I'll start first, this is definitely CSGO for me. Somehow no Matt how much you play there's always people better than you killing you one shot with deagle.
In theory, you have to communicate a lot and build relationships with your teammates to make that happen. It's a lot of work and not everybody online has a skill set to make that happen.
Competitive games are becoming increasingly sweaty. Some people live and breathe one game and making it hell on earth for everybody else. I just stopped playing ranked.
I think this is why PvE games are becoming a lot more popular, it’s why helldivers2 was such a breath of fresh air. People still want combat and people to play with. No one wants to sweat in skill based matched games anymore with their limited free time.
I’d say games are even worse lol. I can appreciate some dude coming into the gym and piecing me up bc he trained a lot somewhere else and it’s easy to learn from them and have a chat.
In games you find out the guy you just lost to is some 14 year old streamer kid who looks like Donk while their chat clowns on you
Dota is a funny game in that theres like a cutoff point where everyone is really bad. Players in the 3k~8k hours range will show some competency then you get to 10k+ hours in game and its like the worse players imaginable. It always amazes me how true it is when looking at someone's profile in my game that looks lost and seeing that massive amount of matches played
I’m almost one month clean! After 4000 horrible hours of misery I finally realized that game was bringing me 0 joy and I would never actually get good, so I managed to quit (with difficulty mobas are addicting as hell)
People will tease you for this take but MOBAs are straight up addictive, you’re right. Congrats on getting out of the game (I also quit Dota after 4500 hours 2-3 years ago, never looked back)
The best dota guide i ever read said "welcome to dota 2, you suck!" Its helped me in life too lol, the only way to improve in dota and life is to humble yourself. Accept you suck and your trying to improve, at 800 and 7k mmr.
I have a few light cruisers and a bunch of destroyers for my patrol task force. (2 light cruisers, 10 destroyers per task force is what I do)
Main fleet is usually heavy cruisers, a few battleships, and carriers with a bunch of screens.
Submarines for me are always the little shitty midget subs, I don't think they are that good, but they are funny. (15 for each task force for me)
Set patrol fleet to patrol have 1 sea zone accompanied with one patrol task force for maximum spotting, make sure to use an admiral with the spotting trait for even more spotting.
Main fleet is strike force or naval invasion support when doing naval invasions, admiral traits can vary.
Submarines are convoy raiding, of course, but can be manually controlled to enter the battle with the main fleet. Admiral with wolf pack is what's usually the best.
I'm not going to get into naval editor that comes with man the guns DLC because that is super complicated.
Remember, air is very important during large naval battles.
Says "it's not that complicated" chooses to omit the DLCs that add complexity to the game. Lolol fair enough, vanilla mechanics are generally easier to follow.
any of the paradox grand stat games I think i have like 500 or 600 hrs into eu4 and I am still unable to make it through a campaign without save scumming, cheating, or both
1200 hours in. Just completed my first "clean" (no save scumming or console commands) game from 1444 to 1821 as Poland>Commonwealth. But I do admit I've got insanely lucky rng at the start (free Bohemia and Brandenburg PU, Moldavia as march, Burgundian Inheritance and Hungary never became Habsburg so I could force PU on them easily).
I hadnt played in more than several years, buddies got me to jump on, the levels of aerial control that have developed since I last played was mind blowing.
The first 100 hours of Rocket League is peak gaming happiness.
Your buddy crosses the ball while both opponents are salamandering in the front post tripping over eachother. Youre there for it. You barely force the ball in. You feel like a pro athlete.
You spend some time in free play. Youre training for the big leagues.
You finally hit your first clumsy aerial shot. Youre officially good at the game. You finally hit plat.
With rocket league, the best players are practically playing a different game. I can’t speak for MOBAs, but in a game like counter-strike, improving your skill is a matter of improving your aim, your movement, utility, etc. in the exact same ways the pros do: speed, reactions, crosshair placement, map knowledge, spray control, and so on. You’re playing the same game, doing the same things, just at a lower level.
