It’s been over a 12 months since Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds launched into early entry, and but one way or the other it’s nonetheless drawing the crowds, a lot to John’s chagrin. It now has three maps, with a fourth one on the best way, and an expanded weapon set too. Its reputation could also be waning somewhat in mild of stiff competitors, nevertheless it isn’t a shock that it’s nonetheless massively standard: Dumping 100 folks onto a map and telling them to scavenge and homicide, all within the identify of an ethereal hen dinner. Grabbing that meal ticket gained’t isn’t straightforward, so we’ve thrown collectively a complete bunch of ideas and tips that will help you get a style of that candy, candy victory.
Written by Andy Moore and Dave Irwin
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds information
Newer gamers which are becoming a member of the bandwagon could also be questioning how greatest to stand up to hurry. Below are some important ideas and tips that Our set of guides will undergo all of the weapons obtainable within the game, in addition to the maps which are presently obtainable in PUBG.
- PUBG best weapons – A whole breakdown of all of the weapons in PUBG.
- PUBG Erangel – Master the unique map with the enclosed ideas and drop zones.
- PUBG Miramar – Dominate within the desert map with the most effective areas for loot.
- PUBG Sanhok – Tips and tips for surviving the cosiest battle royale map but.
Picking the appropriate touchdown zone in PUBG
One of the primary and most vital choices you’ll ever make in every spherical of PUBG is when to leap out of the airplane. Picking someplace quiet and remoted makes these first tentative minutes on the bottom a lot safer, nevertheless it’s nearly at all times offset by the shortage of substances obtainable to scavenge in your rapid environment. Likewise, in the event you choose to land someplace with a status for spawning first rate loot, there’s likelihood you’ll should duke it out together with your neighbours if you wish to get your arms on some critical {hardware}.
The trajectory of the airplane is totally random and the angle of the chosen flight path will decide which components of the map it is possible for you to to entry from the start of every spherical. Whilst you gained’t know what route the airplane will take till you’re up within the air, it’s usually good to have a number of choices in your thoughts so that you could resolve on what areas are viable touchdown zones. As a rule of thumb, you need to attempt to keep in mind that the three hottest areas folks will soar out of the airplane at are:
- The very first alternative: A number of gamers suppose that getting their boots on the bottom first provides them an edge over the folks touchdown a number of miles away from them. No, I don’t get it both.
- The centre of the map: Universally acknowledged as the world of PUBG, this constructing is is essentially the most central landmark on the map and boasts some pretty first rate gear, however folks usually land right here particularly to brawl.
- Any main metropolis instantly beneath the flight path: If any of the larger settlements fall instantly beneath the trail of the airplane, you’ll be able to assure {that a} hefty portion of the sever populace will probably be descending upon it like a biblical plague.
So the place must you land then? Well like so many alternative elements of PUBG, this may range relying on the map, in addition to the course of the airplane. There are a number of areas throughout every map that may get you equipped although, and while some will see extra foot site visitors than others, preserving these areas in your thoughts will provide you with sufficient choices to adapt on the fly.
Essential gear and consumables in PUBG
It’s straightforward to get slowed down by the overwhelming collection of gadgets you will discover suspiciously sprawled out throughout the evacuated homesteads of PUBG. Like a gunrunner’s Funko Pop assortment, there appears to be a by no means ending provide of weapon attachments, ammo varieties, and miscellaneous tat simply ready to be liberated by your pilfering arms. Unfortunately house is at a premium, and while you will get greater backpacks that will help you hoard a group of pointless optics and fast draw magazines, realizing what to pocket and what to disregard could make the method of trawling for loot a lot faster.
Starting with the fundamentals, you’re going to need weapons. That a lot ought to be apparent, proper? We’ll get to that within the subsequent part. Beyond your assortment of homicide wands, you’re additionally going to wish to hunt for a full set of armour. Armour comes within the type of a helmet and a police vest, every offering you with a share of harm discount relying on the extent of the armour. Thanks to the inquisitive efforts of YouTuber Akadiablo2231, we all know that the injury discount at every stage is as follows:
- Level 1 – Provides a 30% injury discount and may take as much as 80 factors of harm earlier than it breaks.
- Level 2 – Provides a 40% injury discount and may take as much as 150 factors of harm earlier than it breaks.
