Hog & Arms Can't Win PUBG

PUBG
During the lockdown of 2020, Hog and Arms started up a weekly stream on Twitch where they played PUBG for about 100 to 200 viewers. Every time they lost they donated 5 EUR each to a charity chosen by themselves or by the FAHns. They did not win. Not once. Bad news for their wallets but good news for charity!

There were 9 PUBG streams in total. On Heleendje's and SherlockedStorytellr's YouTube channels, you can browse PUBG-themed playlists.

We've collected a 'best of' on this page.

Trailers


More to be added soon!

PUBG - the game
PUBG is short for PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS. This is a survivor shooter game. One hundred players are sent into a fight to the death; the last player standing is the winner. The players jump out of a plane into a chosen 'world' and start getting themselves ready for a good fight (collecting weapons, protective gear, throwables, medical equipment and such). Their playing field becomes smaller and smaller throughout the game. As the circle tightens, the players are forced closer together, keeping the game interesting. A player that is out of the circle will loose health and eventually die.

There are 3 main strategies in the game:

- Hide and shoot people in the back. This can mean waiting in a house until someone comes in. Hiding can also work well for sniper action. Especially in some of the later games, Arms showed he was pretty good with the sniper rifle.

- '''Lay low and wait for others to do the dirty work of killing each other. '''This is a very effective strategy. The key though is to remember to stay in the circle and to collect weapons. As you can imagine this strategy could seem boring to watch, but the lads seemed to have a bit more time for storytelling and banter when using this strategy. Too much storytelling had the potential of distracting them from finishing the game with some good fighting, which was needed to become first.

- Active, up close & personal fighting. Draw your weapons and run in, shooting everything in your way. Make sure you have enough weapons, ammunition, grenades and explosives to distract, blow up, or conceal you from your enemies. Attack can be the best defense but can also get you killed quickly. The lads hada lot of fun doing this, and seemed to do very well when they put on an accent... perhaps it helped improved their concentration?

In addition to the strategies above, vehicles are also an important part of the game. Players may need to cover large distances to stay within the circle or to find (or escape from) enemies. Players can find cars, trucks, boats, motorcycles, motor glider, tukshai, etc. Overall the lads got quite a good Uber rating - especially for exemplary crashes and great parallel parking :)

Compilations
Coming soon!

AHnecdotes
In between looting and shooting, Arms and Hog often told stories - dubbed AHnecdotes - about their lives.

Coming soon!

Characters
The lads always started their streams as two neatly dressed, unarmed characters: Phlango (Hog) and AhComeOnNow (Arms). In the waiting area (where players wait for enough players to join the game) they usually started trolling around, often chasing people and trying to swap clothes (long time chases and some beatings might be included). Sometimes, they simply took their clothes off. Why wouldn't you play in your underwear, right?

Further changes of appearance happened during the game. Most importantly, of course, was to find a nice frying pan, guns (how about a pink one?), armour, helmet, backpack and all that. Then, almost equally important: lose the shoes! Arms couldn't say this enough. Players without shoes make less noise and can better sneak up on their enemies. Finally, new clothes were sometimes looted from other killed characters. Some nice explosives and (smoke) grenades finished off the look.

And, not to be forgotten: they both wore masks ;-)



Apart from their in-game characters, the lads also let some funny (sketch) characters make an appearance. Sometimes the lads "dressed up" as these characters (like Clara, the Priest and STI); sometimes the characters just "happened" on the go. Sometimes a challenge was accepted from the chat, making the FAHns very happen. Several accents were done during the games. Often, the accents seemed to lead to the lads' best game play.

One FAHn challenged Arms and Hog to keep an accent going for a certain period of time; if they succeeded, the FAHn would donate more money their charity that evening. The lads were so focused they played the best game ever! Sadly, they triumphed alone. Due to technical issues, the stream glitched and their excellent game play was not witnessed by the FAHns. After about 20 minutes a sad Hog came back online to let the FAHns know what they had missed.



PUBG drinking
In the earlier streams, several FAHns played BINGO, based on things Arms & Hog would do, say or wear during the game. FAHns had to take care of their own "award", which for many was a sip of their drink :) During the streams there was usually a "listing of drinks" by the fans, and in almost every stream the question would be "What are you drinking Arms?".... Leading to replies like "Why do you assume I am drinking?" - followed by a sip from a nice drink and a glance in the camera.



Minecraft
Written by Twix

For the 10th stream, Hog did a Minecraft reveal to Arms and hundreds of FAHns. He had spent three and a half years building his "palace" and it was glorious.

FAHnvidder Twix made a trailer for this wonderful minecraft stream in honor of this stream and that LooneyFAHnmanaged to save it to her youtube channel! Watch the trailer by clicking on the photo below and then check out the streams at the end:



More Minecraft clips coming soon!...(I hope - Twix)