4 top reasons why veterans should play battle royale games

Whether you've served or not, you know the difficulty of leaving a job and moving away. For all you civilians out there, take the struggles and anxieties that come with moving away from a place, a people, and a function you know and amplify them ten-fold. In the military, you spend all day, every day getting to know your coworkers and becoming a family. When you finally leave that family and return to civilian life, it sucks — all of your best friends are now thousands of miles away.

Thanks to the age of the internet and social media, that gap is easily closed — but one thing us veterans (especially us grunts) miss the most is playing soldier with our brothers and sisters. Strangely enough, we've found that there is a way to reconnect with our veteran friends in the way we prefer, which is getting into gunfights.

If you're a veteran and you've been looking to reconnect with your buddies, here's why you should do it over a few rounds of a battle royale game:

Just like the old days, eh?

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Tommy Bellegarde)

Teamwork is essential

By playing with your friends, you'll have a distinct advantage in a battle royale game. You already know how to work together and function in combat scenarios and that chemistry takes you far. You also know how to communicate with each other because you speak the same military language.

If you're like us, this is the part you miss the most.

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ricardo Hurtado)

You spend time with your veteran friends

While it may not be an in-person visit, you still get to hang out with your friends. In a way, the settings are surprisingly similar — you never really know what lies ahead.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Ryan Carpenter)

Your knowledge can help you dominate

In games like PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS, employment of real-world tactics is crucial. You didn't know it at the time, but all that time you spent in training wasn't just preparing you for real war — it was preparing you to dominate the digital domain, too.

The fact that you and your buddies have training and experience with each other gives you a distinct advantage — and we all love winning, so why not use everything you know? You've already done the hard part — once you get the controls down, it's smooth sailing.

You'll enjoy it.

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Katherine M. Solano)

It's just plain fun

Hanging out with your buddies and sh*t talking each other is the world's greatest pastime. Even if you're not dominating other teams, you're still having fun reminiscing and joking with each other. So, why not take a crack at it?