Never. I always put my full effort into it. That said, I usually dont leave a match with kills higher than deaths, specially if its COD.krazykidd said:
Multiplayer : do you hold back ?
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I'm fairly competitive so as a rule I don't tend to hold back. Sometimes I will against friends so that they won't decide they never want to play with me again, but that usually makes things less fun for me.
Against random people online though the usual sequence of events is I dominate them for a bit, get kind of bored and then I start doing crazy off the wall things that would never really fly against better players. This probably makes me seem like a bit more of a dick to people who aren't that good though because then I'll still be crushing them, possibly even more so because nobody expects off the wall stuff that shouldn't work to actually happen, let alone end up working.
I never do it for the sake of being a dick though. I'm just the sort who gets bored if I'm not consistently challenged and will make up my own challenges when other players can't provide them. Strangely enough, making up my own challenges has often made me a vastly better player than most people, like when I stopped zooming in as the Sniper in TFC, or when I refused to use anything but the crossbow in Turok 2, developed the ability to headshot anyone within a fraction of a second of them rounding a corner, and then realized that the crossbow is actually the best weapon in the game.
Against random people online though the usual sequence of events is I dominate them for a bit, get kind of bored and then I start doing crazy off the wall things that would never really fly against better players. This probably makes me seem like a bit more of a dick to people who aren't that good though because then I'll still be crushing them, possibly even more so because nobody expects off the wall stuff that shouldn't work to actually happen, let alone end up working.
I never do it for the sake of being a dick though. I'm just the sort who gets bored if I'm not consistently challenged and will make up my own challenges when other players can't provide them. Strangely enough, making up my own challenges has often made me a vastly better player than most people, like when I stopped zooming in as the Sniper in TFC, or when I refused to use anything but the crossbow in Turok 2, developed the ability to headshot anyone within a fraction of a second of them rounding a corner, and then realized that the crossbow is actually the best weapon in the game.
That's really pretty much what it is, though I doubt your opponents see it that way unless before the match starts you say "Look guys, I know you're not any good so I'm gonna take it easy on you." In which case they know "I'm not actually playing against this person, they're just placating me to make me feel better." In which case the victory and points all become hallow because the opponent wasn't truly competing.krazykidd said:
If you don't tell them, though, they'll get a big head and say "Holy shit this person sucks worse than I do! Lets all laugh in the face of the super-uber newb!"
As such, to avoid both situations, I take every multiplayer match seriously and play with the best of my ability.
Less skilled than me?
I'd love to see that day <_<
In all seriousness i don't really tend to hold back because i normally have just average skills due to not playing multiplayer most of the time. When i finally do decide to hop into an online match of anything i usually just get my ass blown off regardless of rank of actual experience so i just go as much out as i can before it stops being fun.
I'd love to see that day <_<
In all seriousness i don't really tend to hold back because i normally have just average skills due to not playing multiplayer most of the time. When i finally do decide to hop into an online match of anything i usually just get my ass blown off regardless of rank of actual experience so i just go as much out as i can before it stops being fun.
No. Never. Even when I used to play shooters, I would never hold back.
Nowadays, I've been playing Dark Souls religiously and you can NEVER not play at your best against other players because there is no visual difference between a good player and a crap player.
Nowadays, I've been playing Dark Souls religiously and you can NEVER not play at your best against other players because there is no visual difference between a good player and a crap player.
I hold out, it's no fun playing with people that are less experienced that me
the challenge of it loses out and it's just gets boring to me better to not be the prick and seek the easy kills, although i don't do it intentionally i just get less focused and don't try as hard
the challenge of it loses out and it's just gets boring to me better to not be the prick and seek the easy kills, although i don't do it intentionally i just get less focused and don't try as hard
If it's a game with multiple players, especially if there are teams, doubly especially if my friends are playing with me, I'll play all-out and if certain players are significantly worse than I am, I'll blow them out of the water. If I play a 1v1 game, then that means I am playing SC2 and the matchmaking system there is good enough for you to usually be paired with people of roughly your own skill level, so once again I do not hold back. But if I am playing a friendly 1v1 game against a friend I know is quite a bit worse than I am, I'll hold back and even give him tips and hints.
Hell no.
