I jumped onto this again last night, there's been a 4GB update and thought I'd just have one or two rounds.
A couple of mates (one of them Aitchy who was on the forum briefly) who I used to play DayZ with joined me in a squad and we played a few hours in the end. This game is seiously addictive. It helps that you can get back in a new game really quickly after dying.
The game starts with 100 players in an aircraft flying over some islands and each player decides when to jump out and parachute to the ground.
When you land there's limited time to find weapons, ammo, armour, backpack, first aid etc before a circle appears on the map and a message saying if you're not in the circle you've 2 minutes to get yourself there. If you're outside the circle you lose health rapidly.
Over the course if the round the circle contracts at various and more frequent stages until there's a tiny area in the map with half a dozen players left shooting it out until there's a winner.
There are vehicles, land and sea which are pretty easy to drive.
Best weapons to find are a shotty when looting houses in towns snd villages and an AKM with a decent scope for longer range encounters.
I've only died so far from snipers in the latter stages of the round though we managed second place on one occasion last night.
Can play solo games, doubles games and squad games.
Game is clearly still in development. Still rubber banding on occasion but it still plays pretty well for me.
Heats up the GPU though