How does the DE hold up? Have they fixed the issues?

Gwyn.

When did I mention it’s only when I lose? Sometimes they’re on my team and I’m thinking “why you sweating, it’s a casual mode”.

You’ve got an obsession with the absolutes of winning & losing. Sometimes I’m top of my teams scoreboard, we’re winning and the dude who’s been bunny hopping, drop-shorting and slide-cancelling all match isn’t even top 3, it’s not black & white winning and losing.

You can be sweaty and still lose. I don’t lose to every single bunny hopper in FN, but even when I win the encounter I still think mashing the jump button the way you have to in order for the character to even do that is somewhat tryhard.

I’ve played CoD for many years which is where terms like it originated for me. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose but when I win, it has never been by spamming jump, slide-cancelling, drop-shorting controller settings set to high X & Y as some do.

It’s not about “wanting to win”. When I win, I’ve played the same way I always play. I don’t go “this match I wanna have fun, and this match I want to win” winning is just a byproduct of playing. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t.

That’s what people call sweaty and I guess it just stuck and became part of my vocab on the topic of games. You realise people refer to themselves as sweats and tryhards etc, yes?

People who rock the CDL skins in CoD often do ‘cause they know their playstyle and control set up is tuned up compared someone who plays casually, who won’t bother trying to min-max settings. You notice patterns too, they often have things like Faze and TTV in their name despite not belonging to Faze. Some things do go hand in hand.

You never get killed by someone doing the jump spam thing and think “dude you’re trying too hard”?

It’s absolutely nothing to do with “dealing with failure”, what a stunted thing to say. Games aren’t relevant to real life outside of enjoyment & entertainment unless you earn money from it. Why would the times I don’t win in a game be remotely the same as something not going my way in reality?

That’s only a good point if you take games too seriously…

Wait… what the fuck is your comprehension? I’m talking about how quick you have to mash buttons in order to bunny hop. When did I say “playing games is high energy usage”?

Do you genuinely think everybody handles a controller exactly the same? Do sweats just not exist in your world?

You’ve never played CoD, FN, or similar with someone in the lobby who should clearly be playing in a ranked/comp mode instead of casual because you can see from their gameplay they’re playing like a pro with all the meta movements and shit.

I’m athletic and couldn’t be much less sedentary in my general lifestyle but that’s not relevant. How do you think that’s remotely what I’m talking about?

You genuinely don’t think someone who constantly bunny hops, drop-shots, slide-cancels etc is using more “energy” and pressing buttons faster than someone who doesn’t constantly do that shit?

And you call me ridiculous.

Think how you have to literally mash the buttons to jump constantly like that? You can’t jump rapidly in Fortnite, or CoD etc without going ham.

How are you not getting this.

Think about how you jump spam? What are you doing with your controller? That sorta energy is better suited in ranked/competitive.

No. They utilise things like constant jumping, slide-cancelling etc.

Someone who plays for fun with the mentality of “sometimes I win, sometimes I lose” isn’t constantly spam jumping etc.

You can see a clear difference in encountering people playing for fun, and people playing to sweat.

You’re right in that there hasn’t been some sudden shift, but you’re wrong in that there are definitely people taking it too seriously. I don’t know why those people don’t play competitive/ranked modes tbh.

We need more Victorian-esque Vampire/Werewolf/etc type games in general.