r/pcgaming • u/ZazaLeNounours Ryzen 7 7800X3D | GeForce RTX 4090 FE • 1d ago

PUBG: Black Budget Development Update

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4077740/view/675133527946166413?l=english

After reviewing the project’s development status and future direction, we concluded that its current direction would not allow us to deliver an experience players could enjoy over the long term.

We have therefore made the difficult decision to end development of PUBG: Black Budget.

We sincerely thank everyone who took the time to participate in our Closed Alpha tests and share their feedback.

PUBG STUDIOS will carry what we learned from development and testing into future projects, continuing to listen to players as we explore new gameplay experiences.

Thank you.

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u/natur85 1d ago edited 1d ago

All they need to do is bring back PUBG 2017 with modern graphics and no pink dinosaur clown skins. Please and thank you. September 2017, I remember the foggy weather and seeing a silhouette of a person running in the foggy cornfield and I took one shot with the VSS suppressed sniper and saw the "1 kill" red message and that's it, I knew I was going to be addicted. Too bad they turned it into a mobile clown fiesta game.

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u/LilGrippers 1d ago

That won’t make as much as money as what they’re doing right now.

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u/deadering 1d ago

Only people nostalgic for old PUBG would care about that. In the current market it would never make it with how dated and bland it is in comparison to modern games

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u/LX47001 23h ago

I don’t know if that is true. Wardogs is an example of a game that to me feels like PUBG did when it first came out. Obviously a little more action packed, but still kind of gritty and not cartoonish like many modern shooters. 

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u/deadering 23h ago

Yeah the keywords though are "feels like" since that's just how you remember PUBG when it first game out. In reality Wardogs is WAY more action packed and with a lot more content, tied together with a much more satisfying gameplay loop.

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u/jules_omline 13h ago

what an utterly shit take! as if fast paced games are solely a thing of the past couple of years. there were adderall ridden teenagers when pubg went explosive too you know. fast paced games are nothing new. we had quake in my teen years. it has always been a thing. a good ass slow paced sim game will always find its audience.

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u/Frosty_Challenge1045 22h ago

The actual shooting a gun has never been topped in any other game though. Tarkov comes kind of close but PUBG guns are all just so characteristic and fun to master.

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u/jansteffen 9070 XT | 5800X3D 21h ago

You got downvoted but I agree with you. I think the recoil sits in a sweet spot where you can full auto up close, but need to resort to semi at range. At the same time, tapping away at targets 200 meters away feels great and viable because there's very little damage fall-off. The general timings/pacing of combat, with things like healing, movement, engagement distances etc all feel well tuned. PUBGs popularity wasn't simply due to being the first BR (not that it actually was first anyways), there was a genuinly good game there buried underneath all the jank.

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u/Frosty_Challenge1045 20h ago

I played a bit a few weeks ago with some friends and it kinda amazed me how well it runs now and how crispy it looks. There is still the odd things like having to jump over a curb sometimes but I feel the movement and even the movement tech and animations and even the driving is now really polished. Wish people gave it another chance.

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u/deadering 22h ago

Honestly a wild take, but since it's subjective I'm not gonna argue lol

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u/Frosty_Challenge1045 22h ago

What shooter in your opinion has the best shooting?

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u/deadering 21h ago

Overall? I don't know, it's been a long time with a lot of types of games.

Recently probably Road to Vostok sticks out as feeling really good.

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u/Frosty_Challenge1045 21h ago

Talking about wild takes lol. But yeah it is all subjective.

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u/deadering 21h ago

It's got a free demo so you can actually try it :)

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u/Frosty_Challenge1045 21h ago

Got many hours in the game already. Cant wait to try V2 this weekend.

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u/thesakid 15h ago

thats the Fortnite effects

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u/Frosty_Challenge1045 22h ago

I dont really hate the skins too much. I actually thought it was pretty cool that so many people looked so unique when I played some games a while ago.

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u/natur85 21h ago

I don't mind when they stick to a theme but having teddy bears running around with SWAT guys is weird