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Jan 6, 2022 · Millions of Players Worldwide. CGMagazine | January 6, 2022. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, most commonly referred to as PUBG, is without a doubt one of the most popular multiplayer games ...
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By Gabriel Moss
Updated: Jan 21, 2022 12:35 am
Posted: Jan 21, 2022 12:30 am
It’s been nearly five whole years since the pioneering PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds first appeared on Steam and popularized the idea of pitting 100 players against each other until only the best (or last) among them survives. Since then, the original battle royale has been locked in a fight for relevance against the many games it inspired, and only now has it dropped its entry fee and joined the ranks of its free-to-play competition. Now that the novelty has worn off, in some ways PUBG has been left wanting compared to newer and more innovative battle royales, but its unique focus on massive zones and realistic simulation means it hasn’t lost its touch either.
Survival after parachuting into PUBG’s relatively realistic open world requires you to be much stealthier and more deliberately tactical than you would in, say, the run-and-gun style of Fortnite. For example, you might wait for a passing aircraft to drown out your footsteps so you can enter a household undetected, or you might use a smokescreen to distract a squad of enemy players that are pinning you down from a nearby ridge. Firefights are regularly tense and enjoyable, though the wide selection of guns tend to be clunkier to fire than other modern shooters too (even after you’ve modded them with scopes and extended magazines).
What PUBG has in tactics, it lacks in the “gunfeel” that make games like Call of Duty or Apex Legends so enjoyable to play. Weapons are more tolerable to handle in third-person mode, but frustratingly inaccurate unless you switch to first-person or aim down sights. But since movement is clearly designed around third-person play, not to mention you get the ability to peek around corners without poking your head out, first-person mode feels slow by comparison, and the weapons suffer for it. PUBG’s emphasis on realistic bullet physics sets it apart in an interesting way, and it makes sense that hitmarkers are absent by default because PUBG wants to give you as little information as possible to make its fights more intense. But all that also means it’s not nearly as slick as, say, Call of Duty: Warzone.
It doesn’t help that trying to play PUBG with a controller feels like a trip down clunky memory lane; weapon swapping and reloading is unresponsive, the inventory system is draconian to navigate in tense situations, and aiming feels drifty and unreliable. Compare that to Fortnite and Apex Legends, which feel equally suited for controllers as they do with the good old keyboard and mouse, and it’s not flattering. PUBG is a keyboard and mouse game at its core, and my experience on PC has been markedly more enjoyable than when I played on the PS5 for this reason – not to mention issues with graphics and performance that can pop-up on console.
Terrain can be used to your advantage if you approach it like a tactical playground.
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Each of the seven diverse maps, including the Eastern European-inspired Erangel and the golden deserts of Miramar, are at least vast enough to get lost in, and you’ll never see everything in one go before most of the playable area is swallowed by the shrinking survival zone that forces everyone together at the end of a match. They all sprawl across a wide variety of outposts, villages, and terrain features such as rivers and mountains that can be used to your advantage if you approach it like a tactical playground. It’s all gorgeous to look at, but it also serves to give you choices in how you survive the encroaching storm and evade (or ambush) anybody who may be waiting to pick you off.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has taken the military-sim gameplay popularized by games like ARMA and DayZ, boiled it down to its most exciting parts, and streamlined it into quick and accessible rounds of pure, hassle-free, survival-based action. Even though each game starts the same way, its remarkable ability to feel like a new, tense adventure each and every round has kept me coming back for hours on end. - Lonnie Rad, January 5, 2018
Score: 9.5
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It can become tedious to move across them if you and your team of up to four find yourselves without a vehicle, though – and when you do find one they’re not much fun to drive because of their poor controls and clunky physics. Sometimes you might find yourself losing control and crashing into the wall if your connection gets spotty, while others you could accidentally flip your vehicle entirely and then have no way to flip it back over. By comparison, Fortnite leans into its physics imperfections and gives you bouncy vehicles, grappling hooks, jump pads, and other fun toys to get creative with. PUBG instead leans away from them for as clean cut a presentation of realism as it can, and since it struggles to deliver that realism in practice, driving around ends up feeling stiff and downright unenjoyable.
