.  Pretty sure I'm gonna be running it at 1080p, weird stuff happens when you try to run it at 4k.  Like menu's not scaling and getting cut off badly, lol.

Yeah i'm running it ultrawide  3440x1440. The interface hasn't been a problem except for character customisation (menu covers character preview when there is looooooads of screen real estate left). A minor gripe as thats literally the only time iot fucks up. Gameplay, lobby and settings menus it does fine at 3440x1440

[Phate.exe]

Just now, tom_w141 said:

Yeah i'm running it ultrawide  3440x1440. The interface hasn't been a problem except for character customisation (menu covers character preview when there is looooooads of screen real estate left). A minor gripe as thats literally the only time iot fucks up. Gameplay, lobby and settings menus it does fine at 3440x1440

I'll have to take a screenshot when I get home.  The entire top and bottom of the settings menu's get cut off at 4k, so I can't even get to the "confirm" button on the menu by mouse.

[Doobeedoo]

1 hour ago, Not_Sean said:

its not about the idea or that, this is the first game in a long time I actually shit my self in, it requires a lot of thinking a head and not just running around gunning people, The complete lack of a hud and radar means you need to find the person shooting you. its got nothing to do with playing a decent shooter or that its a damn good game, and the only one of its kind that had done it right, Yes Ark and H1 have there versions of it but its their game modified to this mode, this game was built for it and it pulls it off damn well. 

 

The big thing to remember by making it a stand alone game they reached a wider audience. IE i've never had ANY interest in H1 or dayZ so you tell me they have a cool game mode thats "PUBG" and I'm still not buying the game when its already put me off, I own ark and have Zero interest in its mode because its still the same game and i've already not enjoying that game. 

 

Urm I mean I played before without hud and radar certain games/mods, also PUBG it's 3. person which is kinda silly for such game, though I've seen there's a 1. person mod. Personally wouldn't pay for such game/mod call it whatever, I would see it more like free to play. Same here though, the H1 and dayZ was just meh. 

[AnonymousGuy]

One of those games where I'm really not sure if I want to play it or not.  It's fun to watch YT-ers play it, but I feel like I'm never going to get very far if I play it myself because I don't have enough free time to learn all the spawn locations and map layouts and such.

[XenosTech]

10 minutes ago, RagnarokDel said:

It's your settings that are wrong. You need to lower your view distance a bit if you are struggling. You're CPU bottlenecked.

I figured as much from what other people said

[Jito463]

2 hours ago, Sypran said:

Man I keep hearing about this game, and all I can think of whenever I read the title is "That sounds like a horrible name."
For a while I didn't realize the creator was named PlayerUnknown, so I thought it was just called "Player Unknown Battlegrounds"  as in "The battleground is unknown to the Player" which didn't help.

Given that the name of the game is based off the user name of the creator makes it even worse.  It would be like me making "Jito463 Batttlegrounds".  It seems rather lame and self-promoting (and a bit narcissistic, to boot) .

[Not_Sean]

3 minutes ago, Jito463 said:

Given that the name of the game is based off the user name of the creator makes it even worse.  It would be like me making "Jito463 Batttlegrounds".  It seems rather lame and self-promoting (and a bit narcissistic, to boot) .

Agree there. think i really does need a new name. love the way people say it. Pub...G, i just keep calling it Pug. but its a nicer name than "Dude you need to buy Arma and get the Player Unknown Mod"

[Megah3rtz]

11 hours ago, Sauron said:

It will probably never release. Why would they? They can charge the same amount and they can excuse bugs with "it's early access".

Because will the release it'll be on Xbone. Also they promised to have it released within a year or less. 

[JoeCoke]

3 hours ago, Not_Sean said:

 

 

 

its not about the idea or that, this is the first game in a long time I actually shit my self in, it requires a lot of thinking a head and not just running around gunning people, The complete lack of a hud and radar means you need to find the person shooting you. its got nothing to do with playing a decent shooter or that its a damn good game, and the only one of its kind that had done it right, Yes Ark and H1 have there versions of it but its their game modified to this mode, this game was built for it and it pulls it off damn well. 

 

The big thing to remember by making it a stand alone game they reached a wider audience. IE i've never had ANY interest in H1 or dayZ so you tell me they have a cool game mode thats "PUBG" and I'm still not buying the game when its already put me off, I own ark and have Zero interest in its mode because its still the same game and i've already not enjoying that game. 

 

This honestly suprises me a lot, as it looks and feels exactly like arma, wish they would do more with the UE4 engine, or hell Imagine EA (And never ever thought I would say this as I hate them so damn much) bought it and PUBG2 comes with Frostbite engine.. that would be pretty damn insane!!

look at the games you listing, they were each the first of there kind (Except Overwatch, thats just TF2 but polished and its understandable as TF has been abandoned by the devs) they not sheep they people wanting to play some of the "freshest" games around, if all they play is the latest COD and talk about how amazing it is, those are sheep as that game does NOTHING new and the sheep still buy and play it. 

 

Undertale, first of its kind? Are you high? FNAF is the first of its kind? What?! I'm also pretty sure CSGO was not the first of its kind either. PUBG is in no way original either.

 

I'll just assume you're relatively new to gaming and move along.

[Misanthrope]

9 minutes ago, 2Buck said:

Undertale, first of its kind? Are you high? FNAF is the first of its kind? What?! I'm also pretty sure CSGO was not the first of its kind either. PUBG is in no way original either.

 

I'll just assume you're relatively new to gaming and move along.

Something tells me at least a few hundred thousand people are also as inexperienced given it's popularity. Such are things really there's not much to be done but it's actually starting to make sense to me: we just cannot see it with the fresh eyes many gamers have at this point in time.

[AlwaysFSX]

10 hours ago, YedZed said:

You'd think as a teenager I'd have more time... Lol no, 12 hour school days...

That never stopped me.

[Colexd]

Its just fun to play with friends

[tom_w141]

12 hours ago, Doobeedoo said:

Personally wouldn't pay for such game/mod call it whatever, I would see it more like free to play. Same here though, the H1 and dayZ was just meh. 

It cost me £20 and I've got over 200 hours on it and I'm not bored. I've paid £50-60 for triple A titles that have gotten old in less than half that time. Why on Earth should a popular game be free? The low cost is very reasonable imo + its still in dev. Right now its fun and still only has 1 map. 2 more are in development and I can't wait.

 

Btw so far 200 hours for £20 = £0.1/hour. I'd say I definitely not my money's worth and I'm not done yet.

 

If this was free it would have to make money somehow and would probably be flooded with pay to win/micro transactions

[tom_w141]

16 hours ago, TGJamieErin said:

it's absolutely made of crack

Lol this. Play a couple games hey this alright. 16 hours later "NEED CHICKEN DINNER"