Multiplayer gaming... sigh

[sawyerfreddie]

I am absolute balls on call of duty and halo! But i hate to blow my own trumpet but im awesome on tf2. I guess with most multiplayer games i just need a good team for me to be good. I know what you mean with street fighter 4 though. As soon as i find im against a ryu or a ken i know that i have already lost.

 

[Mr_Universal]

Well, for me It´s both, if I´m playing a game like soul calibur or TeKKen, I´m definitely going to get my ass kicked. BUT...if it´s a FPS game, I usually just start playing and winning (at least when I have learned all the controls)

 

[Atmos Duality]

Local multiplayer is fun for me.
Online multiplayer...well, we take one part anonymity, one part interactivity and 10 parts "Able to grief other players" and we get some very predictable results.

Seriously. In every game I've played, why is it that I manage to find the griefing assholes within the first two matches of the night?

 

[thatguy779]

It is usually natural for some people. Before I got online , I played COD 4 and Halo 3 singleplayer all the time. When I got online I was great at halo 3 from the start, but it took me a while to get good at COD 4. Most games have multiplayer that is very different from the games single player. ex: Bioshock 2's single and multiplayer are very,very different from each other. Single can be different simply because you have different features in each or because the bots just fight and react differently than a human player.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

I try to do the same, like in COD learning which walls can be shot through, learning where the campers hide on the maps, learning how to counter certain tactics, watching youtube vids by god players.... still, with all of that knowledge it's still hard to compete. Even more so in MW2.

Halo... I'm just hilariously shitty at. It takes more skill and less luck to win a face to face encounter in Halo than COD and I'm just terrible at it.

See now, this is what makes me think you are just different in the way you learn things than me. For me, I just play, relying on reflexes for CoD. I have no clue which walls can be shot through, I purposefully don't camp, I know nothing of tactics, and I never bother with Youtube videos. But, when I very, very occasionally play, I usually get 2nd or third on my team, and have a fairly positive K/D overall.

Halo is unfair for me to compare with, seeing as I have played at least 2500 games, and play it fairly regularly. Although I still rely on reflexes and skill with one on one encounters rather than tactics and tailoring my play style.

 

[ecoho]

im the kind of guy that if i get in a ghost in halo i win but cant win with out it though im pretty good at RTS game winning about half the time

 

[elcamino41383]

I started my Multiplayer career (MMO's aside) with the Uncharted 2 Multiplayer beta. I've improved a lot since then. Then I come around people who are higher rank, and still get my butt handed to me. Normally I can do pretty decent (in my mind), averaging close to 10 kills out of a potential 50 by the end of the match. I have had a match or 2 when I had 21 kills of the 50 on my team. Sometimes there are off days where I am stomping everyone and others I am lucky to get even 5 kills in a match. I would say I'm fairly average at best when it comes to multiplayer.

 

[Tanzka]

I get the hang of FPS-games fairly quickly. At first I get my ass handed to me but when I finally get the hang of the game and understand just how it flows I get better. Of course, like many others I too have those days when nothing goes the way I planned and ends in a delicious ragequit more often than not spiced up with a few tasty finnish swearwords.

 

[DonMartin]

I usually go for teambased multiplayer games (free for all turns me into stone)and when playing multiplayer games in teams, i usually go for second place.

Im the guy just underneith the cocky bastard who scored the most kills, while i smile and glow with good spirits and sportsmanship despite the fact that ive been camping in the village with the dragunov, hunting down Lazarevic and his goonstepping goons at a steady, slow and unavoidably annoying pace.

However, when i DO end the game as the best player in my team or in that particular game, i feel a persistent selfloathing and a thousand angry eyeballs judging me from across screens all over the world; naturally, i apologize.

 

[SuccessAndBiscuts]

I don't multiplayer often, but when I do it seems like I can jump into more or less anything right away and in a short time be slightly above average.

Then I never improve, ever. Sure I might learn certain methods/tactics and optimize myself slightly. But I'm yet to play a game where that makes a huge difference, even in RTS's once I get a feel for the basics

Had a shot at halo 3 online for the first time in over a year a few months back. Was visiting the girlfriend and her brother is a really competitive player I admitted I used to play occasionally and he gave me a shot on his profile in a non-ranked match with a bunch of randoms. The result was a curb stomp battle of epic proportions, I was untouchable.

