Recent reviews by Hemmo

One of the lowest quality modern games I've ever seen. Looks gross, plays like crap, runs like crap, UI terrible, gunplay terrible, NPCs constantly glitching, half the story is told via audio recording, base building is clunky, hardest difficulty is far too easy. Can't believe bethesda thinks this is acceptable.

One of the best games in terms of shooting mechanics period, with solid weapon balancing (perhaps grenades are too strong). The zone times and how they force gameplay are perhaps the best of any BR, though it fails to bring continuous action in a way that only Apex Legends really does right now. People say BRs have issues with 'randomness', and although I wish they would remove the red zone, PUBG is truly a game of maximising your chances for loot and positioning while forcing opponents to make errors, though this may not be apparent in day-to-day matchmaking. The aesthetic perhaps leaves a little to be desired, but these days the game runs extremely well even on fairly modest hardware, with PUBG lite coming soon for those with less. PUBG falls down in its ranked system and the gameplay environment it provides, as well as slightly with regards to movement and sound. Ranks are soully determined by play time, not skill and it has been well over a year since good players were grinding for rank, as it is pointless when a bot designed to join games, die and repeat 24/7 will always be on top. Movement and sound are the target of constant attention from the dev team, but PUBG is still liable to release a patch making it impossible to hear enemies walking up on you, or to make you feel like if only your character weren't so spastic you'd have made it to safety (not to say there isn't room for skill expression with high level movement/looting, but you could still have that within a more fluid movement system such as in Apex or COD BR).

TL:DR It's not too late to buy and play PUBG even if you never have before, and many of the instability, framerate and general gameplay issues over the early years have been rectified leaving a somewhat complete BR, though perhaps for the movement and ranked systems to reach their peak, the game will need a larger overhaul, PUBG 2?