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Just play offline ez
And this gentleman is how we get cheaters.
What a weird way to excuse cheaters
This is why I won’t touch anything with PvP.
Single player all the way.
Or, if you MUST play something online, play against bots.
Or play against friends!
Or play something cooperative!
Did I hear a rock and stone?
There were games I was practically godly at, I preferred being matched with similar skilled players. Though you can learn unique tricks from newer players too. Then I started to get older and had to work more, lived alone so all chores were mine to do, and hours varied. I eventually realized I can’t perform at that level anymore and it was getting frustrating. There really isn’t much division in skills with PvP elements so I avoid it. I’ve learned coop games are some great fun or if it’s PvP it’s something that’s goofy fun.
In no man’s sky. They just release a pokemans game mode they call xenoSomething. I had a weak little lvl 19, and decided to do the multiplayer and battled a team of 30s. My little lvl 19 beat 2 of this guy’s lvl 30s.
Playing competitive games if you’re trying to feel better after having a bad day at work sounds like a terrible idea.
Competitive is fine, just don’t play ranked. Nothing but tryhards.
Ranked gets you a balanced game though, unranked is usually a shit show and just as hard to win because your teammates might be trolling
Depends on the game, depends on the rank even. F2P games are rife with smurfs.
well, yes, that’s sort of the point of ranked. to try hard.
You’d be surprised how often I play ranked with friends who complain about the other team for “trying hard”. It should be obvious but… somehow its not ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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It can be. I’m generally very competitive. I like competitive fps games. I can do ok or well and I’m fine. But if I lose hard a few games in a row I am definitely not relaxed.
I play mostly Space Station 14 where the culture is overwhelmingly enthusiastic about helping new players learn the ropes. Like, the nature of the game makes it genuinely enjoyable to welcome new folks into the fold and train them on various jobs and game mechanics. It’s so awesome.
Many servers have actively enforced rules against powergaming, as well.
I didn’t know there was a… sequel? How does 14 compare to 13?
14 is a remake of 13 in C#. I never played 13, tho I tried to get it working on linux a few months ago with no success.
14’s active player count I believe has surpassed 13 and I regularly see folks on 14 who are playing 14 for their first time after playing 13 for years, and they seem quite happy with it.
Hell, there’s collaboration between (I think) monke station (ss13) and Starlight (ss14) because monke is working on moving to 14, based on Starlight’s fork, and Starlight had a big influx of players from that server who wanted to check out their potential future.
It’s fucking amazing. I mostly play on Hardlight, an 18+ furry erotic roleplay allowed server, which is also pioneering saving ships with big stashes for items, and seamless round transitions (you evac back to CC after a round, but if you have your own ship it just FTLs to CC and you remain in the world instead of going back to the new round screen, and you just FTL again to the next station). But I also have a TON of time on Starlight Alpha which is also amazing (and not ERP if you’re not into that :P)
The big differences are that ss14 runs a lot better but ss13 has a lot more content, but the content difference is rapidly shrinking. ss14 is definitely the way to go now.
Highly recommend you check it out! Can get the launcher on steam and it’s like zero effort to install and launch even on linux
Oh 100%, thanks for taking the time to explain that, I appreciate it. I was fascinated by ss13 years ago, but the setup and player count ultimately led me to other activities. At the price of free, I will certainly give 14 a try :)
I would say it’s a bit easier to get into, with generally less lag and slightly better UI. The game is still extremely complicated but at least the wiki for each server is packaged as part of the game now and is pretty easy to navigate
I like playing multiplayer games as long as the purpose is to play the objective, team work, strategy, shoot enemies and enjoy the scenery.
Unfortunately most multiplayer games are about coordinating your mouse DPI with the screen FPS and ensuring that your graphic card coolant is flowing at the proper gallons per second.
