Battlegrounds

A couple of guys from OIL have been playing "Battlegrounds" on Steam and I picked it up last night for $29.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/57...BATTLEGROUNDS/

The game is survival on an island with lots of guns. 100 players start each round and you play until there is 1 left. You earn credits for how well you place.

https://media-mercury.cursecdn.com/a...legrounds1.jpg

It's a lot like H1Z1 with notable differences. Lots of guns can be found in most buildings. As you play and more time goes on the area you must be inside of shrinks. This forces the game to move along and it's hard to camp because you must move to the area on the map or die.

You start in a plane and decide when to jump out as it flies over the island. If you jump right away you are over a city and it's a race to the ground to get inside a house and get a weapon. I would say 50% of the 100 players jump right away and it's a blood bath. I waited my first game and jumped over the county side. It took quite awhile to find a gun (lots of running) but I made it to 22nd place before I had to run to the zone where players where set up camping. I got 3 kills. The next 4 games I jumped earlier and died at 79th, 60th, and 85th (I suck). Interesting concept and you can join the game solo, coop, or squad (5 players).

Map

https://pubgmap.io/erangel.html#3/-92.38/137.00

Very enjoyable stream. A solo guy joins a 4 player team server.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/138924989

My only complaint is still how hard it is to identify targets, just something about the graphics that everything kinda blends in (and it doesn't help I had to crank my settings down just so I dont lag)... I feel like that was a big issue for me in H1N1... But I do like the tension that this level of realism creates, to the point that after one or two matches, i'm spent lol, its too stressful.

Man, incrementally getting better, then I get some guy square in a my sites at 20 feet away and I cant hit shit. Played with some fun characters (DickieGreenLeaf your friendly battlegrounds cab driver lol, he had a thick raspy Bronx accent and talked nonstop, it was hysterical...) last night and 3 of us put up a valiant fight against a larger group that tried to ambush us from behind as we left a group of buildings... I died after finishing off two wounded guys with a shotgun, there were still more in the attacking group that knocked me and a squadmate down from range.. Then they tried to sneak up on our last squadmate and he got them... Fun and tension all rolled into one..

This one made me laugh at the end.

lol i'm uninstalling

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jomama

Man, incrementally getting better, then I get some guy square in a my sites at 20 feet away and I cant hit shit. Played with some fun characters (DickieGreenLeaf your friendly battlegrounds cab driver lol, he had a thick raspy Bronx accent and talked nonstop, it was hysterical...) last night and 3 of us put up a valiant fight against a larger group that tried to ambush us from behind as we left a group of buildings... I died after finishing off two wounded guys with a shotgun, there were still more in the attacking group that knocked me and a squadmate down from range.. Then they tried to sneak up on our last squadmate and he got them... Fun and tension all rolled into one..

---

Funny the last two groups I have joined no one talked. Didn't stay together and we all just died super annoying.

Yeah, same, and it seems most just jump into the bigger towns and cities with everyone else. I mean, I get it, might as well fight early on and just get it over with and die so you can start another game if you dont come out on top, but I hate that pressure of having to find a gun so fast because there are enemies in the next building... When my team does this I make sure I go to the periphery of the city thats our landing zone and try to give myself some space and time.

I'd rather head off to some smaller cluster of buildings, way off the flight path of the drop plane. I didn't know till this weekend that looking straight up while pressing W will take u the farthest when u drop out of the plane, wasn't doing it right at first.

I make it into the top 20 consistently but that's only cause I'm sneaky. Basically I feel like I collect a bunch of awesome stuff for the winner to have at the end... lol

It was funny how long your avatar stayed in that game after you crashed. You were in the sidecar so I pulled into a warehouse to cover you and wait to see if you came back. Then the blue line started closing in again so I had to move.. We were flying across the map until i lost control and crashed, it instantly knocked me down to immobile, so I was going to die, but you basically dismounted into a standing position, but maintained the forward momentum we had on the motorcycle, so you went sliding off into the distance like you were on ice... lol I did a double take thinking you had come back...

I wonder what place I got ;)

There seem to be way to many people that are good at head shots or something, because I've hit people multiple times and they don't go down, then they get one shot off me and I'm down... like 90% of any gunfights I have at range turns out this way...

Volvo!!!

Everytime I make it near the end I get trapped in a firefight with someone(s) and even if I end up alive I'm so far behind the circle I just die from zone damage. Finished #3 & #4(me) with a random-group, and our death was from being zoned out so we just gave it to the #1 & #2..

