I'm not saying the controllers are confusing, but it did feel a little cluttered at times. Then I accidentally pressed the X button and out I went without a location to go to. On the plane, I pulled up my map to flag a suitable location to jump to, however no matter which buttons I pressed, none of them seemed to let me set a waypoint on my map. Some mishaps happened along the way of course like in the initial stages of the game where players are aboard a large carrier airplane and must choose when to parachute out onto the murder island. It's a pretty standard control scheme, but PUBG is a game that requires a lot of input and it took a while to memorize the Xbox One controller's setup. That also doesn't mention that clicking the control sticks let me lean and sprint. Oh and of course there were the lettered buttons of which Y let me reload, B let me crouch, A let me jump, and X let me interact with weapons and items.
The D-Pad let me cycle through the various weapons and items I picked up, while the option button brought up a map.The left bumper let me switch to first person mode and the right bumper let me cycle through the camera perspective. Running and firing controls were all par for the course with the left and right triggers pulling up aim and fire respectively, and character movement and camera movement dictated by the two control sticks. So, PUBG on an Xbox One controller how did it feel? It felt like how a third-person shooter might feel on a controller but with the exception of maybe having just barely enough buttons for all the possible actions. The answer isn't as dramatic as you might think.
Likewise, during my playtime with PUBG at an Xbox One X preview event I was told that I was playing against PC players so maybe you're interested in reading about what a potential match might look like between a mouse-and-keyboard player and a controller user? So if you're looking forward to playing it with a controller this preview is for you. Since Xbox One controller support has only been available for the PC version of the game for about a month, you might be a console player who's been hearing about PUBG for months but haven't played it. And that's primarily who this preview is for.
Winner, winnerĮven if cross-platform functionality never comes out, PUBG is one of the most popular PC games currently available and soon console-only players will get a chance to experience the carnage. Just to be clear, Microsoft didn't confirm cross-platform for PUBG, but given Microsoft's hard push for the feature, Brendan Green's enthusiasm for it, and the fact that keyboard and mouse controls are heavily rumored for the Xbox One, I think it's worth investigating. While I didn't get any Chicken Dinners, I have some thoughts about the new control scheme and what it might mean for cross-platform play. So how does the PC game translate for consoles? I recently got a chance to play PUBG with an Xbox One controller against PC players. The fact that Microsoft managed to score publishing rights for the console release on the Xbox One is a big coup. You will also be able to view the device each player is using on the leaderboard so that you can get a rough idea of where the real pros are at, and the console they use as you can see in the below image.PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, with 10 million copies sold so far, is one of the biggest video game releases of the year.
This change will effectively reduce the match-making times for both Xbox One and PS4 users and hence, players will see this update as an absolute win. Also, cross-play will be available in all servers starting October if the implementation doesn’t cause any major performance flaws or hiccups. That confusion would be clarified once the feature hits the PUBG Public Test Server (PTS) later next month. However, the blog post has not explicitly made it clear if players could team up with opposite console mates or if it would be like an Xbox One squad vs PlayStation 4 squad kind of implementation. This essentially means that you could finally team up with that one friend who always purchases the opposite of the gadgets you own. “Cross platform play between Xbox One and PlayStation 4 gamers will be available for testing on the PUBG Public Test Server (PTS) beginning in late September and will hit live servers in early October,” reads the official blog post of Xbox.