AA at Ultra and Post processing at medium makes the game pretty clean I think.
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PLAYERUNKNOWNS BATTLEGROUNDS Early Access Thread: This Is Battle Royale
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AA at Ultra and Post processing at medium makes the game pretty clean I think.
I crank the scaling to 120 to counter this and also AA at ultra.
Early and late game have a lot luck factor in them, no way around it.
I have the same problem sometimes. Then i go to fullscreen and switch back to borderless window and my fps are fine.
Early Access Week 5 Update
Players,
Today on the dev blog we look at what we have updated in this week's upcoming patch. Before we get to that I want to quickly explain what happened with the loot balance after the first monthly patch last week.
To facilitate the custom game feature allowing users to change the balance of the loot in their games, we had to change the core loot system. When this new system was implemented, we missed a bug that altered the balance of weapons spawned in the world. We have now resolved this issue and the loot balance will be restored to how it was before the update last week. Going forward, we do intend to apply balance passes to the loot, and we will update you here on the dev blog when any of these passes are implemented.
Finally, next week the team will be taking a well-deserved week off, so there will be no weekly update. We will be back in the office on Monday May 8th refreshed and ready to push more updates your way!
We will first roll this patch out to the test server tomorrow, Wednesday. No ETA for when this will happen yet, so stay tuned to our Twitter for updates!
This patch will be deployed to the main servers on Thursday, April 27, 5PM KST/1AM PDT/8AM UTC and is expected to take approx. 1 hour to complete.
Early Access - Week 5 - Patch Notes
Client Performance Improvement
Players,
Today on the dev blog we look at what we have updated in this week's upcoming patch. Before we get to that I want to quickly explain what happened with the loot balance after the first monthly patch last week.
To facilitate the custom game feature allowing users to change the balance of the loot in their games, we had to change the core loot system. When this new system was implemented, we missed a bug that altered the balance of weapons spawned in the world. We have now resolved this issue and the loot balance will be restored to how it was before the update last week. Going forward, we do intend to apply balance passes to the loot, and we will update you here on the dev blog when any of these passes are implemented.
Finally, next week the team will be taking a well-deserved week off, so there will be no weekly update. We will be back in the office on Monday May 8th refreshed and ready to push more updates your way!
We will first roll this patch out to the test server tomorrow, Wednesday. No ETA for when this will happen yet, so stay tuned to our Twitter for updates!
This patch will be deployed to the main servers on Thursday, April 27, 5PM KST/1AM PDT/8AM UTC and is expected to take approx. 1 hour to complete.
Early Access - Week 5 - Patch Notes
Client Performance Improvement
- Improved the drop in FPS when firing a gun or driving a vehicle
- Rolled back the item spawn balance
- Reduced the amount of health lost when a character is ejected from a flipping motorbike
- Fixed a bug that caused the door to open towards the player
- Fixed a bug causing incorrect lighting on the 2x scope
- Fixed a bug that caused loot to be not shown in the inventory when a character first obtained it
- Fixed a bug that caused crossbow attachments not to show up in the vicinity pane
- Fixed a bug that caused the sound to stutter
thank god for the loot rollback
having an entire town alone for my squad and only one ends up with an AR was pretty lame
lol
having an entire town alone for my squad and only one ends up with an AR was pretty lame
lol
bonesmccoy
Banned
I bought this last week but only had a chance to play it last night. Went duo with a buddy.
I have 1 solitary kill, and about 5 deaths. Made it deepish into all but 2 of the 6-7 games we played.
I love it.
I have 1 solitary kill, and about 5 deaths. Made it deepish into all but 2 of the 6-7 games we played.
I love it.
Salty Hippo
Member
Thanks. I still didn't buy it, some more feedback on long distance servers with an old connection (mine is still 10MB/s) would be greatly appreciated.
I'm playing on a ~8Mb connection from the Middle East, on EU/US servers. Game does a good job of compensating - there haven't been many situations where the latency advantage comes into play (say if you're trading hits at the same time 1v1 - and I've won a lot of those)
Mikey Jr.
Member
Hey guys, so my computer isn't the best. I checked "can you run it". CPU, and ram it says are fine.
The video card is bad though. I have a gtx 560ti. Min is GeForce® GTX 660.
Now what I want to know is how this will affect the game? Is it just that I won't be able run it at all? Or won't be able to run at highest settings? Like, what am I looking at here?
The video card is bad though. I have a gtx 560ti. Min is GeForce® GTX 660.
Now what I want to know is how this will affect the game? Is it just that I won't be able run it at all? Or won't be able to run at highest settings? Like, what am I looking at here?
Actually game doesn't have lag compensation afaik and you are playing with huge advantage by having noticeably higher latency than most on server. I guess you are one of those warping players or one that shoots me around corners and to behind solid cover that I run into every now and then.
Not your fault, just how game is.
I have an R9 280, and it runs... okay at 1920x1080 with a mix of low/medium and AA on ultra. Probably 25-40 fps. The 280 is about equal to a GTX 760, so you're probably looking at all lows and a resolution cut. That'd be fine for a lot of games (seriously, I run plenty of games at 720p for the framerate without it bothering me), but the problem with this one is that making out distant details is actually a big thing. Not just for "Is that an enemy or a bush?", but even something like "Is that a buggy that I want to run to in the distance or just a rock?". I often have a hard time making that stuff out even at 1080p.
