pubg review 2021

 

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in this episode we'll be playing player

unknowns battlegrounds

also known as pubg one of the first

successful

battle royale games to ever exist where

your goal is for you and your squad to

be the last man standing

so the first question that we always

cover in these videos

is what stage of development is the game

in and in this case

pubg is in full release and available on

pc xbox and playstation

for thirty dollars however it is also

free on mobile but we will not be

reviewing that as it is free and

extremely different from the regular

games

so what exactly is pubg well pubg was

the first

successful battle royale to hit the

scene all the way back in december of

2017.

it was arguably the spark that started

the fire for the genre which paved the

way for

other games such as fortnite warzone and

apex legends

so let's get into it now starting off

with the combat

pubg is a realistic shooter game now

just to clarify

this game has a lot of realistic aspects

to it

but isn't quite as realistic as

something like escape from tarkov or

arma 3

however it is more realistic than

warzone or fortnite for an example

the controls at least on pc are a little

bit confusing and considering there's

not a true tutorial for the game it

still can become

rather complicated rather quickly

luckily though they fixed this with the

help from the training ground mode where

you were able to play with every gun and

attachment in the game at a shooting

range

in order to get your bearings they even

help you out by giving you an

on-screen display of the controls that

you will mostly need while you're

playing the game

don't worry though as this is able to be

turned off by the press

of a button once you get it down once

you have the basics down

the combat feels really really good yes

when people have lots of armor

they do have that bullet sponge effect

you start to see in games like fortnite

and apex legends

where time to kill is quite long however

they do offset this

by allowing skilled players to bring

time to kill drastically down through

headshots

a good example of this is the car 98k

which is a

one shot headshot to anyone without the

absolute

best possible armor now the gun play on

the other hand

is easily one of the best aspects of the

game

it doesn't do things like show little

flashes to warn you a sniper is looking

in your direction

or allow you to build massive towers out

of thin air in seconds

guns kick like they should and really

feel powerful to fire

if you have headphones i would even go

as far as to say maybe turn down the

sound a little bit

as the shooting is extremely realistic

in its sound

and can easily break your ears finally

for the combat category

let's talk about the audio cues i love

this about the game as they

easily do it way better than any other

battle royale i've played before

it really makes you feel like you're a

part of the world but

more importantly can give you subtle

hints as to what is going on around you

an example of this would be if you're

sitting inside a building

and all the doors are shut on the bottom

floor in order for someone to come

in they must either vault through the

glass and thus break it making a very

loud noise

or open the door making a very specific

noise

this acts as an alarm system for you and

can easily save you and your team

that is not the only way that sound can

be used but just to give you one more

example if you were to say play the game

enough and listen very carefully

you would be able to memorize the sound

of each individual gun

and what distance it is at that way you

are prepared as to what kind of gear

your opponents may have

next up let's talk about the loot in the

game pubg's loot system

is interesting compared to some of the

other battle royales out there

for example your armor plays a big role

in how many shots you can take

without dropping to the ground this is

most unique because it doesn't use a

system such as shields in fortnite where

you have to just fill up a bar in order

to have more hp

instead it is actual armor that reduces

damage

taken and breaks with repeated use all

in all

there are three tiers of armor in the

game which drastically vary in their

effectiveness

for example if you only have a tier 1

helmet and take a shot or two to the

head

you might just die on the spot however

having a tier 3 helmet

would make dying significantly more

difficult and nothing more than the

rarest and most powerful sniper in the

game

has the ability to take you down in a

single bullet now for the attachments in

weapon mods

attachments in pubg will drastically

change the effectiveness in your gun's

performance

for an example a fully kitted out m4

with all of the fixins

can fire full auto with almost no kick

whatsoever

now if you try to fire full auto with

one that has

no attachments you will find yourself

shooting up at the clouds

in just a couple of seconds the game

also has a variety of other things that

are lootable

some of which are map specific for an

example

you can get a key on the newest map in

