Maybe that means their having fun, even if they are not considered ”good at the game”, whatever that means. Seems okay to enjoy games as entertainment, and not join the competition…?
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Actually me with StarCraft. I dunno, I just like building tanks and seeing zerglings explode.
I liked base building and hated the combat. So StarCraft never was my go to. Now empire earth? Oo baby. From throwing stones to dropping nukes to fuckin legally distinct gundums. All while I have a minas tirith worth of walls for defense. 
StarCraft is completely valid, I have like 9000 hours in sc2 and I've never broken past the GM MMR,my peak was like 5.3k.
Something that happens at high elo is you constantly play a smaller pool of players. When Samuel the semi pro logs on and you both queue at the same time you bet he's gonna be matched with you.
On the flipside... you do know watching a video and just doing as the video says IS enough to get to the top percentiles right ? I mean this with zero shred of sarcasm or elitism, seriously. If you watch a "bronze to masters" type video you will make it pretty high up.
As for StarCraft broodwar ? that game is impossible, I have like 2000 hours and I get folded every time in ladder. I've only made it to B- (Terran) and nowadays it seems hyper competitive. A tiny pool of highly skilled players all across the board. Even smurfing for some reason.
When FlaSh plays Terran he is legitimately the culmination of humanity's gaming skill in application.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I was actually talking about broodwar. I could never get interested in SC2, it’s too complex, it was designed for competitive players and it’s really not fun. Too many variables at the same time.
I discovered gameplay videos on YouTube a few years ago (flash vs light, jaedong…) and they let me learn some strategies which allowed me to beat the campaigns without cheating for the first time. I was making beginner’s mistakes. Since then I just play intermittently and have fun, no pressure. I know I’m not good and I don’t need to be.
I have known about scbw since like 2004 and I have tried to learn how to play it since 2013 on and off, with the remaster ive actually played more than ever, even so: the game is not any easier now than it was before
SCBW is one of those games where if someone tells me they're bad at it, it's like "dude we all are"
+1,000 hours for me on Warno. It's my comfort game after work. I'm good at 10v10 matches but don't ask me how I do on 1v1.
This is what happens when you don't engage with your hobby. engage with it. it will be more fun in the long run.
I don't think this is true. Being good at a video game is not the same thing as engaging with it, often it can even be the opposite.
For myself, I get better at games that I play continuously without interruption, and a significant shortcut to being good at a lot of games is metagaming. But I tend to want to rotate my games rather than sit on the same one all the time, and metagaming can really suck the fun out of things since you're really not the one playing and coming up with things anymore in a lot of cases, and you're also exposed to the treadmill which is neverending.
Once I start worrying about being good at a game, burnout is soon to follow. I could only ever get anything out of that with games that are only about competition (i.e., StarCraft or DotA), and then they'd kind of eat all my time/attention and I still wasn't really good at them, just top 1% maybe. I think for that to really work you need to be a bit gifted.
It's not worth it. Games are about exploratory play and are often most enjoyable when you're bad at them and not constrained by optimalities. Looking up some guide is not the badge of honor people like to pretend it is.
Slay the Spire for me.
I can't help it. I try to force builds I want instead of adapting to what the game gives me.
Claw is law.
My player rank in Deep Rock Galactic is over 1000. I've been playing it for years now. Each of the classes I've promoted up to where there's four red stars and a number count. I mainline Driller, but I get around.
(I suck the most at Scout; My old crew liked playing scout, so I didn't play it as much.)
DRG is largely about little details.
◆ The Oppressor is super-armored but susceptible to melee attacks. Yes, the Driller's throwing axes count. Also, you can ignite the death-gas of Praetorians and Oppressors (and toxic fungus) with fire attacks.
◆ You can drill about ten paces before your drills overheat. Eleven if you want to risk it. Clearing line of sight to kill zones is super effective. Also cleared flight paths can be super useful when running from Dreadnoughts. Also drilling is essential for pathing connections between pumpjacks and refinery. Also I personally like creating shortcuts between nearby chambers.
