PUBGs Ridiculous DLC Needs To Stop Imitating Fortnite

PUBG’s Ridiculous DLC Needs To Stop Imitating Fortnite

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For years, PUBG has been loading its online store with items copying the wild style of Fortnite – but it’s a misguided strategy to stay cool.

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PUBGs Ridiculous DLC Needs To Stop Imitating Fortnite

Though PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds released first, it has since been eclipsed by other battle royales, most notably Epic Games’ Fortnite. It makes financial sense that PUBG would try to borrow what it can from Fortnite to get the upper hand again – or to continue staying relevant. The game is doing itself no favors, however, by continually trying to wedge ridiculous Fortnite-style costumes into its DLC and setting.

Outlandish costumes make sense in Fortnite – the game has a cartoonish look and virtually no connection to the real world. This gives Epic an excuse to enable almost anything, from crossovers with Arrest Development to games like Tomb Raider, and appropriately, gamers have been able to play as everything from hardened soldiers to robots, the Joker, or characters from Tron. Epic has even hosted several virtual concerts, the most recent being Kaskade in March.

PUBG has followed suit by introducing items like miniskirts, dinosaur masks, neon jackets, Christmas and Halloween outfits, and even traditional Korean clothing. While none of these are problematic on their own, the issue is that these don’t make sense in the game’s setting. Even in 2021, PUBG normally has a semi-realistic tone, with muted colors, gritty, dilapidated ruins, and real-world guns. The Fortnite imitations not only feel out of place and immersion-breaking, they feel like pandering. Games are generally stronger if they find their own identity and lean into it.

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PUBG Players Often Need To Blend In To Win

Perhaps more importantly, colorful outfits are terrible from a gameplay perspective. PUBG’s quick-death gunplay makes it wiser to blend in with the terrain – that’s why the ghillie suit is one of the most coveted air drops, since a clever player can become virtually invisible. Even conventional clothes can buy a few seconds to escape a sniper so long as they match the scenery. From this perspective, PUBG Corp. is wasting a lot of its cosmetic ideas; although, presumably it wouldn’t keep selling what it does if it weren’t at least somewhat profitable.

That’s difficult to tell, though. The game’s Steam player count peaked in January 2018 and PUBG’s player count has been on a slow decline ever since. It’s probably not the fault of strange DLC, of course, but at the least it isn’t attracting new players. PUBG’s fate really demands better graphics and gameplay over any kind of new DLC – but if its creators are going to sell add-ons, they might want to reconsider their strategy.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/pubg-fortnite-cosmetics-gameplay-dlc-outfits-battle-royale/

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