Warzone went a step further in 2020 when it ditched looted attachments for pre-configured weapon blueprints that piggyback off the strong customization in Modern Warfare's Gunsmith. To make sure you barely have to micromanage anything, attachments automatically transfer from one weapon to the next (PUBG eventually borrowed this feature in late 2019). In the years since, the biggest battle royale games have sped up the looting process or minimized its importance in favor of the actual good part of battle royale: tight, coordinated team fights.Īpex Legends has a simplistic loot hierarchy with readable, spaced-out pickups effortlessly pocketed from the ground. This laborious, drawn-out looting phase carried over from the survival games that preceded PUBG is what originally killed my battle royale buzz. You're heavily encouraged to use the inventory interface for every interaction with the world, which means spending ten minutes sorting through garbage in a menu ripped from 2013 early access DayZ until you have the gear needed to be competitive. Loot spawns in messy clumps that make something as simple as picking up an individual item off the ground maddening (good luck picking up that tiny compensator instead of the medkit clipping through it).
PUBG is only four years old, but it already feels like a relic of a genre that moved on to bigger and better things.Īfter countless hours in Apex Legends and Warzone, PUBG's loot pool feels bloated with samey SMGs, rifles, and attachments. Outfitting a rifle with a few attachments I found in a dingy garage is still a chore. There are so many 2017-ass design choices here that come off as dated and uninviting now, most of which trickle down from a terrible looting experience. I'd appreciate a similar mini free-for-all in PUBG's lobby, at least so I don't have to spend that pregame minute hovering over the "exit" button, pondering on why I'm playing boomer royale. At least Call of Duty: Warzone's pre-game lobby hands you a random weapon to practice your aim or blow off steam with. I don't want to wait two or three minutes to find a game just to spend another 60 seconds standing around an empty street while randos throw apples at my head. Seriously, I thought battle royale games figured this out already: Give me something to do or just show me a list of players.
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