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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale

Blizzard

Banned
In at least half the duo FPS games I've queued into tonight, I haven't been assigned a teammate, yet the team is full with 93-97 people. Is this common?
 

Grassy

Member
Super good guide to set your sensitivity "right", also you have to do it from .ini file so its as good as possible.

https://youtu.be/rHTVfYKunwo

I absolutely agree with using the red dot scope and switching to a 4x or whatever when you need it. I also did the .ini tweak to remove mouse smoothing which I found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PUBATTLEGR...ow_to_actually_disable_mouse_smoothing_it_is/

I use a Razer Mamba with 1300 dpi and no acceleration and the mouse movement instantly felt a lot snappier and tighter. They just need to add a "Raw Mouse Input" option like CS:GO and most other shooters.
 
Anyone get random as hell fps drops? Sometimes my fps will drop to like ~15 fps and stay there for a little bit. Then after a while or i die due to my fps drops, my fps will return to normal around above 60 fps.
 
Anyone get random as hell fps drops? Sometimes my fps will drop to like ~15 fps and stay there for a little bit. Then after a while or i die due to my fps drops, my fps will return to normal around above 60 fps.

Yeah happened to me yesterday in a large city. My entire group actually. went from 60-15.
 

Grassy

Member
Anyone get random as hell fps drops? Sometimes my fps will drop to like ~15 fps and stay there for a little bit. Then after a while or i die due to my fps drops, my fps will return to normal around above 60 fps.

It seems like server issues. At least once per match my fps will drop massively for a few seconds, but never more than once and it's usually in the first 3-5 minutes or so. It will literally drop from 100+fps to 20fps or so.
 

Hop

That girl in the bunny hat
So I encountered what might've been a.... curious strategy. I mean, if their goal was to determine if anyone was already at Prison (and if so, where they were), mission accomplished.

Still killed 'em, but hey. Interesting angle.
 

Blizzard

Banned
Yet again, duo FPS mode, 98 players on server, I don't have a partner. No one shows up even in the lobby.

It seems really weird for about half of my games to have this yet for servers to be so full. No one else is seeing it on NA?

*edit* Literally the very next match: 99 joined, no partner.
 

Ayumi

Member
Will the market be the only place to get keys after the crate "event" ends? If so, how do they balance having enough keys for all crates?

Or can we still buy them in-game after, to open our crates?
 

Blizzard

Banned
Yet another 99 joined, no partner. :|

And I think you can buy keys normally after the event ends. The money presumably goes straight to the developer.
 
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Åesop

Unconfirmed Member
Yet again, duo FPS mode, 98 players on server, I don't have a partner. No one shows up even in the lobby.

It seems really weird for about half of my games to have this yet for servers to be so full. No one else is seeing it on NA?

*edit* Literally the very next match: 99 joined, no partner.

You might want to check if you disabled automatic matchmaking
 

Södy

Member
Ofcourse. If you play "duo", you always play with another person. If you play "squad" and you are in a lobby with less than 4 players, you can play with a (third and) fourth guy.

Solo and duo does not make sense to have auto-matchmaking.
 

SlickVic

Member
Downloaded this on a whim with my weak system (GTX 860m) figuring I can get a refund if it really ran poorly. I put it to 900p 100% scale on mostly low settings. Getting about 30-35 FPS with occasional stutters. For me it felt quite playable and graphics on low don't look quite as horrendous as I imagined (very low is another story). Played 5 matches and finished #6 on my last one.

I'm right at the 2 hour limit for a refund request now, but even though I know I'm not getting great performance, I think this game has hooked me enough that I don't really care. Next goal is to finish in the top 5.
 
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Tovarisc

Member
Changes to Scheduled Patch Rollouts

Since we launched into early access on March 23rd, we’ve done our best to keep you up to date with everything we’re working on and pushing out into the world of Erangel. Since then, we’ve managed to release 14 different updates to our game across our weekly and monthly scheduled rollouts.

Today we are changing our patch and update schedule to improve how we work on the game, as well as set realistic expectations for players. Until the official release of the game, we will not have our scheduled weekly or monthly patches rolling out as often as before. We’ve found internally that being rushed to finish certain features, and having shorter QA test time between pushing updates caused more issues than it solved in regards to maintaining a high standard of quality. We want to put our best content out, and ensure that everything we do is making the game more enjoyable with every update.

Although we may not release a weekly patch, we will utilize the test servers for significantly longer periods of time and deploy patches and hotfixes when necessary. This way, when we have a new feature that we’d like to roll-out it will be more thoroughly polished thanks to extensive community feedback. This will result in our live build being more exciting for everyone and drastically reduce the amount of unforeseen issues. We want to thoroughly and truthfully emphasize that this will have absolutely no bearing on how much content we deliver, or how much we work on the development of the game. We will still inform our community with public patch notes outlining changes we’ve made with each update.

