My PUBG Mobile Experience

I download the game the day it came out, I have previously only played mobile games like Angry Birds, Hay Day, maybe Minecraft a few time but it was limited.

The first week or so I was a total noob, I was playing without headphones, didn't realize I could reload my guns, had no idea what the hell I was doing but I was hooked.

A couple of coworkers downloaded the game and we would play on our lunch breaks.

Basically if I played with randoms and we won I would add them as friends.

Season 2 started and FPP was introduced, I was hooked even farther. I purchased the first Royal Pass cause hey skins and extras are cool.

I played exclusively FPP from season 2 until season 11ish. The FPP NA community was small but lots of fun, basically you knew everyone, lots of clans played it exclusively.

When the wait times for FPP North America became too long my friend group at the time started playing scrims. This was early 2020 around the start of the pandemic. We were playing scrims almost every night of the week for about 10 months. Some of the scrims were Outcast eSports, Meseeks, and Red-eyes had open scrims.

I had always watched pubg mobile streamers, Powerbang was huge those first few years, many of the LightsOut team streamed so there was always someone interesting to watch. From who I can remember there was Angry, Sixless, Outsider, BellaFox, Bushka, RedEyes, HotJukes, Zootay, Coffee just to name a few. The custom matches streamers did were always a lot of fun.

I purchased every Royal Pass from the start until January of 2024, I decided to take a 2 month break from the game, just to work on personal projects. I have spent extra money on skins, and car skins. I have easily spent $6000-$7000 Canadian on this game.

My friends list went from about 25 the first year to 200 when I was heavily involved in the scrims scene to about 50 now. A few I haven't deleted even tho they haven't been online in years just in hopes them come back online and I can get their contact info or socials to stay connected.

I have tried streaming a few times on twitch, I have made a Instagram/tiktok/youtube profiles with pubg mobile memes and clips of my terrible game play lol.

Overall all modes I've played over 16,000 matches. During the first couple of months I was a big camper, I would sit in a closet for 75% of the match then crawl the rest of the match and hope to make it to the final then hopefully pull out a win. I eventually evolved loved hotdroping Sanhok bootcamp, then when the special events started and the free lives I was hot dropping even more.

My favorite maps in order:

Vikendi Rondo Nusa Miramar Erangal Livik Karakin Sanhok

I think I've played Metro Royale 4 times total... The WOW modes I've played maybe 10 times total. Was never a fan or either.

I have a small group of friends I still play with almost every evening. Occasionally if no friends are on I'll plays Nusa with randoms. I still try to turn on twitch and use my free Amazon Prime sub to support some small streamers.

I tried other mobile FPS games like COD, New State and APEX, but they all just didn't cut it.

That is all :)