Unfinished: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Xbox One) 12/12/17

A video thing!

Aggravated assault island.

Is this the first instance of early access on consoles?

GOTY!!! ......

Applying the Science to find the best Battle Royale game.

It's a mess!

@legoslayer: Nope, Fortnite.

No, Microsoft has had the Game Preview thing going for awhile now. Ark, The Happy Few, and a few other games have been early access on Xbox One.

That enabling killcams degrades performance means that most likely they're storing the recording info locally and not server-wise. And since they can't ever know when you're going to be murdered, the game is constantly saving information about the last whatever seconds the killcam lasts for. Which on a console with limited RAM is understandably something they might have hurdles with.

I don't know how Call of Duty does it, but even if it's local, since they're using smaller maps they can probably do a bunch of optimizations that are not feasible for a 100 player game in a gigantic map.

Man it's a shame this runs so poorly i wonder how the regular xbox runs it

Isn't the term "throw some bows"? or "trade blows"?

@dstopia:

Call of Duty is likely client-side since local (non-video) demo recording has worked since at least CoD4. Regardless, I think their approach wasn't to store all data of the last however many ticks, but to instead save snapshots every X ticks and interpolate between them, which gives CoD killcams a weird smoothness. I vaguely recall them mentioning that they use a similar "predictive" logic based on common player behaviors to cut down on lag in multiplayer matches.

I doubt the RAM usage is that intensive since there isn't a need to store the state of all 100 players at once given how big maps are, but this is all just speculation, of course - I'd be interested in reading how they handle it.

edit: And now that I've seen more footage of it, I wouldn't put it past them to be doing something incredibly wasteful with memory/CPU bandwidth.

Not great.

Holy cow the framerate is uh... terrible and this is the X version I am curious as to how bad it is on the S.

Runs better than the version I tried playing on my pc. Can't wait to get home and play.

The framerate looks really bad. This is clearly a product that wasn't ready for public play, but was rushed out for the holiday so Microsoft can sell more Xboxes.

Trash performance from a trash game, sounds about right.

Totally agree with Jeff and Jason - this is very much early access, needs to improve and has to improve. I'll still give this a try, since I don't play PC games and was really looking forward to this.

Y'all should play Arma

"Oh but someone can kill me from 400 meters away and I'll have no chance"

"Oh but the maps are too big to cross on foot"

"Oh but why would I want to have an inventory system that's weird and clunky and makes you care about what backpack you have"

I'm playing this on a launch Xbox One and it's a little rough but it's playable. As someone who doesn't have a PC, I'm really happy it's out and I'm having a ton of fun playing it.

Woof!

This, uh... This seems rough.

I got this on Xbox to see what it was like, the framerate is kind of bad but it's still fun. Playing with a controller feels weird in this game too. Hopefully they can mange to fix up the performance for the full release.

I don’t currently have a pc capable of running the game, so the Xbox version it is.

My thoughts on playing for around 2 hours...

It is rough in the frame rate department but it is still fun. Give it a few rounds to get familiar with the controls and it’s starts to become more enjoyable. I’m sure they’ll work out the kinks as they go.

Oof, the framerate made me a little motion sick watching this in full screen. I know they'll continue optimizing this, but the base game is so CPU intensive I don't know how far they'll be able to get. The base consoles this generation were always underpowered in the CPU department, and the upgraded versions aren't much better. Limiting it to 64 players on console might have been a better experience (at least until they continue to figure things out).

There are currently no crate.

Man, what an ugly game.

@grondoth: Dude, they have given Arma plenty of chances. Arma is boring to a lot of people.

Bold thing to say around these parts, but you're not wrong.

Got my fist chicken dinner!

It took me a while to learn the controls.

They need to streamline it

I know PUBG isn't the most optimized game on PC, but damn.

Cinematic 13 FPS

Couldn't resist buying it, notwithstanding the performance issues. Playing on xb1x on a 4k tv with HDR and...it looks okay. Reasonably sharp with decent textures. Performance is bad until you land, but once you're on the ground it holds 30 a good chunk of the time. When there are other people around though, it seems to drop noticeably...maybe by a few frames. I was going along in a field at one point and the frames dropped out of nowhere, and my first thought was "someone's nearby" and sure enough I was killed shortly thereafter.

Bottom line though is I still had fun with it. If you have no other way to play PUBG I recommend it.

Not sure what it was in particular but I really enjoyed the Jeff + Jason combo in this video

The way this runs is pretty much par for the course for how it runs for me on PC. The stuttering, the lag, the pop-in. My PC is a few years old, but, I mean, I thought that was the general consensus; PUBG doesn't run particularly well.

What the heck, PUBG on console runs badly? Who could have predicted such a thing...

I'm playing on the S and the framerate is trash during the pre-game countdown and ejecting segments. Once you're on the ground, it's ok. A totally playable version of the game.

Eurgh

PC version is trash for plenty of reasons, but holy it seems like a 10/10 perfect game compared to this trash.

@sweep: The Castle "Eeeeuuuuurrgghh"?

I've played three matches, runs fine once you're on the ground, definitely not "trash"

people are overreacting. its an ok early access port of a notoriously horribly optimized game. its still very fun but still needs a lot of work. for me it already runs a lot better than on my pc

@mems1224: Looks pretty damn bad even for a console game, but it is early access I guess.

Woof.

Then your PC must be a real piece of trash. This video showed performance and visuals that were completely unacceptable. I don't imagine any amount of time in early access is going to make it a locked 30, which is already pretty bad for a shooter.