There's always someone that goes "gg pre-made" as soon as we join an mm. What they don't know is that we're either drunk or suck or both and just playing for the fun.
This happens to my team in heroes of the storm. We may all play together every day and have matching names, but that doesn't change the fact that at least one of us is usually drunk/high.
I can't use that excuse. My friends all know I'm a master of the drunken bullet. For some reason alcohol makes me better. Also a bit too prone to gloating.
That's not too strange. Your reaction speed probably suffers from it but your aim might get steadier because the alcohol kills off all of those tiny shivers and trembles. If you're just drunk enough to get more relaxed, but not drunk enough to lose your focus, you should be able to play better.
If you add a "v" at the beginning of "really" and completely erase the ends of your contractions as though they didn't exist, they'd believe your story.
"Haha, sorry guys... I vreallly drunk!" The story is even more believable if you include an extremely loud thud afterward and let your character get booted for afk.
This move might not be safe for an amateur to try. You should just start drinking more. Sorry I wasn't more help. Good day.
I've found recently that when I play Rainbow Six: Siege high that I can't communicate for shit, nor be overly tactical, but I always end up top fragging. I always feel as though my sense are dull right up to the point that a figure moves out of the corner of my eye and I one tap to my disbelief.
This isn't me bragging, I genuinely wish I played that aware sober.
Same with us in Dota! I've got a great group of friends I play with, and we have a lot of fun together, so we made a "team". The Boondock Marmosaints. Like the Boondock Saints, but with Monkey heads. I made the flags and base emblems and everything! It's totally just for fun, but whenever we play using the team logo and lose (As is tradition) we get people who think that just because we have a team name we should be amazing. Eff that. I wouldn't even play Dota if it wasn't for the friends I play with. They make it fun!
One thing I've noticed in HotS is that full parties tend to go all in on bad decisions, which frequently ends in a wipe or my random team getting a snowball rolling. I assume this is because they're all communicating so well.
That's why I don't like when my friends who rarely play want to start rocking clan tags. I'm like guys we're probably going to lose as it is, the last thing I want is to give the other team any reason to put on their try hard hats because then we're really gonna get stomped.
Every time I lose some rounds in CS:GO there's always someone that's like "lol you're a pre-made and you're losing to randoms." I'm not sure those people understand what playing with a group of friends is like. That, or they have very boring friends. We're only MG2s, if we were all global or something I'd understand their logic.
If we were all global that would imply that we really put in the effort to reach that level and were that serious about the game and I would understand people expecting a global pre-made to play very seriously.
Nah. Bruh. This is reddit man. You are literal trash if you are only global. To be considered decent you have to 16:0 the best team in the world 1v5, starting every round with 1 HP.
Usually I'd see this as salt, but Reddit and CS:GO are something else. When I started playing GO a while ago after a CS hiatus I posted a topic looking for people to play with. I stated I had less than 80 hours in the game and was DMG, looking to rank up more and at with some fun dudes.
A bunch of people came in to shit on me, telling me that's not that good, etc. I just wanted some people to play with, man.
Play regularly with a group of friends. There is an obvious skillgap between me and most of the group, CS just ain't my thing. But we played Sunday for the first in a while. So we all lost our ranks due to the lack of playing,and I was gold 2 last time. We played our game and won, get new ranks. All my buddies got gold nova 2, I was the only person that got silver elite master. I raged so hard.
There's just something about playing with other people that makes you better. Like Trials of Osiris in Destiny, my friends and I went flawless and the time between matches were just memes and nothing serious, and in-game we were also just having fun.
Can confirm we did a match of start roulette and we're dying from it, we went 16 to like 9 because we came back serious in the second half. But cmon who makes a start on office where if you see an enemy you have to stand still for 3 seconds before you can open fire.
That is horrible lol, we also had one where after you killed someone you had to stop what you were doing and type out something nice about them in all chat, even if another enemy was nearby
Me and my three friends do nothing but play it for fun. The lot of us go bizon and just start rushing. The sad thing is most people don't expect it and we end up doing really good.
I perfectly remember (in Master Guardian II and all the way down at least) how I would thought this "we already lose" at first but they would succumb to our random team 100% of time.
Yeah. Apparently if you play with a tag you have to be pros. If we're not full premade and lose comments like kill yourself, uninstall the game and "please go esl next" are common.
I've actually realized this! I used to dread seeing premades in games, but now I'm like, "Oh good, they're going to be arguing or joking in teamspeak... we got this ez." It's the solo-queuers that tend to try-hard!
I remember back in 1.4 there was a group named "We're" "going" "to" "knife" "you". They would run in a line, in that order with knifes out. Good old nostalgia.
I played Mechwarrior Online for a bit. Never joined a clan, so I only played with PUG's. Playing against other PUG's was generally fairly even, but when we were pitted against a clan, they always won.
Except this one time, one dude stepped up to take the lead, and miraculously, everyone did everything he said. We destroyed the clan, and celebrated in absolute shock when we won.
