PUBG on Xbox [preview program]

Mickeroo · 13-12-2017 11:25AM

IvoryTower wrote: »

Whats peoples strategy for bailing out of the plane. ive tried being first out, last out, in the middle. Its great when you seem to be the only person in a village. Tempted to go straight to the army base i assume there's a big mill there

If you pop your shoot early you can get very far from the flight path. When I first started playing i used to try get somewhere to myself but now I prefer to drop where there'll be lots of people (especially in squads). Sure you might die but if you come out on top you'll have plenty of loot and you also get the added bonus of actually having to use the weapons more. Plus there's nothing more frustrating than getting fully kitted out, not seeing anyone for 20 minutes and then getting sniped out of nowhere :pac:

This map is also really good to have open beside you:

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Stone Deaf 4evr · 13-12-2017 11:44AM

Grahamer666 wrote: »

Actually looks like its running ok for you there. I presume you're playing on an X?

yeah, playing on the X, I still have my S as well so I must compare them.

I've found that it runs very well once you hit the ground, the plane is absolutely terrible though, it looks like it doesnt even have textures, and its almost impossible to see people jumping out (in comparison to what i've seen on PC streams)

Its certainly very very playable though.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 13-12-2017 11:48AM

IvoryTower wrote: »

Whats peoples strategy for bailing out of the plane. ive tried being first out, last out, in the middle. Its great when you seem to be the only person in a village. Tempted to go straight to the army base i assume there's a big mill there

I've been having good luck with dropping in the middle of the map - pochinki.

Im kinda forcing myself to seek out gunfights too, hiding in a building for 20 minutes, whilst tense, probably isnt going to win me any dinners.

I reckon we'll see the skill levels go through the roof over the course of the week as people get the controls dialled in.

IvoryTower · 13-12-2017 11:54AM

That map is great thanks. so many time ive just been running for ages, its quite disheartening!

I'm going to go look for fights for a while cause I think I just need to nail down that side of it first, I need to get much quicker at working the inventory as well.

13-12-2017 12:19PM

Frame-rate is brutal on the One X
Still had a bit of a laugh all the same in the two games I played.
I can see in a group how it can be enjoyable.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 13-12-2017 12:39PM

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Frame-rate is brutal on the One X
Still had a bit of a laugh all the same in the two games I played.
I can see in a group how it can be enjoyable.

Really? i don't notice it to be too bad once you land, and If I'm 100% honest, there was a few times where i was on the edge of a mountain and mortars were dropping in the fields below and I though it looked genuinely impressive.

13-12-2017 12:55PM

IvoryTower wrote: »

Whats peoples strategy for bailing out of the plane. ive tried being first out, last out, in the middle. Its great when you seem to be the only person in a village. Tempted to go straight to the army base i assume there's a big mill there

I'd recommend dropping to the school 20 times in a row to get the hang of the gun play

13-12-2017 01:09PM

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

Really? i don't notice it to be too bad once you land, and If I'm 100% honest, there was a few times where i was on the edge of a mountain and mortars were dropping in the fields below and I though it looked genuinely impressive.

It was defiantly in the mid-teens.
I've no issues with the aesthetic. It's the performance that's bad. And this was during running around and not just landing. Very noticeable when running on my 4K TV.

Mickeroo · 13-12-2017 01:14PM

Weird, it was only mid teens on the plane/airdrop for me. no noticeable frame rate drops once i'm on the ground and i'm playing on a 144hz monitor and only an xbox one s.

13-12-2017 01:16PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

Weird, it was only mid teens on the plane airdrop for me. no noticeable frame rate drops once i'm on the ground and i'm playing on a 144hz monitor and only an xbox one s.

Hopefully a few patches will sort it!

Stone Deaf 4evr · 13-12-2017 01:21PM

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Hopefully a few patches will sort it!

from reading posts from people who play on pc, it just seems to be a pubg problem, you've lads with mega rigs claiming it hardly runs and then you've guys saying they're playing it on laptops.
obviously the truth is somewhere in between, but you'd hope that on the xbox platform everyone would be more or less on the same level.

FAILSAFE 00 · 13-12-2017 01:50PM

awec wrote: »

Been playing PC since pretty much it came out. It was never this bad.

I own it on PC on 2 of my gaming rigs. One a GTX 1080 reference GPU and the other a GTX 970.

The Xbox version looks way better than the GTX 970 and the frame is more stable. Yes I could get higher FPS (50 fps) but it wasn't consistent making it unplayable for me.

The game was definitely a lot worse on PC for players using low to average gaming builds.

FAILSAFE 00 · 13-12-2017 02:12PM

Grahamer666 wrote: »

Actually looks like its running ok for you there. I presume you're playing on an X?

I've played it now on the X and the OG Xbox One.

Here's a clip from my first night playing on the OG XB1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg7EI7cnSJ4

On the X the ground assets load in a bit faster as you parachute in. Once on the ground on both systems they don't seem far apart in FPS but the X version looks a bit better.

Digital Foundry shouldn't have analysed the lobby area because that's always been horrible on PC even on a good rig. It's due to all the background processes. Matching making, map and loot rendering. I found the lobby was more stable on Xbox compared to my high end PC. The plane though is horrible but like others have said once you land its fine. I got the feeling they never played PUBG on PC because the way they pointed out that in the lobby it was only 20fps and the assets look horrible.

rizzodun · 13-12-2017 02:25PM

Don't have this yet but keeping an eye on the thread as young fella plays fortnite a good bit and like the premise of gameplay.

Why not just set up a boards club and get players to join that way?