I don't care if the guys lvl 1, I'm nuking the shit out of him. That's the whole point of multiplayer, it's not to care-bear the newbs it to run around killing people.
Besides, wheres the fun in going easy on someone? It's easier to learn when your getting destroyed for stupid mistakes.
I don't care if the guys lvl 1, I'm nuking the shit out of him. That's the whole point of multiplayer, it's not to care-bear the newbs it to run around killing people.
Besides, wheres the fun in going easy on someone? It's easier to learn when your getting destroyed for stupid mistakes.
I actually ended up quitting SC2 because of the INABILITY to hold back, due to the ladder constantly bumping me up to higher difficulties the more I won, forcing me to play balls to the wall every match to have a chance of winning. It's exhausting. Sometimes you just wanna mess around and try new stuff without getting your kidneys ripped out.
I will say, though, that it takes a special kind of asshole to constantly hammer the crap out of new/lesser players in an MMO setting. If you're the sort of guy who makes premades specifically to roll PUGS, or ganks, or otherwise enjoys creating unwinnable scenarios for other people, then congrats...you are going to hell.
I will say, though, that it takes a special kind of asshole to constantly hammer the crap out of new/lesser players in an MMO setting. If you're the sort of guy who makes premades specifically to roll PUGS, or ganks, or otherwise enjoys creating unwinnable scenarios for other people, then congrats...you are going to hell.
[blatant lie/]I have to otherwise I win too fast[/blatant lie].
No I hardly ever hold back reason is simple I play a fair few fighter all poorly I might add if I hold back I will be crushed I probably will anyway but id rather lose giving my all than lose thinking crap if I had tried I could have won that.
Their are exceptions on rare occasions a few times on SF4 when I did get to a middling stage of play if I kept getting matched against the same person repeatedly and I always creamed them I would stop playing my mains and try my hardest with an unfamiliar character to hopefully make it more interesting for the both of us.
If I knew somebody was a lot worse than me I would probably give them some room to at least try stuff as well as test my defensive tactics (I usually play aggressively) but there is really no way of knowing their skill level until after you play, sure you can look at their card and they may have lost 10 times in a row but they may have lost those 10 times by a fraction against top class players you just dont know.
No I hardly ever hold back reason is simple I play a fair few fighter all poorly I might add if I hold back I will be crushed I probably will anyway but id rather lose giving my all than lose thinking crap if I had tried I could have won that.
Their are exceptions on rare occasions a few times on SF4 when I did get to a middling stage of play if I kept getting matched against the same person repeatedly and I always creamed them I would stop playing my mains and try my hardest with an unfamiliar character to hopefully make it more interesting for the both of us.
If I knew somebody was a lot worse than me I would probably give them some room to at least try stuff as well as test my defensive tactics (I usually play aggressively) but there is really no way of knowing their skill level until after you play, sure you can look at their card and they may have lost 10 times in a row but they may have lost those 10 times by a fraction against top class players you just dont know.
I basically play very half-heartedly till I'm killed more than once by someone. At that point I have the monopoly on bitterness and will relentlessly persue them.
Noobs are just things to shoot whilst you're looking for your real prey.
Noobs are just things to shoot whilst you're looking for your real prey.
Depends on the context. In LoL, if I concentrate on what I'm doing then I can do better. I don't know if you can call that holding back though.
If it's a team game, I don't hold back.
If it's FFA, chances are that I'll be doing allot more fucking around and being silly instead of competitive.
If it's FFA, chances are that I'll be doing allot more fucking around and being silly instead of competitive.
I've had people report me for being too aggressive, which I find funny because I play extremely laid back. I don't generally play to win, just to get to the next game. Usually it's just to appease my MP-heavy friends who would rather shoot at people for hours on end then go through a campaign. Different strokes, of course.
Though I have noticed I tend to dominate the scoreboard in ME3. Hard to say for sure.
Though I have noticed I tend to dominate the scoreboard in ME3. Hard to say for sure.
I once played someone on Soul Calibur 5 that had literally never played it before. I picked the worst character, and made the first round look close but threw it. I then proceeded to get legitimately beaten in the rest of the match no matter how hard I actually tried.
Damn you, Dampierre.
Damn you, Dampierre.