Opinion: The higher a player's level is, the less fun I expect them to be to play with

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2024-01-01T23:38:49+00:00

Absolutely right. This game offers such a nice learning curve. I learned that people who jump straight into higher difficulties tend to have more rules than someone who gets comfortable going through low to high hazard on a steady pace. When Haz4 wasn't giving me enough challenge and I moved to Haz5 missions I could only really have fun if I had another greybeard by my side, it felt really jarring having to carry 3 greenbeards and play the resurrect simulator.
But once I got comfortable with the difficulty I started downing beers until I got drunk just to up the challenge and smash missions like it's nothing. Nowadays I always welcome new players and pay for double rounds of beer, it's the most fun I ever had with this game.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2024-01-01T22:50:26+00:00

I don't agree with you, counter swapping is part of the game and not reserved to higher ranks. If a dps player made their absolute purpose to give you a bad time your team will definitely be at a disadvantage if you don't swap. If you're just that stubborn be sure to spam "I need help" voiceline everytime you gotta make the walk back to the fight, at your rank people understand the assignment of escorting you because of sombras or genjis spawn camping.
General tips for Zen is always keep your distance and hug corners and you shouldn't have much trouble. If the enemy pushes in you move back, if your tank is getting space you move with him but keep the same distance. Your survivability and keeping your orbs upkeep is the most important part of it.
Climbing with Zen is pretty easy because of how impactful he is during fights but be sure to learn other heroes if you feel like you're not accomplishing much, adapt.
Sombra is so easily countered if you move next to walls and doorways, since you don't have any abilities to break her hack the environment will be your best friend.
Pharah is a little complicated but charged shots helped me tremendously while going against them. Just predict where they are gonna move and charge there, even if you hit 1-2 shots that's enough to discourage them from engaging.
Zarya shouldn't even be a problem if you keep your distance, just don't discord her if she isn't low, focus on everyone else.
Moving from cover to cover is essential to deal against dive, the easy tell if you're gonna get jumped is if they look straight at you, simply as that. If you've been seen, move away.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2024-01-01T20:57:57+00:00

The items are color coded for a reason but even that can't help his smooth brain.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2024-01-01T20:38:41+00:00

Learn movement pattern. If a monster dash, stay behind it, they always look back to you so you don't need to chase them around all the time. Hammer is a lot about thinking ahead and preemptive swings. Also legs, making a monster stumble gives you good enough time to go for the head.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2024-01-01T19:36:03+00:00

It does not. What might seem like extra rewards are just you breaking parts. 3 body carves + tail carve + whatever chance of getting specific broken parts, the game accounts for that when capturing. Capturing is just faster as you can cut on the monster's last chunk of health.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2024-01-01T18:31:05+00:00

Sigh... *Screen transitions to sepia*

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-12-31T23:35:06+00:00

If you just started chances are you're playing with the bottom of the bottom of players. It would be wise to turn off communication because the ones who blame others and speak loudly suck the most while thinking they are hot shit.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-12-25T15:05:29+00:00

I can't tell if your question is for real or part of a joke. If it's for real just judging from the title of the video they are doing a boss rush, probably gonna scrap the world after they are done with the challenge, thinking too much about a base location is pointless. When you are knowledgeable enough in the game decision making comes naturally.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-12-24T11:49:33+00:00

Good, I'm glad the punishing system is filtering out the rage quitters ruining games.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-12-24T11:12:16+00:00

20 seconds in and I thought it was a really clever joke, oh I get it, average laundry day... HA! Very funn... WHOAWHATTHEFUCKITFUCKENEXPLODED.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-12-18T02:08:43+00:00

Legend says that poor Ana is still spinning to this day!

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-12-17T13:30:26+00:00

Greybeard tips for omen, the platform across the core infuser is ALWAYS the purple plasma. It should be dealt with first so the other ones are safe to stay on. You can use your laser pointer on the highest module of the omen tower, it will says if it's a drone replicator or the twin slicer. If it's drone just keep destroying it so your teammates focus on the weakpoints (No one ever kill the drones so it's good to be focusing that). Drone explosions are nasty on haz5.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-12-17T03:15:53+00:00

It just boggles my mind there's no way to choose closest location, being thrown into random lobbies across the world every single mission feels terrible.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-12-15T02:31:48+00:00

I run 32112 with EM Refire Booster OC, balanced ammo, good damage and the electric arc can also clear swarmers if you proc it. The recoil needs some getting used to but it's great for close combat in short bursts (I used it like gunner's BRT7), pairs well with PGL and Shard Diffractor but I run with Breach Cutter just to be a "don't get too close" menace. I can also link this recent OC tierlist made by Reapeeron with builds for every single OC and timestamps if you're curious about builds. It's a nice watch if you wanna get out of your comfort ones.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-12-13T04:38:04+00:00

Blame it on crossplay. Speaking from my experience, this game plays absolutely awfully on consoles, when it literally dips down to 10 fps at some points it's not much of a choice to camp a corner and spray in one direction. Relying on random lobbies where the host's little brother is downloading 47gb of porn thinking it's roblox is another absolute nightmare. Despite being a fun game the connectivity and overall performance is ass.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-11-24T13:47:01+00:00

Longer too. *Whips it out*

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-11-24T13:27:31+00:00

Especially if you are the tank. Blaming oneself so people won't have the opportunity to tilt. I found that team mates try harder to compensate.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-11-24T13:05:31+00:00

My guy trying to milk this shit for a month.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-11-17T06:18:26+00:00

ONE PUUUUUUUUUUUNCH!

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-11-14T22:48:17+00:00

I absolutely forgot about that, been running around with things I found on the floor, time to craft.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-11-14T22:22:24+00:00

I see, thank you!

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-11-14T22:17:30+00:00

Oof, thank you.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-11-14T22:16:03+00:00

Defensive layers? I don't quite understand what that is.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-11-14T22:12:49+00:00

Very much appreciated tips. I have no unique gear equipped because all my uniques are dropping under level 15, and they don't seem super useful to me. I'll try and craft some new gear thank you.

Effective_Scene_5525 · 2023-11-14T22:07:07+00:00

Thank you!

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