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Carl@hexbear.net 2 months ago I’ve been playing pokemon champions lately and you can really tell when the game decides not to match you against a bot because the difficulty goes from 0 - 100 instantly.
tbh I like the idea of populating the lower ranks of the game with bots, I wish the game would be honest about it instead of trying to hide it.
I decided to fire up Rocket League since years ago. Only playing casual, I’m not touching competition when it’s a f2p fortnight bonus game.
It’s still a lot of fun in casual. There are a few crybabies, but not as bad as i thought there’d be.
The Finals is so fkn sweaty sometimes. But it is also so fun when my team is not getting deleted in 0.2 seconds.
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 2 months ago Did the ruby grind 2 seasons in a row and burnt myself out of ever playing it again. Top 500 sweat is crazy.
After running into those fuckers in other game modes, I can only imagine what it would be like going against multiple teams of them every round for 45mins.
I tried the Finals, for like 2 weeks… I just can’t with it. It’s too chaotic, weapon balance is non-existent, everyone is playing team deathmatch because maybe only 4 people in the whole lobby know what the objective is, and those 4 people are the sweatiest, nastiest, most toxic people in gaming. I have been in several matches and heard players yelling n-slurs like it was a 2006 CoD lobby.
I wanted to like it. The character customizer is super detailed with cool stuff… but the microtransaction economy of it sucks giant donkey balls. You’ll never make enough playing for free to buy anything more than some finger nail colors… and you’d have to take out a second mortgage to buy enough “points/coins/gold?” to buy all the things you want.
Basically, fuck everything about the Finals… neat concept ruined by a greedy model, toxic playerbase, shitty balancing, and confusing gameplay. That’s why the playercount is dogshit, and it’ll be yet another games-as-a-service shutdown within the next year.
EDIT: and shit, I forgot to mention the invisible OHK stabby bullshit that no one, in any FPS game finds fun.
It’s not for everyone.
It is a heavily chaotic game with an extremely high skill ceiling. Essentially a mix of overwatch and Battlefield. Overwatch, in that if you don’t play with your team, it is highly likely you will lose. Battlefield, in that you will die a lot until you learn the game flow.
I have been playing this game since launch and I can say it is fairly rare for me to run into players slinging slurs. Maybe it is just the server I am on. It is fairly common to see racist or bigoted usernames though.
By way of the cosmetics, they are all cosmetic. There are plenty of free earnable cosmetics if you play the game consistently. When compared to other live service micro transactions, their prices are VERY affordable for what you are getting. The cosmetic bundles you can get are able to be used as multiple pieces, (I.e. pants, shirt, head gear, shoes) and can be put on every class as opposed to one character. It is a free to play live service game, so it makes sense they need money to continue improving the game.
Most live service games, aside from Warframe, don’t really make improvements to the overall game as they get money from MTXs. The Finals has changed so much from what it launched as, and it has been less than 3 years.
It has it’s cons (Like the ai voices for two in game characters), but this is the best live service PVP FPS I, personally, have ever played when it comes to character customization, gun play, and developer dedication to improving the game.
This is why I don’t play PVP games these days. Either I’m bad at it, so it’s not fun, or I start to get good enough that it starts to feel like a chore to keep up with the meta.
I mean yeah but it should match you with similarly skilled players so it doesn’t matter if you’re good or bad?
This whole thread is absolutely stupid. Going PvP probably brings out the dumbest, most obvious biases and insecurities out of people.
First like you say, literally all games today match you with similar players. So you’re going to roughly win 50%. So it doesn’t matter how good you are (except the literal best/worst), you’re always gonna lose and win the same amount.
Then also, if you are playing with someone that plays 10 hours a day, then either they are really bad for how much they play or you’re really good for how little you play. Either way, the match is fair again.
Then of course it literally doesn’t matter if you win or lose, games are about having fun, and you can have fun winning or losing. Coupled with the fact that you’re basically forced to lose 50% of the time, you better have fun losing, else why would you play a game that you just straight up don’t enjoy 50% of the time?
There’s literally no reason to “keep up with the meta”, it’s just an arbitrary excuse that “sounds reasonable”. You can play literally every PvP game without ever looking at what other people do, and still be good, or just not care if you’re not in idk, the top 10%. But people can’t handle it ego-wise if they’re not in the top 10%, so an excuse to not play at all is much less painful.
And if you bring up any of these points, it’s like politics, people don’t even listen to you because their mind is already made up or their ego prevents them, it’s useless.
nothx@hexbear.net 2 months ago I don’t play online games anymore because of this type of experience.
I played Enlisted for a few hours a day up until last year. It stopped being fun when I realised I was getting frustrated at topping the scoreboard in most games because my perception was that my teammates were bad or weren’t trying hard enough. The problem was me playing too much and having end game gear which gave me a huge advantage.
I just stick to singleplayer games now.
I also have a personal rule against playing team-based multiplayer games - losing because the other team was more skilled was tolerable, but losing because half of my team was goofing around and not even trying to win (or winning because the other team was doing that) was just a frustrating waste of my time.
teft@piefed.social 2 months ago Play a game with a proper ELO Elo system. You shouldn’t be in a game where the sweaties play against the noobs. That’s not fun for either person.
It’s Elo fyi, named after its inventor Dr. Arpad Elo
Look at this tryhard smacking down a poor guy on Lemmy!!!
P.s. just kidding, acting a interesting fact.
How do you expect the noobs to learn? From other noobs?
Haha. Noob.
I see you have never played CS or rocket league before 😂
Either very clear smurfs or literally one team full of low silvers against the enemy team with 1 silver and the rest high gold or EMG full 5 man squad.
Yeah, I try, but unevitably the ELO just gets wider and wider as the game sheds players becsuse the devs refuse to hardware ban smurf cheaters.
Hardware bans do not work (easily faked), so it’s kinda obvious why devs don’t use it. And even if they did, if the cheaters sell their hardware and replace it with the same from someone else (essentially just shipping cost), the only thing that happens is some poor schmuck is banned from a game for no fault of their own, just because they bought used hardware.
Sometimes people stay low because they are inconsistent, often because they have an attitude problem. It’s kind of ironic that people that rage against their teammates for being bad are actively causing their teammates to be bad.
There was an actual study that demonstrated, with data, that bad players are more likely to be misogynistic towards female players.
Relatedly, I would bet all the money I own that bad players are the most likely to scream at their teammates and make wild accusations about who’s ruining their game. That’s been my anecdotal experience playing MOBAs recently.
I see you also play Rocket League.
What game are we talking? AFAIK some games’ matchmaking is just that bad.
Super Mario Wonder
It’s crazy out there
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I just can’t enjoy Rust anymore. I used to love playing on low pop friendly servers buy to spend all arvo harvesting resources and building a neat house only for someone to raid and greif it while I’m at work made it a sisyphean hell.
All I wanted to do was build cool and interesting structures, maybe bag some unsuspecting players into a barred cell and force them to fight to the death, or pave the map with landmines, fun things like that.
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The thing is, it doesn’t matter if you work or not, at some point everyone has to sleep. Even the no job people get offline raided all the time. If you can’t handle it, then the game is just not for you.
Also, literally everything is Sisyphean hell if you think about it.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Those no job people switch turns sleeping.
That game is just badly designed. If no one from a base is active on the server, they shouldn’t be able to get attacked. Period.
Allowing all your hard work to be deleted just because you have a life outside the game is dumb. I’d never play such a game more than one session.
99% of games are definitely not a Sisyphean hell at all. You should broaden your horizon more.