User:SCairney/Playerunknown's Battlegrounds

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds is an early access massively multiplayer online survival video game developed and published by Bluehole for Microsoft Windows.

The game originated as custom Arma 2 gamemode called "battle royale", developed my lead designer Brendan Greene, under the alias of PlayerUnknown. After the success

The concept of the game began when lead designer Brendan Greene, under the alias of Playerunknown, began working as a modder on Arma 2, creating a custom gamemode now known as "battle royale". The gamemode later shot off into other standalone games, such as Day Z and H1Z1: King of the Kill. Greene then made the decision to make his own standalone battle royale game after seeing the commercial success of the genre. The game was released on Steam's early access program in March 2017.

Gameplay
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds is a competitive survival last man standing shooter. Up to 100 Players are dropped into a fully open 8x8km island, where they must fight each other until only one player/team remains alive. Players begin the match without any items, but can search to find weapons, vehicles, and gear. In order to speed up the match, the battlefield will begin to shrink, forcing players to encounter other hostile players while trying to stay within the shrinking safe area. Apart from solo matches, the game also allows for cooperative play for players to team up into groups of 2 or 4, which is it's own separate mode.