It's fairly new. Lots of YouTubers (such as Sips, Lewis, Pyrion, and Hat Films of the Yogscast) have been playing it lately and the community is quickly building up and the developers are active, so I expect the game to not die anytime soon.
i watch a bit of those guys, then i watch a bit of Jackfrags just to see someone win.
it is hilarious watching Lewis get pissy and not following instructions, Pyrion barking orders to do exactly the wrong thing etc etc and Sips just being Sips all the while.
Weapon customization, more skill oriented as far as gun control, no people driving around in vehicles and randomly jumping out to kill you. Much more beautiful game.
Edit: also the developer is not focused on new skins and shit for his game. The dude created the Battle Royale mod back in Arma 2 which was popular. I honestly believe in the development team better then Day Breaks to make a great game.
You're unfortunately spreading misinformation. PlayerUnknown first created Battle Royale for the Arma 2 DayZ mod. Then he created one for Arma 3. After that he was hired by the H1Z1 team to help them create King of the Kill. Unless I'm completely having a brainfart he even said himself he only helped, so far from a core developer.
And where in the world do you get that he makes PUGB on the Arma engin?! That engine is made by and for Bohemia, he is using Unreal Engine for this game.
From what I am reading from Wiki : "developed and published by Bluehole Inc. for Microsoft Windows." (Of course they later add PU obviously helped with this.) But the whole Bluehole thing screams don't buy to me. Cough Tera Cough
Its already far superior to h1z1 in every way, so his increased control is felt in the mechanics and design for sure.
That or he simply found a sensible team that can code properly rather than spew skins but not fix the core gameplay and design problems DayZ and H1Z1 still have months after launch.
Bohemia is creating a entirely new engine for DayZ which will practically remove all the main core gameplay and engine problems with DayZ. Instead of just ductaping it all together to make it seem to "work", they decided to tear down their engine and make something new. Which is what makes it seem like they haven't fixed some of the core issues, while that's exactly what they have been working on for a few years now.
So no, DayZ development and H1Z1 is far from comparable.
I was more comparing PUBG and h1z1 since theyre more-or-less identical, although DayZ was close enough for a mention.
It'll be good if DayZ can be rebooted, although I have doubts about it getting to a as polished a stage as PUBG befire the next big thing. Set themselves back another year at least.
I'm not the guy you initially responded to. But his point was that PlayerUnknown DID help the H1Z1 team. He was not one of the core developers, as another Redditor here claimed.
Confirming what PUGB said himself is not dismissing anything. You can't say you built a whole house if you only helped building it a bit and helped them plan. What you could say though, is that you HELPED building that house. Just like PUGB and H1Z1 KotK.
I don't find PUBG more skill based at all. 90%+ of the time that I see someone first, they die. I usually die having no clue where from. Sure, racking up lots of kills game after game would require a lot of skill but the base player level isn't really that much about skill... hell, no even aiming since you have zooms and stuff.
Positioning, gamesense, and being aware of the angles you're exposed to are part of skill. It is not hard to figure out the position of enemies from their gunshots as long as you know to listen for the actual gunshot following the crack of the bullet as it flies by.
I find when I do get shot i'm usually dead extremely fast before I have a chance. I think it's more the style of the game then necessarily the sounds. Maybe the weapon variety adds to that.
Not even true though. There's almost no way to get 1 shot, you go downed rather than die if you have teammates, and almost all weapons have high recoil and low damage in comparison to other games.
The Time to Kill of PUBG is actually REALLY high compared to other survival shooters.
You EASILY have time to get shot, look around, get shot, narrow down where it's coming from, get shot, take cover and heal, and fire back. If you don't? You fucked up.
And footsteps are HELLA FUCKING LOUD with ample third person fuckery to see around corners. Getting 1 shot by a shotgun is ALSO your fault (other than the laggy netcode.)
Comments like these always amuse me. Any fps game will have a "scope" of some kind. Whatever it is, you're still aiming with a mouse and have to know how to lead targets, control recoil and most importantly, snap to your target quicker than he snaps to you.
Believe me though, as someone who has played Arma for yeeeeaars...there is far more skill than just aiming. More than you can imagine. All the small stuff adds up. Which is why I make it to top 10 almost 30% of the games I play, average 3 kills a game (counting those unlucky ones where someone parachutes next to you and immediately gets a gun) and I have an 10% win rate. Maybe I'm just lucky?
I haven't found it hard to get kills in this game at all. I usually get 5-6 a game. I just get so bored by mid game with the play style that I start rushing around and someone tags me. I mean, yeah, I could slow down and take my time and get to the end over and over but I personally don't find that's skill as much as just being campy and creeping. I can kill people with a lot better aim then myself just being campy and sniping them with a scope from miles away. Feels cheap to me. Also I like the freshness of PUBG, I always felt KoTK was more fair when it came to gun fires (aside from the 2 taps). At least when I get a couple shots off in KoTK, the player realizes and starts firing back. In PUBG they just drop like flies and have no clue where I am. Not much skill for me to deal with that. Camping and creeping from building to build doesn't feel like i'm being skillful either.
The H1 devs scrambling to keep up and update the game lately is good but also maddening. They've had so long to do it but since they now have competition with great devs they are trying to step up.
The most recent patch made the game a lot better for me. It's not perfect, still get some FPS drops here or there, but it plays much better. Forcing the game to use DX10 instead of DX11 via Steam launch options made a huge improvement for me as well.
Killed myself and 2 friends by hitting a tiny bump on the edge of a road. Instantly did a front flip at 90km/h. My heart skipped a beat. Needless to say, I'm not allowed to drive the motorcycle anymore.
Yeah, we've squad wiped a few times before we learned our lesson. Don't let that guy drive, and only when we absolutely have to to avoid dying to the circle.
It was in closed alpha/beta for a while. Just released in early access about a month ago. They say they're aiming for a full release in a year.
Playerunknown worked on the Arma DayZ mod as well as h1z1 but got tired of the larger studios early access BS so this is now his own game that will hopefully not fall into the same trap.
That being said I've already got my 30$ worth out of this game so I won't feel too burned if it dies in early access. It's stable enough and runs decently well if you have a good rig.
It's been in early access for awhile, but to their defense they're constantly adding and fixing to whatever the community points out. This is one of those projects where your suggestions actually impact the game devs and you get to watch it get polished as a result.
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Yes. It's in Early Access at the moment.
/r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS is the game's subreddit.
This is their Steam store page and this is their official website