What about opensource red alert https://www.openra.net/

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.

The strat for those people is make a gap and be cheap as hell with ranged specials.

Oh no doubt. I hated Dragon's Dogma 2 for a lot of super bad design choices and, while I see a number of little niggling design flaws in CD, it is basically what I actually expected from DD2. Just without pawns.

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.

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

I had to stop playing dead by daylight because even that, which is not a competitive game, became too unfun to play casual matches

I was the press random buttons guy that kicked ass at Soul Caliber 2.

That last part is too real 😭

Made me think of trying to climb the ranked ladder in Hearthstone.

Reminds me of Shroud

So you don't think playing team games teaches you real life cooperation? That playing flight simulators teaches you about flight? Strategy games about multi tasking and resource management? Manager games about how to handle spreadsheets and optimization? Impostor style games about lying effectively?

Etc etc etc

Everyone who is better than me is a sweaty tryhard with no life.

I do not believe that someone can beat me without dedicating their life to this game.

No one ever just gets lucky or goes on a hot streak.

I should be winning games as easily as I did at lower ranks despite not making an effort to get better

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'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.

Yes, and the game explains itself very bad. (But is stil awesome because of other things)

Tyler1 has such a vile personality. I know it's largely a bit (I watched a video on the story of OnlyFangs and he "breaks character" a few times) but I just don't understand how people can enjoy watching such an obnoxious and loud shit talker

for some reason there are no no RTS games since StarCraft 2

Been rocking out to Plannetary Annihilation: Titans and having a great time.

You’re not a child

Hey now. Maybe they're literally 12.

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

just play 1 of the thousands of solo games. why tf would you play with sweaty jobless nerds

Never said he felt like it was undeserved. He loses to better players who are not famous streamers all the time in Master rank. Nobody really likes getting verbally abused just because they had one bad match. I know that the FGC loves their trash talk, but it's juvenile as fuck. Life is hard enough without having to get beaten while you're down doing something that is supposed to be fun.

Also, the point of the thread, and my post, is pointing out that skill is only one part of the equation. My friend has a job which he dedicates 1/3rd of his waking hours to. Tyler1 is a professional streamer and can easily grind out games for 12+ hours per day. I don't think there is a reality in which he could compete with someone who has such an advantage in hours played.

Side note: The only comment he really made on the match itself that could even come close to be considered complaining/copium was that Tyler1's playstyle is very frustrating to play against. He turtles up and plays defensively, which is a super safe, low risk method of stacking up wins. The Guile mirror match did not make things any easier. A lot of people complain about him using Modern controls, but my friend thinks that if T1 dedicated some of his time to learning classic controls, he could become as absolute monster since he's already really good and has mastered the fundamentals.

My dude, i love video games with a passion and i benefit greatly from having been a kid who mess with .ini files and making cracked software work, but the actual playing of video games does not train you for anything besides that particular genre of video games. If you aren't having fun then just stop, maybe find a new 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..."

I can smell the BO reading some of these comments

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.