STACK #158 Dec 2017

FEATURE GAMES

beginner PUBG Tips with PTesh If you see a pan, you best pick it up. It can quite literally save you a few shots to your butt; you’d be surprised by the amount of times a bullet dings into the back of your pan instead of you. Trust me when I say a pan is your best friend. It also makes a nice ‘doink’ sound if you get a kill with it. 2 Run faster! Quite a few people that are new to the game wouldn’t know, but by pressing ‘X’ (unless you’ve rebinded your unequip key) you can place your weapon on your back, allowing you to run faster. Very helpful in the off chance the blue wall of death is on your tail. Or you need to ‘nope’ the heck out of a red zone that just spawned right on 1 Grab a pan! Pick up as many medical supplies as you can. Just like the pan, they are your best friend! Except you can’t kill people with your medical supplies for a sweet ‘doink’ sound. Sucks, I know. What also sucks, however, is getting shot over and over and running out of medicine. So make sure to pick up as much as you can to heal when you need it. It doesn’t hurt, too, to have some spare to hand out to your squad! It’s also great to pre-med yourself when you know you’re about to get into a fight (especially the final battle), or need a boost to run away from the blue. Just don’t pick up 30 bandages, you don’t need that many. No one needs that many... 4 Lean! Using your lean feature is so very helpful; it’s binded by default to ‘Q’ (to lean left) and ‘E’ (to lean right). Understanding how to use this feature and getting better with it can help you change the outcome of gun fights. Practice makes perfect! 5 Avoid Tunnel Vision This is something that gets people killed quite often. Remember that you’re dropped into an island with 99 other players trying to kill you. So if you’re lucky enough to get the bounce on someone, try not to spend a solid minute looting their body; learning how to quickly manage your inventory can be key to survival. Another example of avoiding ‘Tunnel Vision’ is when you’re engaged with an enemy, and forget that there is a Blue Zone timer at the bottom right of your screen above your mini-map – and only realising when you’re engulfed in it. PAY ATTENTION! top of you. Damn RNG... 3 Med Up!

people who were logged onto STEAM was playing it. PUBG’s premise

other and then land a lucky final blow on the last person standing, or you could get in a vehicle and go all-guns-blazing to victory. It’s also worth mentioning that the

...the experience is never the same with every passing game. There’s really no defined way to win PUBG – and in the game’s terms, grab a chicken dinner...

is simple. Up to 100 people parachute out of a plane over

an island. Players choose a spot that looks good, land there, loot all the good stuff they can find, and try their hardest not to die. It’s one of those ‘easy to

‘habitable’ zone on the island gets smaller over time, and if you aren’t in the safe zone – avoiding the ‘blue wall of death’ – you’re going to start rapidly losing health. The map can be traversed on foot or via vehicle, but of course you’ll be more conspicuous in a car, so choose wisely. There are a number of different weapons at your disposal, from guns to frying pans, and a few add-ons like scopes and grips. PUBG is one of those left-of-field games that became an instant success. It’s as much

grasp, difficult to master’ concepts. While you may get lucky and stumble upon a building that contains a decent semi-automatic and level 2 body armour, you could meet an instant end at the hands of a keen-eyed sniper the moment you step outside – and that’s all part of the appeal. The experience is never the same with each passing game. There’s really no defined way to kill all your opponents and win PUBG – and in the game’s terms, grab a chicken dinner. You can hide in one spot for the entire game, hoping your enemies will kill each

about luck as it is skill, but one thing that can be said for sure is that it’s a hell of a lot of fun – two million people can’t be wrong!

• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is out Dec 12

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