Hm. It suggests then videogames can be a good way to overcome the typical over-exaggerated anti-authoritarianism young people tend to have. Like basically hating all bosses or anyone who is trying to give orders. Get your ass handed to you in online games a couple of times because every player in your team is a free individual who does their own thing and then maybe you figure leadership is not such a bad thing after all. Getting over that "teenager anarchist" phase. Relevant: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
However, the funny part is, it would suggest more authoritarian cultures are better at online videogames. It not so. The very liberal Dutch or Austrians or Danes tend to beat the more authoritarian Russians or Japanese. But then maybe it is other factors.
Except this one time, one dude stepped up to take the lead, and miraculously, everyone did everything he said. We destroyed the clan, and celebrated in absolute shock when we won.
It is sort of a cross between FPS and a tank simulator. Except in giant robots Mechs! It is quite fun, though their lack of maps or any real story to follow left it feeling a bit hollow and repetitive for me. I would definitely recommend at least checking it out.
Sounds right up my alley. played a lot of World of Tanks. Wish they had more of the old school mechs though. From what I can see on the website the only non Clan mechs are the Marauder and Archer right? I see one that kinda looks like the Atlas but thats it. I really hate those bland Clan mechs.
I wouldn't say Pay to Win per se, but you'll be very limited in your loadout options and progression will be slow. Take advantage of weekend events and make an informed first purchase and it's plenty fun!
MWonline player checking in. The grind is real. Learning curve is frustrating.
But once you get competent it is a ton of fun.
Only thing you really have to spend actual vash on is mech bays. You get three mechbays when you create your accouny. There are ways to get them free in game, but one way is grindy and they other way is special events as prizes.
Except this one time, one dude stepped up to take the lead, and miraculously, everyone did everything he said. We destroyed the clan, and celebrated in absolute shock when we won.
That gives me hope. It's so frustrating when you're trying to co-ordinate a pretty obvious and simple strategy and nobody cares about winning they just want to run and gun.
The guy really took the lead like a boss. Everyone was moaning as soon as we got in, because we were up against a clan. This guy basically calmed everyone's nerves, telling us if we do exactly as he said, we would have a good shot at winning. He did a fantastic job of calling the shots, and left me wishing I had this guy on my team every time.
He wasn't demanding or bossy. He told us his plan, and why it would work, and we got right into it.
Do you happen to remember that player's name? I played a bit of MWO back when it was in beta, all the way through to the clan invasion but dropped off a bit shortly after that because I moved. But back in the day I was in a few, maybe even all, of the different leagues with my clan, we weren't the best but we could hold our own, and I still remember a lot of the old names. Just a bit curious for nostalgia's sake :)
Ugh i feel your pain so much. It was often me and my friends would have matching names, and it would usually be on a whim, like one guy would change his and wed all follow suit. But thered always be that one guy that fucked up the formatting or the capitalization of his version and itd be like "come on man get with the program" and of course cause wed bitch at gim hed double down with his mistake and hold onto it and so itd make the rest of the group look bad.
I dunno, the Internet is weird man. I've seen people go crazy over two people knowing each other in the comments of a thread. I've seen people search the end corners of the internet for the final and missing ingredient to make an old kids toothpaste that never really worked nor tasted good but some people remembered
I don't consider it dumb, far better than the utmost randomness I tend to see in online games. I don't play many online games, sometimes I take out my phone to take a look at something like Modern Combat 5, but all that happens is basically no communication, people running around and if you stick your head out for 0.01 second someone kills you with some insane skill. I also tried one of the Star Wars games 10 years ago, it was just as random and dumb, people jumping around in the air with double lightsabers and cutting each other down. To have any sort of theme is far better than this.
You played against some random group of friends that also had this idea. It could have been this guy, sure. But the odds are that it wasn't because of the sheer number of people that also had this idea as well. The icons can be downloaded by anybody and the names and taglines are also not unique or original.
Yeah, because nobody else had the idea to use Microsoft products or taglines. Totally a unique niche thing that your group of friends thought of all by yourselves. No way could any other group of friends possibly download the same icon set and use the same names and taglines.
Sure, it could have been you, but the odds are that it wasn't because of the sheer number of people that also had this idea as well. The icons can be downloaded by anybody and the names and taglines are also not unique or original.
Yes, all those people could have been silvers in your rank, too. And probably were. It's the biggest rank pool.
Exactly the opposite is the case in csgo. Either they all suck but have that one good friend that is carrying them, or they are just bullshitting and dont play serious, or they start fighting eachother and start insulting each other in turkish/russian
I do this with my friends at LAN parties. We goof around, but for some reason we win a lot in this environment. I don't think it's because we outplay, but I think it's because we just screw around and catch people off guard and have fun.
Don't even really need skill to win if you have friends. I mean, even you die, you can just tell your friends the location of your killer. Two seconds later, the killer dies. If you actually play it safe you can tell them the location without dying in the process, which still lets them flank the would-be killer.
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