Why do I suck at Battle Royal?

Question

I'm not a great player in any part of the game, but in arena's I'm at least competent. I can manage 4-6 kills, decent damage and not be a drain to the team, be it my friends or with strangers. But then we go into BR and we just get pulverised by the first squad we find.
We aren't getting third partied, we often see them at least at the same time they see us if not before. Then wham bam, they're on us and we're all dead. It's the same damn game! Limited map, hell sometimes it's literally in an arena area, yet we just get owned time after time after time in seconds. It's not even competitive let alone fun.

I practice my aim in the range, watch every video I can find, practice my movement, try to learn the ins and outs of the Legends, yet I go into BR and I'm done in the first sections of the first fight more times than not.

Does anyone else experience this? Know an answer? Something we should be working on? Is it the matchmaking? Are people cheating more in BR? Is the gameplay that much different?

laughingsharko · Answer

@MichaleDragoI have the same problem. I think it's three things, personally:

1. In arenas, even strangers tend to stay close together. Being near your team is essential for winning. Unfortunately, in BR, you're always searching (or I am anyway) for that sniper scope for your rifle or that purple backpack, etc. In almost any 3v1 situation, you go down before your team can reach you. Unless you're amazing, which I'm not, lol.

2. The way most arena maps are set up, there are two main directions because of where you spawn from. Front and back. You know every inch of the maps by heart, so you can adapt quickly to find cover as needed.

With BR, maps are so huge that unless you've been playing all season on the same map, you may not know where is safe, where you have a good vantage point, where enemies are likely to shoot at you, etc. It's easy for your team to get split up, and then you all die.

3. In arenas, you choose the weapons you like and feel most comfortable with. In battle royale, you have to play with a G7 scout even if you hate it. You really have to know every gun inside and out, including when you should reload and when you can push it a little more.

TLDR, staying together as a team is essential for not dying. This is much harder in battle royale vs arenas, at least for me.

michaledrago · Answer

@LaughingSharko I sort of think the separation is the right answer. We often have our prefered load out when this happens, so I don't think that is it.

gg123xyz · Answer

@MichaleDragoi the battle royale you need to fight as a team, on the ground/area that you can fight on.just because you can fight doesn't mean you can fight anywhere like a bear can in the forest. even bears have to respect certain ant colony's or they get eaten and ask to get put down by hunters.if you fight where you can actually fight and the enemy can't and you still lose then that's on you you should get a beard and eat meat and go blue balls and get a deeper voice and be a man and then try again.

michaledrago · Answer

@gg123xyz This seems like a long winded way of saying Git Gud, but um, thanks I guess.

cheese9man · Answer

@MichaleDrago It's the other way around for me. I had more wins in BR today than in arenas. I did only play like 7 games though.

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