BR games are getting stale as ♥♥♥♥ but this one stands out above the crowd.

Higher TTK than PUBG or Fortnite resulting in battles being determined by "who can aim better" and not "who shot first".

Show Director and viewer relationship actually feels like the Hunger Games take on the Game Master and Sponsors. Make fans with the crowd or the director and you have a huge advantage on the other 9 players. Match-making makes it hard to queue as a show director in order to boost friends. Hard but not impossible unfortunately.

Tracking system is a very, "you can run but you can't hide" sort of deal. Sure you can run for the entire game just zipping across the map but there are so many ways for other players to get your exact location resulting in a very hunter/tracking driven system. Works very nice, camping is utterly useless. Either you run or you fight. There is no hiding in houses.

The take on zones closing never once made me feel cheated like in PUBG or Fortnite. There's teleports on the edge of each zone to take you into the opposite zone and the zones close randomly for the most part which allows you to take the route that you imagine is best and not the route that the game just forces upon you. It was your decision to go to the west zone rather than the east so if you get screwed later you know you could have played it differently. The show director has the ability force you into a bad spot but there are always ways to survive as long as you have enough wood for fires or if you have an electronic that allows you access to teleport or superjump abilities.

Bows take skill to aim with and shoot. The net-play feels very smooth. Never was I shot with an arrow after I got behind cover. Never have I felt that an arrow should have hit someone when it did not. Axe takes some getting used to since the range is very short but being able to time your swings to deflect other player's arrows or snowballs and then going in for the kill has never felt better.

Overall I don't think the BR formula has been perfected because there is always room for improvement but these reasons alone make me feel like it's a massive jump in the right direction. This is the game BR developers need to copy, not PUBG or Fortnite with 100 people and RNG circles and bullets that kill you behind cover.

BR games are getting stale as fuck but this one stands out above the crowd. Higher TTK than PUBG or Fortnite resulting in battles being determined by "who can aim better" and not "who shot first". Show Director and viewer relationship actually feels like the Hunger Games take on the Game Master and Sponsors. Make fans with the crowd or the director and you have a huge advantage on the other 9 players. Match-making makes it hard to queue as a show director in order to boost friends. Hard but not impossible unfortunately. Tracking system is a very, "you can run but you can't hide" sort of deal. Sure you can run for the entire game just zipping across the map but there are so many ways for other players to get your exact location resulting in a very hunter/tracking driven system. Works very nice, camping is utterly useless. Either you run or you fight. There is no hiding in houses. The take on zones closing never once made me feel cheated like in PUBG or Fortnite. There's teleports on the edge of each zone to take you into the opposite zone and the zones close randomly for the most part which allows you to take the route that you imagine is best and not the route that the game just forces upon you. It was your decision to go to the west zone rather than the east so if you get screwed later you know you could have played it differently. The show director has the ability force you into a bad spot but there are always ways to survive as long as you have enough wood for fires or if you have an electronic that allows you access to teleport or superjump abilities. Bows take skill to aim with and shoot. The net-play feels very smooth. Never was I shot with an arrow after I got behind cover. Never have I felt that an arrow should have hit someone when it did not. Axe takes some getting used to since the range is very short but being able to time your swings to deflect other player's arrows or snowballs and then going in for the kill has never felt better. Overall I don't think the BR formula has been perfected because there is always room for improvement but these reasons alone make me feel like it's a massive jump in the right direction. This is the game BR developers need to copy, not PUBG or Fortnite with 100 people and RNG circles and bullets that kill you behind cover.