Again, we would like to assure you all that we are still on-track to release our game as per our updated timeline, and we want to emphasize to you that we are not winding down the development, or complacent. We have a lot of work to do, and we want this game to be released with as many fun, rich, enjoyable features and mechanics as possible. Our team will continue to be hard at work, and we are always listening to your feedback.
http://steamcommunity.com/games/578080/announcements/
 

Venfayth

Member
This is exactly what I thought they should do in regards to patches. It worked well until the last two patches which clearly didn't have enough testing time. Kudos.
 

Bunta

Fujiwara Tofu Shop
Had 2 squad chicken dinners yesterday. First one was with randoms. We ended up bridge camping the east bridge to military base, yes we were those people. We had 3-4 groups come through there, one made it through, or at least 1 or 2 people. After that the circle closed behind us in the valley south of the bridge. While driving up a hill we had a guy shooting at us, both me and my squadmate in the front seat of the car popped out to shoot him. I accidentally TKed him like an idiot. The next 5 minutes I was apologizing profusely. We ended up picking off the rest as the circle closed even further and won.

2nd win was with GAFers. We drove north to the circle pretty early and ended up on the other side of the mountain Stalbar is on. They had a supply drop on the side of the mountain but another team got to it. We ended up losing one guy to them and had to escape to the west side which ended up probably winning us the game due to our positioning for the remaining circles. We were able to straddle the rocks that aren't far off the ground each time the circle moved. We had to take out 3 people that came from some buildings not far from the base of the mountain and overall got downed 2-3 times ourselves throughout the rest of the match. As I was trying to flank right during the last circle, one of our other squad members took out the last 2-3 people that ended up coming into the open.
 

Ayumi

Member
Question: What do you all use to get short moments of your gameplay into gifs? I don't mean from video to gif (I found gfycat to be good for that), but I mean do you record a whole video and cut out frames?

I know there's Shadowplay to record, and to get the last x minutes/seconds of a moment, but I'm not sure if that's what the majority use?
 

alexbull_uk

Member
Question: What do you all use to get short moments of your gameplay into gifs? I don't mean from video to gif (I found gfycat to be good for that), but I mean do you record a whole video and cut out frames?

I know there's Shadowplay to record, and to get the last x minutes/seconds of a moment, but I'm not sure if that's what the majority use?

If you’re on the newest version of Windows 10 then you can use Game DVR to save the last 30s. You may already have it enabled, it just runs in the background.
 

Bunta

Fujiwara Tofu Shop
If you’re on the newest version of Windows 10 then you can use Game DVR to save the last 30s. You may already have it enabled, it just runs in the background.

I need to fix mine somehow. Whenever I try to use the save replay feature or just record all the time it tells me there's nothing to record. You can change the settings I think to make it longer than the last 30 seconds.
 

alexbull_uk

Member
I need to fix mine somehow. Whenever I try to use the save replay feature or just record all the time it tells me there's nothing to record. You can change the settings I think to make it longer than the last 30 seconds.

Mine had stopped working too, but it fixed itself when I changed the keyboard shortcut. Worth a try?
 

Venfayth

Member
Use Windows 10 Game DVR as the above poster suggested to record gameplay, I record the last 3 minutes, an average 3 minute clip comes out to around 220MB.

Then I use the command line utility ffmpeg to:

Trim the video to the time range I want
Code:
Create a video that lasts 8 seconds starting at 0:03
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:00:03 -t 00:00:08 -c copy output.mp4
Remove Audio from the video if I sound like a dork or if I have background noise
Code:
Copy a video without keeping the audio track
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c copy -an output.mp4
Concatenate videos together to make a single video with multiple clips

and other functions on my clips until they're how I want them, then I upload them to streamable if they have audio or gfycat if they don't.
 

enewtabie

Member
Question: What do you all use to get short moments of your gameplay into gifs? I don't mean from video to gif (I found gfycat to be good for that), but I mean do you record a whole video and cut out frames?

I know there's Shadowplay to record, and to get the last x minutes/seconds of a moment, but I'm not sure if that's what the majority use?


I used Nvidia' software to stream to Youtube. I don't do much with a video except let Youtube process it and I can edit it. That way I don't waste space unless I want to do some editing or something.
 
lmao wut this isn't what the complaints are about.

They aren't getting matched with players.

OK. i'll tell you how I really feel.

Battlegrounds has honestly has been the least buggy, flawless matchmaking for me and 1-3 friends getting into a game together every time. And that's 100 player games to boot! I want to heap praise on BlueHole for that alone. I want to scream 'shit, have you seen the matchmaking on this game?!? It's generally flawless and fast as fuck, incredible!'

So when I see complaints about duo auto-matching, well, maybe it's a bug, but it's worked for me when i tried it. I don't want to paint this as an edge case, but how common is going into duo's on your own? Maybe there are just lots and lots of people already in a 2 player party, and it couldn't find you a partner.
 

Bunta

Fujiwara Tofu Shop
Alright, thanks. I'll see if it works.

