Shooters might need some kinda leagues where old farts would play with each other. Some sim racing games have topical leagues/servers like that.
Though matchmaking is supposed to solve this problem, but idk if it succeeds.
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Abundance114@lemmy.world 5 days agoI’ll straight up admit that I can’t compete in most pvp titles; and I don’t want to be a loot goblin for the high school kids who are going to 360 no-scope headshot me from across the map and then tea bag my corpse.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Arc Raiders took this trope and turned it on its head. The game is entirely about being a loot goblin around other people in a no-rules environment but if you don’t pick fights, you will gradually get matched to servers with other people who don’t pick fights, and you start to meet people and have adventures together, it happens very organically and pleasantly, and if you ever DO run into a PvPer the game doesn’t really give a huge advantage to sweaty try-hards, a newb with a basic gun can defend themselves just as well as some well-equipped player hunter.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s because Arc Raiders ISN’T a PVP! It’s supposed to be a PVE.
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 days ago
About 100% of shooter/survival games made with open PVP turned on all the time become kill-on-sight instantaneously, and those games usually give players a PvE mode for people too scared or annoyed with PvP, the segregation has been normal in gaming since the early days of online gaming. So it’s not as simple as saying it’s “supposed” to be PvE, it’s that they tuned the mechanics and themes to encourage more cooperation in an unprecedented way.