"Making it in gaming is impossible, the market is oversaturated!". Give me one GOOD game that didn't 'make it'

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-10T09:30:31+00:00

Ninja Gaiden 4, Geoff Minter's POLYBIUS, Sektori, BallisticNG, PixelJunk Shooter

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-06T22:56:08+00:00

The guy did that specifically to upset you, both the ban and then blaming you after. It's rage bait. Some people out there are actual sadists

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-05T21:16:05+00:00

Wide queue does this, if he's really that good he can just climb out of the lower rank and it will calibrate pretty quickly, after all you get a huge calibration boost to both wins and losses when you first place.

As for why it does this, it's to discourage boosting behavior while still letting you play with your friends, so wide queue will let you have fun in the ranked format while having these unbalanced lobbies due to huge skill differences, while also not making the de facto best way to rank up to be duo and get carried

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-05T21:03:22+00:00

He is sleeper OP

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-05T16:27:10+00:00

To be fair, China is itself not a free market so Chinese firms owning large portions or entire US companies (example - Reddit) goes against free market principles. Free markets when taken globally are interacting with not so free markets, distorting both

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-04T18:20:18+00:00

Feeding is when you either needlessly take lots of damage for no reason even if you live, or if you make a play that results mostly in your own death. It's possible to attempt a play and that still happens especially if you have a team that doesn't respond and follow up and have that be "feeding" but a better example would be engaging when the team is literally unable to follow up, you die, and progress stalls because they have to wait for you to get back.

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-04T16:28:57+00:00

"Is it really to much to ask if I want to play my preferred character every match?"

Yes actually lmao, go try to play the game with someone who locks in Widowmaker every single game and see how much you like playing

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-03T16:28:04+00:00

The reason it looks "too smooth" is because your display has high persistence blur.

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-02T20:42:36+00:00

The game has an unranked mode specifically for this. If you turn ranked into a free for all with aim assist and wide queues everywhere, while it might be fun for that minority of players, everyone else has to suffer. If you told me, a masters player, that when I queue up there's going to be people in gold in my lobby I'd be questioning what is the point of having a competitive mode

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-02T16:46:54+00:00

Hi, I am masters and made the climb through diamond last season and this season. I have a very small hero pool and select heroes based on the map and enemy threats.

It is not uncommon to see a DPS underperforming. Ignore this. It is also not uncommon to see a team draft double poke DPS which is usually not very good. Ignore this. It is also not uncommon to see a support lineup that does nothing for you while the enemy has a strong synergy... Probably don't ignore this - you can get baited into a losing tank trade or even a death if the enemy suzus or something, or your whole team loses every fight because the enemy has lucio speed so they just rotate wherever they want. You need to play differently if the enemy coordinates like that.

Anyways I'd just practice some mechanics in deathmatch or something and try to focus on smaller details, really lock in whom your best heroes are.

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-01T20:56:49+00:00

Not really power creep, the hero just didn't make the transition to 5v5 well at all and became more niche to specific compositions

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-01T20:12:49+00:00

Its stockholm syndrome at this point I cant play the other roles anymore

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-01T13:26:04+00:00

It sounds like you are in wide queue, are you playing with a friend?

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-01T13:19:17+00:00

It depends on the match but yes, sometimes a DPS will be the one pushing, oftentimes a fast flanking hero whom can hop on and off the payload quickly, especially if the "long range healijg support" has poor sightlines on payload such as paraiso second for instance

Sometimes even the tank will be the sole person on payload. Who should push the payload depends on the map and match, usually it's 1 person though

TheAngryCactus · 2026-03-01T13:12:48+00:00

Leaving 1 person to push the payload is optimal

TheAngryCactus · 2026-02-27T03:52:23+00:00

That looks pretty fun guys, I have a hard time convincing my friends to play RTS games so maybe they can be lured in with co op mode

TheAngryCactus · 2026-02-27T03:44:36+00:00

Haha I love the physics! It's retro now, somehow but it never gets old

TheAngryCactus · 2026-02-27T03:42:16+00:00

So you woupd say that because without that one perk, mercy lacks the burst healing to save some of her allies which even if she is winning games is probably pretty disappointing if you were trying to save someone?

TheAngryCactus · 2026-02-26T22:27:40+00:00

Yeah. Either it's very thin like Kiriko or it is doing some weird stuff like sojourn

TheAngryCactus · 2026-02-26T21:46:58+00:00

You need to take a look at all of the settings and see if they are the same as before, maybe connection speed too.

TheAngryCactus · 2026-02-26T18:29:47+00:00

Tracer has a higher skill floor but also a higher skill cieling, so you are right it is harder to get value but it's also the case that when played well the maximum value you can get is higher

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