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.
git gud nub
I had to stop playing dead by daylight because even that, which is not a competitive game, became too unfun to play casual matches
Be Me
Log into Highly Competitive MOBA / Team Shooter Game
Rank: Mud
Get slotted into a team of 8-year-olds, Alzheimer’s patients, and people on disability after falling off a ladder at work.
Lose to a team of 9-year-olds, Parkinson’s patients, and people playing the game on a second screen during an office meeting
Oh gee, I wonder how it feels to be The Best Player In FlobsKnight: Cry of Obligation, kicking dirt on little old me!
Win against a team of 6-year-olds, people in a coma, and players with no arms learning to use the control with their toes
I am the greatest FlobsKnight player on earth!
Rank Up: Dry Grass
Quality of opponent improves slightly
Never win again
That last part is too real 😭
Made me think of trying to climb the ranked ladder in Hearthstone.
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
just play 1 of the thousands of solo games. why tf would you play with sweaty jobless nerds
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.
Just play single player games, they are much less stressful. I used to play StarCraft and Warcraft 3 when I was younger, but now I’m too slow for those games and for some reason there are no no RTS games since StarCraft 2.
What about opensource red alert https://www.openra.net/
Bots are dumb, though. Bad AI really takes me out of a game, and every game has bad AI. Once I figure out their behavior patterns, the fun is completely gone for me. I prefer online gaming because human opponents are unpredictable.
for some reason there are no no RTS games since StarCraft 2
Been rocking out to Plannetary Annihilation: Titans and having a great time.
If you like Command and Conquer style RTSs, give Tempest Rising a shot. It came out last year and it feels exactly like a C&C game, but with modern graphics and QoL improvements.
Play crimson desert and feel exactly stressed :D
What do you expect? You want them to let you win? You’re not a child and they’re not your dad lol
No, I want all the tryhards to be pooled together so they don’t ruin the fun of other players.
But instead they create smurf accounts because their life is so miserable, they have to find worse players in order to feel better about themselves.
Ugh, sweaty tryhard.
Sorry for existing in a way you don’t like
aren’t you the one hating on “tryhards” for existing in a way you don’t like??
You’re not a child
Hey now. Maybe they’re literally 12.
Playing competitive games if you’re trying to feel better after having a bad day at work sounds like a terrible idea.
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.
Competitive is fine, just don’t play ranked. Nothing but tryhards.
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)_/¯
¯\_(ツ)_¯
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.
And this gentleman is how we get cheaters.
What a weird way to excuse cheaters
Who did excused anything ? I just named a potential cause.
You can always use vpn in roblox, connect to country where most people are at work at that time, jump into fps game and go on continous kill streak playing against the kids.
This is the main reason why I don’t pick up FPS games, even when they’re on a crazy sale. Back in the day, when they had proper campaigns, rather than barebones tutorials for online matches, I could at least enjoy working through a campaign at my own pace. Now that everything seems to be just about multiplayer, by the time the games get down to a price that seems reasonable for something I’ll only play on occasion, the only people left are the ones who seem bent on making a career out of playing that game. It’s just no fun, but there’s also no chance I’d be willing to drop the stupid amount of money those games cost at release to be able to play against others at my level.
Oh well, these days, I also haven’t really got time to be playing a bunch of games at once, so my limited gaming time goes towards other genres, anyway.
Most competitive multiplayer games are free nowadays: cs2, fortnite, apex, warzone, pubg, rainbow six siege are all free. You are not forced to buy any skins to be any better in the game. Unfortunately for the ones that haven’t gamed that much over the years, the skill level is insanely high in most. But there’s a thing called skill-based matchmaking in most anyways. Free games adds the downside of people smurfing/ cheating. But I would say most of those games try to combat it even though it ain’t easy to do that (except for cs2). Singleplayers from indie devs are king rn and usually the cost is around 30$, or just don’t buy on release and wait a year or 2 for insane price drops.
I don’t really understand the complaint tbh. The only game that fits your complaint is CoD multiplayer.
Reminds me of Shroud
And on the flip side of this there’s people who barely spend any time in the game beating no-lifer’s causing them to finally rage quit the game.
This is far more rare than you’d think. When you’re playing games at the highest level it’s not just skill, there’s a layer of play where you’re basically exploiting because you’re so in tune with the game you can take advantage of effects that last milliseconds.
When I played competitively if I joined a random server, I’d sweep about 1/3 rounds. I took the moniker fishy because I’d been banned from so many servers for “hacking” and an admin said “IDK if you’re hacking or not but you’re fishy…”
Who says every no-lifer is actually good at the game? That’s who I’m talking about.
Yeah, beating someone who takes a game super serious is super unlikely…
About the only exception was seeing some people who took fighting games seriously in some fighting games the rando pressing random buttons was hard to beat.
I was the press random buttons guy that kicked ass at Soul Caliber 2.
The strat for those people is make a gap and be cheap as hell with ranged specials.
Play a game with a proper
ELOElo system. You shouldn’t be in a game where the sweaties play against the noobs. That’s not fun for either person.Games with elo matchmaking are rife with smurfs.
Meanwhile we had consistent lobbies of varied skills on Counter Strike decades ago. It let us build communities, weed out cheaters ourselves, and provided a far healthier social environment.
Sure that one dude on the server could actually 360 noscope you (sometimes) but you also had people who couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn still joining lobbies for years.
elo matchmaking
Is that like a speed dating event to the tune of Electric Light Orchestra?
Yeah, smurfs there would really kill the vibe…
i found your first match
No it’s a ratings system invented by Dr. Arpad Elo
During Covid I played planetside after trying it in 2018 briefly, then putting it up in 2024/25, the game gasping for air begging for daybreak to pull the plug allowing the sweet embrace of death to take it.
Anyways my point is it was pretty fun when I was into PvP games as there were so many people my skill level, the salty vets leading squads of dumbasses, and getting that
cheaplucky drop on the guy who’s been playing since 2012 felt so sweat. Basically I think mixed skill games are fun with the right conditionsuntil you get sniped by the heavy 400m away or an air to ground mosquito cus some vets need arbitrary number that doesn’t matter to them to up, holy shit are vet shitters capitalistsI have great memories of throwing together maps and even small mods for my buddy’s cs 1.6 server, what do 9 year olds have to do the equivalent today? Roblox? Minecraft isn’t exactly mod friendly, but I guess you can build stuff?
What do you mean Minecraft isn’t mod friendly?
It has support for adding mods, but you have to know java to make mods for it, last I knew.
Okay yeah, that’s fair.
How is Minecraft not mod friendly, that’s like where most people I know started with mods
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.
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.
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.
How do you expect the noobs to learn? From other noobs?
Haha. Noob.
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.
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?
Or one of the other bazilion co-op games.
