Enhance your PUBG: Battlegrounds gameplay with essential beginner and intermediate tips. Learn about crosshair placement, aiming techniques, and crucial awareness strategies to improve your survival and combat skills.
If you're new to the game or have some hours and would like to review what you already might know or maybe even learn something new, then this section might be for you. These are some tips gathered over the course of 1000 hours of game experience (August 2021) through playing and also some tips gathered by searching the web. Many of these tips, but not all of them, come from watching "Wackyjacky101"'s videos, which are very good and highly recommended. Hope you enjoy the tips below.
BEGINNER TIPS
XHAIR PLACEMENT
Put the Xhair (which means crosshair) where you think your enemy might be to minimize the distance you need to move in order to aim at him, even more so when in combat mode. Like around corners, don't aim at walls but aim "around it" because your enemy won't be "inside" the wall. On stairs, aim at the top of the stairs because, again, your enemy won't be "inside" the stairs. When aiming at compounds, for example, aim at windows and open doors because the enemy won't show up through walls or even shoot you through them, obviously (assuming the enemies are inside the mentioned compound). These are just some examples; try to get used to it over time.
Also, make sure your Xhair is always at head level, or a little bit above it so that when you crouch, it will be at head level. The head of enemies, I mean. Remember, headshots are the deadliest in PUBG and in shooters in general, and you should always try to aim for the head in PUBG. If you aim for the head, at least your first bullet will hit the head and do a lot of damage. Then, whether it is an AR or a DMR, the remaining shots can hit the chest because you have to compensate for the wild recoil of PUBG's guns. This will get you a less TTK (time-to-kill) than if you hit everything in the chest, which might be the deciding factor for you emerging victorious in a firefight. Also, you might think that aiming for the chest is much faster than aiming for the head, so that shooting everything in the chest will kill faster than aiming for the head to then shoot, but the truth is headshots just do a lot of damage, so it's worth the effort in aiming for the head, even if it takes more time than other body parts like the chest. With time, you'll probably be aiming for the head faster. Now, know that Pros are able to not just aim for the head but also hit, obviously, the first shot there and in many cases the second bullet as well. This is called a double tap and it's deadly. (_Update_: I'm not sure "double tap" is a correct name for ARs; for DMRs, I think it's fine. Because with ARs, you don't usually tap the trigger twice; you just actually squeeze it once, usually. So, I'd say I'd just call these 2 shots in the enemy's head a "double headshot" as this encompasses both ARs and DMRs.) (_Update 2_: Following some feedback, an update to the double headshooting mentioned. If it's really close range, then the enemy's head is so close and so big that you can probably hit a full clip in the head, so 30/40 headshots. But, now, the double headshot, I learned that with several coaches and also from personal experience. If the enemy is at range, for example, 30m, and you're playing AR, like the Beryl in my case (red dot), I usually noted that if I aim for the head, the first bullet hits the head, but the second and maybe third bullets go above it because of the wild recoil, even though I'm pulling down. Then, the next bullets, they just hit the chest because, as mentioned, I'm pulling down. Now, after a lot of practice, sometimes I manage to hit the first 2 bullets in the head, even with this range, and then the remaining below it, like in the chest or not, because I'm pulling down really hard. So, you get the double headshot now, I hope. In summary, I think you have to pull down really hard and also to pull down as soon as you click (shoot) the left mouse button. You have to synchronize everything, which takes skill and practice, and it is one of the features that makes PUBG stand out. With DMRs, it is similar; you want to double tap, yeah, now it's fine to call it like that, but you want to do that as fast as possible so as not to give enough time for the enemy to react, so that's the challenge in mastering it.) (_Update 3_: I hear some people talking about triple headshot. I don't hear this term a lot, probably because it can be a bit elusive to get this, probably. In my experience, when I get the double headshot, I'm pulling down so hard that the third bullet will just go below the head, probably chest. This, for the example range given, like 30m. So, I don't know much about triple headshooting).
Zooming Correction Distance
Aim with the crosshair first to minimize the distance to correct after zooming with the sight. (Note that "Scoping Correction Distance" is actually a misnomer because this tip also applies to the iron sight and the red dot and holo and canted sights, which are not scopes; remember that "scope" is short for telescopic sight, so all scopes are sights but not all sights are scopes, as mentioned, the iron sight or the red dot sight use no telescope, for example, so "Zooming Correction Distance" is a more appropriate name, I feel.)
This is advisable because when you zoom, the FOV (field of view) is reduced, which means lower effective sensitivity, which is reinforced if you decreased the zooming sensitivity, like most people, unless you increased it appropriately (note that I'm not saying you should make zooming sensitivity higher...). So, you move "slower" while zooming and faster while hip aiming, which means that if you aim with the crosshair first, you'll "lock" your target quicker and will be more likely to emerge victorious in this firefight.
AWARENESS
I learned this, believe it or not, very recently (2k hours, March 2023), from my coach who goes by the gamertag Hucubama. I remember a long time ago, a friend of mine who's really good in the game told me that awareness is one of the most important skills of a player and also a pro.
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