Watch this mockumentary 'investigation' into the origins of PUBG death matches

[Cal Jeffrey]

In context: Every game we play resides in a universe all its own, and each has unique lore explaining why it is the way it is. Sometimes the mythos is delivered within the game, but sometimes it's not as straightforward or possible to do that. So developers use external means to deliver story content. The following is an example of that.

In a clever attempt to deliver lore content to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds players, or anyone else interested, PUBG corporation got together with Jonathan Frakes to make a short mockumentary. It is titled "Mysteries Unknown: Birth of the Battlegrounds." The show explains how the battle royale death matches all started in the PUBG universe in the style of a 1990s docuseries.

Most people know Frakes as Commander William Riker from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but he also hosted a short-lived documentary series from 1998 to 2002 called Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. Drawing from his experience hosting that show, Frakes delivers a fantastic deadpan performance that you would say was authentic if you didn't know better.

The episode is only 17 minutes long and is very well done, even though it's a total spoof on these types of shows. I won't spoil the details. You can watch the episode above or visit the freshly-minted PUBG lore webpage to explore more of the Battlegrounds universe.

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[QuantumPhysics]

PUBG is great concept but the gunplay and cheating make it terrible.

 

[scavengerspc]

I like a true to the facts origin story.

 

[Puiu]

The gunplay is so bad and bugs galore... I don't get why it became this popular.

 

[Nobina]

Reminds me of Unreal Tournament 1999 where similarly a corporation organized these deathmatch tournaments and people who thought were skilled signed up and that's how it began.

 

[Nobina]

The gunplay is so bad and bugs galore... I don't get why it became this popular.

There was always a market for battle royale games (last man standing on a big island) and PUBG was I think one of the first to do it properly on some level. There were games before it but they were even worse and more clunky.

 

[Puiu]

There was always a market for battle royale games (last man standing on a big island) and PUBG was I think one of the first to do it properly on some level. There were games before it but they were even worse and more clunky.

When I had cravings of large player battles I would just install Planetside 2 (or play on some larger community CS:GO servers)