If I cared about single pixels or abusing the game engine and hardware I would be playing 8bit games. I really don’t get why AAA developers keep making these games for people to win by boring skillless optimization
Lol had this happen to a discord buddy of mine recently. He’s Master rank Guile on Street Fighter 6 and he loaded up a ranked match with no warmup after work one day and got a Guile mirror match as his first opponent. He got completely stomped and thought to check the opponent’s name… it was Tyler1.
So he loaded up his stream, and since it’s on a delay he got to see the end of his own match and have Tyler1 shit talk him after the fact.
Admittedly, cold loading into ranked is probably never a good idea, but when you have a real 9-5 and limited time to play video games in the evenings I understand the desire to just belt out a few ranked matches before bed or whatever.
I felt secondhand frustration after I heard about it.
Whats the issue? He lost to t1 and he thinks it was undeserved or something. T1 is one o the few streamers who is really good at games.
Never said he felt like it was undeserved. He loses to better players who are not famous streamers all the time in Master rank. Nobody really likes getting verbally abused just because they had one bad match. I know that the FGC loves their trash talk, but it’s juvenile as fuck. Life is hard enough without having to get beaten while you’re down doing something that is supposed to be fun.
Also, the point of the thread, and my post, is pointing out that skill is only one part of the equation. My friend has a job which he dedicates 1/3rd of his waking hours to. Tyler1 is a professional streamer and can easily grind out games for 12+ hours per day. I don’t think there is a reality in which he could compete with someone who has such an advantage in hours played.
Side note: The only comment he really made on the match itself that could even come close to be considered complaining/copium was that Tyler1’s playstyle is very frustrating to play against. He turtles up and plays defensively, which is a super safe, low risk method of stacking up wins. The Guile mirror match did not make things any easier. A lot of people complain about him using Modern controls, but my friends thinks that if T1 dedicated some of his time to learning classic controls, he could become as absolute monster since he’s already really good and has mastered the fundamentals.
Tyler1 has such a vile personality. I know it’s largely a bit (I watched a video on the story of OnlyFangs and he “breaks character” a few times) but I just don’t understand how people can enjoy watching such an obnoxious and loud shit talker
I mean as a fighting game player with a real life, I can tell you that I play exactly zero matches of ranked online and am much happier for it
I tend to agree with most of the other commenters in this thread - PvP games are just not for me anymore. I used to like them, but now it’s almost anxiety-inducing. I avoid them mostly, or if I do play I will dabble in the most casual of modes available to me and I’ll flee at the first sign of sweaty gamerbros or toxic attitudes.
I much prefer solo or co-op games where the only opponent is an AI. There’s less pressure to perform well and as a result I can relax and have fun rather than stress about not letting my team down or getting humiliated and verbally abused by my opponents (and sometimes teammates, depending on the game).
I suggest against the storm and ball x pit as well as blue Prince for the games I’ve been enjoying immensely lately
Everyone who is better than me is a sweaty tryhard with no life.
I do not believe that someone can beat me without dedicating their life to this game.
No one ever just gets lucky or goes on a hot streak.
I should be winning games as easily as I did at lower ranks despite not making an effort to get better
I’ve found competitive games just aren’t for me.
When I’m doing well competitively, I’m just not having as much fun. Have to take it too seriously to compete and particularly in strategy games the best strategy is often not the most fun.
Playing with known friends in a small instance is decent, but playing in an open scenario just feels exhausting.
Basically any games with public multiplayer will end up full of tryhards. I sometimes do multiplayer with friends, I mostly just play single player games. Often that are at least ten years old.
I had to stop playing dead by daylight because even that, which is not a competitive game, became too unfun to play casual matches
Good thing that my comfort game is an RTS game where I play 10v10, and you could easily see the level of players in the lobby. So, I usually join with other experienced players to ensure I win and possibly finish the game quickly, to get a dopamine hit for de-stressing.
BAR?
Also known as pwnin n00bs.
Git gud nub lmao ezpz
I can smell the BO reading some of these comments
