As cheesy as it sounds, the most important thing in a match isn’t the guns or loot, but your friends. A squad of one or two will have a much harder time than a squad of three. If your teammates get knocked down they can no longer fight, but can move. You can get them up again, but its best to eliminate the enemy first, or at least get another teammate to protect you while you while you revive your teammate behind co

And look - I'm not against sexy character designs. Actually, I usually like them! I'm a big fan of Senran Kagura and Dead Or Alive, and love the lengths fighting games go to make characters as horny as possible. But there's a way to have something be sexy and make sense, which Overwatch just never does. Plus, the Overwatch designs pander to the dullest and straightest among us - not to mention the whitest. They uphold the hegemony of white, European beauty standards and apply them to characters of color, which just flat-out su

Just because you aren’t running and gunning doesn’t mean that enemy squads won't be getting picked off. The most efficient use of your resources is to wait for enemy teams to engage each other and then surprise the damaged surviv

Reading up on all these abilities ( and some of the best squad compositions in the game ) will help you find a Legend you’d like to start playing as, as well as keep you aware of the dangers you’ll face from other Legends. People playing for free start with a more limited roster, so these will be the ones you’ll be most likely to run into during a match. Keep in mind that regular balance tweaks take place, with Wraith (for instance) being nerfed in Season 8. While it's true that Season 7's player engagement hasn't been stellar, the game continues to be a force to be reckoned w

Then you have Bloodhound, the non-binary espionage expert. It’s a cool way to put a non-binary character in a AAA game, I feel, because whatever perceived "gendered" physical characteristics they might have are obscured by a gas mask and bulky clothing. Their appearance is calculated very deliberately to be genderless and ambiguous, which is a great artistic choice. Oh, and let’s talk for a second about Gibralter. Here's this goofy and sweet beefcake who's gay and doesn’t have some sort of sad backstory about it. He’s not cuckolded and Hazard transformation sad like Soldier 76, whose story echoes literally every Hollywood movie ever written about gay men that’s not called Moonlight, or if he is, we don’t know about it. That’s rad as h

Update 9.1 also adds the new map, Paramo, which features an active volcano and flowing lava across the landscape. It's also partly procedurally generated, so the new PUBG map feels different every time you play. However, because of the ever-shifting nature of the map, it's located in a separate matchmaking pool called Seasonal Match. Wins here will not count towards your sta

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 sword-fighting titles have made up a bulk of the third-person genre , with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Dark Souls 3, and Monster Hunter: World leading the way, shooters have also carved themselves a spot in the popular genre of gam

Released back in 2017, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds _ started the battle royale craze across the globe. One year later, _PUBG Mobile was released, allowing eager fans to play on their mobile devices wherever and whenever they wanted to. The announcement of a faithful PUBG port to phones was exciting for fans who don't have a console or PC, and were stuck playing PUBG clones . PUBG Mobile 's free-to-play model also allows more players to discover the game through app stores, and allows console PUBG players to check out PUBG Mobile on their devices completely f

Although video gaming streaming platforms have been around for nearly a decade, the battle royale genre has brought a large number of viewers to the streaming sites. This is because the battle royale genre is as fun to watch as it is to play. While many other first-person-shooters give players endless lives until a certain score limit is reached, the idea that the player only has one chance to win raises the stakes and makes watching more exciting. Since battle royales became popular, some Twitch streamers have become as recognizable as high profile celebrit

The randomly-generated level layout means players will never experience the same game twice, adding to the title's replayability. To make things even better, players could tackle the game in co-op, allowing them to escape death with their friends time and time ag