10 Ways Battle Royales Have Changed The Gaming Industry

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is often touted as the pioneer among all battle royale video games these days as it popularized one of the most popular modes of gameplay in gaming history: proving you're better than everyone else by killing them. Such an experience couldn't be contained in just one gaming platform and thankfully, PUBG branched out to the consoles and even the mobile gaming sc


A good rule of thumb, however, is to try and always get a height advantage on your enemies if possible, and always have some form of cover to hide behind. As the match goes on, you will often run into enemies equipped with highly upgraded sniper rifles, who will punish you for wandering around in the open. The meta is constantly changing as patches go by, so you never know who you might be up agai


Although many online competitive games, like Call of Duty, Halo, and Battlefield gave players the opportunity to chat with teammates, battle royale titles emphasize it to a much higher degree. This is because many of the game modes in the previously mentioned games are not designed around high-stakes survi


Apex Legends is the phoenix that’s risen from the ashes of Titanfall, and what a beautiful phoenix it is. I've poured hundreds of hours into the FPS Game Release Date, and hundreds of dollars into merch. Hell, I even got a nose stud because of Wra


It's free since it has to compete with other free derivatives on the mobile market, but it still comes with the full battle royale experience. If you live in a country with decent internet then chances are you have a phone already that can play P


While the success of the game mode can be measured by how many players are consistently active or by how much yearly revenue each title makes, the best way to represent how important the genre really is would be to gauge the impact it has had on the gaming industry as a wh


When PUBG was released, however, fans quickly realized that communication was the key to winning matches. While some of the battle royales on the market allow players to come back from the dead, survival is extremely important. Each decision made throughout a battle royale match matters and one bad move by a teammate could ruin an entire ma


The consoles are a bit lower due to the less optimal controls but it's still intimidating enough. PUBG Mobile, however, welcomes everyone with open arms and is easier to play because some of the players are not that serious or are just out to have fun. The game also sometimes uses bots to boost your confide


PUBG Mobile does a good job with this. You can play while on a bus or train ride to school or work (or even play in those places, just don't get caught). Good luck trying to do this on a PS4 or Xbox


But even the outliers have their own problems. Ana, an elderly woman in a sick-ass headscarf, gets a skin that makes her younger and sexier. Mei seems kind of portly, until you put on literally anything other than her default outfit and realize, huh, she’s actually just got a pretty conventionally acceptable hourglass figure and enormous tits. The only one I can give any props to, really, is Zarya. Despite the silly boob armor, she genuinely bucks conventional design trends with it comes to female characters, both in terms of personality and physicality. She’s more in line with the wild diversity present in the male characters, and I really do wish that diversity was represented in the female charact


What better Pokémon could there be for the tech-genius Crypto than Rotom! Crypto was introduced to Apex Legends in season 3 as an encryption expert, always seen either at a computer or buried in his customized drone. With Crypto's understanding of machinery, there is no doubt that he would find a perfect companion in the ever-transforming Rotom , who is capable of possessing various machines to affect its type. These two hackers would make a lasting and sensible union, but Crypto's friendly drone would surely have opinions about being repla


I digress. First, let’s talk about the female characters – practically all of them look the goddamn same. Outliers like Mei and Zarya notwithstanding, almost every single female character, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or occupation, are identical in both facial characteristics and body type. A gruff military woman hailing from Egypt has the same ass and bust and weight of an introverted teenage hacker from Mexico, a socially awkward Indian mathematician, a dumb white cowgirl, a Swedish welder, a German doctor, a professional gamer from Korea, a French sniper, a white whatever-the-fuck Tracer is, et cet


There are also some power bill additions in owning a console as it needs to be plugged in constantly during play. All of these elements make the mobile version a tempting option. Even a sub-200 USD smartphone is enough to run PUBG Mob


For example, Death Totem has many uses. As mentioned it can be used to excellent effect when up against a single squad at close-range, and in general when in Death Protection you should be more ambitious and a bit more careless than usual - you will get a chunk of your health back on returning to the totem, after all, and as long as an enemy isn’t waiting at the totem for you to appear, you’ll be in a good posit