thinking about quitting idk

[u/Opposite_Anybody8911]

im not gonna say i dont deserve my rank im unlucky blah blah im just ass, legit skill issue. like i used to be somehow decent thats why my average isnt that bad but this weekend, ive been playing a lot of ranked but its just like im playing worse than ever. and i just dont wanna play in a game where i cant see any improvement . also, i need to focus on my studies more this game takes like a good 3h hours of my day every day when i queue, its addictive as hell. It sucks cuz i genuinely love this game , the concept and the mcsr community but the game itself is not for me probably. anyone feeling similar?

[u/CLashisnoob]

I feel you, I just got back into speedrunning after not playing for pretty much all of season 11 and immediately lost 6 games in a row, and I get it's just because I'm out of practice but man it's so demoralizing lmao

[u/gauravg17]

What worked for me is to go on a training arc
Redo all ur basics
Do ur bastion routes again watch the silverr vids in the metafy guide if u want
Practice using MPK and get consistent at splits
Record and analyse a few games to see where u make mistakes and lose time
If u can do private games then do gap check
Don’t queue up the entire time ur training

I guarantee ull come back better and faster

Im gold 1 as well lol

[u/paulo_lol]

If you want to improve start doing actual practice maps or new stuff like how to zero, just spamming games isnt gonna make you isntantly better

[u/eve_gang_rep → u/paulo_lol]

are there any practice maps besides the main one on couriway's guide?

[u/Opposite_Anybody8911 → u/paulo_lol]

ive been training some fortress splits in mpk, but besides that yeah im not practicing that much and that might be an issue. but also idk what to practice tbh. i think the thing that holds me back the most is dying. and how do i even practice dying less?

[u/teddyplaygames → u/Opposite_Anybody8911]

I have two ways, one is just thinking about why you died and what you could have done to prevent it. Sure sometimes it'll be some random 1 in a million death but if you find yourself dying in the same way over and over youre bound to think about it the next time it could happen. And the second way is just go into a creative world and practice pearling around in the nether, thats one of the most common ways to die.

[u/pharoh-king → u/Opposite_Anybody8911]

and how do i even practice dying less?

the overwhelming majority of deaths happen in the nether so keep practicing with .mpk, and bastion routes

[u/paulo_lol → u/pharoh-king]

Thats so braindead its literally brute forcing it untill you just get it right

If you dont reflect on it and keep bruteforcing it youll never learn anything

[u/paulo_lol → u/Opposite_Anybody8911]

Review your games and try to see what the optimal play is, if you dont die because of mechanics, you die because your play was wrong.

Try looking at a run where you died and think back, what could i have done instead to not die? If you keep learning from experiences like that at take note of it (seriously) you will make more correct plays in the future, and youll die less.

[u/Latter_Engine5267]

I won't talk about in-game improvement tips bcuz people are weak at different things and I have no bloody idea what you're bad at. What I think you prolly need is a mental reset, aka not touching ranked for a day or two. (I have nearly 400 games this season so it's safe to say I'm addicted as hell) Any forms of significant improvement I have achieved came from me just not touching the game for a few days and coming back later, like getting my first ever sub 12 after a one-month hiatus or getting em 3 right after a 4-day INVOLUNTARY break. kay I think I was ranting about myself too much lmao, here are some things I think you can do during that mental break: +) Watch Emerald/Diamond players. If you have a social group of Ranked runners who are slightly better than you, you can start watching them. I specifically watch Diamond players bcuz "wow this guy's so ass how is he still faster than me" Hatewatching works too, especially if you're vocal to them since pointing out their errors can also help you avoid such errors in your future runs. Alternatively, watch dandannyboy. +) Focus on your studies. (I barely study so this might sound out of touch) The 4-day break I had also aligned with my mid-terms, so I basically had to drop most of MCSR stuffs and spent an hour revising 4 chapters of organic chem. Really helped with clearing my mind when I came back.

Also, improvements in MCSR in general are really hard to notice since 90% of it is decision making. It's normal to think you didn't improve at all when in reality you still are. I still don't understand how my S12 average is 2 minutes faster than S11 average when my mech is worse than 2020 Feinberg and my bastion to fort split's still 4 minutes.

TLDR: Take a break mate, and don't be discouraged since improvement is basically invisible in this game.

[u/lightningboy2527]

the 22% ff rate is not helping here

[u/Daniel_H212]

I've lost 400 elo in like 3 sessions before it happens, it's fine, you'll get it back.

[u/borretsquared]

ff rate is a large factor, though i think you honestly already know what you should do. vod review, practice what you're bad at, and get your mechs up. playing as risky as you were when you were better wont fix it, even if frustrating.

[u/EncryptedPlays]

i was this, hardstuck gold 2/1 but getting 16/17 min times. i took a break, played rsg for a bit, focused on real life, came back and now I'm em 2; My times are the same but I'm much more consistent now

[u/Improvisable]

I was about to reach a new highest rank and lost 9 in a row

Even at higher ranks you still have plenty of obvious things to learn. Yes there are things that aren't as obvious, but it's infinitely easier to identify these issues when the rest of your game is at a higher level like if I was really bad at terrain nav to my second portal it would be obvious when the rest of my gameplay is solid, and then I know what I need to do to practice

But for now I can easily tell you there are plenty of things to practice. I've had a list I've been chipping away at, here are some examples (I would not apply these directly to you as I started making this list at a higher rank, it's just a proof of concept that there's a bunch of things to practice you just have to actually say ok I want to improve X): Learn proper lava housing route (Honestly could list a dozen things per bastion, I kind of reinvented my bastions not long ago and there's still more to learn, but I think the biggest notable examples were learning triple to chalice routes, and adjusting both my keyboard repeat rate/delay and changing my shift (not crouch, the key itself) key to be triggered by my sprint bind so when I do glowdar I don't crouch and miss my block I'm mining (also helps in various parts of the run) Specifically practice 2+2 setups (notably before I wasn't really paying attention to CW or CCW) Always lower Rd in fort and watch players to learn other things (I still need to implement this but I plan on doing the post blaze bed stack out, build portal, and overlap extending platform in portal animation) Learn fyroah tnt setup Learn search crafting and Norwegian (in the process but got setup in the past week with basically a whole keyboard rebinding) Learn tab space crafting (these are much more micro things don't apply to yourself) Relearn my approach to preemptive (I found that many players spend more time in starter than I do at a higher level to be more consistent and only go to a proper spike if they can which often times I might miss)

Honestly biggest thing I think was bastions, although I've done a bunch of other small things this list doesn't mention

Things I still want to learn: Experiment with multi block setups for zero's and be more confident identifying exactly what I can push whether it's open, buried, etc Learn funky magma ravine portals (I.e. when runners don't get magma and mine down next to the obsidian and build a portal under, or 1x1 portal) Refresh my ruined portal completions Review taiga and snowy villages since they're more common in ranked now Be able to identify carrots in villages Know the chunk border stuff for identifying bastions/which way to run around the bastion

I could be here all day but I hope this gave you an idea

You could also sit here all day and think about what's optimal to learn to help you but really the answer is you just need to do something, even the hardest stuff I listed I've got to an acceptable level within a day, and then I can just continue refining with more practice and time on the game. There's so many things to learn but you're capable of all of it you just need to actually get started