IvoryTower · 13-12-2017 02:29PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'd recommend dropping to the school 20 times in a row to get the hang of the gun play

Thats exactly what ill do thanks

Blazer · 13-12-2017 03:18PM

They’re going to have to lower the textures on the xbox one x to increase FPS. Limiting to 30 because of the older consoles makes a joke of the one x.

http://flip.it/Q19Mtz

Mickeroo · 13-12-2017 03:26PM

It's not limited because of the S or OG Xbox, it's limited because they probably can't get a stable 60 at the moment. A stable 30 is better than 60 with bad drops.

From what Green was saying couple of weeks ago they are aiming for 60 on the X in the long run.

Max Mafioso · 13-12-2017 03:30PM

Just seen this over on reddit, if you plug in a usb keyboard and press O you get the below graphics menu, can anyone try this?

https://imgur.com/vsOW6Fg

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IvoryTower · 13-12-2017 03:34PM

just tried to out swim the blue line, stick that on my things not to do list

13-12-2017 03:41PM

IvoryTower wrote: »

just tried to out swim the blue line, stick that on my things not to do list

:pac:

Made this mistake myself a few times. You go sooooooooo much slower in water. You go slightly faster if you swim underwater.

IBrows89 · 13-12-2017 04:42PM

Just bought this, now I need to wait another hour until I go home and get to play it.
It's a much smaller size than I was thinking, it's saying it's only about a 5-6gb download on xbox live marketplace, that seems tiny. Are there any updates needed when you first download the game?

I take it there's also team kills, I gave up on teams in fortnite because the other guys will just kill you if you have a better gun than them.

Are we allowed to post up xbox live names in here to play duo's?

IvoryTower · 13-12-2017 04:44PM

IBrows89 wrote: »

Just bought this, now I need to wait another hour until I go home and get to play it.
It's a much smaller size than I was thinking, it's saying it's only about a 5-6gb download on xbox live marketplace, that seems tiny. Are there any updates needed when you first download the game?

I take it there's also team kills, I gave up on teams in fortnite because the other guys will just kill you if you have a better gun than them.

Are we allowed to post up xbox live names in here to play duo's?

when you play it you'll understand why its only 5gb, BUT, its growing on me. There's lots of fun to be had here I reckon

IBrows89 · 13-12-2017 04:59PM

IvoryTower wrote: »

when you play it you'll understand why its only 5gb, BUT, its growing on me. There's lots of fun to be had here I reckon

I was thinking that would be the case. I've never played it on PC so I won't have anything to compare it to. I'll probably be happy out shooting and looting while looking like a minecraft character anyway...

battser · 13-12-2017 05:48PM

Anyone on now add me for a duo game. I just get milled on the solo one haha

batts

Grahamer666 · 13-12-2017 06:14PM

IBrows89 wrote: »

Just bought this, now I need to wait another hour until I go home and get to play it.
It's a much smaller size than I was thinking, it's saying it's only about a 5-6gb download on xbox live marketplace, that seems tiny. Are there any updates needed when you first download the game?

I take it there's also team kills, I gave up on teams in fortnite because the other guys will just kill you if you have a better gun than them.

Are we allowed to post up xbox live names in here to play duo's?

Team Kills on PC too. You get banned for it if you're reported enough. I presume there's no report function on the Xbox version?

CatInABox · 13-12-2017 06:27PM

Seems like the dev team had just enough time to get it up and running on the Xbox, but not enough to do any optimisation or console specific changes. They've obviously ported over the controls, but couldn't make any significant changes to them yet, as I presume that they'll get better. Same with the graphics, I'd assume that now that it's up and running, they'll be able to spend more time working on the graphics. It's never going to be a looker, but I'd imagine that they'll make changes to make the framerate a bit more stable.

Of course, they could just put all the development into more microtransactions.....

Blazer · 13-12-2017 06:36PM

CatInABox wrote: »

Seems like the dev team had just enough time to get it up and running on the Xbox,
Of course, they could just put all the development into more microtransactions.....

There was a completely separate team working on the Xbox version. With having MS and the same dev team who made gears of war 4 there was absolutely no excuse to launch this on xbox in this state. I generally cut them a lot of slack on Pc but they’ve made over 700 million on this game so it’s not as if they can’t afford it

FAILSAFE 00 · 13-12-2017 06:44PM

Blazer wrote: »

There was a completely separate team working on the Xbox version. With having MS and the same dev team who made gears of war 4 there was absolutely no excuse to launch this on xbox in this state. I generally cut them a lot of slack on Pc but they’ve made over 700 million on this game so it’s not as if they can’t afford it

I disagree. Digital Foundry commented that its an achievement getting a game like PUBG to run on console at all.

This is just the very first build on console and its playable. I have no problems playing it on Xbox and I also own the game on PC. I am not getting the whole "it should have launched in better condition" It didn't on PC. Yes it would have been nice for it to perform better at launch but this is a game that is still in development.

CatInABox · 13-12-2017 06:53PM

Blazer wrote: »

There was a completely separate team working on the Xbox version. With having MS and the same dev team who made gears of war 4 there was absolutely no excuse to launch this on xbox in this state. I generally cut them a lot of slack on Pc but they’ve made over 700 million on this game so it’s not as if they can’t afford it

Anticto are the guys doing the guts of the Xbox development, with support from the Coalition, but they've only been working on it for a few months. It can take months just to figure out what's going on in someone elses code, never mind optimising it.

I do agree with you though, the game should be in a better state on PC, and if it's not in a better state in two or three months on Xbox, then I'll be complaining as well, but I will give them those few months first.

super_furry · 13-12-2017 07:28PM

As long as you go into it knowing that it's a Beta release in the true sense of the word, you'll know what you're getting. It's version 0.5 and some way behind the PC release, but the same great core gameplay is still there even if it is clunky. I wouldn't judge it really until next summer or so, and people buying it should make sure they're aware it's an unfinished game.

PUBG on Xbox [preview program]

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