Played it again a few weeks back, finished with a slightly negative k/d ratio.

Thinking about it it seems to work on 3 levels.

Start: bit of a newb but with a solid gaming background often I can just "feel" what the right approach is.

Improve a bit: Start optimizing how I approach things and watching what other people do for what works and what doesn't, slight improvement.

End: Look up strategies from top players etc and try and implement them, almost negligible improvement.

 

[Yokai]

I'm pretty average at FPS multiplayer, and pretty atrocious at RTS multiplayer.

I've logged over 400 hours into Team Fortress 2, and as it is the best I've ever done is ten kills and four assists. Most of the time I'm lucky to get two kills before being invariably backstabbed/headshot/blown into tiny pieces. I'm not terrible, but I rarely make it into the top quarter of the scoreboard.

Now, I can count on my fingers the number of wins I've had, combined, in every RTS game I've ever played. My strategies work brilliantly in skirmish against higher difficulty AI opponents, but in multiplayer, I've usually barely got my core buildings up before my opponent comes in with a massive horde of second-tier troops, razes my base to the ground and ruthlessly murders all my poor little worker units. It may be because a lot of RTS multiplayer boils down to who can set up their build queue the fastest, and I play RTS games to take a break from the frenetic twitchiness that is FPS multiplayer. As such, I get my ass handed to me. There was a time in the Starcraft II beta when I actually got a message that read "lolol ur micro sux noob".

Ah well, I like single player better anyhow.

 

[Lordmarkus]

I'm pretty much stunning at FPS's.

Love the fact that I can jump in at random TDM server on CoD 4 with my trusted MP5 and score around 80/30 but still don't win.

Maybe go for the objectives then instead of getting high Ks?

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?

 

[Free Thinker]

Sir. Would you kindly drag your dsimembered torso out of my way? There's a n00b who just ran out of ammo for both of his guns and he needs to die.

My friends are not happy in Free-For-All when I join due to playstyle. I do have that killer instinct, but it tends to lay down and have some delicious cake every once and awhile.

 

[godofallu]

Yes, some people are just naturally gifted. Name a FPS I have never played, give me 2 hours and I will beat anyone in the world at it.

Give me an RTS I have never played, give me 6 years, and I will still come in last.

Peoples minds just do better at some tasks than others.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I get the hang of FPS-games fairly quickly. At first I get my ass handed to me but when I finally get the hang of the game and understand just how it flows I get better. Of course, like many others I too have those days when nothing goes the way I planned and ends in a delicious ragequit more often than not spiced up with a few tasty finnish swearwords.

You're Finnish?

Awesome. I was there twice, in 1996 and 1997... Lahti and Helsinki. Went in July so it was WAARM. Beautiful country, and it's just insane how damn good looking your women are!

 

[Shockolate]

Either I destroy everything, or I lose so badly I ragequit. Everyday, it's something different.

Even in games like Team Fortress 2, which I have over 1000 hours playing, I still get my ass handed to me regularly, despite knowing every trick in the book. Next day, I can be nigh unkillable and kicked repeatedly for "hacking". That's how inconsistent I am.

This applies to every game I play. There is no middle ground.

 

[fishman279]

I'm better than average at games you actually have to have some skill to play. Unlike COD, where whoever shoots first normally wins, Halo 3 actually demands a degree of skill (As someone who posted earlier correctly said). I normally come 1st or 2nd but when up against some guys who have about 3000 games under their belts I get destroyed. Mind you, I've only played 250 odd games and I'm better than most of my friends who've played it for longer, so hopefully I improve.
I get taken down on COD though, I'm utterly useless at it and after playing for 2 hours, I got bored of dying and went back to halo. Yeah, I'm pretty much a fanboy, but with less of the retardation of the ones I know.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

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.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Either I destroy everything, or I lose so badly I ragequit. Everyday, it's something different.

Even in games like Team Fortress 2, which I have over 1000 hours playing, I still get my ass handed to me regularly, despite knowing every trick in the book. Next day, I can be nigh unkillable and kicked repeatedly for "hacking". That's how inconsistent I am.

This applies to every game I play. There is no middle ground.

Good to know there are others like me. It can be pretty frustrating when you can't keep consistency.

 

[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.