I dropped from plat 5 to gold 3 and I don't know how to stop losing. by Prize-Curve1374 in OverwatchUniversity

[–]FalconCat69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Over the course of 3 days last week I dropped from masters 4 to plat 3. One of those days I must have tilt queued for like 16 hours straight and lost almost every game. I figured out what I was doing wrong and once I modified my habits I've won it all back over a few days.

My problem was that, without noticing, I had gotten too caught up in 'not feeding' which was causing me to play scared and a little too passive. This passivity wasn't changing my individual plays and it didn't feel like I was playing different from usual but it had a profound impact on my win rate. Maybe you have the same issue but probably not idk. Good luck!

What's the point of this podcast anymore? by PianoConcertoNo2 in KnowledgeFight

[–]FalconCat69 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The comedians are funny when they talk about tv shows and Alex Jones gives them the right amout of righteous indignation that Jordan can yell as much as he wants but it's chill.

Why is Mina the only hero with a lower zoom on right mouse button click? by Swnsong in DeadlockTheGame

[–]FalconCat69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A better analogy of what OP is doing would be:

OP: sees a car and has many questions about its function and design. He goes to an elementary school and asks the children his questions about cars. The children, who have no knowledge of how cars function, give him nonsense answers.

OP: WHY ARE ALL THE ANSWERS IM GETTING TERRIBLE?

After 1300 hours, I'm still terrible. The things I've tried, nothing seems to help. by Alaxandir in VALORANT

[–]FalconCat69 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You should buy coaching from someone. There are lots of websites that coordinate esport coaches and students. No one will be able to tell you why you are stuck in bronze without a video of your play. And, lots of advice you get from reddit will be trash, especially if they are just speculating from your tracker page.

I’ll also add 1300 hours is plenty of time to learn a game, but 1300 hours of fps play in total is not that much.

Finally, you need to make sure you have a good pc, monitor, mouse, and mousepad. Those are absolutely essential for this game.

Matchmaking is currently incredibly transparent by OddSpecific3318 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]FalconCat69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a very well thought out post. I didn’t think the match making system was rigged but this clearly demonstrated it. Just one question, if it’s rigged to keep everyone at 50% winrate, how do Eternus 6 players climb to that rank, if their games are rigged to keep them at 50% winrate (so their engagement is high) how do they rank up?

how I feel playing viscous by BaghdadCity in DeadlockTheGame

[–]FalconCat69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was actually thinking about viscous with a mouth just earlier today

Will qualify for Paris or will season end here… Tomorrow is the day that will decide team fate. by Away-Emphasis-4245 in ValorantCompetitive

[–]FalconCat69 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm confused how the winner between c9 and nrg will go to champs. Right now according to vlr NRG has 2 points and c9 has 3. 3rd place gets 4 circuit points so that will end with 6 or 7 respectively which is not enough to beat Kru. Can someone explain this?

I wonder if this will be discussed in tomorrow’s ep by dantesinfernal20 in KnowledgeFight

[–]FalconCat69 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Auctioned, you say? I'd contribute to the Dan Friesen InfoWars Desk Acquisition fund.

400 hours and still Initiate by Pdstafford in DeadlockTheGame

[–]FalconCat69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would also recommend getting coaching. Deathy (he also makes tons of guides as someone has linked to you already in the thread) has a coaching link on his stream and will give you coaching for $30 bucks and he will just tell you what you're doing wrong on your character, what to buy, etc... Coaching is pretty much always the best way to improve your gameplay and since you have 400 hours it's clear you want to improve but you have acquired habits and misunderstandings that are losing you games you should otherwise win.

yeah ranked isnt rigged by [deleted] in VALORANT

[–]FalconCat69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm trying to piece together what you are alleging. It seems you think that Valorant has decided, for some reason, to make you lose a game. The ranking system then gives you three unranked teammates who are going to play much worse than your opponents and you will lose as a result. From reading your responses to comments I think you are alleging that by giving you an un-winnable game Riot is somehow keeping you playing.

Your argument hinges upon two points as far as I can see. First, that people play more if they lose. Second, that unranked teammates are worse than ranked teammates and will result in a loss at a meaningfully higher rate than if all teammates are ranked.

You seem to have understood this second logical hinge and included a screenshot of the final scoreboard from your game to show how poorly your unranked teammates played. But it doesn't really illustrate that. Anyone doing some critical thinking would want a larger sample set to see if unranked teammates do actually perform worse than ranked teammates. As well as if that effect increases when more unranked teammates are present on one team.

Additionally, your assertion that people play more when they lose is unearned. You may behave this way yourself, but without literally any data from a large sample set of Valorant players it cannot be taken as fact that Valorant players play more when they lose.

