PUBG on Xbox [preview program]

FAILSAFE 00 · 12-12-2017 2:33am #1

I thought it would be a good idea to have an Xbox specific Player Unknown's Battlegrounds thread.

Since PUBG on both Xbox and PC are in beta having one thread with multiple issues/feedback on 2 platforms could get messy. I hope the mods agree.

I have played the game for a few hours now. Mostly duo mode. The first thing I noticed was in my first game the graphics didn't look great. However from the 2nd game onwards it looked good. I am assuming there is probably some map content being cached so when you play it again it looks better.

The frame rate has been solid. I am playing on the OG Xbox One until I get back to my One X tomorrow.

It took a while to get my head around it after playing it on PC. There are a few short cuts on the D-pad that you should get used to.

I recommend upping the sensitivity to all the way to 10. It can feel sluggish until you do this.

*Be careful creating your character. If you back out of the character screen it saves the default as your character. You can then only change your character by using 3,000 BP to change it again. BP is the in-game currency. You can buy crates with it that award you with cosmetic items.

IvoryTower · 12-12-2017 10:13am

Man it feels so clunky. I feel like im back playing day z. Looks crap as well imo but I always thought that, even watching streamers with their high end machines. But had some fun last night in duo, now with 4 player live id say it'll be a good buzz.

Fuzzy Logic · 12-12-2017 10:18am

Best bit of advice is to get familiar with the controls before you play if you can. The fact that you have to hold X to reload instead of tapping will catch people out in close quarters. First game I was fumbling around trying to get used to picking up items and using the inventory but got quicker in round 2 onwards.

In one round down to the final 3 and one guy thought he’d run over myself and the other remaining lad in a UAZ but it didn’t last long once I emptied a clip into him to die by vehicle explosion which also did damage to the other remaining guy

IvoryTower · 12-12-2017 10:21am

we got to the last 10 in duo,then I attacked a guy with an unloaded gun and my teammate trying to shoot him with a gas canister. noobfest

IvoryTower · 12-12-2017 2:59pm

does anyone know can you have it like in wildlands where you're in 3rd person but when you aim it goes into fps, BUT without having to click the left trigger twice. It feels like an extra unnecessary step that im blaming for multiple deaths

12-12-2017 4:46pm

How does the inventory system work?

IvoryTower · 12-12-2017 4:55pm

that was my biggest struggle last night, id be standing over a dead body for a minute trying to figure out what i should keep, what i can use etc. When that becomes second nature it will flow a lot better

Jayop · 12-12-2017 5:21pm

Made an absolute mess of buying this. Had £40 credit on my xbox store so assumed that I was buying the digital download. Ordered it using the credit only to figure out the next day it was a hard copy and I'll need to wait till Thursday to get it. Raging. Would have just bought it on CD keys.

The worst thing is, I think the hard copy from the Xbox store isn't even a disk. It's just a box with a code in it so I'll still need to download the prick of a thing.

Fuzzy Logic · 12-12-2017 5:41pm

So far a lot of easy pickings where players are looting houses or bodies and they're stood there waiting to be killed. The pace of doing it vs pc is like night and day. Saying that, I've had an issue where I pressed the button to bring up the inventory to select a couple of items from a pile but it wouldn't allow me to bring them into my bag for some reason. I had to walk around each piece to pick and choose what items I wanted.

FAILSAFE 00 · 12-12-2017 5:47pm

IvoryTower wrote: »

does anyone know can you have it like in wildlands where you're in 3rd person but when you aim it goes into fps, BUT without having to click the left trigger twice. It feels like an extra unnecessary step that im blaming for multiple deaths

You tap the left trigger once to aim down sight. Pull again to go back to 3rd person aim.

Hold down the left trigger to fire from 3rd person view.

joe123 · 12-12-2017 8:59pm

Inevitable question here....wheres the cheapest place to pick this up?

IvoryTower · 12-12-2017 9:01pm

joe123 wrote: »

Inevitable question here....wheres the cheapest place to pick this up?

It was cd keys not sure now

ECO_Mental · 13-12-2017 12:25am

How da F**K do you load f**king bullets into your f**king gun...

TitianGerm · 13-12-2017 12:28am

ECO_Mental wrote: »

How da F**K do you load f**king bullets into your f**king gun...

Hold X

Stone Deaf 4evr · 13-12-2017 12:30am

I was surprised how quickly I got into this, first round got 5 kills, next round got down to the final 15, probably a combination of lucky landing spots / people being new to the game. I'd agree that the controls take a lot of getting used to, applying attachments seems awkward and actually using consumables doesn't seem to work all the time. Jumping out of the plane looks like dog, very hard to distinguish other players and chutes, but once you hit the ground it's all good.
I reckon this game is going to be massive on Xbox, over half of my 100 strong friends list was playing it, a rare sight these days.

IvoryTower · 13-12-2017 12:58am

ECO_Mental wrote: »

How da F**K do you load f**king bullets into your f**king gun...

Haha we were all the same. Like why not just auto reload or press x once, who thought of hold x ffs!

We tried to queue with 3 tonight and wouldnt load in, had to split up

Its fun game, i dont even think its well executed but the whole battle royal buzz is a winner.

awec · 13-12-2017 1:12am

It's definitely the poor cousin of the PC version. It runs awful and the graphic quality is just bad, the draw distance is a joke and the controls are a mess.

Really emphasising it's preview status anyway. It plays like a PC game that has no business being on console in it's current state.

Fuzzy Logic · 13-12-2017 1:44am

Anyone else find walking sideways dog slow? Walking straight ahead and backwards is fine but as soon as you want to check something sideways the character takes an age to do it

FAILSAFE 00 · 13-12-2017 2:26am

awec wrote: »

It's definitely the poor cousin of the PC version. It runs awful and the graphic quality is just bad, the draw distance is a joke and the controls are a mess.

