PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Developer(s) Bluehole
Publisher(s) Bluehole
Director(s) Brendan Greene
Producer(s) Chang-han Kim
Designer(s) Brendan Greene
Engine Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s)

Release
  • WW: Q4 2017
Genre(s) Battle royale
Mode(s) Multiplayer

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) is a multiplayer online battle royale video game developed and published by Bluehole. The game is based on previous mods that were developed by Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene for other games using the 2000 film Battle Royale for inspiration, and expanded into a standalone game under Greene's creative direction. In the game, up to one hundred players parachute onto an island and scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill others while avoiding getting killed themselves. The available safe area of the game's world decreases in size over a match, directing surviving players into tighter areas and forcing encounters. The last player or team standing wins the round.

The game was released for Microsoft Windows on Steam's early access program in March 2017, selling over six million copies within four months. Bluehole plans console releases following the full release of the Windows version, with an Xbox One version by the end of 2017, and for the PlayStation 4 at a later date.

Gameplay

Battlegrounds is an action game in which up to one hundred players fight in a battle royale, a type of large-scale last man standing deathmatch where players fight to be the last alive. Players can choose to enter the match solo, or with a small team of up to four people. In either case, the last person or team left alive wins the match.

Each match starts with players parachuting from a plane onto a map area approximately 8 by 8 kilometres (5.0 mi × 5.0 mi) in size,[1] The plane's flight-path across the map varies with each round, requiring players to quickly determine the best time to parachute out.[2] Players start with no gear beyond customized clothing selections which do not affect gameplay. Once they land, players can search buildings and other sites to find weapons, vehicles, armor, clothing, and other equipment. These items are procedurally distributed throughout the map at the start of a match, with certain high-risk zones typically having better equipment.[2] Killed players can be looted to acquire their gear as well.[2] Players can opt to play either from the first-person or third-person perspective, each having their own advantages and disadvantages in combat and situational awareness; though server-specific settings can be used to force all players into one perspective to eliminate some advantages.[2][3]

Every few minutes, the playable area of the map begins to shrink down towards a random location, with any player caught outside the safe area taking damage over time and eventually being eliminated if the player does not enter the safe zone; in game, the players see the boundary as a shimmering blue wall that contracts over time.[4] This forces players into a more confined area, increasing the chances of encountering other players.[2] During the course of the match, random regions of the map are highlighted in red and bombed, posing a threat to players that remain in that area.[5] In both cases, players are warned a few minutes before these events, giving them time to relocate to safety.[6] At random, a plane will fly over various parts of the playable map and drop a loot package, containing items which are typically unobtainable during normal gameplay. These packages emit highly visible red smoke, drawing interested players near it and creating further confrontations.[2] On average, a full round takes no more than 30 minutes.[6]

At the completion of each round, players gain in-game currency based on how long they survived, how many other players they had killed, and how much damage they dealt to other players. The currency is used to purchase crates which contain cosmetic items for character customization.

Development

Lead designer Brendan Greene, better known by his online handle PlayerUnknown, had previously created the ARMA 2 mod DayZ: Battle Royale, an offshoot of popular mod DayZ, and inspired by the 2000 film Battle Royale.[7][8] At the time he created DayZ: Battle Royale around 2013, Irish-born Greene had been living in Brazil for a few years as a photographer, graphic designer, and web designer, and played some video games such as Delta Force: Black Hawk Down and America's Army.[9][10] The DayZ mod caught his interest, both as a realistic military simulation and its open-ended gameplay, and started playing around with a custom server, learning programming as he went along.[9] Greene had been inspired to create the Battle Royale mod as he found that in most multiplayer first-person shooter games, there was too much repetition, as maps were small and easy to memorize. He wanted to create something with more random aspects so that players would not know what to expect, creating a high degree of replayability; this was done by creating vastly larger maps that could not be easily memorized, and using random item placement across it.[11] Greene also was inspired by an online competition for DayZ called Survivor GameZ, which featured a number of Twitch.tv and YouTube streamers fighting until only a few were left; as he was not a streamer himself, Greene wanted to create a similar game mode that anyone could play.[11] His initial efforts on this mod were more inspired by The Hunger Games novels, where players would try to vie for stockpiles of weapons at a central location, but moved away from this partially to give players a better chance at survival by spreading weapons around, and also to avoid copyright issues with the novels.[8] In taking inspiration from the Battle Royale film, Greene had wanted to use safe square areas, but his inexperience in coding led him to use circular safe areas instead, which persisted to Battlegrounds.[8]