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And because these matches last considerably longer than the typical Apex Legends or Fortnite round, there can be quite a bit of dead air between long segments of running, driving, biking, or occasionally flying around. But of course, the hunt for ammunition, body armor, and medical supplies to keep you in the fight is constant enough to fill the space between moments of tension. Looting is still rewarding and enjoyable because the randomness of it means that you can strike big and find a powerful gun or a set of tier three armor just waiting around the corner, but there’s no way to know until you take the risk and go looking for it.
Microtransactions in PUBG exist in a form that will be recognizably similar to many other online games. There’s a digital store that sells all kinds of cosmetics, from clothing items to vehicle and weapon skins. Each item costs a certain amount of G Coins, or in some cases, a certain amount of real world currency. G Coins are sold directly from the store in quantities of 510 for $4.99, all the way up to 11,200 for $99.99.
However, you’ll need to pay an additional $13 out of pocket in order to activate Battlegrounds Plus+ which gives permanent rewards like a 100% xp boost, access to Ranked play after you reach Survival Mastery level 80 in Normal mode, and the ability to host your own custom matches as well as show off your Chicken Dinner medals after you’ve won a match. If you don’t want to shell out any extra cash for cosmetics, it’s also supposed to come with 1300 G Coins, equivalent to the $13 you spent on the pass.
PUBG is also unique among its peers in that Battlegrounds Plus+ is required to gain access to the Ranked mode, which is kind of a bummer if you have any intention of competing, but it does make sense as a potential deterrent for cheaters who would otherwise just create new accounts daily. If you want to get serious about PUBG, it’s a small price to pay to keep those jerks at bay.
There are also various Survivor Passes, which appear every so often in the store and focus on specific maps and objectives for a limited time. During that time, you can only permanently obtain the rewards from that pass by buying it (usually for around 500 G Coins or the equivalent of $5) and then completing the objectives. These Survivor Passes are a unique take on the traditional battle pass from competing battle royale shooters, but they exist separately from the main Survival and Weapons progression tracks, both of which are approachable and give you rewards as you level up without needing you to pay a cent.
That expansive map size means that there’s always an opportunity cost to action or inaction in PUBG. Every decision is meaningful, but usually not enough to spell life or death on its own; will you cut across the open field to reach a nearby weapons cache and risk a sniper attack, or will you sneak between buildings and hope you find decent loot along the way? Do you recklessly drive across the map and risk unwanted attention, or do you creep around the edges of the storm and wait for the other players to pick each other off before making your move? Lots of approaches are viable, and your decisions leading to that chicken dinner winner screen is always a thrill.
Hacking has become a noticeable issue with members of the PUBG community, but I haven't personally run into anybody that ruined my experience.
By comparison, PUBG is a rough experience on a PlayStation 5. It’s a struggle to distinguish other players at long ranges, rendering the vastness of PUBG’s maps feeling empty. There is a “Performance” mode which aims for a smooth 60fps at 1080p, but the lack of 4K fidelity, limited draw distance, and imprecise controls make it difficult to play PUBG the way it was designed. You’re also locked to playing with other PlayStation and Xbox players, which puts PUBG behind its battle royale contemporaries in terms of cross-play with PC and other platforms.
PUBG doesn’t have much meat on its bones if you get bored of skirmishing for survival in both solo and team modes. There’s very little in the way of custom maps, and the only other official Arcade mode is a lackluster Team Deathmatch that you can comfortably ignore. That single-mode focus is similar to Apex Legends, and it’s good that your primary option stays a lot of fun for a long time, but neither game can hold a candle to the versatility of Fortnite.
It’s far from being “too little, too late” for this venerable battle royale to go free-to-play. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds may be a known quantity these days, but its slower paced survival of the fittest struggle still creates memorable shootouts and intense moments in nearly every match. However, console players might find its efforts to render...
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Now free to play, PUBG: Battlegrounds’ unique focus on massive zones and realistic simulation remain a lot of fun, even if its novelty wore off years ago.
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Aug 11, 2022 · In just the first quarter of 2022, PUBG has managed to acquire $338.4 million USD in net profits, which is absolutely massive. But why is the game so popular? PUBG was released four years ago now, but its popularity is steadily growing due to the sheer amount of updates and new content the game receives constantly. When a game keeps growing and ...
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