Battlegrounds!!!!!

[Randomnamechange]

ok im really enjoying the game so far, 8th is highest finish. had a lot of trouble with accidentally shift+alting at some points

[hiplop]

what does shift alt do?

[Randomnamechange]

locks the direction you are facing in. absolutely horrific to move with.

[hiplop]

oh thats what causes that

[Glork]

Solo FPP chicken dinner continues to elude me. 3rd this morning.

[zoraster]

it's tough!

[Glork]

Yeah. 3rd isn't something I should be annoyed at, but I am. I have yet to break that glass ceiling. In this case, I just didn't see somebody who shot me in the side of the head. One tiny lapse of concentration means you're dead.

[zoraster]

felt pretty good about this one:

[Glork]

RNG in this game....

When I'm playing in squads, there's not a scope to be found. When I play solo, I get this:

Spoiler: SCOPE SHOP SALE: 50% 4x SCOPES

(Note that there's also one already on my AKM.)

[DeathNote]

Still not as bad as Hearthstone!

[Glork]

lol true

next game I find 0 sights/scopes at all, still manage 11th place with two kills (one at distance with only iron sight)

\o/

[Randomnamechange]

got 2nd place
i learnt that x8 scope is kinda annoying if you get to tiny circles...

[zoraster]

anyone watching the pubg invitational? I've mentioned why I think this will always be a niche esport, but i'm excited to see how it plays out.

[zoraster]

so if you didn't watch it, it was a predictably mixed bag:

1. The casters were pretty good I thought
2. The camera work/production was attrocious. Had a very hard time showing action. Sometimes they'd actually cut out away from action, which was infuriating.
3. TSM_Break won the first game. He got 11 kills, but he did so by camping one of those little shacks. The first game had an action filled finale and was probably my favorite. Evermore, a Korean overwatch player, took a boat to spawn island and came all the way back.
4. The second game ended up on the south shore of the main island and was pretty fun. Evermore let two other people fight it out and then came in to win.
5. The final game ended up in the rural part of Military Island. Evermore had gone ALL the way to spawn island and came back. Unfortunately most of the last part of the game was overshadowed by the fact that Evermore was basically forced to just med up to survive as long as possible... and did so until he finished 8th and secured the win over the whole thing.

To me, it highlights that the blue zone needs to be adjusted to make looting outside of it for extended periods more punishing. My solution is to debuff healing outside the blue zone, but increasing damage would also do that. Evermore was merely the most successful person at avoiding contact until late in the game, but LOTS of people used this strategy and for good reason.

I really hate to add onto the flames of Third person vs. First, but for esports, first person seems way more compelling. It's a shame we'll only get one of the four days with it.

[hiplop]

Yea first person is far, far more compelling for this game

[zoraster]

i think the problem is you basically have two groups converging on the game. There are the ARMA3 people, which were kind of the first people and the game that playerunknown modded. Then there are the CSGO FPS types.

[Untrod Tripod]

okay fine I'll play it

[zoraster]

excelllent. don't think i've actually played a video game with you, UT

[Untrod Tripod]

is there like a Discord channel that we all use or what?

[hiplop]

sweet ut ill def play w/ u

[Untrod Tripod]

this game is a lot of fun

[Flameaxe]

I was convinced to get this also

God help us all

[zoraster]

steam name/in game name, UT?

[Untrod Tripod]

CRIPPLING SELF-DOUBT at the moment

[zoraster]

i definitely feel the worst after a second place finish. got some great frags, position... just couldn't figure out where that last guy was. i've even looked at the replays and i can't see where he was.