- [Narrator] PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is
probably one of the biggest games of the past year
and can probably be held responsible
for kicking off the increasingly advancing
horde of battle royal games
and modes that are coming out these days.
You might think that you're pretty good at PUBG,
but are you sure that you know everything
about the game?
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and today we're counting down our list to the
seven things you didn't know about PUBG.
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Number seven: run barefoot because it's quieter.
You know all those awesome shoes that you can get
in loot boxes on PUBG?
Well it turns out that
all of them are completely useless.
Why is that?
Using shoes in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
is probably the worst thing
that you could possibly do.
Having shoes on your feet
makes your footsteps much louder
than if you were just going barefoot,
meaning you're going to give away
your position much easier.
What you definitely need to do
to help secure wins better in the game
is just run around with no shoes on at all.
The softer footstep sounds are much harder to hear.
Not only that,
if you have no shoes on
and your enemy does
and your trying to listen for him
then the fact that you're barefoot
will make it much easier
to distinguish your own footsteps
from the footsteps of your enemies.
So basically not only are you able to
walk around super quietly,
you're able to tell when
other people are walking around easier.
Sounds like there's no downsides right?
Well from a gameplay perspective
you would be right.
You even run at the same speed as
people who are wearing shoes.
The only real issue is that
now every time you get a pair of shoes from a loot box
you'll know you just got something completely useless.
Well unless you sell it to
some poor idiot on the Steam Marketplace
that doesn't know about this too.
Number six: don't go prone in the grass
if you're getting sniped.
It might seem really tempting
to go prone in the grass on PUBG.
I mean surely if you hunker down on the ground
people won't be able to see behind all the grass right?
Well not exactly.
Because of how render distances work in PUBG
if you lie down on the grass
while fighting against just about anyone,
you're going to be leaving yourself open.
Small bits of foliage like normal grass
might look big enough to hide in
when you're up close,
but if someone is looking at you from a distance
that foliage just won't render.
Meaning that little patch of grass
you think you're hidden in
isn't as safe as you thought.
Even worse than that
there are settings in the graphic menu of PUBG
that actually make even less foliage
render on your screen than usual.
This was meant to help people out
who couldn't run the game with max settings
but good players quickly realized
that by turning it way down
it suddenly became much easier
to spot people who are trying to be sneaky
by crawling around in the grass.
But that doesn't mean you can't hide in any grass at all.
There are certain grassy patches,
usually in the fields of the maps,
that are longer than your usual grass.
This will render in much more often
meaning you're less likely to get spotted
by a sneaky sniper.
Still its a pretty big risk,
so unless you have either no choice
but to go low as a last stitched attempt to survive
or the zone is small enough that
you don't need to worry about the grass not rendering.
You really shouldn't go onto the ground
when you're under fire.
Number five: you can hold your breath
while you're aiming down sights.
If you're aiming down sights
you can actually use
the shift button to hold your breath.
And depending on the sights you have equipped
a bunch of different effects could happen.
If you have just a standard sight
like the red dot,
the holographic sights,
or even just the iron sights
you'll zoom in slightly.
This obviously gives you a better
and most stable shot
for anyone that's just a little bit too far away
for those types of sights to work normally.
If you've got a better sight than that,
basically any of the scopes in the game,
you'll no longer be able to
zoom in slightly when you push shift.
Instead your aim gets much more stable
and you don't get that annoying idle sway
that can seriously make you
miss your shots at longer ranges.
When holding your breath
you're gun stays dead straight
allowing you to hit shots as far out as you want.
Well as long as your accuracy is pretty good I guess.
You do have to be careful when you do this though
because it's not like you can hold your breath forever.
If you do hold your breath for too long
then you'll run out
and won't be able to hold your breath again for a while.
This will recharge overtime.
But if you run out at the wrong moment
it could basically be the difference between
life and death.
Number four: you can cancel a grenade throw.
Have you ever accidentally pulled the pin on a grenade
when maybe you didn't want to throw it?
Maybe you're worried that
the explosion will draw attention
or you haven't got the right angle on your throw
and you just accidentally clicked the button
and now you have a live grenade in your hand.