When DayZ became its own standalone title, interest in his ARMA 2 version of the Battle Royale mod trailed off, and Greene transitioned development of the mod to ARMA 3.[9] Sony Online Entertainment (now the Daybreak Game Company) had become interested in Greene's work, and brought him on as a consultant to develop on H1Z1, licensing the Battle Royale idea from him.[9] In February 2016, Sony Online split H1Z1 into two separate games, the survival mode H1Z1: Just Survive, and the battle royale-like H1Z1: King of the Kill, around the same time that Greene's consultation period was over.[12]

Separately, the South Korean studio Ginno Games, led by Chang-han Kim and which had developed massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) for personal computers, had been acquired in January 2015 by Bluehole, a major South Korean publisher of MMOs and mobile games.[13][14] Kim recognized that producing a successful game in South Korea generally meant it would be published globally, and wanted to use his team to create a successful title for personal computers that was following the same model that other mobile games published by Bluehole had found. He had already been excited about making a type of battle royale game after he had played DayZ, in part that the format had not caught on in Korea. He also wanted to make this through an early access model and have a very limited development schedule to get the game out as fast as possible, while treating the product as a "game as a service" model to be able to support it for many years.[13] In researching what had been done, he came across Greene's mods and reached out to him.[13]

Around the same time that Greene had left Sony Online, Kim contacted and offered him the opportunity to work on a new battle royale concept. Within a week, Greene had flown out to Bluehole's headquarters in Korea to discuss the options, and a few weeks later, became the creative director of Bluehole. He moved to South Korea to oversee development.[11] According to Greene, this was the first time a Korean game studio has brought aboard a foreigner for a creative director role, and while a risk, he states his relationship with Bluehole's management is strong, allowing Greene's team to work autonomously with minimal oversight.[6]

Development began in early 2016, with plans to have the game ready within a year.[15] Kim served as executive producer for the game.[11] Bluehole started with a team of about 35 developers supporting Greene's work, but which as of June 2017 has expanded to 70 and expected to increase again to 90 with a new studio based in Madison, Wisconsin;[16] Greene said that many of these developers are voluntarily putting in longer work hours into the game due to their dedication to the project and not by any mandate from Greene or Bluehole's management.[11][17] In addition to Bluehole, Greene also credits Bohemia Interactive, the developers of ARMA and DayZ, for support with motion capture animations via their Prague studio.[17][16]

Design

Battlegrounds represents the standalone version of what Greene believes is the "final version" of the Battle Royale concept, incorporating the elements he had designed in previous iterations.[6][18] Faster development was possible with the game engine Unreal Engine 4, compared with ARMA and H1Z1, which were built with proprietary game engines. Greene acknowledged that implementing the size of the maps in Battlegrounds has been one of the challenges with working with Unreal, which was not designed with such maps in mind.[6][9] The game was designed as a mix between the realistic simulation of ARMA 3 and the arcade-like action focus and player accessibility of H1Z1.[5][11]

Based on Greene's experience with the genre, an island with many terrain features was picked as the first map, known as "Erangel".[8] The map design scope was to offer players many possible options for strategic and unique gameplay.[4] Some buildings and structures were designed to depict the style of the brutalist architecture of the Soviet Union during the 1950s. The developer team then playtested architecture features and random item placement systems, looking at both how close-quarters encounters went, and for open terrain areas.[4] The goal was then to optimize the right distribution and placement of weapons and gear across the map, to encourage players to make strategic decisions about how to proceed in the game without overly penalizing players that may not find weapons within the first few minutes of a round.[6] As of May 2017, two additional maps are currently under development: one set on a fictional island in the Adriatic Sea that had part of the Yugoslavian territories which will include snow-covered areas, and a second set in the remains of a desert city in Peru that has been ravaged by war and sandstorms.[19][16] Greene recognized that the Erangel map felt disjointed despite meeting their goals for gameplay, and sought to create more unified ideas with the next maps.[8]

