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Bicycle commuting in PUBG is fun, silly, and sometimes even smartWattage bazookas meet real bazookas
Wattage bazookas meet real bazookas
Bicycle commuting in PUBG is fun, silly, and sometimes even smartSome bike antics caught on video—and yes, I did forget the key to switch guns to single-shot, thanksWatch on YouTube
Bicycle commuting in PUBG is fun, silly, and sometimes even smart
Oi oiii!
While folding bikes and internal gears tend to be heavier and slower, that’s no problem for the Plunklads. With only a little effort, they ride at 62kmh—faster than Tour De France cyclists on £13,000 carbon fibre bikes. Forget EPO, they should start doping with Red Bull and banter.
I do sorely wish I could give my pal a backie on the Plunkbike. Attempts with my usual bunch of lads to form a roaming gang of bicycle bully boys have fallen through because we’ve yet to find enough for the whole squad. Occasions we had even two bikes led to a vast increase in stunts and foolishness, so I desire more. Though there is fun in lads on bikes circling the bikeless, ringing and stunting—a bit of banter to encourage searching.
I would also appreciate the addition of a rare rubbish bicycle, a small chance to find a rusting heap which squeaks and creaks and grinds along, with a grating bell. I realise that would be a big development effort for a gag item only I would enjoy but tatty old bikes are strewn about the maps as props, so it feels a little cruel that I can’t ride them. My own runabout (the bike I’m happy to leave locked up in public) is a pal’s old mountain bike, which was nicked a good decade ago then neglected until the police unexpectedly returned it. I’ve grown fond of its few vocal bits of personality I haven’t been able to tighten or lubricate away, recurrent noises that don’t indicate anything good but do come to feel like familiar panting patterns of a friendly dog accompanying me on a ride to the shops.
Alas, like a bicycle in a twee antiques shop, this one is purely decorative
Bicycles would be a good fit for more games where crossing large distances quick-ish and quietly is valuable. I know a number of bicycles have graced millitary sim series Arma across the years, as well as ye olde Arma mod version ofDayZ. A bicycle is a great vehicle for evading zombies and humans alike after the apocalypse: quiet, reliable, easy to fix, easy to scavenge replacement parts for, and a huge mechanical multiplier of your effort.
Because I can’t let it go: I still think the game’s 2021 rebranding to ‘PUBG: Battlegrounds’ was bad. That makes it Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds? No. Should’ve officially renamed it Plunkbat,the nickname everyone loves and adores.