- Level 3 – Provides a 55% injury discount and may take as much as 230 factors of harm earlier than it breaks.
Backpacks additionally are available in three tiers, however as an alternative of offering injury resistance, they provide further stock capability that will help you hoard extra army particles. All gamers begin the spherical with 70 capability, which comes from a base capability of 20 in addition to a further 50 from the utility belt that every participant comes outfitted with. This ought to be sufficient house so that you can carry 30 spare rounds of ammunition, in addition to a handful of therapeutic gadgets and the odd weapon attachment. And no, you can not begin the game with much less stock house by eradicating the utility belt from the principle menu. The game will forcefully strap it again onto your waist and silently choose you for being an fool. Police vests additionally grant you an additional 50 capability bringing you as much as a complete of 120. From right here, backpacks present the next:
- Level 1 – Provides +150 capability. Enough to hold 60-120 rounds, some therapeutic gadgets, the odd attachment and one or two grenades
- Level 2 – Provides +200 capability. Enough to hold 120-180 rounds, a wholesome inventory of therapeutic gadgets, attachments and grenades.
- Level 3 – Provides +250 capability. Enough to hold a whole ammunition manufacturing facility round with you. If you fill this up, you have got a hoarding downside.
Along with the bullet resistant threads and backpacks that would give Mary Poppins a run for her cash, your essential focus when scavenging by way of the households of PUBG ought to be to amass therapeutic gadgets, appropriate ammunition to your weapons, and any attachments you could make use of. Healing gadgets are particularly important as you’re nearly definitely going to take injury from someplace all through the course of every spherical, so make sure you pocket any first assist, med kits, vitality drinks, and painkillers everytime you come throughout them. If you don’t have house, make house.
The ‘ideal’ PUBG weapon loadout
A number of what occurs throughout your common PUBG match in the end falls to likelihood, so to say that there’s one particular set of weapons that you need to attempt to purchase can be pointless. Instead, what you have to be attempting to do is masking your entire bases. Fights can occur wherever, so the optimum load-out ought to embody two weapons that can help you successfully combat each at vary and in shut quarters.
The commonest weapon used when combating throughout giant distances is the assault rifle. Sniper rifles just like the Kar98okay and the SKS do exist throughout the game, however you’re more likely to stumble throughout an assault rifle in your travels. Armed with a x4 or x8 scope, an assault rifle may be an efficient software when ambushing unsuspecting souls out of your cozy homicide nest. If you wish to weigh the scales even additional in your favour, you need to look out for front-end attachments like suppressors or flash hiders that do an ideal job at concealing your location. Magazine mods are additionally fairly efficient, and while you will get both an prolonged or fast draw variant, you need to at all times search for the Ext. fast draw mod which mixes to 2 results into one modification.
Your secondary weapon is greater than seemingly going to be topic to what’s round. It may be something from one other assault rifle all the best way to a pump motion shotgun. In a really perfect situation, you need to solely attain for this gun while you’re storming a home or taking a combat to enemies in shut quarters. As such, this gun ought to be fitted with much less excessive optics the place doable, like a purple dot or holographic sight, so that you could regulate your peripheral imaginative and prescient simply in case somebody tries to get the soar on you.. If you’re utilizing one thing computerized, you also needs to preserve this gun set to the next fireplace price too by toggling the firing mode (Press B by default). This will can help you dish out further injury in lieu of accuracy, which you gained’t want as a lot while you’re staring into the whites of your opponent’s eyes.
Knowing when to take a combat
It could seem counter intuitive at first, however the secret to reliably successful in PUBG isn’t to burst into each firefight you see with reckless abandon. In truth, you need to intention to do the alternative. Try to keep in mind that you’re sharing the island with as much as 99 different those that desperately wish to sacrifice you within the identify of a metaphorical hen. Of course, in the event you’re feeling bloodthirsty there’s nothing stopping you from wading into the fray, however don’t count on to come back out of it unscathed.