The freefall from an airplane at the start of each match was a new feature for the genre, to encourage strategy between staying with the pack of players or seeking out one's own route for a better chance at finding good loot.[6] With the added parachute drop, Greene considered that Battlegrounds had three distinct subgames: the air drop during which one must quickly figure out the best time to jump and where to land in relationship to the other players, the loot game of knowing where and how to gather the best possible equipment, and the combat game with other players.[20]

Among features that Greene anticipates adding include custom games and modding support.[6][11] Greene considered modding support an essential part of the full release as, just as he had his start with mods, he wants to enable others to create variations on his game so that he can "find the next PlayerUnknown".[21] Greene also desires to incorporate the game with streaming services like Twitch.tv that would enable replays or other features amenable to treating Battlegrounds as an eSport.[6][11] Greene had anticipated that Battlegrounds would develop into an eSport and was an ultimate end goal for his development, but wanted to let the nature of how it would play out as an eSport grow naturally with the player community.[10] He also plans on introducing microtransactions to allow players to use real-world funds to purchase loot crates that provide randomly-selected cosmetic items, also known as "skins", which they can then trade with other players; while Greene recognized the issue with skin gambling, he believes that Valve had since put safeguards in place to support a "skin economy" that will provide further revenue for them without concerns over gambling.[22] This full micro-transaction system is not expected to be released until the game exits early access, but Bluehole offered an early preview of the system by offering time-limited crates that can be purchased during the first Battlegrounds Invitations tourney during the August 2017 Gamescom, with the sales from these contributing to the prize pool. Among loot from these crates include special outfits inspired by the Battle Royale movie.[23] Greene anticipates adding a campaign mode with co-operative player support, though there would be "no serious lore" crafted for the narrative, comparing this to similar modes in Watch Dogs.[24] The developer plans regular content and balance updates following full release.[25][5][15]

The game, while in early access, has already received alternate gameplay modes created by players, determined by unenforceable rules that players agree to abide by, that have been popular with streamers. This was aided by a quiet release of custom server support to a number of influential streamers which subsequently made it into public release.[17] In one case, "Zombie Mode", all but four players pretend to be zombies, who may sometimes distinguish themselves by removing all clothing and are limited only to collecting melee weapons and consumable items, and must rush to attack the other four players, who are able to collect all gear and attempt to outrun and defeat the zombies.[26] Inspired by this mode, Greene announced plans to introduce an official zombie-based gameplay mode based on this into Battlegrounds.[27] Whereas most of the rest of the team continued to develop the core gameplay and maps, Greene is taking on the zombie mode as a near solo project, only using the assistance of the lead animator to help with the zombie animations.[16] Greene sees Battlegrounds as a platform, and would like to see more custom game types and mods developed by players for it.[9] Greene identified that some mods that he also previously worked on from 'ARMA 3 may become part of the Battlegrounds platform.[9]

Release

Bluehole used closed alpha and beta periods with about 80,000 players, including popular streamers, to gauge initial reaction to the gameplay and adjust balance prior to a wider release.[11][28] The early access phase on Steam began in March 2017 for the Windows version.[29] This early access period was planned to last approximately six months, aiming for a September 2017 release.[29][30] In July 2017, Greene announced that they would need to extend the early access period by a few months, continuing to release updates on a regular basis, with plans to still release by the end of 2017, as committing to this original period "could hinder us from delivering a fully featured game and/or lead to disappointment within the community if the launch deadline is not met".[31] Initially, Bluehole had expected that they would just gain enough players through early access to smooth out the gameplay, and only when the game was completed, they would have started more marketing for the title. The sudden interest in the game from early access exceeded their expectations, and put emphasis on the stability of the game and its underlying networking alongside gameplay improvements.[28]

