A Bug Did Not Rob Shroud of Grenade Kills in PUBG Invitational Charity Showcase

Saturday, July 28th saw the PUBG Invitational 2018 Charity Showcase take place where 40 streamers and 40 professional PUBG players teamed up in teams of four to battle it out for the lion's share of the $1,000,000 prize pool that would be awarded to the charities of their choice. Former professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player turned highly popular PUBG streamer shroud was one of the competitors in the PUBG Invitational 2018 Charity Showcase and during one of his matches looked to have been robbed of a grenade kill by a bug in the battle royale game. 

The play in question took place on the map of Erangel and saw shroud knock down one of the two enemies he was fighting with a quick burst from his SCAR-L assault rifle. Seeing an opportunity to take out the players healing his teammate, shroud quickly threw what looked to be a perfectly placed frag grenade on the two enemy players. However, viewers were shocked to see the grenade not kill the two enemies even though it appeared to explode right on top of them. 

You can watch the controversial PUBG grenade play by shroud in question below. 

The clip quickly went viral as many individuals pointed to the fact that PUBG is far from being a title ready for serious esports competition, despite the success that its largest event in history in the PUBG Global Invitational 2018 has seen this past week. 

However, PUBG Corp. decided to take a look at what exactly happened during the play where it looked a bug had robbed shroud of what could have been an expertly thrown grenade. In a blog bost summarizing the action of the Global Invitational 2018 Charity Showcase, PUBG Corp. addressed the infamous shroud grenade play and stated that it was not a bug in the battle royale title that caused shroud to not collect the two kills. 

PUBG's developer went on to explain what had actually occurred. 

"At first we at PUBG Corp. thought there might be some bug preventing grenades from dealing full damage, but further investigation proved that the grenade had simply bounced just out of lethal range (and the angle of the observer’s camera obscured this fact). 

 Here’s the same toss shown from a different angle that shows the bounce more clearly

And the image above shows the grenade just a moment before it blew up. Shroud’s ‘nade tossing skills are legendary, but this one ended up just a hair too far from its intended target." 

While at first it looked as though a bug in PUBG had caused shroud to not secure the two grenade kills during the PUBG Invitational 2018 Charity Showcase, it was actually a case of the angle that the stream's observer mode was in making it look as though the grenade had exploded right on top of the players when in reality the grenade had bounced out of lethal range. 

(cover photo courtesy of DreamHack)