◆ If you're Engineer, your job is to platform all the minerals up high. Scouts, then, can grapple to those platforms and do the mining. Most engineers use two turrets to great strategic effectiveness. I use one that is quick-assemble for ad hoc support, and then focus on Mactera flyers and tanks using the Smartgun and Shard Diffractor (a powerful beam weapon) respectively.
◆ Mineable minerals often bulge out from the walls, so if you grapple just above them you can often gain purchase. Also if you're falling, grappling the ground will slow you down. The grappling hook takes a lot of practice, since it's easy to pull yourself somewhere without purchase, and then fall.
◆ Gunner is the distraction. If the gunner isn't the distraction he usually makes short work of whatever tanky beastie is not paying attention to him. When cracking the Heartstone, the Hurricane Guided Rocket Launcher will wreck beamers (aim for the tip) and flying rocks.
◆ By using satchel charges (dropped from above) or Fat Boys (Engineer grenade nukes) you can rapidly bypass the first stage of the Caretaker. Fatboys will also bypass the second stage of the Hiveguard.
◆ Cave Leeches light up as they're reaching for you, so you can sometimes detect them by just looking up as you walk out into an open chamber. The Driller's Collette Wave Cooker and Cryo Cannon will both dispatch Exploders without letting them explode.
So as I see it. DRG is a celebration that unskilled labor is not unskilled at all. We've heard a few instances in the last couple of years in which companies laid-off their unskilled labor only to have to rehire the greybeards again because the essential skills to do the jobs departed with the discharged employees. In DRG the basics are easy to learn, but I'm still discovering tricks and methods I've never encountered before.
I blame my teammates
I literally have over half a YEAR in Minecraft playtime and somehow I've done practically nothing?? I just explore servers and make the shittiest bases known to man.
Once I took over an abandoned base and lived there for like a year, then the original owner came back (on a different account) and they got banned for trying to take back the base. I feel bad about it but I was literally 13 at the time and was too scared of getting banned to say anything 😭
Also shout-out to USUV (IP play.ultravanilla.world) if by chance anyone is looking for a vanilla Minecraft server. I actually found it from the admins Firefox extension to redirect from fandom.com to wiki.gg during the Minecraft wiki transfer. It's one of the very few Minecraft servers that aren't pay to win and have an active community.
I've been playing for 13 years and I'm still not good. Embrace the suck
Hey, being bad at something is just the first step to getting good at something.
Unfortunately, I've never been a big fan of steps.
3000 hours 👀
No but I did leave a negative Steam Review
I’m very good at running this game
Pathfinder WotR. I have no idea how to make a good build
TF2
Very good at vibing the game
Me and Civilization
satisfactorulery
Pssh, I'm super good at that game.
Just don't ask where I put my train network. ^it's in the sky so I don't have to deal with elevation changes^
Interesting, I put mine under the ground, subways are super fun.
I've gotten to the end only once and that was 1300 hours in
factorio represent
meow have it running in the background just for the music
It's like you added up the hours I spent playing Oldrim and forgot to add the other two grand playing SE.
I just honestly can't imagine what someone could even do in Skyrim for that long...
Me when hearing about ‘Minecraft’ time and again.
So I just grind ‘Assetto Corsa’ instead.
My younger cousin in his late 20s does this like 2 to 3 times a year. They replay the game while skipping all dialog. Its like crandy crush to some people. Whats worse is they delete their previous save file to start over. I cant wrap my head around these actions.
Yeah, I can see playing it a couple of times with some mods, but I'd put my personal limit for this kind of thing below 1000 hours. Even with mods, the combat just isn't interesting enough.
There are so many mods that change everything. Can be like a new game every time. Same with fo4.
Space station 14
"Potassium, that's dangerous" <-- my scientist colleage (and unfortunately also live streaming at the time) staring at a potassium spill covering the entire science department moments before I (500+ hours playtime) trigger an anomaly that spills water
'If you can smoke a cigarette you can do anything' motherfuckers directly before they tell me to go set up the TEG
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