They come in three levels, with Level 3 being the best, so be on the lookout for upgrades to whatever you’re carrying. Look for helmets and body armor (“ vests,” as they’re called), as well as backpacks to store more gear. Once you hit the ground, you’ll want to outfit yourself as best you can, so run to the nearest building and grab whatever you find. You’ll need to know if you’re jumping to a place where you’re going to be in an immediate fight or not. Once you’ve jumped, make sure to watch out for other players falling to the same place as you. You can cover about one and a half of the yellow grid squares on your map this way once you get good at it, allowing you to distance yourself from other players. You can also angle your chute down to fall faster, but use a rocking motion that will add speed and allow you to drive yourself forward. You’ll fall more slowly, but you’ll be able to sail farther. If you need to cover lots of ground during your jump, you might want to pop your parachute early. Still, free-falling will take you down faster than it will take you over land.
If you aim at the ground, you can fall extremely fast - but if you aim toward the distance, you’ll go horizontally more than vertically. If you lean into the fall, you’ll reduce drag and falling faster. When jumping, you can control your descent the way you would when walking around, but there’s a bit of finesse involved. Denser areas usually yield better loot, but they also attract more players.
Look for a landing zone without other people, but with enough buildings that you’ll get a decent haul of gear as quickly as possible. Making a mad dash to grab a gun first and fighting a bunch of other just-landed folks is a losing proposition. The best real strategy for long-term survival is to avoid players right out of the gate. Don’t worry about popping your chute - when you hit a certain altitude, your parachute will deploy automatically. Whether you want to dive right into combat or you want to be far from the action, picking your landing zone is essential. As you fly over the island, every player hops out and tries to hit the ground as fast as they can. Be smart from the jumpĮvery PUBG battle starts with hopping out of a cargo plane over the island. Mobility is often a key concern in PUBG, and the quicker you know exactly what you’re capable of doing (and how loud you are doing it), the better. While we know updates are coming that will let you jump and vault over more stuff, we’re still waiting on them, so learn your limitations. Use the pre-game lobby to get familiar with how your character moves, and, in particular, what you can jump over and what you can’t. Once you have a feel for the controls, you’re ready to actually play. Perhaps most importantly, you can customize your controls by choosing different button layouts in the Settings menu to match your desired player profile. Controls also let you quickly change your fire mode between single and automatic fire, and you can quickly switch from a third person view to a first person view whenever you want. Also, be sure to consider walking instead of running to reduce your noise profile. You can also go into a tight, over-the-shoulder, scope-free aim. For instance, when you’re in third person mode, you’ll aim down your sights. Once you’ve got the basics down, there are a lot of quirks to learn to become a faster, more efficient player. In addition to running around and shooting, you can also crouch and enter into a fully prone position for slow crawling with minimal visibility. PUBG uses a lot of standard first person shooter controls regardless of the platform you’re on, but it also allows for tighter control than a game like, say, Call of Duty. The best thing you can do when you first start playing PUBG is take time to really familiarize yourself with the game’s many, not-too-obvious, fairly nuanced controls. We’ve gone over some of the basics to help you go from rookie to veteran as quickly as possible. If you’re new to PUBG, jumping off that plane for the first time may seem a little daunting. Staying alive is all about preparation and making good choices, so you have every advantage possible before you pull the trigger. The play area is so huge that you spend much of the time alone, wondering when and where you’ll stumble across other players. It sounds straightforward, but PUBG is filled with detailed mechanics and nuances that may keep you alive just a little bit longer. Avoiding conflict is almost always a good idea.Before all else: Mess with the controls.