It's incredible, absolutely incredible, how many times I find myself closing in on the top 10 or so. Not a single kill to my name yet and I"m showing up to the final showdown with a pistol and a rifle that has only iron sites and only a motorcycle helmet for protection. Better than just a pistol I guess but not a hell of a lot.
I made it to the final 2 without firing a shot once.
I usually try to jump from the plane near the end of the ride and drop near the farthest set of apartments. One apartment building will probably yield 2-3 guns and and level 2 vest/helm. By the time I get done looting and stocked up, usually about 40 people are dead.
They really added a lot more variety to the circle locations. I'm spending way more time outdoors now; far more than before. Still holding down a 20% top 10 rate, but it's getting harder to push into the top 30 in general now. That third circle almost always involves so much movement
Nice!^^ I finally won a few rounds in Solo, got a Duo win on Weds and racked up 2 more Squad wins over the weekend.
Last night's patch is excellent. Scoping and smoothness is waaay better. Haven't grabbed the new Sniper Rifle yet, but I did get murdered by it.
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[Early Access] Patch Notes - 23/5/17
This patch will be deployed to the Stable Servers on Thursday, May 25, 5PM KST/1AM PDT/8AM UTC and is expected to take approx. 1 hour to complete.
Early Access - Month 2 - Patch Notes
Client Performance
Improved CPU usage for world level streaming
Improved rendering performance of fences
Improved rendering performance of grass
Improved rendering performance for weapons and attachments seen at distance
Improved rendering performance by modifying certain weapon and vehicle effects that were unnecessarily rendered at distance
Improved character animation performance
Improved effect performance
Improved the performance of team-mate name plate, map and mini-map in teamplay
Content
Added VSS. A suppressed sniper rifle with permanent 4X scope & chambered for 9mm ammo. This new weapon can be found in carepackages & as a very rare loot spawn
Added Motorbike
Gameplay
Reduced the moving speed of the two final play zones for better engagement during the endgame
Made a balance pass on certain weapons:
Vector
Reduced bullet damage slightly
Increased deviation gain per shot
Winchester/S686/S12K
Reduced pellet damage slightly
AKM
Increased bullet damage slightly
Fixed an issue where the players alive count would reduce when a player disconnected. Now the count will only go down upon the players death.
Action & Gunplay
Now players can put stock attachments on following weapons:
SKS : Sniper rifle cheek pad
Vector : Tactical stock (for M416)
Adjusted the color of the aiming point for the basic crossbow scope.
Added new scope rendering method (parallax free) allowing for greater aiming precision https://twitter.com/PUBATTLEGROUNDS/...21003350265857
Improved ADS view
Modified recoil for following weapons: AKM, SCAR, M16, M416
Fixed an issue allowing a player to zoom in with right click when waiting before throwing a grenade
Decreased the time to ADS when using the 2X scope
Vehicle
Added punctured wheel effect and sound
Added burnt markings to vehicles after being destroyed
Added the motorbike number plate image
When a vehicle explodes, the fences near the vehicle will now also be destroyed
World
Added new vegetation to the lobby
UI
Players can press ‘delete’ to remove their marker placed on the world map
Adjusted the transparency of mini-map grid and coordinates text to make the map more visible
Added a dotted line towards the next play zone on the mini-map
Modified the icon design of the First Aid Kit
Added Thai language in language options
Added new key bindings for hold breath, motorbike air control and switch to previous weapon
Sound
Improved the sound of Motorbike
Added sound for door destruction effect
Bugfixes
Fixed a bug that caused vehicles to be spawned in garages consistantly. Vehicles should be spawned at a higher rate in garages, but not at 100%
Fixed an issue that disabled bullet tracing for SKS
Fixed a bug that caused the game client to crash when a flashbang goes off
Partially fixed bug that caused a character to get stuck in terrain, buildings or objects
Partially fixed a bug that caused a vehicle to get stuck in buildings, fences or other vehicles
Partially fixed a bug that caused items to be unlootable
Fixed a bug that caused carepackages to shake when falling
Fixed a bug that caused a throwable weapon to be thrown in the freelook direction and not the direction in which a character is facing
Fixed an issue with two markers being visible when placing a marker in the airplane after placing it in the lobby
Fixed a bug that caused a player icon to be doubled up on the minimap.
Fixed a bug that caused the same color for two teammate icons
Fixed a bug that caused the final play zone to be created over water
Fixed a bug that sporadically muted the rain sound
Significantly mitigated an issue that allowed a player in a closed house to be killed by the red zone bombs
Fixed a bug that caused animation not to stop when using consumable items while reviving a teammate
Fixed a bug that caused a character experience the damage effect at random
Fixed a bug that caused all teammates to enter the REVIVE state when one teammate is hit by a bomb in Red Zone while being in a vehicle
Fixed a bug that caused the REVIVE gauge not to disappear when the character being revived is disconnected
Fixed a bug that caused the sound volume of UMP with silencer to be too low
Fixed a bug that caused throwable items not to drop when switching to other weapons
Fixed a bug that caused the trace effect to not disappear after using throwable weapons
Fixed a bug where removing the pin from a grenade was canceled by changing the throwing posture.
Fixed an issue with compass points not matching the actual direction when in the passenger seat of a vehicle
Added a character animation for when dragging an item into the inventory
Man this game does have some LOL moments. Just happened to be in the right spot when a supply crate basically fell on top of me. Down to the last 20 peeps so the circle is getting small. Lots of gunfire in the immediate area but decide ###### it, I'm gonna jump on that crate. Find the big machine gun (was hoping for a solid rifle as I was on a ridge, would have been perfect) but grabbed it anyways and put a red dot scope on it. Behind me a car comes ripping in. Driver gets out and was immediately killed. Guy comes running out from behind cover to loot him. I decided I don't want to die without at least trying this machine gun so I open up on him. Hit him a few times before he disappears behind some bushes. Bit disappointed I didn't kill him but moments later I get a kill confirmation. There were cliffs on the other side of the bushes and in his haste to get away from me, he fell to his death
Predictably, the racket my machine gun made drew plenty of attention and was killed shortly after but totally worth it knowing some dood ran though bushes and over a cliff trying to escape my lead storm.
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Figuring the guns out can take awhile, but honestly sneaking up on people and murdering them nets you more kills than 1v1 firefights. Just gotta learn how to sneak up rather than be snuck up upon!
Also I hear the kids on the new Asian servers are terrible and the lag is pretty minimal so you could try that out too.
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Got my second chicken dinner last night with a buddy in duals. He made 6 kills in the early stages of the match and I had none until close to the end. We were driving around in a boat and stumbled upon an air drop. I hop out and snag an LMG 249 and a level 3 mil vest. I proceed to cut down 6 people with the LMG. That thing is awesome!
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Got my second chicken dinner last night with a buddy in duals. He made 6 kills in the early stages of the match and I had none until close to the end. We were driving around in a boat and stumbled upon an air drop. I hop out and snag an LMG 249 and a level 3 mil vest. I proceed to cut down 6 people with the LMG. That thing is awesome!
I've got some free time this morning and no games I'm currently playing so decided to buy this
Second game I made it to #7, purely by luck since I saw nobody until the end of the game. Hopefully I can get my first kill soon, I feel like I'm pretty bad
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Been really fortunate. My primary gaming group at the moment has 2 guys rated in the Top 1000 in Squads so I've been hashing out a lot of Squad wins lately.
At least I feel like I help a bit with tags and callouts, but sometimes they get like 10-12 kills and I'm like "I GOT 4 GUYS GUYS!" stumbling behind them.
Last 2 wins I've got the final kill too, which is satisfying.
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