PUBG ESP Explained: Every Option and How to Set It Up Without the Clutter

ESP stands for extra sensory perception, which in practice means an overlay that draws information about the match on top of your game. In PUBG that mostly means seeing players, loot and objects you could not normally see through walls, terrain or distance. The trick is not turning everything on. A screen full of text and lines is harder to read than the default game.

Here is what each group of options does and a sensible way to configure it.

Player ESP options

Boxes. The basic marker. You can choose 2D, corners or filled. Corners are usually the cleanest, since you still see the player model clearly.

Health. Shown as text or as a bar. A bar reads faster in the middle of a fight.

Skeleton. Draws the player's bone structure, which helps with seeing posture and direction at a glance.

Knocked. Flags players who are down, which matters a lot in squads when deciding whether to finish or reposition.

Equipment, weapon and ammo. Tell you what a player is carrying. Useful for judging how risky a push is, for example whether that squad has high tier armor or a long range setup.

Snaplines. Lines from your screen to each player. Handy for direction, noisy if you leave them on for everyone.

Kill score and level. Context about the player you are looking at.

Distance and max distance. Show how far away someone is and cap how far the overlay reaches. Lowering max distance is the easiest way to declutter.

Enemy only. Hides teammates. In duos and squads this is nearly always worth enabling.

Visible check. Lets you tell whether a player is in your line of sight.

Show bots (AI). An option to display AI players. Some players like it, others find it adds noise.

Loot and world options

Loot ESP has a filter by category: armor, blades, pistols, submachine guns, shotguns, rifles, snipers, scopes, medicine, attachments and grenades. The point of the filter is simple. If you only want Level 3 gear, a scope you like and healing items, leave everything else off.

World options cover vehicles with health and fuel, airdrops and their contents, corpses and their contents, and thrown grenades. Airdrop and corpse contents are especially handy late in a match when you are deciding whether a crate is worth the risk.

A clean starting setup

If you are new to ESP, start small.

1. Turn on boxes (corners), a health bar, distance and enemy only.

2. Set a reasonable max distance instead of the maximum.

3. Add loot filters for only the categories you care about.

4. Add airdrop and vehicle info once you are comfortable.

5. Add extras like skeleton, ammo or snaplines one at a time and keep only what you actually use.

The product also lets you change colors, which is worth doing so enemies, loot and vehicles are easy to tell apart.

Common mistakes

Turning on every option at once is the big one. The second is leaving max distance too high, which fills the screen with players you cannot do anything about. Third, forgetting to check status after a PUBG update. If something stops showing up, our troubleshooting checklist walks through the usual causes.

Where to get it

The full ESP package is part of the PUBG ESP cheat, which lists 47 modules in total. For the bigger picture, see our PUBG cheat overview.