Multiplayer gaming... sigh

[BiscuitTrouser]

I was a very very very slow starter. Took about half a year demolishing my friends good cod record to get even competent at the game. Now i have a pretty good apptitude to games i havnt even played yet, coming back to halo 3 after 2 years got me top of most matches. Once i got going those years back ive got a good rythm going of online skill.

I remember his crash courses of online FPS. RELOAD RELOAD NOW! CROUCH SHOT SHOT PRONE RELOAD SHOOT!

 

[superbatranger]

I honestly don't know. I mean, I've never had Xbox Live, so the few times I've played online multiplayer has been at friends' houses. If I had to guess, I'd say I'm average. Sometimes my K/D ratio is good, and sometimes it's bad. But, in the end, I haven't played any online multiplayer in a long time, so who knows what it's like now. I could be absolutely shitty now, or really good.

 

[philosophicalbastard]

I think you're just working with a to rigid system. You memorize these things when you should just be playing, plans are overrated and prevent you from adapting. Just go with the flow. Act as things come to you, never before hand. If faced with an immediate threat let your instincts take over, true combat is primal.

Follow this advice and you will be as good as me.

Funny you mention it... I just spent a couple of hours on MW2, had a few games where I relaxed and just took it as it came... running toward the enemy spawn with my TAR FMJ... ended up getting great scores and even got my AC-130 on Bailout by rushing!

I know what happens now though... I try to repeat it later tonight and end up negative 10 with a red face and quickly rising rage

The two best ways to deal with rage are to either, A.Let that rage out completely, or B.Remember that you are in control (this works well in racing games). So either lose all self control, or relax and gain it.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

WHile I don't hate arena style FPSs, Im a total freak: I Played Quake 3 for the singleplayer. And enjoyed it on that alone. I shit you not.

Nothin wrong with that... I've played Half Life 2 and Portal 5 times each and only tried TF2 once.

This is on the XBOX though so TF2 ain't the best...

 

[Yagharek]

WHile I don't hate arena style FPSs, Im a total freak: I Played Quake 3 for the singleplayer. And enjoyed it on that alone. I shit you not.

Nothin wrong with that... I've played Half Life 2 and Portal 5 times each and only tried TF2 once.

This is on the XBOX though so TF2 ain't the best...

Which seriously sucks. Hearing about how good it is on the PC from about a million people, and then finding out that they don't support the 360 version nearly as much when I was considering buying it almost gave me rage of MW2 proportions.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

I wish I had natural talent. It's my reaction time, overall weak and slow fingers and extreme haste in making decisions that really, really kills me. I can play Smash Bros well, as well as Pokemon, but, no matter how much I play it, I can't get higher than average at most anything else. I am really, really jealous of people that are dexterous and have a decent reaction time...

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

Sorry. Double post.

 

[Sirpipple]

All i ask from online gamers is to have fun but what might be fun for you migh not be fun for everyone else i'm talking to you noob tubers -_-

 

[Yagharek]

I wish I had natural talent. It's my reaction time, overall weak and slow fingers and extreme haste in making decisions that really, really kills me. I can play Smash Bros well, as well as Pokemon, but, no matter how much I play it, I can't get higher than average at most anything else. I am really, really jealous of people that are dexterous and have a decent reaction time...

Try playing more sneakily. It ought to be able to more than compensate for slow reactions if you can shoot them before they see you.

This is also a resposne to the person who said they prefered halo because you have to be accurate over a longer period of time. The skill with Cod is more in position. Accuracy and reactions certainly help, but unless the difference between the two players in these respects is large, then most of the time it doesn't make that much of a difference. As he says, most of the time, whoever shoots first wins. The trick is in outmaneuvering the other team, so that you are in a better position, allowing you to shoot first, or making it hard for them to see or hit you. 1v1 situations where you both see each other at the same time do happen, and here reactions and accuracy play more of a part, but I find that when I do well, it's because I am shooting them before they see me, most of the time.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

WHile I don't hate arena style FPSs, Im a total freak: I Played Quake 3 for the singleplayer. And enjoyed it on that alone. I shit you not.

Nothin wrong with that... I've played Half Life 2 and Portal 5 times each and only tried TF2 once.

This is on the XBOX though so TF2 ain't the best...

