I'd take Minecraft graphics if this thing just ran well and played well. PUBG is a large, complex beast of a game mode, and as something relatively poorly coded even in its prime version, it's not an easy thing that should be rushed as an Xbox exclusive. Instead of transferring the PC experience as closely as possible to console, since this isn't working as is, a new control scheme and some changes to the map perhaps could have helped alongside the obviously much-needed optimization. It's the sloppiest award-winning game, and the poorest performing shooter we've seen on current generation consoles. PUBG does not work well on consoles at all in its current state and needs another year in the oven. Even the little things, like basic matchmaking problems with friends or typos in the menus, aren't addressed.

Getting in and out of vehicles are two separate buttons and if you want to pick up a specific item from a pile of loot on the ground or move mods from one weapon to another, you better hide yourself for a few minutes. Sometimes it won't even work unless it's tapped perfectly.

Inexplicable, holding down the trigger instead just slightly tightens the crosshair (it does the same on PC). Aiming down sites isn't holding down the left trigger, it's tapping it. Performance aside, PUBG is simply a bad 'shooter' with an awful control scheme on Xbox. Reloading a weapon for instance in the heat of battle requires players to hold down the 'X' button instead of just pressing it quickly. But for anyone who appreciates quality shooters or knows the genre well, PUBG on Xbox One is now the clear winner of a few other awards we're going to make up now: the worst shooter controls on a console, the worst inventory management system on a console, and the worst performing action game on consoles. The bad involves actually playing the game.īattle Royale first-timers will hopefully enjoy the novelty of the large-scale experience and the intricacies of how encounters can play out differently every single time, and how much there is to explore in the game's world. This version also already has the much anticipated vaulting/climbing mechanics (yes, this is a thing in 2017 we have to get excited about) and a pair of new weapons. Currently the Xbox version is strictly third-person (players can change their perspective in-game though), and the gear and vehicles are the same. The core concept transfers to the Xbox version, where players still play on 100-person servers and parachute in on the same main map (called Erangel).

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