Brendan ‘Playerunknown’ Greene himself has gone on report a number of instances saying that the most effective technique for staying alive till the tip is to let everybody else kill one another first. But that’s simpler mentioned than carried out, particularly when the circles start to contract and also you’re pressured to invade the non-public house of your island dwelling neighbours. Fortunately there are some things you are able to do to tip the scales in your favour. For starters, touchdown someplace much less standard ought to be apparent. Less competitors for loot at the beginning of the game means you will get a foothold with out worrying about being clocked by a frying pan from behind. Once you’re kitted out, probably the most sensible methods to enjoying stealthily is to straddle the border of the blue circle. Whilst this comes with its personal dangers, most noticeably that the secure zone could spawn too far-off from you to achieve it in time, deploying this tactic does make sure that your potential threats will nearly at all times be in entrance of you, permitting you to focus on one course and fear much less about being flanked.
When attempting to creep and crawl your approach to the highest spot, you also needs to be aware of any sounds round you. Cars are the obvious instance and may act as a transparent warning so that you can search cowl instantly or run the chance of being mowed down like an additional in a Mad Max fan movie. Each individual will generate pretty distinguishable footsteps when transferring too (together with you), and these sounds differ relying on the kind of flooring that the individual is strolling throughout. This can be utilized to pinpoint the placement of any flanking or fleeing assailants in the event you’re hiding inside a constructing. Getting used to the minor variations will take a while, however when you study to recognise and course of the assorted audio cues, you’ll be able to usually predict the place potential threats are coming from with out ever seeing them..
Using and abusing PUBG’s cameras
If you’re a fan of the default third individual game mode in PUBG, then you definitely’re going to wish to grasp the artwork of abusing the third individual digicam. No, that’s not a euphemism. With its distant angle, the third individual digicam can allow you to peek over obstacles and round corners with out risking any of your human meat to any would-be snipers. By doing this, you’ll be able to successfully scout out harmful zones and make a extra knowledgeable determination in your subsequent motion by gaining imaginative and prescient of areas you actually shouldn’t be capable to see.
Whilst these further levels of imaginative and prescient are nice, you’ll be able to truly attain even additional angles by making use of the free-look possibility, which defaults to the ALT key. By utilizing free-look, you’ll be able to usually angle the digicam additional away out of your physique, permitting you to peek previous obstacles and see from extra excessive angles to offer you a wider vary of imaginative and prescient. And in the event you’re questioning whether or not that is morally acceptable, fear not. Everyone enjoying this mode is doing this, and in the event that they aren’t, it is going to be onerous for them to complain about it after you’ve killed them.
‘Open doors’ and assessing harmful conditions
Tracking different gamers in PUBG isn’t as tough as you would possibly suppose. In truth, it might typically be as straightforward and searching on the entrance door of a home. You see, on the island of Erangel the place this massacre takes place, each practical door begins off as being closed. It’s not clear whether or not this strict door-control coverage was written into the legal guidelines of the land or not, however this does create a useful default that may act as an early warning signal when deciding whether or not or to not enter a home in quest of gear.
For instance, in the event you had been to method a small settlement and observed that a number of of the doorways within the space had been left open, this could nearly at all times be taken as a warning. The worst case situation is that the individuals who acquired right here earlier than you’re nonetheless within the space, and that they’re about to homicide you indiscriminately. Even if the earlier trespassers have moved on, it’s nonetheless not ideally suited for you because it’s very seemingly that they’ve picked the place clear of something helpful. In both situation, it’s often a good suggestion to again away and discover a new place to loot as an alternative of risking any spare time on the lookout for scraps which will have been left behind.
Dealing with purple zones
After just a few games it’s possible you’ll discover {that a} purple zone will periodically seem on the map. Any typical individual would assume that this implies one thing harmful and that avoiding it will be the most suitable choice, and usually talking they might be proper. However, the fact of the purple zone isn’t almost as imposing because the concern surrounding it.
As a rule, the purple zone will seem in a reasonably huge space on the map and linger there for upwards of 30 seconds earlier than commencing a bombardment of the realm, sporadically dropping bombs that may kill gamers in a single hit. These shells can not penetrate by way of homes nonetheless, and anybody in search of refuge from the bombardment can search shelter inside close by buildings in the event that they really feel the necessity.
The downside with the purple zone is that it’s scarier than it appears. Fear of being worn out with no second’s discover can usually throw a wrench in your greatest laid plans, preserving you suppressed in an space for a number of seconds all through the period. Make no mistake although, the specter of the purple zone is actual, however its explosive unfold is so stretched out and unspecific that the possibilities of getting hit aren’t very excessive in any respect. If you ever end up caught within the blast radius, there’s no disgrace in hiding away from just a few seconds, however don’t threat sure dying to assailants or an encroaching circle in the event you get caught brief by the purple zone.
