Pubg Mobile

The world online has exploded into battle royale madness, with the launch of a couple of huge games. One is Fortnite and the other is PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, or PUBG to its friends.

In 2018, PUBG Mobile was launched on both the iOS and the Android platform as a free-to-play game, which turned out to become a roaring success amongst the mobile gamers. Over 20 million daily active players on PUBG mobile were reported during September 2018.

PUBG Mobile minimum requirements

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile game is a persistent online game, so you'll need a connection to the internet to play - be that via mobile network or Wi-Fi - but the lower the ping the better.

The tech specs for Android are Android 5.1 and higher and at least 2GB of RAM.

The iPhone version needs iOS 9.0 or later, so a full range of iPhone models back to iPhone 5s are supported and iPads back to iPad Mini 2, as well as iPod touch 6-gen.

PUBG Mobile: The basics of gameplay

Battle royale basically means all against all, a bit like The Hunger Games where you start with nothing and have to scavenge and collect weapons and equipment. The game is ultimately a battle to the last player standing, with 100 players on an 8 x 8 km island.

There are three modes of play: solo, duo and squad, with the latter letting you team up with three other players for a team of four. Each is a little different with various pros and cons, the big pro of team play being that have people to support you, revive you and bring an element of co-operative tactics to the game.

The game starts with you parachuting onto the game island. On landing your mission is to gather everything you can to help you win, from clothes to medical supplies to weapons, with a wide range of weapons and modifications for those weapons.

Each game can last up to about 30 minutes if you're one of the last standing. Of course, you can die almost as soon as you're on the ground. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

PUBG Mobile servers and problems

Players haveexperienced some occasional game freezes which we think are server side.

Excessive battery drain is to be expected. Not only is this a demanding game graphically, but it needs the display on all the time and that persistent connection. If you can't play plugged in, then consider getting yourself an external battery backup.

Then there are the times that your teammates just run over you in a car and instead of getting out to revive you, they just run over you again and again until you are dead.