It's Elo fyi, named after its inventor Dr. Arpad Elo

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

How do you expect the noobs to learn? From other noobs?

Haha. Noob.

Also known as pwnin n00bs.

I mean as a fighting game player with a real life, I can tell you that I play exactly zero matches of ranked online and am much happier for it

elo matchmaking

Is that like a speed dating event to the tune of Electric Light Orchestra?

Yeah, smurfs there would really kill the vibe...

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.

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)_/¯

well, yes, that's sort of the point of ranked. to try hard.

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.

Competitive is fine, just don’t play ranked. Nothing but tryhards.

14 is a remake of 13 in C#. I never played 13, tho I tried to get it working on linux a few months ago with no success.

14's active player count I believe has surpassed 13 and I regularly see folks on 14 who are playing 14 for their first time after playing 13 for years, and they seem quite happy with it.

Hell, there's collaboration between (I think) monke station (ss13) and Starlight (ss14) because monke is working on moving to 14, based on Starlight's fork, and Starlight had a big influx of players from that server who wanted to check out their potential future.

It's fucking amazing. I mostly play on Hardlight, an 18+ furry erotic roleplay allowed server, which is also pioneering saving ships with big stashes for items, and seamless round transitions (you evac back to CC after a round, but if you have your own ship it just FTLs to CC and you remain in the world instead of going back to the new round screen, and you just FTL again to the next station). But I also have a TON of time on Starlight Alpha which is also amazing (and not ERP if you're not into that :P)

The big differences are that ss14 runs a lot better but ss13 has a lot more content, but the content difference is rapidly shrinking. ss14 is definitely the way to go now.

Highly recommend you check it out! Can get the launcher on steam and it's like zero effort to install and launch even on linux

Lol had this happen to a discord buddy of mine recently. He's Master rank Guile on Street Fighter 6 and he loaded up a ranked match with no warmup after work one day and got a Guile mirror match as his first opponent. He got completely stomped and thought to check the opponent's name... it was Tyler1.

So he loaded up his stream, and since it's on a delay he got to see the end of his own match and have Tyler1 shit talk him after the fact.

Admittedly, cold loading into ranked is probably never a good idea, but when you have a real 9-5 and limited time to play video games in the evenings I understand the desire to just belt out a few ranked matches before bed or whatever.

I felt secondhand frustration after I heard about it.

I didn't know there was a... sequel? How does 14 compare to 13?

Playing competitive games if you're trying to feel better after having a bad day at work sounds like a terrible idea.

Good thing that my comfort game is an RTS game where I play 10v10, and you could easily see the level of players in the lobby. So, I usually join with other experienced players to ensure I win and possibly finish the game quickly, to get a dopamine hit for de-stressing.

I play mostly Space Station 14 where the culture is overwhelmingly enthusiastic about helping new players learn the ropes. Like, the nature of the game makes it genuinely enjoyable to welcome new folks into the fold and train them on various jobs and game mechanics. It's so awesome.

Many servers have actively enforced rules against powergaming, as well.

It has support for adding mods, but you have to know java to make mods for it, last I knew.

There were games I was practically godly at, I preferred being matched with similar skilled players. Though you can learn unique tricks from newer players too. Then I started to get older and had to work more, lived alone so all chores were mine to do, and hours varied. I eventually realized I can't perform at that level anymore and it was getting frustrating. There really isn't much division in skills with PvP elements so I avoid it. I've learned coop games are some great fun or if it's PvP it's something that's goofy fun.

I see you also play Rocket League.

Minecraft has a dedicated mod menu on the title screen. What are you talking about

How is Minecraft not mod friendly, that's like where most people I know started with mods

What do you mean Minecraft isn't mod friendly?

Single player all the way.

Or, if you MUST play something online, play against bots.

This is why I won’t touch anything with PvP.