The Beginner's Guide to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (aka PUBG)

 

So you want to try out the new Battle Royale sensation that's sweeping the nation, but you don't know how to get started. That's understandable: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is a full games based on an old ARMA mod, and it's still in early akses. The games is missing a lot of fiturs, chief among them any kind of panduan or player guide for people just getting started. but if you're ready to jump into the deep end of this winner-take-all online multiplayer tempat, here are a few panduan to get you on your feet…so someone else can blow you off them.

The Basics: What Is PUBG?

If you haven't read up on "PUBG," as it's frequently abbreviated, here's the gist: you and up to 99 other real-time players are all dropped onto a remote island by parachute. The island was formerly inhabited, but now it's abandoned, with all the towns and buildings left to nature. Randomly distributed across the island are weapons, ammunition, clothing and armor, healing items, and power-ups that you can find inside buildings, as well as a few still-running vehicles.

Your objective: be the last man or woman standing. Every player is trying to kill every other player. You can do this in any manner you choose: run and gun your way across the island, wait and hide for an ambush or seek out a sniper nest, lay low while the other players finis each other off, or even find a car and run players over GTA-style. But momentually you'll have to get up, move, and head to a more densely-populated portion of the playing field.

The games starts out with a gigantic eight km square grid, but slowly condenses the tempat of play into smaller and smaller circles. Each time the play tempat is restricted, you'll have a few minutes to get there by foot or by vehicle, engaging or retreating from any players you see on the way, and checking buildings for more weapons and loot. If you're outside of the restricted circle when the countdown reaches zero, another blue circle will condense into the play tempat, slowly killing any players it catches. If your health reaches zero and you're not in the safe zona, you're out.

Other environmental variables can affect play, like the randomized path the plane takes to para-drop players in, weather and time of day that shift each games, the randomized "Red Zona" where bombs can finis off any player outside of shelter, and the suplai drops that the plane periodically puts into the field of play. As the number of players remaining dwindles, the survivors are condensed into smaller and smaller zonas, until hiding or sniping is no longer an pilihan and you'll have to duke it out with whoever's left.

Even if you're not the last player standing ("winner winner chicken dinner," as the games infamously rewards you), that doesn't mean that your time spent playing is a wash. The in-game currency rewards stack with your survival time, how many players are left when you die, and how many other players you finised off personally. Currency can be traded for loot crates, which give some admittedly paltry cosmetic rewards on the form of clothes and asesoris you can wear at the beginning of the match, instead of swapping out in the middle.

And that's about it: parachute in, find a weapon, find a hiding spot or a vehicle or just wander around, move to the shrinking play tempat as you're directed, kill any other players you come across, and bertahan for as long as you can. For something so sederhana, and with only one winner out of every hundred, it's amazing that you can find a mostly-full games on any server at any time of the day.

Cek Your Setting Before You Start Playing

Before you start your first games, be sure to go into the settings for visuals and controls to customize things to your liking. Here are few things to be aware of.

PUBG is based on an ARMA mod, so the action tends to be more about technical tembakan and less about cartoon-style action. So be aware of more technical settings, like the firing model switch: many weapons can switch from singgel fire to burst fire or full auto. They'll always start in singgel fire (semi-automatic) model if multiples are available.

Players can swap between first-person and third-person views at any time with the "Toggle Kamera" button. Double-tapping will activate iron sights, even in third-person. Third-person is obviously best for moving fast with situational awareness, while first-person is best for fast and akirate tembakan and sniping.

Make sure the map and inventory buttons are easy to akses for at-a-glance guidance and upgrades. Also take catatan of the freelook button: it's extremely useful for checking your surroundings, even while you're on the move.

You might want to set the foliage seting very low—the games is prettier with a lot of plants, but the fewer that are rendered, the better you'll be able to see other players.

Games Start: Get Out and Get Armed

When you jump out of the airplane at the start of the match, your number one priority is to get armed. Even the lowest-level guns or a grenade will put you at an advantage if you meet someone who hasn't been able to find one yet. If all you've got are your fists or a melee weapon, get in close as quickly as possible, and jump and attack at the same time. This will make you harder to hit and do a little bonus damage as well.

From the airplane, it's possible to move one and a half to two kilometers (squares) away before you hit the ground, depending on when you deploy your parachute. So, at the start of the match, the player distribution will look something like this:

Keep that in mind as the map condenses and players are forced into smaller and smaller tempats—it will let you make a rough guess of where players are coming from.

Avoid hotspot tempats like the school, the hospital, the firing kisaran, and the military base at the start of the games. These big buildings are tempting because they house a lot of weapons and gear, but they also attract lots of other players looking for the same thing. The more players in one spot, the less likely you are to come out alive in the first couple of minutes.

Be aware of the signs of other players around you: an open door means that either someone is already inside the building looting the place, or has been and gone, meaning all of the good loot is taken anyway. Of course, crafty players will close doors behind them to set traps. The long and short of it is, be prepared for a fight whenever you enter a structure.

Mid-Game: Move, Clear, Move, Repeat

Remember the path of the plane and the likely distribution of players: no more than two squares away from the plane on the main map at the start of the games. Players who find vehicles might travel farther, but generally speaking, most will move in an almost straight line from their orisinal landing spot to the outer edge of the play tempat. You can predict the direction of movement of other players and avoid them by taking a less direct route, or hide in likely locations to pick them off as they travel.

Be aware of your time limits. You don't die instantly as soon as the play tempat is restricted, you have ekstra time as the blue circle contracts into the white one to get to safety. Players can't outrun the blue circle on foot, but if you're close to the white circle and the blue is still kilometers away, you probably have time to do a little looting or scouting. Even if it's close, being behind the blue circle won't kill you immediately.

If you've just barely made it to the safe zona in time, it's not necessarily time to relax: the safe zona will contract again in another few minutes. It might be more prudent to use the downtime to move closer to the center of the safe zona, especially if you're on foot. The next safe zona is always entirely inside the last one, generally towards the center.

Choke points on the map, especially the north-south bridges over water, are where you're most likely to encounter other players. Pass them with caution. If you have plenty of time, it might make sense to swim across: it's much, much slower, but you're less likely to attract attention, and diving for short sessions can help you avoid gunfire.