PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the battle royale simulator that has swept the gaming world, recently released on Xbox One and Xbox One X last December. It’s been available on PC for some time with players getting in via Steam’s Early Access program, and while things were far from perfect on PC, the game was borderline unplayable on console.

To start, graphics were enormously downgraded between the PC and Xbox versions of PUBG. This was to be expected, as the game’s hardware requirements are substantially beefier than what a regular old Xbox One can deliver. Considering that PUBG isn’t exactly the smoothest game on even the highest-end of gaming rigs, trying to get it to run on a nearly four-year-old console is a miracle in itself.

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A miracle that proved costly to the eyeballs. The Xbox version of PUBG struggles to manage a consistent 20 frames per second even just standing still while trying to actually interact with the environment can drop it even lower. As Digital Foundry puts it: "You're instantly besieged by low-resolution textures that seem to be failing to stream in properly, combined with performance just above or below the 20fps threshold."

The poor graphics are bad enough, but things get really bad with the bizarre and often hilarious glitches. Many of them are benign, if unsettling, such as this one featuring a motorcycle that just refuses to stay still.

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Or this one, where a player seems to have discovered how to swim through the air. Maybe it’s a new unlockable ability, but we doubt it.

 

Or how about this one, which reveals PUBG’s dirty secret: the surface world is but a thin veneer coating a world of water.

 

Those glitches may be funny, but some can end games before they’ve even started. There’s a well-documented bug where the player simple never lands and is perpetually held aloft in their parachute. Lag spikes can cause the player to enter into impassable terrains, like cages without doors or rooms without an entrance.

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Worse still, some players can learn to use glitches to their advantage and provide them with an unfair edge over the competition. Here’s one where a player learned he was able to pass through walls and used this to defeat his confused opponents.

Glitching through terrain can sometimes result in an unwinnable game if the remaining two players cannot actually shoot each other. That happened in the video below to an unfortunate team that couldn’t find the last remaining opponent because he was underground.

Several patches since the release of PUBG have addressed some of these issues but not all of them, and no amount of patches can make a 2017 game run well on 2013 hardware. But, if you insist on playing PUBG on Xbox, just be sure to keep a camera rolling to capture those hilarious bugs.

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