Understanding ‘The Blue’ in PUBG, why it hates you
“The Blue” is the true enemy of PUBG. A silent menace, this contracting electrical subject is as lethal as it’s punctual. Acting because the shepherd for every spherical of PUBG, the blue circle slowly forces the individuals to maneuver nearer and nearer till ultimately just one individual is stays. If you wish to survive to say the proverbial hen dinner of legend, you have to perceive how the circle operates, and tips on how to exploit it to your benefit.
Let’s begin with the fundamentals, painstakingly researched by YouTuber Fugglet. The blue circle follows a selected set of timings that happen at the very same intervals in each spherical. The order is as follows:
- From leaping out of the airplane and touchdown on the earliest doable alternative, you should have roughly one to 2 minutes earlier than the primary white circle is highlighted.
- Circle 1 – The blue circle will take 5 minutes to contract absolutely. Players can survive for Four minutes and 10 seconds from full well being inside this circle with out therapeutic.
- Circle 2 – The blue circle will take 2 minutes and 20 seconds to contract absolutely. Players can survive for two minutes and 46 seconds from full well being inside this circle with out therapeutic.
- Circle 3 – The blue circle will take 1 minute and 30 seconds to contract absolutely. Players can survive for two minutes and 5 seconds from full well being inside this circle with out therapeutic.
- Circle 4 – The blue circle will take 1 minute to contract absolutely. Players can survive for 1 minutes and 40 seconds from full well being inside this circle with out therapeutic.
- Circle 5 – The blue circle will take 40 seconds to contract absolutely. Players can survive for 34 seconds from full well being inside this circle with out therapeutic.
- Circle 6 – The blue circle will take 30 seconds to contract absolutely. Players can survive for 20 seconds from full well being inside this circle with out therapeutic.
- Circle 7 – The blue circle will take 30 seconds to contract absolutely. Players can survive for 15 seconds from full well being inside this circle with out therapeutic.
- Circle 8 – The blue circle will contract nearly instantly. Players can survive for 10 seconds from full well being inside this circle with out therapeutic.
In practise, what this implies is that the circle will change into an increasing number of punishing because the games goes on, so while you’ll be able to shrug off many of the injury within the early levels, being conscious of the positioning of the blue and white circles within the later levels of the spherical is essential to keep away from getting caught out by the electrical wall of dying. It’s additionally price noting that the pace at which the circle contracts can range wildly relying on how far it has to journey. If a white zone seems in the direction of the sting of the earlier zone, then anybody caught on the alternative aspect will face a a lot sooner blue zone than the opposite instructions as the sector makes an attempt to remain relative to the timings and distance it must journey..
Advanced ways: tips on how to win in PUBG
So now that the fundamentals, these are a bunch extra superior ways that may be deployed to get the most effective likelihood of successful. Some could also be apparent, however others could shock you. All can be utilized on any map, so that you’ll get loads of likelihood to attempt them out.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle
If you’ve ever watched a kind of streaming varieties play a spherical of PUBG you might have observed that each time they’re hiding behind a tree or looting from a lately deceased corpse, they do some dance. This easy three step routine won’t appear crucial at first, however this twinkle-toed feat of theatrical prowess truly serves an vital objective while you’re out within the wild attempting to keep away from a ranged lobotomy.
For argument’s sake, let’s name it “The Wiggle”. By doing “The Wiggle” you’re successfully making a transferring goal for anybody that presently has you targeted of their cross-hairs. By utilizing your fancy footwork, you could possibly trigger attackers to mistime their shot, supplying you with time to react to the incoming gunfire and re-position to someplace safer. “The Wiggle” additionally suits properly throughout the confines of the game’s therapeutic mechanics, as medication gadgets should be channelled for a number of seconds, and transferring too far-off breaks the impact. Fortunately you’ll be able to transfer very barely from the realm you activated the merchandise, so utilizing “The Wiggle” while therapeutic is a superb behavior to get into to assist make you much less weak when patching up these warfare wounds.