You might think that your only two options
are either to throw the grenade
and waste it,
or let it go off in your hands
and die a horribly silly death.
But there's another third option
that you probably haven't considered trying.
If you're quick
you can actually cancel your grenade throw
by opening up your inventory,
removing the grenade from the active slot of you inventory
and straight back into your backpack.
You might think that this could
just leave a live 'nade in your pack,
but for some reason the game just
cancels the throw all together.
And that means the explosion too.
Seriously this one can really help
if you've accidentally started throwing a grenade
and you didn't mean to.
A quick grenade throw can
really change the course of a fight
so it's probably just better
that you don't throw them away
because you accidentally clicked the wrong button
in a panic.
Number three: You can control motorcycles
in air by holding space
and control.
Driving motorcycles is probably
one of the most fun
and dangerous things you can do in PUBG.
These vehicles are really fast,
really agile,
and really easy to crash.
I don't know how many games of PUBG
I've lost just because I
accidentally lost control of my bike
and ended up faceplanting in the dirt.
It's a pretty common way to go
if you don't know what you're doing on a bike
which is why it's probably best
that you know bikes have
a couple of extra controls
that no other vehicle in the game has so far.
By using the space and control buttons
you can actually adapt your movement
in the air forwards and backwards
allowing you to angle the front of the bike
up or down depending on
how you're coming in for a landing.
If you use these new control abilities
and learn how to master them
you'll pretty much never crash your bike
from a badly timed jump again.
Well as long as you don't
sail straight into a tree after the jump that is.
There's no way that angling your wheels in certain ways
would save you from that.
Although if you decide to get really risky
with your new found air control skills
you can start doing some pretty insane tricks.
If you've ever wondered how
people have been doing those front flips
or back flips with their bikes
it's all to do with using the control
and space buttons properly.
So next time you get a bike
make sure to head over to the hills
and give them your best try.
And then probably land on your head a whole bunch
as you figure out how to use them.
Number two: you can move after using a healing item.
One of the most annoying things about PUBG
is the fact that you can't move
while you're using meds.
It doesn't matter if its bandages,
a first aid kit,
or a full blown med kit,
you cannot move while you're using it.
Even painkillers and energy drinks
are effected by this.
Do you have any idea how much this game would change
if you were able to do that?
You wouldn't have to stay pinned down
while medding up.
You wouldn't have to just stand there in the blue zone
while taking a whole bunch of damage
and trying to heal it back up.
You could keep on the move at all times.
It would just be better.
Now I'm not gonna suddenly turn around
and say that there is a way
for you to move all throughout your
medication process in PUBG.
But I will say that you're probably
doing it wrong.
If you wait until the animation
and timer is completely finished
then your wasting around a half a second of time.
That doesn't sound like much right?
But if you're running to the blue zone
Or trying to fight back against an enemy on low health
then half a second could be the difference
between death and a chicken dinner.
Basically if you wait until the last half a second
of the timer on your healing
you'll be able to move without
canceling the entire animation
and having to start again.
You'll still be healed
and you'll be able to move
just a little bit quicker than usual.
Like I said it doesn't sound like much,
but it really does help.
Every second counts.
Even half seconds.
Number one: hold alt to look around freely
while moving your character.
Have you ever found yourself
getting shot in the back
or just being a second too slow to turn around
in a game of PUBG?
Well that's probably because
you haven't been using one simple tactic
that will absolutely revolutionize
the way you play the game.
Learning how to do this
is probably the most important thing
to do in PUBG next to learning how to aim properly.
And I'm gonna take a shot in the dark
and guess that most of you know this.
But for those who don't
this is super important.
You can actually look around
without moving your player model.
Basically if you hold alt
you can move your camera around
without it effecting your player model at all.
If you're sitting in a corner of a room
waiting for someone to come across your ambush
then you can hold alt,
look around,
and your character will stay completely still.
If you're a little bit more brave
and daring then you can
run across the fields while look behind you
or to the sides of you
all while sprinting forwards.
This little change to your gameplay
will give you a superior level of tactical awareness
allowing you to know where threats are coming from
no matter which way you're running.
And there you have it.
Our list of the seven things you didn't know about PUBG.
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