Give it a shot, I guess, but I would go in with the expectation of a refund.
I'm in a GTX960M and my specs are supposed to be slightly above the recommended amount, but even with all settings in low I get around 25 - 35 FPS with dips down to 15.
What's interesting is that the FPS stays the same no matter if I play on All low or all high.
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or is the game supposed to be this badly optimized.
What's interesting is that the FPS stays the same no matter if I play on All low or all high.
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or is the game supposed to be this badly optimized.
jediyoshi
Member
This is usually more indicative of a CPU bottleneck.
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
I'm so close to pulling the trigger on buying this today. It seems like so much fun just from watching streamers...
(I'm going to buy it, aren't I)
(I'm going to buy it, aren't I)
mullet2000
Member
Buy it.
It's the only multiplayer shooter that's been able to pull me away from overwatch since overwatch came out.
We have Discord, people to play with and pans.
Salty Hippo
Member
Gonna pull the trigger too. If the lag is too unbearable I'll just get a refund. You can get refunds on Early Access games, right? First time buying one of those.
EmCeeGramr
Member
The motorcycle thing is welcome even if one of the funniest moments I've had is getting two bikes in Duos, my teammate getting shot as we race away from a cluster of buildings, him bravely telling me to go on to the zone and not risk reviving him, and then I hit a gentle bump and was immediately killed from full health.
This game is fantastic, even in this rough state. I can't wait to see where it's going to be in even a few months!
Still no chicken dinner for me yet. I've come painfully close; #2 and #3 finishes, and a handful of top 20 and top 10s, but I average only 1-2 kills a game. Nothing beats the rush of being in the top 10 as the circle keeps getting smaller and smaller. No game has made me feel anything close to the tension I feel from being in that last group, creeping into the circle.
Still no chicken dinner for me yet. I've come painfully close; #2 and #3 finishes, and a handful of top 20 and top 10s, but I average only 1-2 kills a game. Nothing beats the rush of being in the top 10 as the circle keeps getting smaller and smaller. No game has made me feel anything close to the tension I feel from being in that last group, creeping into the circle.
yep
just keep your playtime under 2hrs and you can refund it for any/no reason
You can buy it and check if it runs well
if it doesn't, refund it
Dude I am SO happy they changed that. I've killed my squad twice from hitting the tiniest bump and then spectacularly flipping. It's a deathtrap, but it is so fast and so fun to use.
Well...you didn't mention anything about teleporting when we were in a squad...
I don't really pay attention to squadies outside of location and HP when in-game, comms I listen to naturally. Still what I said about having advantage with higher ping holds true as I have ran into these teleporting heroes and they are impossible to kill as they warp around multiple meters at the time.
Kadin
Member
Yeah you can but I imagine that won't be something you'll need to worry about. Game should hook you in within just the first match and lag has never been something I was remotely worried about. There are hiccups here and there but overall it's really a non-issue imo.
mullet2000
Member
Some guy drove up to a house I was hiding in the other day and said "I know you're in there" and started shooting out all the windows.
Salty Hippo
Member
My concern is server distance. I live in Brazil but want to play this in co-op with my fellow gaffers.
I never hear anyone talk in game the only place i hear chat is in the plane and lol
piratethingy
Self professed bad raider
Totally agree. I like the aggressive nature of the circle balance overall right now because they have to do what they gotta to force people not to sit in a house with a shotgun aimed at the door all day.
But lategame it feels way too random and luck-based. Who gets to keep laying in the grass and who has to get up and sprint to the last circle and get popped?
LostMyNarbles
Member
Had a game-breaking bug in a match earlier today and I have no idea what triggered it. I was rushing towards the blue zone on the map because I decided to drop on the complete top end of the map. As I was coming towards the military island where the circle was the textures for everything around me just vanished. There were no walls on houses, houses were floating in the air and the bridge was missing but the pillars holding it up were still there. It wasn't just pop-out either because when I tried to drive my car across the bridge I just fell right into area beneath it and my car had the animation of crashing down and everything so it's like the bridge wasn't physically there. :/
Mikey Jr.
Member
For real? i7-6700HQ is already outdated. Just got this too.
Don't fret, the devs have stated the game is very CPU dependent and over time they'll offload tasks to the GPU, it should get better.
Huge Succeeded
Banned
I spent an incredibly tense 30 minutes in a game last night, bouncing from building to building with my motorcycle, trying to stay in the center of the zone. Finally, I'm hiding by a shack @ less than 20 people left, when a plane drops a supply crate about 100m away! Now, across the valley from me, there's another person hoofing it there, maybe 300m away... but I'm closer, and I've got a motorcycle. So I let the thing drop to the ground, and make my move. Hop on my motorcycle, get to speed, hit a sudden small ledge, did two flips, and landed on my wheels.
I felt like a real badass, for about a second after I landed, while the game was busy calculating how much damage that did to me. And then I died
it really is awesome when it rains. such great atmosphere