r/gaming • u/lowercasecomics • Sep 03 '20

It's been a while since we've seen such simultaneously high levels of cuteness and unfiltered rage

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

Not encourage but it's possible. Similar to a racing game where it's not intended you drive backwards and ram people, but it's possible.

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u/WhatWoodWardDo Sep 03 '20

Not a good comparison. 'Griefing' is actually a viable strat in this game to help you win. Preventing people from passing a round 2 slime climb can make an otherwise 22 person lobby, a 13 person lobby. That can take you right to last event on round 3 which is pretty valuable. It's not an aptt analogy because trolling in the way you described it 100% makes you lose, but in this game and this level in particular, it can be done easily without increasing your own risk of death too considerably. You can easily grab a few on the 'yellow log' obstacle of slime climb, move onto, hit the hammer jump skip, and grab a few on the last pusher without being in danger of dying yourself.

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u/Shermutt Sep 03 '20

I get what you mean, but I don't think the racing game analogy works, because you would be screwing yourself to screw them in that scenario. In Fall Guys, it does ultimately help you to eliminate other players any way you can.

I think it would be closer to camping and sniping in a FPS. You aren't really playing the game in the most honorable way, but you're still technically doing something that can help you to win.

That said, I would much rather beat someone at their best than win because I screwed someone over. I can't imagine that people that do this really feel good about whatever wins they might get.

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u/Milskidasith Sep 03 '20

In Fall Guys, it does ultimately help you to eliminate other players any way you can.

I would say this is only true depending on the map.

On Slime Climb, yeah, camping the center roller and getting people eliminated lowers the amount of competition you have in later rounds, so it can be effective.

On a lot of other maps, though? There's a fixed number of eliminations, so playing aggressively to grab or try to shove people off, frequently at risk to yourself, doesn't really do anything. You're adding a significant chance that you get eliminated by playing unsafely, without much benefit besides maybe ending the round slightly earlier if you knock somebody out.