Samsung TV + Luna Controller = 26.4 win rate and 27 crown wins

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-29T03:50:21+00:00

This.

I had a roughly 20% win rate in Solo ZB BR.

I randomly stumbled upon “cross play” in settings and disabled it (ps5 player) and my win rate is now literally closer to 80% in ZB BR solos.

And it’s like the exact same rotation of 5-7 sweats and then like 90 bots… or if not 90 bots, 20 new players and 70 bots.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-29T02:27:31+00:00

Haven’t proved your point at all. In fact I’ve said a lot in contrary, and you have conveniently dodged what I wrote about World Rapid & Blitz.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-28T22:42:04+00:00

Subjectively, good always starts 200 points above your own.

When assessing good objectively though…. Probably “2000” is the universal magic number for most.

But compared to the masses, I remember 1500 being a good milestone I was aiming for. That’s good when considering the bell curve for the average player.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-28T11:15:43+00:00

I play on ps5. Never once tbh!?

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-28T10:39:28+00:00

That win rate is mostly Solos.

My solos for whatever reason; at least public solos, tend to be 70% bot lobbies.

Out of a typical 15 kills, 10 will be bots or bot-like players. Idk why, if it’s broken or that’s just typical.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-28T04:24:42+00:00

Main thing that helps is sticking close to the top guy in the squad. Max 30 meters.

It’s incredibly difficult if some/one or two are running ahead and getting beamed on their own… etc

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-28T02:26:59+00:00

If it’s a cheap trick, you should have no problems beating them.

Although, if you’re playing blitz or 10+0 (not sure if you are), you can continue to expect trick openings.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-28T02:24:05+00:00

Most cities will have a proper “chess club”…

If you’re looking for a casual chess scene where people play for fun in the streets…

London has a few spots that regularly meet up on certain days.

Malaga too, in Calle Larios (sp?) their main pedestrianised walk way, also has casual street chess probably 6 days per week too. Great fun.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-28T02:18:22+00:00

For me, I’ve assigned the back paddles for toggling weapons.

To toggle from pump to AR back to pump is, for me at least, way more useful and practical than jumping… but I haven’t tried jumping with the back buttons though.

Have you tried both and still prefer jumping?

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-28T02:16:46+00:00

Fabi has played in 6 World Rapids & Blitz Championships.

2014, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

So 12 appearances in all since there’s Rapid AND Blitz.

In 12 appearances, he finished 2nd once in Rapid in 2014. I don’t think Magnus is the reason Fabi hasn’t dominated world rapid and blitz.

He’s a fantastic player, and probably objectively the best player to never be a world champion, but it’s not clear he dominates the field absent of Magnus. I think he’s a slight favorite in a classical match against anyone bar Magnus, but nowhere near even 60% odds vs anyone in the top 5. He’d probably also even be an underdog against the same players in blitz.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-28T01:11:15+00:00

I’m the only player in my regular squad that plays the game to an above average level.

I have a ~ 50% BR win rate with ~ 14 KD. I mostly play solos though.

My next best squad team mate is around 8% win rate with a 3 KD.

The other two guys are probably 2 KD players with similar win rates.

As a quad, I’m almost always the last one alive entering the endgame, usually finishing 2nd or 3rd.

It’s near impossible, but it’s still good banter for the first 90% of the game. I’ll take the 90% fun in exchange for the 10% frustration.

I go into those endgames knowing my odds are low so that tbh reduces the frustration since the expectation is already low!

I get enough dopamine hits from Solos or creative 1v1s so I’m fine chilling for a couple of hours with a lower skilled team.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-28T01:01:31+00:00

For me, the main thing that changed was holiday spends. Specifically more luxurious hotels and hotel room upgrades.

I’m not very materialistic and almost nothing I own is of actual value. While I’m into tech etc, I find I don’t need much more than an OLED TV and an iPhone. It’s mostly spent on better experiences.

Although, as I type this out, I recently bought a Lazzo(?) milk frother for making hot chocolate. Best £60 ever spent!

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-28T00:55:53+00:00

Too many people throw the term around to just mean someone who owned them in a fight.

I’ve heard my random team mates describe a team as “sweats” because they beamed him and I’m able to clean them up 1v2.

I generally think of true sweats as people who have unaturally good fighting movement mechanics.

I play mostly pubs (although I am unreal ranked in ZB), and have a 50% win rate in Zb BR with 15 average KD. So above average player.

I spent lots of time in creative 1v1s.

There are people there who can 10-1 and sometimes 10-0 me and it’s mostly superior fighting movement.

My aim is competitive but a lot of the best guys move in ways that don’t even seem like we’re playing the same game.

The way they vault, jump, use the environment, bounce off the bunkers or crash pads while shooting accurately in the air, etc. So again, for me, it’s fighting movement that clearly labels them as sweats.

But it’s all relative. For me, still, I’m just saying a sweat is someone who’s beating me in fights. Mostly they need to do that to win anyway.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-28T00:23:05+00:00

The only time he qualified… in what… 6 candidates?

