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.
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Psythik@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYou 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.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 😁
sploosh@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Controller has gotten a lot better. I have friends on console that come play on PC with their controllers and destroy every lobby. There are people who play in FPs tournaments with controllers. With gyro aiming you can do anything a mouse player can do.