the game which will allow you to open up

a secret room

with tons and tons of rare equipment in

them on the other hand there are some

maps that you can shoot maybe an mpc

truck that will spit out loot boxes as

you do so

last for looting in pubg is the meds

meds

are pretty straightforward in this game

they work just like most other battle

royales and heal your health pool for

different amounts or in different ways

based on what kind you are using for an

example a first aid kit will heal you

for 75

of your hp almost instantly while

bandages will do the same thing

and heal you for the same amount but are

much slower

they also go a step further though and

add things like painkillers

and energy drinks which will heal you to

full but heal

very very slowly and over time up next

let's talk about the game flow game flow

in pubg

is quite different from some of the

newer battle royales it is usually a lot

slower and more tactical than something

like fortnite or apex legends

considering some of the maps go all the

way up to 8 square miles

you can find yourself in some very very

long distance firefights

in fact i would even say that more often

than not you will be using your single

shot or

burst instead of full auto as it is very

difficult to shoot something from a

distance with it

now the maps in pubg will drastically

change the flow of the game

for example playing on one of the

smaller maps that is only two square

miles in size

will go way faster than one of the

larger ones this creates a refreshing

experience as it changes up the pace of

the game from being too fast or too slow

and finds a nice middle point

lastly we need to talk about the bots

and

my goodness the bots in pubg are stupid

i get why they

have them but it is frustrating to get

10 kills in a game and just think you're

so good

just to get demolished near the end by

people who are actual players

and are way way better than you we're

not opposed to having bots necessarily

being in the game but man they

really need to just re-evaluate the

option to turn them off

that is because currently the only way

to turn bots off

is to play ranked mode i'm glad there's

a way

to not play with bots but it is rather

annoying that i can

only do it if i'm willing to play in

sweaty ranked

i would much rather prefer maybe a

tutorial system

that forces your first game to be played

with mods so that the new players can

learn to play and get the basics down

and then maybe have some option for you

to queue

in partial bot lobbies or even

completely bot lobbies

so that brings us to the pros and cons

section for the game first up for the

pros

is that the gun play is solid because it

feels smooth and you can actually see

your shots make contact which feels

really good when you compare to things

such as call of duty that uses a

sound effect or visual for you to

actually tell next up

is that there are multiple maps and

biomes that make each game feel unique

in a genre where most games just recycle

the same map

over and over after that we have that

you can play the game in the normal

third person mode

or opt into a first person only game if

that's what you prefer

just something that no other battle

royale offers and last we have that the

sound effects feel really well done

and immersive you know exactly what gun

is being fired and how far away it is

based on sound alone now for the cons

first up we have that the graphics are

just not the best for this genre i mean

don't get me wrong they're not

absolutely horrid

but i think they could have done a much

better job here and i know they've had a

lot of issues with their engine

considering this is a pretty old game

next up we have that the

bots are in this thing and i'm not

saying that bots are bad overall

but being forced to play with them

unless you play ranked

for us that is a major con and i don't

see why they couldn't just simply give

us an option to just

turn that off finally we have that there

is

apparently a large amount of hackers or

cheaters at least

in the ranked mode we personally never

ran into this

but we can see why it would be there and

that it could be an issue so this is

just based off of what we've read and

what people have told us

so that brings us to the rating for the

game and when we rate games

we want to get one hour of enjoyment out

of every one dollar that we spend on the

game so for this game in particular in

pubg

we would want to get roughly 30 hours of

enjoyment

out of the 30 that we both spent on the

game and

after putting 24 played hours

into this game we give it

7 out of 10 potatoes yeah to be honest

we weren't expecting pubg to be as good

as it is in 2020 at least when you

compare it to

all the new battle royales of today the

game is still really good overall

but there is still a few things that

bring it down

such as the bots being mandatory in

normal mode and the graphics being a bit

poor for this day and age

however if you do enjoy battle royales

or if you

are looking to come back to the game it

is definitely still worth playing

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