Just tried it, didn't work. :(

edit: Apparently playing borderless windowed is what's messing with it. I tried fullscreen and it recorded fine. I might just try a different program to record, I hate playing fullscreen.
 

Blizzard

Banned
OK. i'll tell you how I really feel.

Battlegrounds has honestly has been the least buggy, flawless matchmaking for me and 1-3 friends getting into a game together every time. And that's 100 player games to boot! I want to heap praise on BlueHole for that alone. I want to scream 'shit, have you seen the matchmaking on this game?!? It's generally flawless and fast as fuck, incredible!'

So when I see complaints about duo auto-matching, well, maybe it's a bug, but it's worked for me when i tried it. I don't want to paint this as an edge case, but how common is going into duo's on your own? Maybe there are just lots and lots of people already in a 2 player party, and it couldn't find you a partner.
Maybe, it just seemed odd that it would happen repeatedly with 99 people on a duo server, and I was literally the only one without a partner. :p I don't even mind that sometimes, but it definitely happened a lot to me last night.
 

Furio53

Member
I've been running into this issue when playing where I must be hitting a combination of buttons, but basically my bindings change. W becomes prone/stand toggle, Z becomes run forward, Map becomes : instead of M. I have no idea what's causing this. Anyone seen this before? Sometimes I've been able to resolve it by hitting some combo like Ctrl, shift z. lol
 

23qwerty

Member
Maybe, it just seemed odd that it would happen repeatedly with 99 people on a duo server, and I was literally the only one without a partner. :p I don't even mind that sometimes, but it definitely happened a lot to me last night.
there's people that play solo in a duo on purpose for the challenge or even by accident I suppose. if an odd number of people do that I suppose it could cause that. seems unlikely it would happen repeatedly though.
 

Alucrid

Banned
tried playing a few rounds of first person but i just get nauseated from it. mainly when indoors though. watching someone play first person on twitch was fine
 

Blizzard

Banned
tried playing a few rounds of first person but i just get nauseated from it. mainly when indoors though. watching someone play first person on twitch was fine
You might try increasing your FOV a little bit in options.

However, I do feel like the FPS camera in Battlegrounds feels a little more floaty than something like CSGO, and I also feel like there is some subtle head bob or sway when moving around which could give people motion sickness.
 

Acinixys

Member
I really REALLY hope they have servers for Africa on the cards

From the equator down to South Africa gets so fucked with high pings

Playing on EU I get 100 to 140

Everywhere else its 300+

Sucks. Ive gotten so many 2nd and 3rd place finishes because my shots don't register. Its only an issue with fights 60m and closer. People eating a whole mag of AK ammo and then turning and one shotting me gets really old
 

Alucrid

Banned
You might try increasing your FOV a little bit in options.

However, I do feel like the FPS camera in Battlegrounds feels a little more floaty than something like CSGO, and I also feel like there is some subtle head bob or sway when moving around which could give people motion sickness.

yeah i tried adjusting it a few times in between matches, but since it's not something i usually change i suppose i wasn't able to find the sweet spot
 
I've been running into this issue when playing where I must be hitting a combination of buttons, but basically my bindings change. W becomes prone/stand toggle, Z becomes run forward, Map becomes : instead of M. I have no idea what's causing this. Anyone seen this before? Sometimes I've been able to resolve it by hitting some combo like Ctrl, shift z. lol

not quite the same but...I play with a PS4 controller and this has been happening since the last update. I will press the circle button to go Prone for instance and it will bring up my geForce Experience Quick Menu occasionally. Or I will press the touchpad which is mapped to (tab) for my inventory and it will bring up the Steam overlay menu. My favorite is when I bring up the map it randomly Alt+tabs me out of the game for some reason. And since I am playing with a controller I can't alt+tab back without fetching my keyboard.

This has all been in FPP mode since the FPP update. Never encountered this in Third person.
So maybe it's a bug with the new mode?
 

Ladekabel

Member
Buddy and I wanted to do quick rounds for Battlepounds to get GC crates. Jumped to Pochinki and we had our best round for today. You really need to play this game like you don't give a fuck.
 

Furio53

Member
not quite the same but...I play with a PS4 controller and this has been happening since the last update. I will press the circle button to go Prone for instance and it will bring up my geForce Experience Quick Menu occasionally. Or I will press the touchpad which is mapped to (tab) for my inventory and it will bring up the Steam overlay menu. My favorite is when I bring up the map it randomly Alt+tabs me out of the game for some reason. And since I am playing with a controller I can't alt+tab back without fetching my keyboard.

This has all been in FPP mode since the FPP update. Never encountered this in Third person.
So maybe it's a bug with the new mode?

I wasn't in FPP mode, so not sure :( but its really annoying and I'm not sure what I'm hitting to do it. Never happens to my duo partner ever either.

Have also hit a bug or somethign where Z just doesn't work and I can't go prone (no Prone blocked message) on flat areas
 
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