I basically lost that #1 spot because I had the 2x scope equip on the scar and I zoomed in during close quarters firing... Man do I panic and just start clicking buttons when that happens... Should of kept the UMP equipped. I killed the #4 guy when I had him flanked and damaged him, but he fired back and hurt me. I bandaged real quick as he tried to flank around the little knoll we were on, and I stood up and just spray-n-prayed the whole UMP mag right as he attacked me... couldn't even tell what I was shooting at but one bullet hit him and it was enough to kill him lol..

Sniped #3 from a bush and then hurt #1 but didn't get him down. Tried to flank and then flailed the right mouse button when i didn't need it... sooooo close..

Damn that is so close!

I am going to put a big piece of tape across the top of my monitor that says "DON"T JUMP OUT OF CARS NO MATTER HOW SLOW YOU ARE GOING"......

lol ikr

I was driving the boat alone to get to where my squad was and I jumped out as it hit the beach and incapacitated me...

I am so close! I still have trouble identifying targets. Been watching a couple streams and just trying to see other players.

Two wins last night with zero kills lol. I did down about 4 guys and got several assists. Last week I got killed a couple times shooting guys that were down so I decided to stop shooting at downed guys and look for their teammates. Here is end of the 2nd win where we got lucky and were in the last two circles. Shot several guys swimming across the river and coming up the hill toward us. Last guy was so screwed with 3 v 1.

Thats probably a good strat. I definitely get "kill fever" and can get too focused during firefights and let people flank me and such. I think two of the best things with squads is to stay relatively close together so you can fight together.. The teams I've done well with would take good house positions so we could ambush people we saw... That and just a little communication keeping everyone informed where we are being attacked from. Thats been the big difference for me on the teams that win.

Mike and I played a couple last night after the patch. Got 2nd place on our last duo game. I tried out and got a kill with the Tommy gun... decent but you can't put an optic on it. The new "fog" map type is interesting and definitely limits snipers.

Newest version of Nvidia drivers allow for the video auto capture stuff within the game to work. Going to test it out.

It's decent but only captures kills and when you die. We won a team game last night and I assumed it would capture the last minute of gameplay (I didn't get the last kill) but it didn't. I like that it auto records but wish like play tv it would record everything.

https://youtu.be/JjLgSw2a2Uo

1 kill win


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Nice, I hate those fights on the hilltops where its so open, but you can hide just over the horizon. So tough to see people thru the grass when you are crouched/prone.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jomama

Nice, I hate those fights on the hilltops where its so open, but you can hide just over the horizon. So tough to see people thru the grass when you are crouched/prone.

---

Agreed. We have been playing our squad games in FP mode and that cuts down on the laying in the grass and shooting. You can still lay in the grass but you can't see anyone because you can't swing the camera up like in 3rd person.

https://cookie.riimu.net/speed/

Use M16 single fire mode if you can keep over 6 clicks per second.

I'm just below 6.

Is that faster than the actual auto fire. I find myself leaving them on single fire mostly.. My default is to pulse fire my trigger anyway... I will use the burst fire on occasion for close quarters on the guns that have it. But out in the open I feel like I fight the kick to much with auto so I leave it semi-auto.. Especially the AKM on full auto seems a waste.

Yeah I use single fire mostly too. Except inside building then auto fire. Watch these two videos - very informative on the M16 high fire rate and the AK 5 shot burst.

Thats some good tips. I've trended towards the AKM just cause I'm so shitty with the guns I felt like if I did hit them I wanted the most damage but I may lean M16 now and see if my kills go up.

I have a hard time with the recoil on the AK and usually go for the M4 but I can see how a 5 shot burst with AKM would be a good thing to learn. I usually try for a UPM with all attachments (makes it a laser) and a SKS. That's my favorite. Going to try to mix in the M16 now.

Yeah I like the sks, and def go for the UMP, especially if I find a suppressor, and kinda dig the silenced tommy gun too. Although I feel like I can unload a clip on someone with the UMP and they dont die. I'll also grab the S12K, especially if I can put the ext-QD mag on it.

I am horrible at crouch jumping.... probably because I have my crouch button on a toggle. Maybe I need to set another key up or use the keypad software to do it for me.

