I remember playing TacOps back in the day. Some Sundays were literally just me team speaking with the guys (and some girls) while sipping a beer and casually playing our doing team practice. I learned a lot about the different international cultures before I set my own feet out of the country.
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Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Pretty solid. Explains why i stopped liking online-games which i was so damn passionate about 20yrs ago.
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Psythik@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You can still still be competitive, you just have to be a bit clever about it.
I recently started playing mobile shooters… in an Android emulator with a mouse and keyboard. Destroying touchscreen kiddos with a proper input device never gets boring.
Some games are even smart enough to detect the mouse and keyboard and only match you with other players using external input devices, like CoD Mobile. That’s one of my favorites because it’s basically CoD: Greatest Hits. All the best maps from the old games are there. And new modes come out every week. It’s so much better than modern CoD; takes me back to the days of playing CoD4 and MWII on the Xbox 360 when I was a teenager.
sploosh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You know it’s not really competition when you give yourself a massive advantage, right?
You know that you’re a grownup cheating to beat children, right?
You know that’s sadder than playing a fair game and losing, right?
Right?
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You know that what I’m doing is not only allowed by the CoD Mobile developers, but they even made an official emulator for this very purpose? Google “Gameloop”.
Regardless, I play games to have fun; so knock it off with the guilt tripping. The players know that I’m using a mouse and keyboard. They don’t know how old I am because in-game mic usage is rare these days. I’m playing within the rules. Not my fault that they’re using the touchscreen or plugged in a controller instead of a mouse.
If it bothers you so much, then just stick to ranked and you’ll only get matched with other mouse and keyboard players. But again, I don’t give a fuck because I’m having fun again, just like I used to when I was young. Mobile gaming in an emulator rekindled my interest in gaming overall.
Baguette@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Gonna have to disagree on this. Input parity is a big issue for multiplayer games.
Look at Apex, roller players complain about m&k being able to do certain movement tech, m&k players complain about the ridiculous aim assist on roller. People sometimes cheat by using the roller to have aim assist, while using macros to achieve certain movement tech.
Touchscreen vs m&k isnt even close to roller vs m&k. It’s really only fun for the person who has that advantage at that point. You essentially make it so that you get to have fun while everyone else doesn’t. Sure, it might allowed by the devs, doesn’t make it any less fun to play against.
To your point on ranked, not everyone wants to play that. Sometimes they just want to turn on their phone for a quick match.
shani66@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Nah that’s just pathetic, dude.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t even want to be competitive, but stat tracking forces the issue. When you found a regular hangout place for a some team based game, you didn’t need to worry about tracking every kill. You could just be helpful to your team in ways that K/D ratios can’t track like throwing yourself at the opposite team when they’re chasing your team member who has the flag for instance. Just not being a ragging asshole could get you a positive reputation.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Oh yes. We never gave a rats ass about k/d. Defending a flag numerous times and ending up with 5/100 was a big win. Oh man i really miss those times. Except the dialup and crt and that shit…
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Winning this way wouldn’t give me something. It’s like fighting unarmed babies in full gear
Being accused of being a cheater (while ypu aren’t) or people dropping the server when you show up, that’s fun 😁
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For me other than the lack of time it’s the toxicity, if you have say one hour to play, do you really want to listen to some no-life cunt who has been playing all day screaming at you because they are tilted as fuck and need to blame everyone else but themselves? Well I certainly don’t need that shit in my life.
LotrOrc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Honestly there second someone starts talking during a game I just go and mute them. 99.9% of the time it’s really annoying. Once in a while you get someone who actually knows what they’re doing and talking about, isn’t a dick, and actually gives good advice or help. But that happens so rarely it’s not worth it
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Adding a bit of an anecdote, I’m not good at games but when someone (be it friend or foe) is leagues worse than me I give them advice
For example I’ve been getting back into planetside and this level 7 was trying to kill me as an infantry unit with a rocket launcher (anti tank weapon, can’t one shot infantry) so even with my crappy aim I dispatch him without so much as a nick to my shields. So I send him a direct message that the rocket launcher is for tanks and he should use his LMG for infantry battle
Basically help your newbies
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
How is Planetside in 2024? I never was really good at it, but I liked the coordination or when a full platoon was assembled and dropped on a hot spot.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Oh right… I totally forgot about the toxicity. That also was very different “back then”. Even though we weren’t much less anonymous
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t listen to any cunts in online games, voice chat is off. For some reason the kids these days think you can’t play a game without a headset and mic on. I don’t even own one of those dumbass headsets. I can still be competitive in FPS games without any of that too.
invalid_name@lemm.ee 1 month ago
But thats also a design decision. Quarantine servers and moderation used to exist.