“it requires a lot more knowledge of military weaponry” 

Maybe its time we put “hard-core” to bed. In the end you prefer a game with a unoptimized engine, with a poor UI and a harder learning curve. It doesn’t necessarily make it more “hardcore” or not. It just means you like poorly designed, obtuse games with poor kill feedback over games that have longer TTK’s, and…

IMO, everyone wins.

You right.

“it might light a fire under Bluehole to get their ass into gear and fix the million QoL issues with Battlegrounds.”

it might light a fire under Bluehole to get their ass into gear

After watching PUBG for so long, I have a lot of trouble embracing the cartoon environment in fortnite. I also think the building feature is corny as hell. The reason PUBG feels so right to me is that it’s plausible -asside from the healing and jumping off buildings, it really /feels/ right. Everything belongs…

Also of note regarding Battlegrounds’ accessibility: it requires a lot more knowledge of military weaponry, and the UI is ugly, unintuitive, and just about as unoptimized as the rest of the game. (I’m still amazed the game’s main menu is just a glorified web browser running on an HTML backend.)