Fyi

Quote:

---

early access – week 31 – patch notes
gameplay
- blue zone dot (damage over time) increases when characters are farther away from the play zone
- this principle does not apply to the first blue zone

bug fix
- resolved a bug where bullets would sometimes ignore armor

we have received a lot of feedback asking for improvement of the blue zone. We have decided to adjust the blue zone damage to encourage engagement inside of the play zone. From this new update, you will be able to focus more on the immediate, close-ranged skirmishes inside the play zone, instead of dealing with enemies outside of the play zone during the mid to late phases of the game. We would love to hear the responses regarding the changes from all members of our community once you’ve tried it in the test servers.

---

This shit is ruining the game.

Watched some test server game play with vaulting and the new bullet drop mechanics.. Interesting to see that assault rifles don't do as much damage at long range.

Where is the bullet drop video?

I haven't seen one yet but from a preview video I saw it's pretty much anything over 300m (3 grids on minimap) any AR will suffer significant drop and less damage. Scroll wheel now dims the red dot ect when zoomed in and actually zooms the 8x out to 4x which is cool.

Test servers are back up. I am going to try the new patch.

Attachment 465

Gameplay

• Reduced the hit damage for hands and feet and increased the hit damage on thighs and arms.

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/st...79be86a140.jpg

• The healing period for bandages has been reduced to 4.5 seconds from 8.5 seconds. The casting time and the amount of health restored are the same as before.
• Players can now parachute and land on certain areas that were not previously accessible, including the outskirts of the island
• Added markings for zeroing distances on 15x scope reticle texture
• Added new 4x reticle for 7.62mm weapons
• Added new 4x reticle for sniper and SMG weapons
• Added blur effect on the outside of scopes
• Bullets now penetrate water based on the velocity of projectile (the faster the velocity, more shallow the penetration)
• Lowered camera position when proning in third-person
• Decreased firing rate of SKS and Mini-14
• Increased sprinting speed while holding DMR in hands (now as fast as assualt rifles)
• Decreased recoil for Mk14
• 8x and 15x scopes cannot be attached to an M16A now

Item

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/st...87ad1e51f0.jpg
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/st...2b4c028aa6.jpg

• Added 2 new weapons.
  - Added DP-28. DP-28 will be spawned in world. It has a 47-round pan magazine for 7.62mm. Sights and a 4x scope can be attached. It has low firing rate but a long effective firing range with high damage
  - Added AUG A3. The AUG A3 can be obtained from care packages. It's a variant of a bull-pup assault rifle that uses a 5.56mm 30-round magazine as standard and 40 rounds when extended. It has high muzzle velocity, high rate of fire and low vertical recoil.
• Kar98k will no longer be included in care packages. World spawn rate of Kar98k will remain the same

UI/UX

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/st...23dcfadfde.jpg

• Applied a new font for English
• Improved designs for in-game HUD, option window, inventory, menu screen, and system message box
• Improved Solo/Team Play UI
  - Moved health bars of team member(s) from the top left corner to the bottom left corner
  - Changed colors and markings in the mini map, world Map, and team list UI
  - Added indicators for team members to check their status (vehicle, parachuting, alive/dead, DBNO, connection status, etc.)
• Improved interaction HUD
  - If there is no more room left in the backpack, the font will turn red to show that items cannot be picked up
• Improved the mini map and the world map
  - Decreased the saturation of the mini map to further emphasize information of team members
  - Adjusted the colors of the world map to increase visibility of markers and other information
  - Players can check team members’ FOV direction through the world map and the mini map
  - When team members get on the same vehicle, a single indicator will appear
• Moved the kill log from the bottom left corner to the top right corner
• Modified the design of the health bar to show the point for 75%. The bar will not turn red when health is below 75%
• Added killcam feature that can be found in Settings. Now players can check killcams in the result screen
  - For Duo and Squad modes, killcam can be checked after all team members have died

Sound

• Changed the lobby music
• Improved vehicle engine sounds
• Added a sound that will be played around the edge of the blue zone
• Added three different sound effects for the red zone
  - Sounds of bombs being released
  - Sounds of bombs falling
  - Sounds of bombs exploding
• Added sounds when character jumps into water. Sound will be different based on the speed

Language

• Added four languages: Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Mexico) and Chinese (Traditional)

Bug fixes

• Fixed camera jittering for passenger sitting on the back of a motorcycle with sidecar
• Fixed the issue where animations are not played when bandages are used consecutively
• Removed the pink circle that appeared on certain buildings when parachuting
• Fixed the issue where shooting was possible when vaulting
• Greatly reduced blurriness of the reticle while in ADS mode

We hope to get a lot of feedback on our second PC 1.0 test build!