First of all, the purpose of this post is not shitting on the game, I played this game for almost 8 years and I still like playing it, the goal here is to point out some issues related to game performance on Android…
Secondly, I'm obviously not a software developer, so I'm not trying to criticize the dev team or act like I know better. I'm just a player with a lot of in-game hours, who also experienced the game on a bunch of different devices.
The screenshots are framestats recorded with the Scene apk. There are 2 for DFM, bcs Pubgm matches are about 2x longer. The phone is a Xiaomi Black Shark (Snapdragon 870, 3.2 GHz, 12/256 GB)
To make it as unfair as possible, I tested Pubgm with performance mode enabled, super smooth graphics, anti-aliasing off, power saving off, and a cooling fan attached, no screen recording. The match was played on an low rank account (gold), Erangel Themed mode, game size was 4.5 GB (no skins downloaded)
For DF, I turned off performance mode and enabled battery saving instead, graphics on high, anti-aliasing on, and to make it even harder for the phone I played while screen recording at 1080p, 60 fps, 15 mb bitrate and internal audio. No cool-down between the matches
Both games use around 4.5 watts, and both are built on UE4. So far I've seen the phone use up to 7.6 watts in some heavier games, so it's far from the limit. The fps graph of DF is pretty much a flat line, the only stutter occurs at the end bcs the game UI is locked at 30 fps, so as the match ends there's a sudden drop from 90 to 30. I played DF since the closed beta. I reached the maximum rank in Warfare mode, 5 days after global release, and never have I witnessed a single stutter in 400+ matches. No glazing, the game is just that good.
So the final question is, why is Pubgm not introducing Vulkan support? Even Android 10 supports it. Literally every demanding mobile game that let's you choose between Open GL and Vulkan, runs smoother with the Vulkan API. I mean, how is Android 5.0 minimum requirements for this game when this game is no longer playable on phones with Snapdragon 865/888/ 8 Gen 1???