This is how players cheat their way to the Chicken Dinner in PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds). A nasty exploit ruins the mood in the community.
If you finish in 2nd place in PUBG and just miss the Chicken Dinner, it’s frustrating. It’s even more annoying when the winner exploited a bug in PUBG, and as an honest player, you had no chance for 1st place, no matter how well you played.
No Damage from Blue Zone
Imagine you’re playing PUBG and have made it to the last safe zone. You find no other players around and are just waiting for the last opponent to be killed by the damage from the blue zone. But that simply doesn’t happen. No one is with you in the safe zone: Two players are alive, and in the end, you are the first to die and finish the match in 2nd place.
This situation has been observed by some players, who shared striking match summaries of their opponents. Apparently, an exploit is going around.
A Reddit user hanchengsh shared a screenshot from OP.GG with the PUBG community. The website collects details of various multiplayer games like PUBG and associates them with profiles. The screenshot shows a player who achieved first place six times, twelfth place once, and fortieth place once in PUBG.
It is possible for skilled players in PUBG to regularly secure Chicken Dinners, however, the player caused no damage and made no kills in four of these games.
Other Reddit users commented in this thread that they are familiar with this phenomenon. User Simo_Ylostalo shared a screenshot showing the safe zone closing around the player while there is no trace of the opponent.
Another striking profile was shared by user gegole on Reddit. It shows another player who surprisingly frequently reached first place in PUBG matches but sometimes covered 0.00 km distance, dealt no damage, and made no kills.
In the replays, it looks like the corresponding players do not take damage from the blue wall. Additionally, the characters are invisible. The players who win through these exploits apparently know exactly how to reproduce them.
Nevertheless, they have not been detected by the anti-cheating system so far. Probably because they occasionally play a “normal” round where they do not finish first.
But why cheat at all? Through the PUBG victories, players gain in-game currency, which they can use to purchase loot boxes. These contain cosmetic items that can then be sold on the Steam market. Recently, two new loot boxes were added to the game. These retro clothes are in the Militia and Fever boxes of PUBG