Mastering the crouch soar
One of the unwritten secrets and techniques hiding within the lexicon of PUBG data is the crouch soar. Much prefer it does in almost each different game, crouch leaping in PUBG enables you to mount obstacles and entry areas you wouldn’t usually be capable to attain together with your pathetic, human leaping method. With this supercharged leap in your software set, you’ll be able to bypass typical entry factors to buildings and flee would-be assailants with ease.
To carry out the crouch soar, you have to hit the keys for soar + crouch + ahead on the similar time. This could sound straightforward in practise, however the timing of every key press needs to be exact, and in the event you’re attempting to do that while a Bob Ross lookalike is coming at you with an assault rifle, it’s most likely not going to finish effectively for you. Fortunately there’s a approach to create a key binding that allows you to pull off this acrobatic feat reliably.
As detailed by popular streaming chap Summit, head into your keybindings and find the soar and crouch choices. Start by deciding on the secondary binding possibility for soar after which maintain down shift and hit house bar. Continue to carry down shift after which do the identical for the secondary bind for crouching, after which click on on the apply button while preserving the shift key pressed down. Once every part is efficiently certain, you should have straightforward and fast entry to crouch jumps irrespective of how nerve-racking the scenario.
It’s price noting that lots of buildings scattered throughout the map have home windows which are sufficiently big to leap by way of in the event you ever have the pressing must make a fast getaway. What’s extra, you’ll be able to truly soar by way of strong home windows with out breaking them with a crouch soar, including a complete new and intensely particular superpower to your battle royale ability set.
Go barefoot
When enjoying with a squad, it might typically be fairly tough to distinguish between the assorted sounds in your rapid space. You is perhaps creeping round a extremely unstable space when the creek of a floorboard echoes all through the home, and it’s not at all times clear whether or not that sound was the telltale tingle of a flanking assailant or simply your pal Chris who seems like he’s carrying his novelty clown sneakers.
To assist alleviate this, attempt to persuade everybody in your staff to take away their sneakers. It could not appear to be it, however strolling barefoot offers a lighter, extra high-pitched cadence than that of a boot. By aligning the pedestrian acoustics of your staff, you’ll be able to assist filter out good friend from foe a lot simpler, supplying you with a slight edge when plundering excessive site visitors areas the place different gamers wish to linger.
“Tanking The Blue”
Whilst the blue circle is a power to be reckoned with, it’s not with out limitations, and plenty of intelligent sods have realized that the specter of the blue may be exploited to to their benefit. By purposefully heading into the outer zones of the blue circle through the early levels of the game, you’ll be able to usually entry loot that others have ignored. If you’re pretty tooled up by this level, heading into the blue may also open up new methods to ambush stragglers desperately attempting to achieve the security of the white zone.
As effectively as casually choosing off helpless souls, tenting out on ridges and vantage factors within the blue can provide you an excellent angle on folks hiding out close to the sting of the barrier. When you open fireplace, it’s impossible that they are going to realise the pictures are coming from exterior of the secure zone, they usually’re greater than seemingly going to show themselves as a result of they assume that there wouldn’t be anybody exterior within the blue zone.
This tactic is simplest when enjoying as a squad, and to do it safely you’re going to wish to be sure to have the appropriate weapons and scopes to make lengthy vary pictures, in addition to sufficient ammo and medication to final the period of your underhanded homicide spree. Securing a automobile will even just remember to and your staff don’t get carried out over by a clumsy tier 2 white zone location.
Making essentially the most of your medicine
Healing in PUBG isn’t as simple because it first may appear. There are a few gadgets that may be exploited to successfully maximise the quantity of well being you get again, or to easily assist enhance your base attributes to offer you an edge throughout fight.
Bandages could not appear crucial to the uninitiated survivor. They don’t heal for all that a lot, it takes longer to get any precise therapeutic out of them within the first place, and the therapeutic they do present isn’t instantly utilized like it’s with first aids and med kits. However, these inconspicuous plasters are the most typical therapeutic merchandise within the game, and you may truly stretch extra well being out of every bandage in the event you’re keen to take the time. Many folks make the error of consuming bandages in fast succession one after the opposite. If you do that, you successfully take away wherever between one to 2 thirds of the potential well being acquire per bandage. Instead of cramming a handful of medical provides into your mouth suddenly, what you need to do is apply the primary bandage, after which wait till it ticks for the third time earlier than making use of the subsequent. This approach you’re going to get the total quantity of therapeutic from every use.
