The publisher has a headache because of the problem of AFK gamers farming skins in PUBG

Big titles like World of Warcraft or Team Fortress 2 are the reason why gamers log into the game without having to play and get rewards in the game. In these or other games, players will either join servers created by other players or use macros to have characters move in a loop, allowing them to go undetected and kicked. for the crime of AFK.

For this current most successful game in 2017, it wouldn’t be surprising if this happened. Players simply log into the game and parachute down to wait for the game to end, then at the end of the game will be rewarded with battle points. Currently, the scoring rule of BP is very simple, the longer you live, the higher the score, this money is used to buy skins and costumes for your character.

The biggest surprise and disappointment they encountered was the number of AFK players. YouTuber and streamer rivaLxfactor played a lot of battleground matches and was credited with playing the game at the Gamescom Invitational. In a match yesterday (video above) at around 0:51, up to 12 AFK players were on this player’s stream screen.

“The last few days I noticed that a lot of people died when the game just started,” he added. “The server dropped to 70 people in just a few minutes… the phenomenon is getting really bad.”

Via Twitter, rivaLxfactor said that “last night’s game was the worst I’ve ever had and so was today”. He also thinks that these people are also using auto match-finding software after finishing the match.

In fact, the nature of PUBG has a lot of auto, such as when you queue to the game, you will be teleported into a safe area and wait for other players. When there are enough players, your character will automatically teleport to the plane, if near the end of the flight you will get out of the plane yourself even you don’t need to open the parachute because it will automatically open for you. friend. These are functions that make it easy for new players to access the game, but they accidentally become AFK tricks for gamers.

After some investigation and calculations, rivaLxafactor estimates that around 5 minutes from queue to death, gamers can be rewarded with up to 50 to 70 BP. If there is no interruption, it is extremely easy to go up to thousands of BP.

BP is very valuable right now thanks to last week’s Gamescom Invitational, PUBG released a bunch of premium skins and skins for players throughout the tournament. Although the price is up to $ 2.5 to open, but the costumes and skins are up to hundreds of dollars.

Compared to CS: GO and TF2, PUBG’s crates also have quite good prices. Right now, thousands of crates are being sold on the steam market, here are its prices:

Gamescom Invitational Crate $3.55 – $2.95

Survivor Crate $1.75 – $1.05

Wanderer Crate $1.20 – $0.75

Awakening Call

Besides rivaLxfactor, there are gamers who have experienced this situation. On August 14, a Twitch user named ChrisAkira said he punched eight AFK players to death with his bare hands. Another video also posted yesterday shows more than one AFK figure standing together.

on August 28 on reddit appeared an article titled “PUBG is now flooded with players plow BP to buy skins for sale on Steam Market”. In the article, the most voted comment was: “I was queuing for FPP mode and taking screenshots, I counted up to 33 AFK players, excluding Squad battles, and I flew straight to the ground to kill. these AFK players”.

However, below there are also comments refuting the opinion of the writer. One person said, “In each game there are 40-50 AFK people? Is that too exaggerated? I think it’s only about 4 to 7 people like other games.” A user named tooxie11 said: “I’ve played 450 hours on this game and have never seen more than 8 AFK players”. Another commented: “40-50 AFK players per game? that is crazy! I have seen more than 10 players AFK in squad FPP format. There is even one person who thinks that this writer has exaggerated the issue.

On the Steam forums, one person who did this said: “Have you ever tried AFK to plow BP? Many people have discovered this when they accidentally or intentionally stay on the plane until the plane kicks them out. And when they landed they tried to punch the AFK players to death.”

The size of the map, the number of players, the different server regions, and the completely random aircraft trajectory make it extremely difficult to calculate how many AFK players there are in PUBG. But obviously this is the best way to farm BP.

During a test run, I encountered 2 players in normal squad mode. I fell off the plane with about 13-14 other AFK players (there were 2 people posing as AFK, and started punching us to death). I died very quickly and earned myself 60 BP in 2 minutes 18 seconds.