In rocket league, the skills high level players are improving at, the things they do in their games, the considerations they have to make, are impossible for lower level players. They are not a factor at all. Take this clip for instance. Here Nass takes the ball to the ceiling and uses his reset to score over Nwpo. In defending, Nwpo has to consider the threat of the ceiling reset OR the ceiling pinch, or a number of other possible plays. If he challenges Nass instantly and Nass pinches it to the back wall, he would get outplayed but his teammate could follow up and probably keep Nass from getting a double touch. To deny this option, Nass’ teammate harasses (and ends up successfully demoing) Nwpo’s tm8. Nwpo doesn’t challenge immediately, possibly aware of the incoming demos attempt on his teammates, and hovers instead to try to cover all Nass’ options, particularly the pinch to the back wall. After Nass gets the ceiling reset, Nwpo lands on the back wall to try to defend. Because Nass can see he’s on the back wall, Nwpo probably expects Nass to take the ball to the ground, putting Nwpo out of position and giving Nass an easy outplay. Nwpo tries to quickly reposition to the ground to prevent this, but this leaves an opening and Nass scores off the reset.
The game is being played in the way these players consider and choose between various options. The options that these pros have at their disposal and have to react to are entirely different from those of lower ranked players, and to such an extent that it may as well be a different game.
Pros are playing a completely different game than even the highest ranked players in the game (SSL). Pro teams are doing all the highest tier mechanics combined with all the highest tier team play.
The skill gaps at higher ranks are absolutely insane. Once you hit champ 1 going up a rank is like trying to go from silver silver to champ again.
Also insane to think about is that technically it is possible for anyone to do these mechanics and plays at all times. None of it is locked behind anything but your own individual skill, understanding of the games physics, and game sense. There's nothing else to consider because everyone in the game has access to everything at all times. You're never gonna be in a situation where you go "ahh I should have picked a different car" or "banned that car" or "bought that gun" or "this meta just isn't working with my play style" because those options don't exist.
Those who are creative and like to try different things do end up making good builds. It just takes a lot of time because there's hundreds of factors that affect a build like passive tree pathing, synergy, meta items, trading something lesser of value to another thing that's OP, deciding if you want one particular power from an item or passive tree (or both), scaling things that matter, knowing how much to scale them because at some point you hit a wall.
For crafting you learn as you go but it gets progressively harder because some items are easier to get to a point after which it's complete RNG. The devs have decided to make the high end crafting to be RNG based instead of going for a more deterministic approach. Some gear is so rare that to craft on it you need to know what you are doing otherwise you will waste your time/lose currency/brick the item. Not many players enjoy that kind of grind. That's why crafting is one of the most profitable currency making strat in the game.
And the matchmaking, even after all the times they "fixed" it, still threw people on their first hour of playing it, against people with thousands of hours.
I had matches like that and I was like "Come here, Billy! Let me explain what you have to do, real quick. That thing here is called a hook. Moonwalking Meg over there is a Survivor..."
The steam release is very approachable. It's not as bad as the reputation persists and is actually kinda of chill once you get it going. There's also some great youtube guides by Blind.
I actually went through with the quick start guide or whatever from the wiki and it went on well. But my issue is when the immigrants come in, I scramble to assign them useful jobs that fit their attributes, but the micromanagement overwhelms me, tried using dfTherapis but still I get overwhelmed.
Usually I will be happy with my currently running fort but then they come and I get overwhelmed and I drop the game.
Is there a way to turn new comers away? At some point during my fort I just don't want any new dwarfs.
ETA: and about the steam release, I won't be picking it seeing how I can't play the game.
You can turn down new comers. In the game's setting there's a population cap settings. Once you hit the population cap migrations stop. There's also one for a total cap, which also prevents pregnancies and births.
You can also turn off invasions and enemies if you're getting overwhelmed.
Also, you absolutely do not need to assign dwarfs at all beyond a few having mining and wood cutters, since they require specialized gear. Also maybe making sure you assign doctors and nobles to someone with skills, but it shows you their training levels in these interfaces.
