G'day team,
Well, it finally happened! After about a month of playing, I got my first solo Chicken Dinner (yes it deserves to be capitalized) and as I join the immortal ranks of gaming legends, I reflect on the hours I've spent crawling around Erangel and feel I can now give an honest and balanced opinion on PUBG.
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So was it worth it? To taste that Chicken Dinner?
In short
No bloody way
Seriously!!!
Who wants to play a game where the best way to win is to lie in the grass for an hour and let everyone else kill each other. As you can see from the screenshot below I got two kills in this game... and that's generous. I only killed the first guy because he ran over my patch hiding grass during his firefight.
So what do you do to win a game of PUBG?
I flash-banged a couple of rocks that were suspiciously crouched-human shaped.
Shot the wheels out of a few humvees (cause who don't love being a jerk).
But mostly, I crawled and crawled and crawled and crawled and then lay still for a very long time.
Because winning PUBG isn't about playing lots and getting good. It's about playing lots and getting lucky. My final adversary died while crouched on the wrong side of a tree he was using for cover, after a firefight in which he killed three equally skilled players. It took me four shots to finish him off. He was halfway to a corpse before I even started firing and I'm pretty sure three of those shots missed.
I'm not good at this game. If I can win a game of PUBG it's probably not a game you want to spend your time playing. It's probably not a game that rewards skill. It's probably not a game that has much that separates it from, say, roulette.
"But" I hear you saying "You did get those two kills"
Is two kills two too many to prove my point? (say is ten times fast!)
No problems!
Here's a prime example of just badly PUBG misses the 'reward-skilled-players' concept.
Two players. Zero Kills. One Chicken Dinner.
I'm sure some of our adversaries in this match were seasoned veterans, playing with well-planned strategies and top-of-the-range equipment.
For me and my mate, it was twenty minutes of legging it from Zharki to Severny (because the RNG decided we really didn't need a car to cross half the map) and then twenty minutes lying on the floor of a building taking pot-shots at anything that moved. I saw two other players during this match... and one of them was my teammate.
So there you go.
Playing PUBG is like rolling a dice, except every time anything between one and five comes up you have to waste 30 minutes of your life.
Playing PUBG is the only time in my life I've felt personally victimized by an RNG.
Playing PUBG is mentally, physically and spiritually painful.
So I leave it at that.
Overall rating
0/10 (+ it wasted about 40 hours of my life)
Thanks Team
-tfc