I play Dota 2 and I never get agitated. If this is nirvana, nirvana needs a bit of a dust.
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Do you ever get sore/moody/angry when you lose an online game?
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I get frustrated more than anything else. The heavy SBMM in Modern Warfare is starting to push me to a mild simmer though š
Occasionally I'll get mildly frustrated/salty and no more than that. I've never been a throw the controller to the ground kind of person. Just a "ah goddamnit" and move on.
No, it's a game, I don't really care. You aren't the best player, no reason to act like it if you lose.
I'm going to say no, but really it's probably yes and I just don't have the emotional awareness to notice.
Yes for like 30 seconds and then I get over it. I always try to be positive in online games because literally what is the point in calling someone a piece of trash? It doesn't help you and certainly doesn't make the other person/people feel good. The main multiplayer team based game I play is Overwatch so even if I'm on the winning team and one of my (random) teammates talks trash to the opposing team in the Match Chat after the match is over I try to stick up for the people they're trashing.
Only time I get irritated is if I know someone is cheating on the other team. Like not the usual "Oh I lost they must be cheating because I lost" but when you see kill cams with them snapping directly on your head from an opposite direction, or tracing you through a wall. Even then, I just report and move on. Most games nowadays have okay to decent ban waves for cheaters so meh.
I get upset, but it's only for like one minute and I'm basically done after that. I'm also not a controller-throwing manbaby who's out to destroy his things after an L.
That said, it's all circumstantial for me, though. Take Warzone for example. My labeling of that is game is "love the game, hate the players". I do tend to get pretty tilted when I'm decently deep into a match and I get killed by three people huddled up in a corner of an attic with Ghost as a perk. I get killed all the time in that game by better shots, but it's maddening when a group of people has chosen a completely random hole to dig themselves into in a remote location on the map. To this ... I curse and rant with my teammates for one minute and then we're over it.
That said, it's all circumstantial for me, though. Take Warzone for example. My labeling of that is game is "love the game, hate the players". I do tend to get pretty tilted when I'm decently deep into a match and I get killed by three people huddled up in a corner of an attic with Ghost as a perk. I get killed all the time in that game by better shots, but it's maddening when a group of people has chosen a completely random hole to dig themselves into in a remote location on the map. To this ... I curse and rant with my teammates for one minute and then we're over it.
The only game I play online is Animal Crossing and I still get sore/moody/angry from talking to a damn Dodo.
Annoyed, maybe yes. Enraged? I will just forget it. At least im very sure i wont break my vita for it
Only when it seems unfair, in which case I'm usually upset at the game, not the other player.
But no, losing is fine. It makes winning more worthwhile.
But no, losing is fine. It makes winning more worthwhile.
Im not a baby.
Sure I want to win and losing isnt a good feeling. But I just pledge to do better next time. Cmon guys what are we mad about.
Sure I want to win and losing isnt a good feeling. But I just pledge to do better next time. Cmon guys what are we mad about.
............ damn you really got him with this one ................... this line is a smoking fucking gun for sure
Not angry, more annoyed. The most angry i can get is probably when i whiff an easy shot in CS. It's a bit like shroud, where you say a short fuck out loud and then move on. Not into the mic just out into the room.
But i can get annoyed if i'm playing with trolls, afkers, or other people that are wasting my time. I played Valorant and i had to stop because there were to many who were afk, leavers or just trolls. It's just a waste of time.
It's even worse if you are playing high level ranked. That's why Soloq sucks. You can play 40 minutes of any game and suddenly someone decides to ruin it and you have just wasted your time.
But i can get annoyed if i'm playing with trolls, afkers, or other people that are wasting my time. I played Valorant and i had to stop because there were to many who were afk, leavers or just trolls. It's just a waste of time.
It's even worse if you are playing high level ranked. That's why Soloq sucks. You can play 40 minutes of any game and suddenly someone decides to ruin it and you have just wasted your time.
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Care to elaborate?
You may be right. I sometimes play video games to consciously become better at losing. (I'm not joking.) That also means that I usually don't play the game to win it. Instead I try to win the game in order to play the game. (Can't express it any better right now, but it makes sense to me.)
if you don't feel an ounce of emotion from losing in anything competitive online, I dunno what to say.
it's not even a bad thing to admit. It only makes you want to be a better player.
I remember regularly feeling like complete crap regardless of winning or losing after finishing a game of DotA.
I play a lot of competitive mp games and it's incredibly rare I get annoyed.
Normally it's due to griefers or account buyers and only when it's egregious.
Dota 2 was definitely the worst for that, especially as you're essentially locked in for up to an hour with some toxic ass-hat or clueless person with no surrender option.
Outside of those situations I normally take losses and a learning opportunity. Some of my favourite matches have been close losses and sometimes one stomp teaches me lessons I didn't even know existed
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Normally it's due to griefers or account buyers and only when it's egregious.
Dota 2 was definitely the worst for that, especially as you're essentially locked in for up to an hour with some toxic ass-hat or clueless person with no surrender option.
Outside of those situations I normally take losses and a learning opportunity. Some of my favourite matches have been close losses and sometimes one stomp teaches me lessons I didn't even know existed
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It's pretty much why I stopped playing Battlefield completely. Either Rush or Conquest, dumb fucks decided it was cool to rack up sniper kills without pinging enemies or doing anything else, so it was a lost effort if at least three guys in the opposite team decided to band together.
Now I just don't care, if I lose in Apex Legends then cool, back to the lobby and start a new game trying to avoid repeating the mistake that kept me from winning. Or hoping I don't get paired with randoms that don't grab my banner or decide to keep fighting when the ring is burning and there's no way in hell they can reach the safe zone.
Now I just don't care, if I lose in Apex Legends then cool, back to the lobby and start a new game trying to avoid repeating the mistake that kept me from winning. Or hoping I don't get paired with randoms that don't grab my banner or decide to keep fighting when the ring is burning and there's no way in hell they can reach the safe zone.
Wait, are we talking about going "ah dammit I should have done this differently" and letting it go five minutes after, or going full Wings of Redemption rage fury? Because I'm definitely in the first category, but it doesn't go far from "oh shit that was close!" and being annoyed at myself.