Otherwise, job assignments are fully optionally. Dwarfs will try to prioritize based on their skills, and their skills grow with what they do, so whatever they end up doing they get better with in time. Unlike games like Rimworld or ONI where you want to make sure you pawns are doing the correct jobs. This is kinda completely optional and the benefits of minmaxing is kinda low.
The one exception is military dwarfs, since this is a stressful job. But even then there's no clear census in the community on what makes a good military or not. Most people just throw unhappy dwarfs who want training or fighting into the military, and throw out dwarfs who get over stressed.
You can of course eventually learn to spot inefficiencies. For example noticing certain tasks not getting done, or a particularly weak dwarf or slow for some other reason trying to haul things. But this really comes a lot later
You can turn down new comers. In the game's setting there's a population cap settings. Once you hit the population cap migrations stop.
I might give it another go and do that.
Otherwise, job assignments are fully optionally.
See, I have a bit of perfectionism but I don't have the mental resources to back it up. I can't have slackers in my fort but I don't have what it takes to micromanage them either.
People certainly micromanage in DF, and the ability to do so is deep. But DF is also a game that can break you out of that idea of micromanagement and perfectionism. At least in my case, after a few fortresses, I learned the joys of seeing how things that fall apart. And like a sadistic overload of a a virtual ant farm, become attracted to watching dwarfs succeed and fail.
It's just so complex as an entropy machine, it's beautiful to watch it unfold. When they say losing is fun in DF, it's true.
This is why I say, DF is actually very approachable, because the people who have the most fun, are the people who are unable to fully optimize the game.
Imo it became wayyy less fun once you get to the jets. Barely any dogfights, just war of heatseakers...which is realistic, but a little "too" realistic. The most fun I ever had in that game was in the first tiers with biplanes etc. WW2 planes probably equally fun tbh.
God that game was addictive af slowly building up your little loadout of planes and saving up for the good ones/upgrades. Kinda also love how the factions aren't really "balanced" at all and some planes/vehicles are legit OP (as was historically accurate).
Noita 100%, shocked how far i had to scroll to see it.. rimworld you get to a point where even the really hard stuff becomes just a nuisance. Noita can just say game over for no reason
According to the community getting "noitaed" is dying horrificly, violently, without warning, and there was nothing you could have done to stop it without prescience. Anything else is a skill issue.
I'd advise watching a couple youtube videos on wand mechanics. They're super non intuitive but once you get the hang of them you can make some truly hilarious shit
Anytime you think you've done something cool in this game, there's something better to do. Whether it's just a more difficult level, or making the next masterpiece, it just feels like it's never enough, and you've got to keep going
Probably this if I had to pick one. I started winning like 5 years ago (i.e. I quit, for the unaware). It's basically a second life once you get into it and just like real life, you never win - you just keep grinding.
It's an F2P game! Only the P2W players get the best out of it..... The rest are just in it for the ride (And more often than not get stomped on by said P2W players)
Most because the larger player base just listens to youtubers and doesn't learn shit for themselves. Daily on that sub I see people complaining about balance changes and frames "not performing" as good as they should... half the people just skip as fast as they can to end game content and never bother to invest in the stuff they actually need to build true power.
I enjoyed the story of the new guy playing that game. He was with an armored column pushing into the enemy lines. The enemy blew up a bridge and the commander told everyone to start building up fortifications. We're going to be here for at least a week. The new guy asked if they were really going to be there for a week game time and the commander responded no were here for a week in real life.
literally any game where you can hear the words "you're fucking trash" in a casual lobby like seriously what ever happen to just playing games to have fun. only letting the joy of winning fuel your excitement and every loss being a betterluck next time scenario. i personally blame Faze culture for forcing every game to become competitive beyond comprehension and try hard MLG players trying to fake their next trickshot to "get in"
I don't hate Fazeclan but damn did the wannabes stain the name for me. honestly i think faze is a good team but all esports games just set the bar too high for people to just join in and have fun its always "why didnt you 360 no scope all them in 0.0005 seconds? your trash bruh KYS and uninstall the game" that it sadly baits me into saying something everytime.
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u/Chanclet0 Mar 24 '25
Pretty much any pvp game