So i gave in and threw in the towel with CSGO.

[tabascosauz]

@Recon-UK Was wondering whether someone else would feel the same way about competitive online games. I got into online gaming through BF3 relatively early on and was pretty skilled through it all, but through Colonel grind (I think I made it to about somewhere between colonel with 12-15 stars nope lol Colonel 8 though I did have my own style, CQB-style MK11Mod0 DMR before it was cool in BF4, and scoped DMR on the SCAR-H, respectable stats) found myself getting very bitter after having a disappointing game. So I took a little break (still on that break lol, have yet to get back to BF3), thinking it was just me getting tired of the game. A while later I got sucked into CSGO compet, and while I was really into it for some time, it was increasingly frustrating to accept the fact that sometimes one gets put up with terrible teams full of terrible people. I always try to stay positive and acknowledge skill + effort on whichever team I see it. I never made it past GN3, mostly sitting at Gn2 and getting a nice streak taking me up to GN3, only to bump into a bunch of defeatist dicks, deranking me back to n2. And so, predictably, I stopped. You can only put up for so long with the feeling of not being able to anything while someone on the enemy team cheats their way to victory, happening over and over. I know they have Prime now, but after the way Steam handled a simple phone number change of mine, no thanks.

But it's all been a worthwhile experience as I now know exactly what's going on with me and gaming. I like the adrenaline and rewarding feeling of a well-played game, but all this competitive gameplay was only bringing out the worst in me. These days I stick to singleplayer (Borderlands 2), coop (Payday 2), and extra-tactical shooters (Project Reality and soon-to-be Squad, both of which are games where you cannot blame a teammate for missing a long-range 500m+ sniper shot because you wouldn't have made it either ). Helps me to be a more polite, reserved and happy individual.

 

[Recon-UK]

Yeah i mean CS does nothing good for me, it's not a fun game to play at all, you are constantly trying your best and because of that it's not your fun side playing the game.

This pretty much sums it up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffe...y_experience_and_feelings_about_being_global/

Globals are not the best players, we are not all that better than Eagle Master or Supreme even, heck i would go as far to say Eagle too.
System is completely flawed.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

I absolutely love Dust 2.

That map is okay if you have a decent team to play with, and the other team isnt a bunch of toxic morons.

Yeah i mean CS does nothing good for me, it's not a fun game to play at all, you are constantly trying your best and because of that it's not your fun side playing the game.

I have fun with it regardless. Though winning makes it even better, and I have about 2 or 3 teams I typically play with in MM and we do really well. win about 80% of the time.

 

[Recon-UK]

That map is okay if you have a decent team to play with, and the other team isnt a bunch of toxic morons.

I have fun with it regardless. Though winning makes it even better, and I have about 2 or 3 teams I typically play with in MM and we do really well. win about 80% of the time.

Edited my post.

D2 is ok... but it just get's played the same every time... i like Mirage or Cache as you can vary smokes etc.

 

[catnipkiller]

I have 1500+ hrs in game and I am silver 1 only the best players play at silver 1 all other ranked are overrated.

 

[Ungari]

Any game that has Bunny Hopping should have been avoided.

 

[Melvis]

1200hrs in CS:GO? gezzz you were keen, I got it pre ordered and have only played 31hrs of it, found the game shit so I stopped playing and not couse of cheaters, just a shit game lol.

I have 2500hrs in CSS alot better and more realistic game and more fun but full of hackers mainly auto.exe, script users, wallers and aim bots.

 

[SaltyFish]

Tired of cheaters? play fighting games.

This. Oh so much. Due to the small game field in fighting games, any cheating would be obvious. There's no real subtle equivalent of wall hacks and aimbots. The closest thing I can think of would be a macro for a fancy combo and even then, you'd still need the timing and position to execute it. Also, any such inputs are completely within the normal bounds of the game and can be reasonably pulled off manually by any semi-skilled player.