Bluehole plans to port the game to consoles, which will be released sometime following the completion of the Windows release, with the company already having a team starting on the Xbox One port.[32] Greene was part of Microsoft's press conference during Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017 to announce that Battlegrounds would be coming to Xbox One as a timed console exclusive sometime by the end of 2017.[33][34] Kim says they anticipate using the Xbox Game Preview early access approach to roll out and test the game on the Xbox One console.[28] Greene said that Microsoft is not directly involved in the porting but only providing assistance to make sure the port is good, and that most of the porting responsibilities are being done by Anticto, a Spanish developer.[21] Kim has also said that a PlayStation 4 version is planned; Bluehole's head of global business Woonghee Cho stated that because of Microsoft's assistance and suggestions for supporting Battlegrounds, the title will be a timed console exclusive for the Xbox One.[35][36] Kim says that they are interested in cross-platform play between computers and console versions, but do not anticipate this as a release feature since they need to determine how to mitigate the advantage keyboard-and-mouse players would have over those using controllers.[28]

In July 2017, Bluehole partnered with social media platform Facebook to provide exclusive streaming content to Facebook's gaming channels, as part of their pushing to provide more gaming content for its users.[37]

Professional competition

To celebrate the game surpassing two million copies sold, Bluehole announced a 2017 Charity Invitational event, inviting 128 players to compete over their official Twitch.tv channel to raise money for the Gamers Outreach Foundation, with Bluehole matching all donations up to US$100,000.[38] The competition ran in early May 2017, and raised at least US$120,000 from viewers along with Bluehole's US$100,000 match, and served as a prototype for future eSports events for the game.[39]

A Battlegrounds Inventional event will be held at the 2017 Gamescom in August 2017, with a $350,000 prize pool.[23]

Reception

In early access

As an early access title, most video game websites opted not to give a detailed review, though highly praised the game. Chloi Rad of IGN gave Battlegrounds a preliminary 9.0/10 rating, calling it "a tight, focused, and no-frills experience that places it leagues above the competition".[40]

Battlegrounds made US$11 million in the first three days of its early access release.[41] By the second week of April 2017, the game had sold over one million copies, with a peak player count of 89,000,[42] SuperData Research estimated that the game's April sales exceeded US$34 million, putting it as one of the top 10 highest grossing revenue games for the month and exceeding revenue from Overwatch and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.[43] By May 2017, the game had sold over two million copies, with total gross revenues estimated at US$60 million.[44][32] Within three months of early access release, it had surpassed four million units sold,[45] and Bluehole announced it had exceeded $100 million in sale revenue.[46] Battlegrounds reached this 4 million mark faster than Minecraft, which took over a year to reach similar sales figures while it was in its paid-beta development period.[47] A month later, Bluehole announced the game had surpassed six million in sales.[48] Around the same time, Battlegrounds had peaked as the third-highest played game in Steam's history based on concurrent players, according to Steam Spy, following Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and surpassing Fallout 4 and Grand Theft Auto V.[49]

Several journalists commented on the game's rapid growth towards a large player base for a game that was still in early access. IGN's Rad believed that the popularity of the game was due to its fast-paced nature compared to similar type games available at the time, such as H1Z1 and DayZ. She thought that the design balanced the solitary periods when the player is scavenging or sneaking around with those of being in combat with others, and the approach is readily accessible to new players with very little dead time to get into a new match.[50] Andy Moore for Glixel considered that Battlegrounds's popularity comes from how the game encouraged players to engage due to the situation they are placed in rather than from the player's own disposition, comparing it to the Stanford prison experiment, and thus able to capture the interest of players that may normally eschew these types of games.[51]

Rock Paper Shotgun's Michael Johnson described Battlegrounds as "a tactical shooting sandbox, a story generator, and a horror game all in one, providing some of the highest highs in multiplayer gaming", as reason for its popularity.[1] Rob Zacny for Waypoint found that Battlegrounds offered the same type of entertainment experience for viewers that many other player-vs-player survival games have, but because of the lack of persistence, players were more likely to experiment with resources rather than hoard them, leading to humorous or unexpected situations that are often absent in survival games and making the title more enjoyable to watch and play, leading to its popularity.[52] Jeff Grubb of Venture Beat considered Battlegrounds as a paradigm shift in the first-person shooter market similar to how Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare also changed the landscape of shooters when it was released in 2007, and believed it did this by being an anti-Call of Duty in terms of pacing and strategy.[53]

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