My KDR :(

  • lunarul
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    67
    ·
    4 months ago

    Step 1: don’t play competitive online multi-player games.

    • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      edit-2
      4 months ago

      Only time I downed a greenbeard is when I tossed the compressed gold to my homie, and the greenbeard caught it mid throw and deposited it in under 0.4 sec. Just had no time to explain, me and my homie were already pinging it so i thought they would catch on. They weren’t brand new either.

      I regret it, I was so caught off-guard.

    • babybus@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      4 months ago

      Unfortunately, this doesn’t stop the toxicity. I always found it strange when people insult me for being bad. Like, dude, we have the same MMR. You are as terrible as me!

      • idunnololz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        4 months ago

        /muteall

        I changed my settings to mute everyone in the game by default. It has not impacted how well I play and has made the experience way better.

      • GiveOver@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        4 months ago

        I often wonder if those people actually are more skilled than their MMR implies, but they lose a nontrivial amount of games by being toxic and tilting teammates. Cursed to always be surrounded by inferior players because of their own attitude.

        • babybus@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          4 months ago

          Perhaps, some people could have a higher MMR with a better attitude. But it’s more likely that the vast majority of them simply don’t see how bad they are or they can’t accept it.

    • Liam Mayfair@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      4 months ago

      Skill-based matchmaking sounds good on paper —and maybe it does help to an extent— but it doesn’t work all that well when you take into account the top performing players will routinely play under low level, alt smurf accounts, to grind and keep the high rating of their main account intact.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      4 months ago

      Yep. I know there was recently a very dumb push against SBMM, but it’s required for modern gaming in most contexts now. There’s a lot more players now, so some of them are incredibly skilled, and others are incredibly bad. We don’t really want them mixing if they’re playing competitively.

      It also used to be that most of our games were pretty casual. Most of CS wasn’t the competitive DE mode we all play today. There were tons of servers playing custom silly game modes (and there still are!), but most players only play comp or (confusingly) still competitive unranked modes. Most games don’t have casual game modes anymore that are designed for just goofing around.

  • Etterra
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 months ago

    Lol that’s what you get for playing multiplayer competitive anything. Just say no “fuck that” to multiplayer, be happy in your life free of cheaters and assholes online.

    • uranibaba
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      4 months ago

      I’ve stopped playing online games. Offline games have a big plus because you can pause at any time.

  • A_Very_Big_FanM
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    4 months ago

    Play SBM / ranked gamemodes so you get similarly skilled opponents

  • PhatInferno@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 months ago

    True chad gaming is having fun whether or not your being dommed/losing

    (Just gotta find the right game)