I may have misinterpreted you, but Quake 3's single player is pretty much just MP with bots instead of people. Like, thats the ONLY difference more or less. IN half life, Singleplayer is ACTUAL singleplayer, as opposed to just running around an arena playing MP with a bunch of AI because you have no friends.

 

[Kenko]

Depends on the game. Im a fast learner, but I prefer games that allow people too use smarts over twitch-reflexes.

 

[Thyunda]

If I start playing a game, I'll be awesome at it. Win every game, come first in every race, whatever.
Same time next week? I'll be awful. Whether I've played the game constantly or not, I just end up awful.

 

[Lordmarkus]

Someone is unfamiliar with basic acronyms. Team DeathMatch.

A gameplay were your only objective is to make the other poor sods die for his/her team. Get it?

I am well aware, but I have never heard of someone getting 80 kills in a TDM, as you claim to, when the game ends at 75.

Hence I presumed you were actually playing Domination.

Where did you get Domination from? TDM and Domination are enirely different gamestyles. And when the killcap in a TDM game is placed at 5000 then it's pretty easy to get a killscore between 70-100+.

 

[Meggiepants]

I avoid playing multiplayer FPS games mostly because I don't want to know. I'm a bit of a chicken.

I also don't reckon I'd much like practicing. If I have to work at getting good at a game, I think I would become very angry, very quickly when I went online and still sucked.

The only multiplayer FPS I have played with any regularity is Halo. I'm never the worst player, never the best. If I'm very lucky, I'll have an amazing game, where all my shots seem to land just where they should, and I am like number 2 in kills.

But I consider it a good game if I have more kills than deaths. I can generally make this happen, unless I'm up against a team of skilled players who are basically spending an hour raping everyone who happens to get matched against them.

My numbers get better if I am working with people and they are actually interested in team work. I'm good at following directions.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Where did you get Domination from? TDM and Domination are enirely different gamestyles. And when the killcap in a TDM game is placed at 5000 then it's pretty easy to get a killscore between 70-100+.

I got Domination because in COD it seems to be the norm these days to join a game of Dom when one wants to get high K ratios. This is the trend on Youtube anyway (hence my jumping to the conclusion that you were playing that mode and just going for kills)

 

[8bitlove2a03]

I'm not that great at most types of games, but shooters tend to just happen to work around me. It's not that I'm really that good, I just somehow seem to know where people and things are going to happen in a game ahead of time. So I plan accordingly and set up little ambushes, flanking positions, kill boxes, etc.

I think it comes from the fact that I only buy about one game a year, so I get obsessed and know everything about a game after a while. Like who the Blue Spy is disguised as right now.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I may have misinterpreted you, but Quake 3's single player is pretty much just MP with bots instead of people. Like, thats the ONLY difference more or less. IN half life, Singleplayer is ACTUAL singleplayer, as opposed to just running around an arena playing MP with a bunch of AI because you have no friends.

Aha... lol that does sound kinda boring but whatever people enjoy!

I avoid playing multiplayer FPS games mostly because I don't want to know. I'm a bit of a chicken.



But I consider it a good game if I have more kills than deaths.

See, this is the right attitude, and one I used to have. I don't know why the more I get the greedier I get, as in the longer I play the more kills and better scores I want... when actually I should just be proud of going positive

 

[tlozoot]

In Halo 3 I'm a Strike Commander, yet I can go around +3 or more consistently in most games. Just never was able to break rank 40.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

im definitely above average, but as i play more and more games, my skill in other games somewhat get worse (due to different speeds/controls, and considering all these games are on different consoles/pc), but after one round i usually catch right back on and usually always have at least a 1.5 k/d, if not a 2-3k/d ratio.

there are some games that i do suck at, street fighter i do admit to doing button mashing on, mortal kombat i play somewhat strategically (but i do get fucking annihalated online)

rts's im somewhere around average (which i dont like too many rts's as it is) so just depends.

im def. above average (but not godlike) for some stuff, but average for others

its hard to tell sometimes..i have some odd friends that excel like no other in the most oddest games. (such as diddy kart racing, goldeneye, yoshi story,etc..) all very odd..

 

[hawkeye52]

i can generally pick up any game and start doing well on it in just a few games. unless its a racing or sim management game i just cant play those for some reason

ive played cod4 enough now on promod that i can usually join a random server and dominate everyone everyone on it as long as
1) the server isnt about 32 man
2) my team isnt atrociously shit e.g. getting penned into the top corner of crash (you know where i mean)