My last Few games of PUBG have really made me enjoy the game a lot more. I have started getting into the top 20 of players pretty regularly, and I feel like I am getting better at the encounters I do have. My last game last night was my best yet. I got 3 kills, and one of those was as I was frantically running on the edge of the blue zone, someone started shooting me from the safe zone and I hid behind a tree with my health rapidly dropping and managed to get him with my Red Dot sight. Running into the Safe zone after that, with just a sliver of health left, and flopping onto my belly to heal up and loot him felt like a great victory!
My typical game at the moment goes like this:
I will pick a place to drop that is a group of a few houses. I am learning where some of the better ones of these are, but it does seem like a matter of luck - sometimes my little out of the way collection of houses is quiet and safe, but empty and I come away with a pistol, if I am lucky.
Sometimes I get lucky, but most of the time I am at least alone and have a gun of some sort.
Normally at this point I realize I am bloody miles away from the circle and have to start running, but you get plenty of time at the beginning and the circle is slow enough that i can usually grab a rifle and a red dot sight at least, if not better.
The last few games I have played I've left the initial looting section at the start a little too late, and run in with the circle. I like this as it allows me to be certain that when I am in the safety of the circle no one is coming from behind, at least for now.
At some point in my current game plan, I start crawling. This is my new favorite thing. I have been shot a lot of times whilst crawling, but I have been shot a hell of a lot more whilst running across a field. Once the circles begin to get smaller crawling in from the edge to the new safe zone becomes more and more viable.
During this part of the process I will also try to kill people. But staying alive and remaining observant is priority one.
Scrabbling through the brush, or the fields, hiding behind walls. This is my favorite part. We are down to less than 20 people left, the last couple of circles, gun shots keep pinging, it is tense as hell.
At some point after this I die. Normally I feel like this is unfair and there is no way I could have done anything different, but there are patterns which I need to learn, I am making the same mistakes.
I am often tempted into shooting at someone who hasn't seen me yet, and then I got shot after. If I kill the one I m shooting at, I still die, and that is because I am giving away my position and the circle is small enough that someone just has to look over in my direction to see me.
I often wait too long to get to the really small circles, a couple of times this has meant I need to run across a field and have no idea where anyone is.
I need to get a lot more confident in my scouting ability, to be aware of the places I have checked in order to eliminate possible camping locations from my mind. The last run across to the new safe zone for me, sometimes with less than 6 or 7 people left alive, so far always feels like a turkey shoot where I have no idea where the shots are coming from and where i might be safe.
I am hoping to get better at the actual shooting part, and I feel like I am, the more I play the more chances I get to kill people and practice. I would like to perfect my tactics though and get a Chicken dinner using my current method, or maybe get lucky camping in a building (although even though that is tense and the games sounds make it very scary sometimes, I enjoy my moving across the map much more than sitting waiting in a house in the centre of the circle for 20 minutes).
Thats my thoughts on Battlegrounds for today! Maybe I will keep writing about it and try to include some pictures next time.
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