Beginners Guide for PUBG Players to Start on the Right Foot

In case you have only now succumbed to peer pressure and media hype, deciding to dive into PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, then this PUBG Beginners Guide should be the first weapon in your arsenal. It could also very easily be your ticket into a chicken dinner!

There is a widespread belief that abilities will beat strategy and tactics in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds so that only a few people consider PUBG in terms of strategy and tactics. That is the case only for the top players, the Twitch PUBG experts who've spent the past years in PUBG, CS: GO, and other similar shooters. The rest of us mere mortals need to pay decent attention to approaches if we would like a shot at winning the Battle Royale matches.

Beginners Guide for PUBG Players to Start on the Right Foot

Situational (Tactical) Awareness

Both in the military as well as in several types of coordinated sports and games that the situational (sometimes also known as tactical) awareness is the key to victory. It follows that the participant has to know about her or his surroundings all of the time, about the possible covers, hazardous paths, the most likely direction the enemy will probably arrive from. The first thing in a PUBG game you want to be aware of would be the flight trajectory of the plane. The very best method to do that is to be aware of the quadrant where the plane comes across the map and calculate where it will leave. When you land and also the initial circle seems, you may make a very educated guess where the majority of players is by taking into account how far they can jump out of the line of flight and what their direction is towards the recently formed circle.

There are many settlements and compounds across the map, so be aware of what the most likely route for players will be. There will be chokepoints which will make for excellent ambush points, but only as long as they're presently in the course towards the center of decreasing circles. Nobody likes campers or getting ambushed, but when the enemy approaches the settlement along with all the doors open and no one else in sight, they will usually keep running, thinking everyone has gone. If you aren't that skilled with skirmishing on open ground, this is your chance to get kills.

See Your Back

Make certain nobody may creep up from behind you or try to keep the chance of this as low as possible.

When a ring is formed, the majority of players will operate towards the middle of this circle, after the helping straight line that's shown on the mini-map. Run towards the edge, be certain that the position is clear, then return to the direction in which you came out (effectively turning your back to the middle of the shrinking circle). If you are patient, it is easy to pick off latecomers which are trying to outrun the gloomy wall. Everything is on your side and odds are you will manage to kill off the enemy without much trouble. If you linger near the border of the circle, there is always danger that the upcoming inner circle will spawn way too far from you and you will need to run far to get to security, but this is just a part of the game.

Ride the Edge of this Circle

The game is getting close to the finale, and the next inner circle has emerged. Your safest and the best strategy is to ride the top border of the circle. What does that mean? Observe the map and see where the existing blue line is the nearest to the white line of the new circle; the wall will be contracting the slowest in that part as you sweep to your left or right along the shrinking edge, you may effectively flank enemy players who will mostly be looking ahead of them, straight to the center of the new circle. People impetuously rush off to the very middle of this circle, often to their deaths. By occupying the middle, you're subjected to potential attacks from all sides. When you ride the edge of this circle and attempt to contract together with the wall, you can emphasize unsuspecting opponents and mind that other significant principle of seeing your back.

Can Not Be Trigger Happy

Shooting gives away your position, alerts both the person(s) you are attacking, and brings others to your position. Many times I had buddies fire a guy in a compound and knocking them down just to alert his whole group. He'd be revived and treated up in no time and we found ourselves sitting 200 meters from several homes we could not possibly take over until the wall gets us to proceed. Alternatively, we'd keep a low profile, allow the enemy team to leave the homes and attack them at the open, where their opportunities are non-existent. If you are playing alone, you might also not need to take each time you find an enemy, particularly if they're engaged with somebody else. Wait rather and see who'll remain alive; perhaps another shooter will reveal himself or the winner of this duel will come over to loot the failure. Sometimes it is good to have someone run before you like evaluation canaries that were used once in mining shafts.

The Weapon of Choice

At the early stages of PUBG, the silencer was an OP weapon, driving people mad since they had a quite difficult time imagining from where the shots are still coming. That has shifted significantly, and the majority of players can tell exactly the direction and distance of this shooter, even when he is using a suppressor. There are more and more people preferring compensators into silencers, even at the end match. Whatever you do, don't be afraid to take when the time is right just because you are not suppressed.

When starting, particularly if, in urban areas, you will grab an SMG or a shotgun to clean houses. That will be substituted with some kind of long-lived weapon, preferably a fully kitted out sniper having an x8 scope. But as you approach the very end of this match, the x8 scope might eventually become overkill and you want and you would want to switch down to x4 scope. When possible, always keep one in the backpack. At the finale, the best combo is an assault rifle with a red dot in addition to a sniper with an x4 scope.

PUBG Vehicles

Especially on the larger Miramar map, the vehicles are a must possess. Do not hesitate to use them and push directly into internal circles only because of the sound you make. Bike and buggy are extremely fast, but expose you to enemy fire a lot more than a UAZ or even a pickup. The additional grade of the pickup is that it may serve as an excellent cover. If you encounter an ambush and think you can't escape, then break and turn the ideal side of the car to the attacker, then leap out and then use the car for a cover. If the vehicle gets too damaged from enemy fire and threatens to explode, fall back in a straight line to the enemy, keeping the car between you, until you reach a safe distance of some 10 or 25 meters. When the car stinks, return up to it and continue using it as cover.

Lone Wolf gets the Chicken Dinner

While falling off in highly popular places such as The School, Military base, Pecado and similar gives you a huge adrenaline kick, odds are that you might easily die there or, even if you are playing on a staff, which one or more teammates will die in the initial drop whilst frantically looking for a weapon. It is frequently much safer to drop in less frequented places, gather gear, and keep out of conflicts for as long as you can since statistically the chances of you getting shot down growth with each experience with the enemy during the game. This is particularly true for squads since it is a great benefit to have all four members alive and geared up for the struggle in the last portion of the sport as opposed to the teams lacking one or more members.

Adapt & Survive

Finally, the best advice you can get is the old marine mantra of survival and adaptation. Observe every situation, decide on the best possible relocation and do so, no matter the circumstances. Do not feel bad about retreating out of a fight where you are outgunned or within a bad tactical position. Camp in the dark corners of looted buildings if you're feeling your shooting skills are no match for some other players. Avoid fights altogether if you don't have the appropriate weapons for it. If you need to crawl and hide, do this without hesitation. There is an infinite number of games won by men and women who shot three, two or only one opponent.

After all, it's the chicken dinner that counts.