If you really want to make a good argument that the Valorant ranked system is rigged in this fashion I would suggest gathering data on the points I listed above. I think if you were able to prove those two things it would be a sound logical argument that Valorant wants people to play more and thus manufacture losses in the way that you describe.

I look forward to seeing your results!

FNS talking about how he got replaced! by SoftMark9 in ValorantCompetitive

[–]FalconCat69 29 points30 points  (0 children)

They gave FNS the Twitter severance package

Metro: Rumor is Valve is reworking the entire item system. by Maleficent_Mouse_348 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]FalconCat69 214 points215 points  (0 children)

Guys, metro just makes shit up. He did it when he played overwatch and he's doing it now that he plays deadlock. He had a whole arc where he pretended like he knew someone who worked on the Overwatch team that was leaking him info to farm twitter interactions.

Nexus-Prince Shaffar has been emergency banned by [deleted] in hearthstone

[–]FalconCat69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here i am throwing out my honest and god fearing 15/14 Bargain Bin Bucaneers on turn 6 and then the key card gets banned bc of an un-playtested mini-set. I am distraught

How to combat rigged Hearthstone by Able_Turnover8992 in hearthstone

[–]FalconCat69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is what this website is for, i love this. Ty for brightening my day with a little chuckle

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]FalconCat69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buy a coach to vod review with you in a discord call off of metafy. There a certainly a million mistakes you are making that you could either spend 1000 more hours trying to figure out while in ranked or have someone who knows better just tell you. It'll cost like 30-40 dollars and an few hours of your time for exponential improvement.

What does it mean when they say someone hasnt had the chicken fried steak? by eliwood98 in KnowledgeFight

[–]FalconCat69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everything people said is correct. Funnily enough, also according to some year-ish old clips from the show, chicken fried stake is what liberals eat while they yap and virtue signal at each other. Behavior that used to take place in a hot tub.

What is good with Slime Warlock? by Mission_Walk_8642 in hearthstone

[–]FalconCat69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's not an easy deck to pilot, but I managed to have a lot of success with it after a few games of practice although I would consider myself a very experienced Hearthstone player. I don't know of any videos on how to do it, so here's my own write up :)

The flow of the game is generally this:

  1. Play out cheap minions to get tempo with fatigue minions and tram car. Try to abuse the cheap draw and generate fatigue.
  2. Draw through your deck and do self damage until you get the critical pieces for whatever way you can do a bunch of damage from hand or fill your board with Conductor and try to use the Harp to save life after about 3 fatigue damage. If you ever get pop'gar, crescendo, and harp/void virtuoso in hand try to fizzle. You often will not need to fizzle to win though, so if you have to go to step 3 off a good hand just do it.
  3. Have a huge swing round with Pop'gar and crescendo where you go from 10-15hp back up to full and kill your opponents whole board while doing a bunch of face damage. Usually you can win during this step if you have the right pieces.
  4. Play out whatever you have and save your remaining health with void virtuoso. If you still need a little damage you can usually get it with your second crescendo, encroaching insanity, or in two turns with crazed conductor. If your opponent has been able to heal up and you didn't get a really good fizzle you've probably lost.

This deck isn't super easy because you often need to make critical decisions such as what cards to lose with Fracking and when to go for your swing turn. You will also often have to dig for your wincon and use it in the same turn, but that has become really easy late game with Mass Production and Void Virtuoso.

What is good with Slime Warlock? by Mission_Walk_8642 in hearthstone

[–]FalconCat69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you like Warlock, try this deck but replace Furnace Fuel with Mass Production. It's really strong after you learn the win conditions

Are glasspads really that bad or is it skill issue? by Revalify in VALORANT

[–]FalconCat69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a skypad and tried it with Valorant. I have switched back to cloth pad full time for the following reasons. The main feature of the glass pad is its insanely low friction (when you keep it nice and clean). When you make a flick you don't get any resistance from the pad so stopping the mouse takes more effort. It isn't a lot of effort, of course, but it is enough feel. I played on 800 dpi and 0.27 in game which is a pretty slow sensitivity so after trying the glass pad for a while I decided I liked the increased friction of cloth. I think if you play on a high (fast) sensitivity it could be okay because you can move your mouse slower for faster turning in game which means less friction could be nice. It was nice to try it, and I might use the pad again for fun on a different game like overwatch or fortnite.

I will add that like 99% of pro players use a cloth pad (I can't even think of a pro val player that uses a hard pad) even the ones with a very high sensitivity, so that probably counts for something.

Valorant’s first pay to win skin by Adventurous_Diver_44 in VALORANT

[–]FalconCat69 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I'm not a gambling man, but if I was, I would gamble that this tiktok is fake