{"id":11288,"date":"2017-12-22T02:05:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T10:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-1-0-launch-review-breaking-loose-and-breaking-new-records\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:13:08","slug":"playerunknowns-battlegrounds-1-0-launch-review-breaking-loose-and-breaking-new-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-1-0-launch-review-breaking-loose-and-breaking-new-records\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds 1.0 Launch Review \u2013 Breaking Loose and Breaking New Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds 1.0<\/strong>
\n PUBG Corporation<\/p>\n

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I think this Steam review by a random gamer sums it up quite succinctly:<\/p>\n

\u201cOne, if not THE, most thrilling gaming experience I’ve ever had.<\/p>\n

Used to take a shower and then do some relaxed gaming after work?<\/p>\n

With PUBG, game first and then shower – the sweat is real.\u201d<\/p>\n

As just about everyone already knows, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds<\/em> hit the gaming world earlier this year like a bolt of lightning, personally cast down by Zeus himself. At that time, what I initially kept asking myself was, \u201cwhy hasn\u2019t anyone ever made a game like this before? Such a simple concept.\u201d Indeed, several developers had tried similar Battle Royale-type games, such as the ill-fated and abandoned The Culling,<\/em> and of course the much maligned and heckled H1Z1.<\/em><\/p>\n

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However, no one has included all of the aspects that make these other Battle Royale games interesting, into one slick, great-looking package\u2014until PUBG <\/em>came along. Since its debut, PUBG<\/em> has broken all sorts of records, but has also been involved in lots of controversy. While all of the drama surrounding PUBG<\/em> plays out like a tawdry soap opera on a daily basis, I\u2019m not going to be touching on that since it\u2019s all well-documented elsewhere. Rather, for the sake of this review, I\u2019m going to concentrate on the gameplay itself. Let\u2019s start with my first couple of PUBG<\/em> games\u2026<\/p>\n

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds<\/em> 1.0 just exited Early Access and just launched today. Personally, I put off playing on the PUBG<\/em> test servers because I wanted to wait for the full enchilada. And I\u2019m glad I did.<\/p>\n

To my delight, my first game consisted of being dropped into the new Central American map called Miramar. Right away, I noticed how absolutely huge this new map was. I located my three squad mates and we began clearing a small shanty town on the outskirts of a city called El Pozo. After gathering what we could and getting our hands on our first weapons, we jumped into one of the new vehicles, which I dubbed the \u201cparty van,\u201d and drove off in the direction of the next safe zone.<\/p>\n

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Safe zones by the way, have nothing to do with sheltered, entitled, millennials\u2014in PUBG <\/em>they are ever smaller circles of safe spaces (couldn\u2019t resist) that are encroached upon by an electrical barrier. In this way, the game focuses all of the action into tighter and tighter confines as the game goes on.<\/p>\n

And go on it did. As my motley gang sped over the arid desert plains of Miramar, we began taking fire from random assailant\u2019s firearms. Whereas with other vehicles we might have ended up smoking from the sustained fire, the van soldiered on, confident in its heavy chassis. We eventually emerged unscathed from the plains on the outskirts of another city called Los Leones.<\/p>\n

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Just after arriving, we spied a group of enemies running towards a nearby building and gunned our van, running over two of them. We then popped out and began firing at the remaining two. We heard the rapid staccato of LMG fire and suddenly realized that one of our foes was in possession of a new PUBG<\/em> weapon: The massive DP-28, a Russian-built light machinegun that can really put some hurt on you with its 7.62 ammo. I quickly utilized the game\u2019s new vaulting mechanic, jumping over a low wall in order to escape being perforated by the LMG fire. My buddies weren\u2019t so lucky.<\/p>\n

From there, I experienced a sustained firefight which played out like a game of cat-and-mouse with my last two adversaries. It was then that I realized just how different PUBG\u2019s <\/em>new game mechanics had fundamentally changed the game. As I played round after round, it became apparent that being able to vault and climb offered a new set of tactics to my overall battle strategies.<\/p>\n

For instance, not being the most accurate shooter in the world (I just can\u2019t compete with hyper-twitch 12 year-olds), being able to vault and climb allows me to sneak up on enemies in different ways. I can now climb through windows, or climb the outer ladders on warehouses in order to get the drop on foes. These new factors greatly help to circumvent the dastardly efforts of both hackers with their aimbots, as well as the aforementioned fast-twitch, tween contingent.<\/p>\n

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PUBG 1.0<\/em> also runs a lot more smoothly. Besides some occasional server lag (because it was day one after all) I didn\u2019t experience any frame drops or rubber-banding at all. This makes movement, and especially combat, much more responsive and fluid. Hit registration also seems to have been improved as well, making the few people I aimed at and shot at, much more dead.<\/p>\n

The devs also worked on the graphics, such as adding in more anti-aliasing. In short, PUBG<\/em> looks very crisp now and the view distances are extremely far. And you\u2019ll need them. Many of the engagements you\u2019ll become involved in are over vast distances, especially on the new Miramar map, which hardly has any tree concealment and cover at all.<\/p>\n

The new weapons, such as the sawed off shotgun and the mighty M249 LMG; as well as the new vehicles, like the pickup and jet ski, are all fine and dandy. But what really makes this game great again is the fact that not only does it play a lot more smoothly, but there also seems to be less hacking going on. Apparently this is due to the developer\u2019s insistence that they are constantly adding measures to counteract hacking.<\/p>\n

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PUBG<\/em> is a great pick-up-and-play Battle Royale game that sets the bar high for all others to aspire to. It combines teamwork (unless playing solo), extremely fun combat, fluid and optimized gameplay (finally!), and that addictive x-factor that keeps you coming back over and over again. I, for one, am definitely excited to be playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds<\/em> once again.<\/p>\n

SCORE: 88%<\/p>\n

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds <\/em>features outstanding graphics that make its fast-paced shooter gameplay truly shine. However, you want to have a pretty beefy gaming PC or gaming laptop in order to play it at a decent framerate. So, you may just want to invest in a decent gaming rig:<\/p>\n

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds 1.0 PUBG Corporation I think this Steam review by a random gamer sums it up quite succinctly: \u201cOne, if not THE, most thrilling gaming experience I’ve ever had. Used to take a shower and then do some relaxed gaming after work? With PUBG, game first and then shower – the sweat is real.\u201d… Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds 1.0 Launch Review \u2013 Breaking Loose and Breaking New Records<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2724],"tags":[2520,2638,741,2488,2527,1225,67,2486,2569],"class_list":["post-11288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4k-gaming","tag-battle-royale-games","tag-cyberpower-pc","tag-game-review","tag-game-reviews-2","tag-gaming-laptop","tag-gaming-pc","tag-ian-kane","tag-shooter-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16392,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288\/revisions\/16392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}