While there's a big overlap between fighting games and FPS games in that they're both twitch-heavy genres, I don't think fighting games resonate as well with "PC Master Race" crowd.

1. You can't really buy an advantage in fighting games to the same extent; input lag and monitor response time are still factors, but the more obvious stuff, say 1440p@120Hz and dual video cards won't give you anything over someone running 720p@60Hz (or even 30Hz depending on the game engine) with iGPU or *gasp* a game console, which leads us to...

2. The preferred input device is an arcade-style joystick (or for some, a gamepad). This is anathema to PCMR because they don't get to brandish keyboard+mouse (KB is technically possible but not recommended... macros help but are a big no-no in competitions) and it means those "console peasants" have equal footing (or even start with better footing).

3. When FPS games (and PC games in general nowadays) have multiplayer, it is almost exclusively online only. Remember local multiplayer games 15 to 20 years ago? Whatever happened to them? Fighting games, oweing to their arcade roots, have maintained local multiplayer and they're not mutually exclusive with online, either. It's still better played in-person oweing the lag-free experience. Aside from the arcade roots, part of it is due to the fact that most fighting games are made by the Japanese, who live in a geographically small country with superb internet infrastructure, and that influences the netcode. This is fine if you live in a similar place (South Korea, Finland, etc.), not so much when you live in a geographically large country with primitive internet infrastructure (Brazil, USA, etc.).

4. Fighting games are typically 1v1 affairs. Smash Bros. and its derivatives increase that number, but it's still tiny compared to 16v16 FPS chaos. Some people want a larger group involved, especially if you have a large circle of more casual gamer friends who can't stand waiting for their turn in a fighting game.

5. Fighting games a bit more manual dexterity, mainly due to maneuvering the joystick. It's a bit more than pressing the right buttons at the right time; you also have to be able to correctly execute some joystick motion.

This isn't to say it's crazy diificult to learn fighting games (there are many great sources on the subject free on the intarwebs). Mostly it's a highlight of the major differences to be aware of. If anything, FPS gamers already have a similar skillset and mindset. Should pretty easy to find FPS analogues to waiting games, footsies, punishes, etc. I'd love to see more people here excited about fighting games; we've got discussions on Stellaris, Doom 2016, GTA V, Fallout 4 but not much on BlazBlue or Street Fighter V.

 

[peche]

Valve screw the game and just cares about how much money they can collect on the community market lad, forget about the game, i still play casual, deathmatch and seldom comps....


also...

A bit off-topic:
I don't care much about this game though, but I like the background song on the video.

dafaq....

Russians with $1 microphones don't help the situation either.

made my day dude...

Yep, I love the feeling of doing really well. My two best maps are Cache and Mirage. I ace on Mirage very frequently now-a-days.

mirage ! great map

I absolutely love Dust 2.

its the most played map, but aye i do love it too
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[Vario]

Probably only FPS game I was "pro-1337" good at was UT99, UT2K3, UT2K4.
I really loved UT99, some of the best moments are Instagib on Deck 16, and CTF Facing Worlds, DM Phobos, Chaos UT mutators, the DM Dark-City with sniper mods, all that good stuff. UT99 was the best shooter.
I loved UT2K4's ONS Torlan.

I also played a ton of Tribes 2 and was decent with juggernaut, energy module with the fusion mortar.

Current crop of shooters are so uninteresting 15 year old leet e-peen stat grinds with boring maps and weapons.

 

[Recon-UK]

I have gone back to it but only playing casually, still get accused of cheating but that's due to skill level which i can handle, i don't full on try hard. Have more fun this way.

 

[Toothless]

I play casual BF4 because i like playing helicopters like they're boats.

HONK HONK HERE COMES THE FLYING TITANIC.

 

[Recon-UK]

I play casual BF4 because i like playing helicopters like they're boats.

HONK HONK HERE COMES THE FLYING TITANIC.

Pictured this in my head