You might also discover gadgets often known as boosts in your travels. These gadgets, consisting of painkillers, vitality drinks, and the elusive adrenaline shot are all dietary supplements that play an vital position when attempting to heal again to full well being, as each different therapeutic merchandise (excluding the med package) can solely heal you as much as 75% most. Boosts present the remainder of the distinction within the type of therapeutic over time, however in addition they have one other lesser identified property. Depending on what number of boosts you employ, you’ll be able to truly improve the therapeutic quantity per second, in addition to your base run pace. These boosts are tracked with the enhance bar, which is represented as 4 bars discovered simply above your well being bar. The bonuses from every stage, researched by YouTuber MagnumDopus, reveals the results are as follows:
- Tier 1 – Grants 1% well being regeneration per tick.
- Tier 2 – Grants 2% well being regeneration per tick.
- Tier 3 – Grants 3% well being regeneration per tick + 2.5% motion pace bonus.
- Tier 4 – Grants 4% well being regeneration per tick + 6.2% motion pace bonus.
Whilst a few of these bonuses may appear fairly profitable in idea, it’s usually not price blowing a number of boosts suddenly to get them. Instead you need to attempt to heal as much as 75% with different medication earlier than taking one enhance and conserving your stockpile for any future fights of blue zone injury you would possibly take.
Getting essentially the most out of your glide
Everyone that has performed PUBG has their very own base leaping ritual. Some people imagine they will attain the bottom sooner by taking off garments in the principle menu, thus decreasing their very own drag issue within the air. Others imagine that by twirling their parachute 360 levels always while gliding to the bottom they will create some type of vortex that sucks them down sooner. Unfortunately, these strategies are 100% ineffective and can solely serve you make you seem like a muppet, however the concept of following a routine when falling by way of the sky might help you attain locations you might have in any other case regarded as out of attain.
The trick to flying additional lies throughout the method. As documented by YouTube fellow MagnumDopus, by pulling your parachute as quickly because it’s obtainable after which oscillating the angle of your descent forwards and backwards all through the period of your flight, you’ll be able to simply clear a lot better distances that you just bare neighbours. When attempting this myself, I’ve discovered that the optimum pace that you just wish to attempt to keep is between 20-24 km/h. Not solely can this put you effectively out of the best way of some other gamers, it might additionally provide help to attain main cities that can seemingly be unoccupied, permitting you to gear up in peace.
Holster your weapon to run sooner
This one is fairly straight ahead. If you holster your weapon, you’ll be able to run sooner. It’s so easy, however many individuals both overlook to do it, or just select to not. Of course in the event you’re in the course of a firefight and you have to shoot somebody, placing away your weapon and operating wildly in any given course isn’t the appropriate name. However, typically that further burst of pace may be helpful when attempting to cross giant open fields or areas the place snipers are masking.
The pace at which you’re slowed down varies relying on what sort of gun you’re holding on the time, however a tough estimate places somebody holding an assault rifle at about 4-5% slower than somebody who has their gun holstered. When you’re attempting to keep away from incoming gunfire or throw off somebody’s intention, that 5% might simply be the distinction between security or dying.
Smoke grenades ought to by no means be trusted
Smoke grenades are helpful instruments that will help you out of a pinch. By throwing down this canned fog, you’ll be able to create a useful visible blockade that helps you cross between a very lethal killing subject. On paper, that sounds nice. The actuality is rather less dependable nonetheless, as smoke grenades endure from some fascinating limitations.
Many customers have reported that the smoke generated from the smoke grenades is definitely generated on the consumer (your PC) versus the server, which implies that the course and common cowl of the smoke that you just see won’t be the identical as what everybody else sees. Whilst the builders have weighed in on this topic, claiming that there are steps in place to assist make it constant for everybody, it appears as if the smoke nonetheless isn’t 100% correct, particularly if the attacking celebration is kind of far-off from the supply of the smoke.
It’s very seemingly that this may get sorted earlier than the game comes out of early entry, however till we get phrase straight from the developer themselves, it’s price remembering that your smoke grenade is perhaps secretly attempting to kill you.
With that slightly exhaustive information, you have to be on top of things with every part you have to learn about Plunkbat. It could take a number of games to get your first hen dinner, however there’s no feeling fairly like being first in a game the place 99 different folks have fallen.
