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.
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 cheap lucky drop on the guy who’s been playing since 2012 felt so sweat. Basically I think mixed skill games are fun with the right conditions until 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 capitalists
I 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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 capitalistsIs that like a speed dating event to the tune of Electric Light Orchestra?
Yeah, smurfs there would really kill the vibe…
No it’s a ratings system invented by Dr. Arpad Elo
i found your first match
I 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
Minecraft has a dedicated mod menu on the title screen. What are you talking about
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.
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.
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.
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.