Really emphasising it's preview status anyway. It plays like a PC game that has no business being on console in it's current state.

But how did the PC version of PUBG start?

People have to be a bit fairer on the game. Its the first build on console and its in alpha.

FAILSAFE 00 · 13-12-2017 5:16am

The game on the X with HDR seems a little too dark and there is no in game brightness settings so I recommend upping your TV brightness settings fixes this.

awec · 13-12-2017 9:38am

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

But how did the PC version of PUBG start?

People have to be a bit fairer on the game. Its the first build on console and its in alpha.

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

Mickeroo · 13-12-2017 9:38am

I played it on an S last night (don't have the X yet) and I was impressed. I feared the worst when I saw how bad it runs on the loading screen and the plane but once you're on the ground it's pretty smooth. I saw no noticeable frame rate drops.

Obviously it's a step down looks and performance wise from the PC but it's a good start. The worst thing by far is managing the inventory and the controls are a bit finicky (holding x for reloadi s not intuitive at all), but I'm sure I'll get used to them. Still managed a chicken dinner and a second place in squads so they ain't impossible to use

awec · 13-12-2017 9:39am

Fuzzy Logic wrote: »

Anyone else find walking sideways dog slow? Walking straight ahead and backwards is fine but as soon as you want to check something sideways the character takes an age to do it

Yes, the analog stick behaves like WASD on a keyboard, the movement doesn’t feel right at all.

Mickeroo · 13-12-2017 9:40am

awec wrote: »

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

You have a gtx 1070 and a 6th generation i7! if you put it in the context of how powerful an xbox is it's running better than it did at launch on PC.

maximoose · 13-12-2017 9:51am

Had a couple of games last night.

It's quite janky, but I had a lot of fun just playing solo.

First game I found a heap of guns, a heap of ammo, couldn't figure out why I couldn't use my guns and was stuck running around with a hand grenade.

Then I realised you had to load the damn gun after picking up ammo :pac:

I've read it runs terribly on the original Xbox One. Framerate was awful pretty much until I landed from the parachute but then it mostly evened out and was stable-ish, a little lag at times.

ECO_Mental · 13-12-2017 10:03am

maximoose wrote: »

Had a couple of games last night.

First game I found a heap of guns, a heap of ammo, couldn't figure out why I couldn't use my guns and was stuck running around with a hand grenade.

Me too couldn't figure out how to load the gun and like you was running around with a nade in my hand. I then bumped into this dude in a house obviously going through his gear and didn't hear me. Had no gun so I tried to rabbit punch him in the back of the head but threw the nade instead, it worked:D:D:D blew him nearly to the roof, didn't know what hit him:P my only kill

Stone Deaf 4evr · 13-12-2017 10:23am

had a great moment last night in my first ever game where myself and another lad landed close to each each other, we ran to seperate houses and i found an M16 in mine, but couldnt figure out how to load the ammo. he came in the door of my house and froze when he saw I had a gun. I did a few teabags, and I reckon he thought I was looking for an alliance as he didnt run over and start punching, cue me walking around behind this guy, mashing buttons to load the clip, and I promptly wasted him once i figured out what was going on.

clip here

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Stone%20xb/video/40846545

battser · 13-12-2017 10:30am

Add me for a few Squad games on XB tonight lads. battsKA = tag

Not overly impressed by the game even though obviously a work in progress but maybe playing with others might help that along.

13-12-2017 10:41am

Played mainly in a squad of 4 last night.

We got minced by the circle on the first play as we were on the edge of the map and the playing circle was the other side.

Once we knew what was happening we were taking damage and the run there was 10-15mins away.

Next game we were all fully loaded and sitting on the edge of the town submerged(by water) just figuring stuff out.

I hear a car coming and could pin point the direction while the other three couldn't hear anything. I was a dog who can hear something before a human does.

Next thing the car appears driving straight at me, I started shooting and they half knocked me down (only taking half my health) before crashing into the wall where I levelled the two in the back while someone else took the driver out.

Was hilarious... I was in stitches laughing.

Just as we were looting the bodies a squad came from the village and minced the four of us before we could even tell which direction they were.

There's a steep learning curve for sure, getting used to the menus and keeping an eye on the circle takes a few rounds to get the hang of.

In my final game last night I got to the final 8 in a solo run, I was laying on the grass messing around with my load out until I provided some lad with the easiest kill ever.... I need to be more weary of that in future especially in a small circle.

GT:GilbertoGalway... add me up as well. There's a few Irish on my friends list with this but another few more would be handy.

IvoryTower · 13-12-2017 11:20am

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

Grahamer666 · 13-12-2017 11:23am

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

had a great moment last night in my first ever game where myself and another lad landed close to each each other, we ran to seperate houses and i found an M16 in mine, but couldnt figure out how to load the ammo. he came in the door of my house and froze when he saw I had a gun. I did a few teabags, and I reckon he thought I was looking for an alliance as he didnt run over and start punching, cue me walking around behind this guy, mashing buttons to load the clip, and I promptly wasted him once i figured out what was going on.

clip here

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Stone%20xb/video/40846545

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

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 1:09pm

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 1:14pm

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 1:16pm

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 1:21pm

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 1:50pm

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 2:12pm

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 2:25pm

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 2:29pm

[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 3:18pm

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 3:26pm

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 3:30pm

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

vsOW6Fg

IvoryTower · 13-12-2017 3:34pm

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

13-12-2017 3:41pm

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.

PUBG on Xbox [preview program]

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