Trophies
I have the platinum trophy for PUBG and possibly got it quicker than most people. I got the game with PS Plus when it was available and the game was probably at the peak of its popularity on PS4. Some time after playing, I started to win a lot and discovered that the game had bots. I eventually figured out that when playing with cross-play off at about 01:00-06:00 in American time zones, you would enter a game with mostly bots and sometimes even entirely bots, even on squads. I also figured out that after 5 minutes of matchmaking the game would always put you in a game regardless of if any other players matchmaked as well. These bots were what made the PUBG platinum trophy much easier and quicker to obtain than most other people who platinumed the game and I saw no trophy guides anywhere mentioning this making me think that only a couple others I played with and I were the only ones aware of how easy our trophies would be. Even though most of the trophies didn't register properly and required more kills than what the trophy description said, we all got even the hardest kill related trophies extremely easily.
Experience
Although the game runs like shit on PS4 and could be considered an overrated game, PUBG was one of the most enjoyable games I platinumed. After discovering the bot thing, I eventually matchmaked sometimes with 1 of 2 groups of players. One of the groups were tryhards while the other consisted of more casual players some of whom were also trophy hunting. Often, after playing with one team, I would matchmake with the other team and fight the team I was playing with in the previous game. I also developed a skill I copied from one of the tryhards which was quickly aiming down sights and accurately gunning down the target with constant fire. In words, this may seem easy or like something everyone does already but this was a legit skill that I only ever saw this one guy do which I then learned to do myself and even used against him. One time, while playing with the casuals, at the very end, all my teammates got killed and it was a 1v4 of me vs the full squad of tryhards and I pulled in clutch and wiped them and won the game. Because we all played during the bot hours, the casuals and I would often win multiple games in a row. 8 wins in a row is the highest I got.
Written 2021-7-21 Published 2021-8-1