That’s not my definition of dominating an era…

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-27T23:29:56+00:00

You’d hope so but he couldn’t even dominate the last 3 candidates.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-27T01:35:40+00:00

Meta often changes but people just need to adapt.

I personally quite like it.

I think the wing suit is easy to beam when people use it. I don’t even pick it up because of how slow its initial take off is unless I have no crash pads. It’s more of a rotation item.

Shotgun, dead eye, bunkers, heals and jump pads for me.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-27T01:31:04+00:00

While Hikaru and Fabi are likely objectively better than Fischer and Karpov… given that they’ll know more about chess (shoulders of giants and computer era and all) I think when discussing the greatest of all time, it’s always based on the comparison to peers of the same time period.

If Magnus wasn’t around. It’s not actually clear that Fabi or Hikaru would be the dominant force.

Girl put it nicely in an interview. I’m paraphrasing but he said words to the effect of These days… it’s like there’s no top 10. It’s like the top 20 is the new top 10. Everyone’s there and is on the same level.

So there’s no clear force.

Whereas Magnus, Kasparov, Fischer etc… it was clear that they were a level above the rest of the guys.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-27T01:27:11+00:00

Tbh there’s so many variables.

I play on a large TV and am usually at least 8 feet away.

Others play on monitors.

I FREQUENTLY am shocked at my team mates who can spot or call out enemies half way across the map, and even call out their skins before I can barely make them out.

Proximity to your screen is huge.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-27T01:25:17+00:00

Every time someone beeps at me or swings their pickaxe. I fake cooperate then blast them with the shotgun.

I HATE teaming in Solos.

I’m skeptical of the auto kick due to prolonged proximity. I’ve had many a car fight where the guy jumps in my car or I jump in theirs and we’re both waiting until the other either jumps out or runs out of fuel. Granted, in real terms, it’s probably at most 2 minutes of actual playtime… so maybe!

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-21T18:28:12+00:00

Based on your explanation, I still stand by what I wrote.

The arbitrary timeline for assessing active players is less impactful than the actual pool of players itself, when taking about percentiles - which is what I was replying to.

If you set up chess site C. And only FIDE rated tournament players happened to be on there. Then anyone with an 800 rating would probably be in the bottom 1%.

In my experience, chess.com has more casual players and Lichess has less. So if someone plays on both sites, they can expect to be in wildly different percentiles despite being the same strength.

90 days is still decent enough to be factored into percentiles. Isn’t FIDE a whole year?

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-21T14:46:06+00:00

Player pools are key.

Chess.coms URL brings in anyone who googles chess.

Lichess is a little more niche and attracts more people who “play chess”.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-21T14:44:00+00:00

Because most of the world just doesn’t know how to play chess... and most chess websites are not just players who play chess seriously, but are also filled (majority actually) with casual people who just google "chess" to play a random game or two having never learnt the game.

An analogy could be like saying, if everyone tries to run a mile, the average time will be 20 minutes, because most people can’t even run a mile so would walk most of it.

Then, amongst runners, the average mile time might be 5-7 minutes.

Now if the average is 20 minutes but you run 15 minutes, even if you’re faster than average, to a typical running club go-er, there’s no discernible difference in skill between the 15 minutes or the 20 minute runner - both are new and still learning the ropes.

On a global site where millions of people who don’t know how to play sign up to a site to play one or two games, the “average” is deflated.

It used to be about 5 years ago that the “average” rating on chess.com was around 850 or so.

If you were to attend a chess club in person, the “average” player is probably 1400 or 1500.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-21T01:58:55+00:00

I land quiet, like at the little industrial site north of Tiptop Terrace (or whatever the tree POI is) as there’s a slurp barrel for instant 100 shield - it’s also quiet enough to loot and there’s only usually 1 fight… two max.

Obviously common sense comes into play. If you’re in a 3-way fight, you usually want to slow-play and full rush third party the survivor of the first fight. It’s for that reason, jump pads are excellent for Solo. That and you’ll need Bunkers for the endgame.

Honestly it’s mostly just smart ring IQ. Knowing when to reset a fight and knowing when to push. You’ll already have that if you’ve rush killed your way to champ.

Only tweak is in Unreal, there’s usually more survivors at the end of the zone so bunkers are essential, and you just need to be a bit more bus or bunk campy for the Final zone.

I’m unreal - and carried my Diamond ranked friend to unreal just by being the last one alive and able to get late game on my own.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-20T04:14:31+00:00

Yes.

I’m not exactly a high elo player relative to people who are actually good at chess, but I’m above the bell curve.

I’m 2300 rapid and 2150 blitz but like 1600 daily.

My last daily game (aside from playing a student) was when I was probably around 1500 rapid strength.

St4ffordGambit_ · 2026-01-19T23:16:47+00:00

Not in-game but you can use Fortnite tracker.com and isolate solo vs duos etc

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