PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds nedir?
Tam başlık PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds iken, çoğu kişi bunu PUBG olarak adlandırıyor, çünkü bu dilini yuvarlayan bir başlık değil. Yazımdan önce, PC için Steam'de bir Erken Erişim başlığı - piyasaya sürülmeden önce satın alabileceğiniz ve oynayabileceğiniz bitmemiş bir oyun.
The game itself is a take on the Battle Royale (or H1Z1: King of the Kill, or The Hunger Games) concept - a number of people are released onto an island, last person standing wins. To do that, you’ve got to find weapons, kill people you see, and avoid danger. It started life as a mod for Arma 2, where PlayerUnknown himself (who has the much more sensible name of Brendan Greene) was creating what he wanted to be the definitive Battle Royale experience. He then co-developed H1Z1: King of the Kill, a similar concept for the zombie survival game H1Z1, before moving to Bluehole Inc to work on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
Each match pits about 100 people against each other, some of which can be in teams, while others will be going it alone. Winners receive their prestigious ‘winner winner, chicken dinner’ title, on top of an in-game currency that lets them purchase cosmetic items.
That’s pretty much all there is to it - while there is a special zombie-focused mode, it follows a similar pattern. This simplicity is key to the game's success: Ted Forsyth, aka PyrionFlax on YouTube, spoke of how important this is, both as a player and a streamer.
"Player Unknown's Battlegrounds -- anyone can watch that. It’s super simple: you get loot, the circle closes, and you have to kill people. In DOTA, you’ve got like 108 heroes. They’re all different. There’s different items too. So if you’re tuning in and you’ve never played DOTA, you won’t really know what’s happening."
What's the best way to win in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds?
There’s two main tactics for winning in PUBG - go on a rampaging killing spree, or hide away until the time is right. The former will net you slightly more rewards at the end of the game, but it’s negligible. Which tactic you go for depends on your playing style and the guns you find.
Everyone starts a match without a single weapon, they’ve got to scavenge in buildings to find guns, ammo, first aid kits, and so on. If you’re lucky, you’ll find an array of weapons, typically one long-range rifle with a magnifying scope and one short-range weapon like a shotgun. This allows you to choose if you want to go hunting for other players, risking your own life more directly, or hide away and ambush someone who gets too close.
Typically, hiding is the better option - no matter how good of a shot you are, the one map that’s currently available forces players to traverse wide open areas. When making your way through this, hunting another player, it’s not uncommon to have someone turn the tables from an unseen location. Balancing the threat of this with the reward of finishing another player off is the challenge, on top of being able to shoot accurately.
On the other hand, if you’re hiding, you’ve typically got more moments of safety. As mentioned before, the game will use a field of electricity to damage players that don’t move towards certain locations. These are the times where you’re most at danger, because many other players will be doing the same thing, rushing to a safe zone.
Hiding for the entire game, only to move at the last possible moment to the safe zone, isn’t the best tactic either. Generally, what’s best is to be hiding away and using that to your advantage. Know where you might be heading towards soon, where enemies might be coming from, and where your strengths lie. Larger groups of buildings typically attract more players - if there’s one road from a group of buildings to the safe zone, you can either avoid it or use it to set up an ambush.
What is PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ release date?
PUBG expected to fully release in Q4 2017 on PC, although no specific date has been confirmed, but it is currently available in a prerelease state via Steam Early Access. It will also be available on Xbox One in the near future, following a similar path where a prerelease version will be available as a Game Preview, with a full release in 2018. A PS4 release has not been confirmed.
What’s coming soon to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds?
The biggest upcoming update for PUBG is a brand new map. Right now, there’s only one map, Erangel, a fictional island in the Black Sea. The story behind it is that Soviet forces tested weapons there in the 1950s, and now it’s being used for these battles. The next map is moving the action to a desert, with an abandoned city part-buried under the sand. There’s no ETA for the new map, and the only glimpses we’ve had have come from PlayerUnknown’s Twitter feed.
I'm at our new @PUBATTLEGROUNDS office in Madison today. The team is working on our desert map. Here's a WIP preview of this new location...
Also upcoming is a new vaulting ability - to climb over small walls that you’d otherwise have to find gate for - plus new vehicles, like a Volkswagen camper van-inspired car. In a recent AMA on reddit, PlayerUnknown confirmed that the team are working three new vehicles, the camper van being one of them.
What is PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ esports scene like?
The short answer for this is that even PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds doesn’t entirely know. There’s no formal league like Overwatch or League of Legends, and one of the biggest tournaments so far ended in a somewhat anticlimactic manner. At Gamescom, a large invitational tournament took place, where players competed over three games to get as many points as possible - the longer you survive and the more people you kill, the more points you get.
U nfortunately, bu kazanan, Kyo-min “Ilelebet” Koo, hayatta kalma yerine diğer oyuncuları mücadele için puan toplamaya sakladı anlamına geliyordu. Eve 15 bin dolar aldı.
Yani, eğer PUBG'yi rekabetçi bir şekilde oynamak istiyorsanız, en iyi seçenek, turnuvaların saklanma ve aranma oyunlarından daha az olması için biraz beklemek olabilir.
PlayerUnknown'ın Battleground'larını nereden alabilirim?
Şu an itibariyle, PUBG sadece Steam ile kullanılabilir . Şu anda fiziksel bir sürüm olasılığına dair bir kelime yok, ancak oyun başladığında kutulu bir kopya göreceğiz. Benzer şekilde, Xbox One'a geldiğinde, yalnızca dijital olacak, ancak bu satırın sonunda fiziksel kopyalar çıkarmayacak.
