game 1
dropped at mansion
I'm the first one there
mansion isn't loaded in yet
can't enter
can't pick up guns on the porch
I get shot by someone who's playing on Xbox One X and could enter that building
dead
game 2
dropped at school
I'm the first one there
school isn't loaded in yet
i'm sliding across the roof
i slide right off
I get shot by someone who's playing on Xbox One X and could actually walk on the roof and pick up the guns there
dead
game 3
dropped right in front of hospital
I'm the first one there
everything is loaded in just fine
there's a guy 30 seconds away, high up in the air, trying to land on hospital roof
but I'm already here. I'm gonna beat that player to it, grab a gun, and shoot 'em before they knew what hit 'em
I get running toward hospital
except actually, no
I rubberband for thirty solid seconds
I hear the player land on the roof
I continue to rubberband while begging this game to give me a break
5 seconds later, I can finally move
I grab a bike to drive away from the hospital since, yunno
I'm driving away
I pass over the nearby bridge
my bike is firmly on the ground
my bike chooses to instantly explode on a whim
dead
game 4
I land just north of west bridge
west bridge isn't loaded in yet, but it will
tryin to find a vehicle so I can get to military base quick
I grab a vehicle near the bridge
bridge isn't loaded in yet
I patiently wait for the bridge to load in
another player rams my buggy while I wait for this invisible bridge to show itself
we both explode
dead
game 5
I land at hospital
I'm the only one there
I loot
I got some gear
I'm finally feeling good
I drive south to Domed Building near Gatka
kill a guy while I'm there
I wait on the balcony, as I'm in the center of each subsequent circle
I hear someone pull up
I prep a grenade to throw through the window
the player runs upstairs
I throw the grenade through the window
I see the grenade pass through this window that is less than a foot in front of me
I run to the edge of the balcony, protected by a wall
that guy's so gonna die
the grenade goes off
I get flung off the balcony
dead
the other player loots me soon afterward
The highs are high, but the lows, all too low. I've never had a more frustrating experience with a video game.
I've tried to be understanding, but then I have days like today that just leave me hopelessly baffled.
I can confirm that this game is still broken, and that's genuinely the most charitable description of this game's present state that I can muster.
I'm still getting killed by Xbox One X owners who are actually able to enter buildings and pick up weapons long before either have even loaded in properly on my end. That's unacceptable.
I'm still crashing randomly, as often as I did when the game first launched. That's unacceptable.
I'm still rubberbanding at random while players around me sprint past or beat me to death with impunity. Thats unacceptable.
I'm still losing the RNG lottery, having to run very far to find vehicles and never trusting that I'll find enough to survive in any location. That's unacceptable. The game design is still bad. There's a reason that experienced developers tend not to go with pure RNG - because it leads to terrible player experiences.
The controls now feel marginally better than they did before, but the aim acceleration and deadzone bugs that have been present from day one
are still there. That's beyond unacceptable. If there's any excuse for that then I
have to hear it. Performance issues are one thing. Controls are EVERYTHING in a shooter, and this game's controls are still fundimentally broken, in ways that the developers have known about for weeks and months.
Go ahead and reread all that. Let it sink in. That's right. Bluehole has been aware that the controls are broken for some time now, and it's still not fixed. We're getting a new map before we're getting proper controls.
I'm sorry, but PUBG on Xbox is just one big frustrating joke of a game. It's broken in all the wrong ways. It's given me a whole new perspective on what it means for a game to be bad. ARK was a better game when it debuted in early access, and I hate ARK.
Any one of these issues would sink better games. I would get a refund in a heartbeat if I could, because I could get a better game for the 30 dollars I wasted on the futile hope that Bluehole could make this game come together with time.
If the next patch doesn't fix the controls at the absolute least, I'm going to start playing Fortnite instead, and I'll never waste my time with another Bluehole game again.
Why are proper controls, of all things, too much to ask for? How many more months will this game leave me frustrated every single time I attempt to play and enjoy it because not a single element of the game lives up to any reasonable standard?
Will PUBG on Xbox ever be good? I am starting to really doubt it.
Congrats PUBG team. The game is in a decent enough state that I actually managed to play 8 games tonight with my buddy for the first time since it came out and we were all disappointed.
Framerates were good enough, CQC felt fair, driving was fine, and zero crashes or matchmaking issues. AND we have plans to play again tomorrow. Crazy.
To each their own. The game certainly feels better than it did when it launched. It's still early access, and I've tried to be understanding of that, but I'm still running into all the same issues that I had on day one, except for the sole improvement that is framerate. Game DVR doesn't make the game unplayable on the Xbox One S anymore! Wooooooo.....
I've given this game so many chances. I'm just about done, and good riddance, too. A video game should never be as frustrating as PUBG. Not even some of the time. Not even as an early access title.
