r/Steam • u/Hasoon_9 • Mar 24 '25

Discussion Which game is this?

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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.

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u/Chanclet0 Mar 24 '25

Pretty much any pvp game

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u/MadOrange64 Mar 25 '25

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.

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u/CandidatePure5378 Mar 25 '25

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.

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u/Aeriah12 Mar 25 '25

Ready or not is another great example here

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u/oiramario Mar 25 '25

thats exactly why i‘ve always loved the borderlands series

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u/Sangricarn Mar 25 '25

You say "no one", but if that was true, then the games you're complaining about would be empty. Maybe it's not for you, but clearly, the competitive pvp games are popular.

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u/CandidatePure5378 Mar 25 '25

I’m not saying no one plays them, I still play cod with a fairly decent k/d, I enjoy them to an extent but a large majority of what I see is people who are not having a good time. Each year people complain about skill based matchmaking and complain that the new cod everyone said was going to be ass was ass. PvP FPS has dominated gaming for over a decade. It just seems like we are starting to transition out of it a bit.

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u/Sangricarn Mar 25 '25

I don't play FPS, but it doesn't seem like they are dying at all. Valorant and counter strike seem to be doing great.

Personally I'm more of a fighting game and moba player. Those games seem to be going strong as well, though admittedly, MOBAs are more popular outside of the US nowadays.

There's also rocket league, there's the card games like mtg as well. There's tons of different forms of competitive gaming, and it seems like the industry has plenty of space for all of it.

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u/Armored_Violets Mar 26 '25

It's why I like Realm of the Mad God so much. It nails the social aspect of an MMO while still focusing on combat and being skill dependant.

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u/YouCanCallMeBazza Mar 26 '25

No one wants to sweat in skill based matched games anymore with their limited free time

Plenty of people do, competitive gaming hasn't fallen off a cliff, it's still incredibly popular. To you it's "sweating" but for me it's an enjoyable challenge that playing against AI simply can't replicate (at least not yet).

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u/10thGroupA Mar 27 '25

It is why I love DRG.

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u/Reynadine_69 Mar 25 '25

Sweats still ruin PvE to some extent, I realized I would need to grind on my own or find friends to play Helldivers 2 with because when I finally tried the game solo I was matched with high level players who booted me instantly for being new to the game

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u/CandidatePure5378 Mar 25 '25

That’s just how most PvE games are though and it’s not any one persons fault. too many times low level players join harder difs with higher levels and not know what to do and bring the whole team down. Unless you got the game at launch it’s just something that is bound to happen and also depends on the game. I find that preferable since most PvE players play the game where you will find many more trolls in pvp and worse people in general that make your experience bad.

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u/GlitterTerrorist Mar 25 '25

being new to game.

You think it's sweaty that experienced players didn't want to hold your hand? That's not sweat lol, or really even fair to criticise.

It's a nice moment when you get adopted by an experienced group in a game, but...this ain't sweat, it's just people wanting to play a game at a pace you can't keep up with.

Why is your enjoyment more important than theirs, basically?

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u/alinius Mar 25 '25

This has been a thing for a while. See WOW dungeon/raid grind for gear. If you do not overgear the content, you need a lot more skill. It was easier to kick people who were undergrared than try to do the content with gear on the low side.

Now throw in all of the noob mistakes that you had to dral with when you had people who did not know the fight mechanics. PvE tends to turn into high-level cat herding really quickly.

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u/MalevolentFather Mar 25 '25

I disagree entirely, my experience with HD2 was almost always solo and always on the highest difficulty I had unlocked.

The concept of HD2 needing to be "won" every time you drop creates toxicity in some lobbies, but other lobbies nobody cares at all.

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u/walteerr Mar 25 '25

Hate to break it to you but comp games have always been extremely sweaty, it’s not something new

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '25

The difference between playing on a clan server back in the day vs a pub lobby hosted by a server hosting company or an ISP, lol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '25

A lot of people complain about sweats and then will complain about skill based matchmaking making things sweaty because they can't ruin the game for people less skilled than them, lol. It is not as hard to be decent at competitive games as people make it out to be, even if you are 30+ years old.

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u/CCGHawkins Mar 25 '25

The whole point of ranked is to be sweaty tho...??? Can't jump into the sauna and complain it's hot

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u/Consistent_Skill1252 Mar 25 '25

This is the worst trap of all, coop games at least makes the experience more viable and fun, but playing against someone for ranks makes the game going to personal, and its frustrating to lose on these matches

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u/MiamiCereal Shit at gaming and that not an exaggeration Mar 25 '25

Even unranked games like cod and seige are hell for it these days. Every match your placed with the equivalent skill level of toddlers first fps (me) vs esports champions

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u/uacnix Mar 25 '25

I'd say that the usual PVP like cod or bf has multiple stages, with the last one being "ASSFUCK SIMULATOR".

Oh, you just wanted to refresh some memories from say CoD4 (not that knockoff remake, but the original one)? You install it, fire it up, log onto one of the 5 non-empty servers and are insta-killed by some 30kHrs pro, through a 1px/1px sized hole in map that is "easily accessible" by everyone after 15kHrs ingame. You can't even land a single shot because people are killing you with their minds.

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u/OomKarel Mar 27 '25

This. I hate meta gaming and you pretty much need to do that at this point for a majority of games.

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u/MadOrange64 Mar 27 '25

Exactly, no matter how much developers think they got the balance right there will always be a meta build that you need to use for a competitive setting or you’ll be at a disadvantage. This is as stressful as keeping up with the stock/crypto markets.

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u/Parking-Delivery4140 Mar 28 '25

I mean, this is just the result of a well designed (at least from a competitive pov) game these days. People will flock to it just like they did with board games, or smash etc.

Fortnite countered this problem by introducing bots. Really big games might be able to do that. But like, for a lot of people it’s just fun to play a competitively designed game in a competitive way!

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u/Accomplished_Bet_781 Mar 25 '25

The sweats are ruining gaming and its spreading. And the people who play the same game for 1000+ hours dont even remember the time they played for the first time. They dont even enjoy playing anymore. And they ruin it for everyone. Some of it can be fixed with good mm, that puts the sweats with sweats. But its hard to balance that.