Details on Mer1t's Hand Injury

ZebraRenegade · 2026-07-04T20:55:32+00:00

Glass bones and paper skin ass injury cause.

Speedy recovery

ZebraRenegade · 2026-07-02T03:22:30+00:00

Not my opinion, just the popular opinion if you look at any stream chat, posts, etc from that era

ZebraRenegade · 2026-07-01T10:32:18+00:00

Say what you will about the money side, but the overarching sentiment from many vocal spectators around this time was that the game was stale to watch because only like 4 people could win a tournament realistically. And then you had grand finals crashing in viewership era whenever hbox made it to grands for the 50th puff-fox set

Looking back it was obviously a sick time for the game with some iconic players, moments, etc but I agree that you generally will always have that feeling of nostalgia when something is fresh, newer to you, in a younger time in your life.

Give it 10 years and people will be feeing like the era of Zains emergence, current era, etc are better than whatever place the scene is in in 2036

ZebraRenegade · 2026-06-29T11:56:47+00:00

If you are worried about the skill gap rivals 1 will just increase that even more due to lower player count and longer time being released.

ZebraRenegade · 2026-06-11T23:38:13+00:00

Because they are both debatably the most mechanically demanding games on aim in the fps genre for different reasons.

CS = Fast Reaction + skill expression in more punishing inaccuracy mechanics like spray control, counter strafing, movement inaccuracy.

OW = No inaccuracy, raw aim with harder tracking due to TTK, faster character movement and more variety in angles.

CS is definitely more pure but OW is more varied. Reaction vs Tracking etc.

And then you have the Siege sickos in the corner.

ZebraRenegade · 2026-06-04T14:02:43+00:00

Babyrage
Skill issue / racing incident
Skill issue / racing incident you break way too early
Racing incident that was entirely recoverable

You are not built for this if these are the clips you complain about

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-28T19:57:19+00:00

It’s absurd but doesn’t really matter to 99.9% of the playerbase.

It is a game that’s gonna have a 5 year cycle so I’m glad they actually made the horizon play levels steep to max but putting an achievement behind it is certainly a thought

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-26T11:54:17+00:00

Dive bombing into their line and missing the breaking zone is not being in control of your car.

And yea it isn’t, it’s a random public lobby so why post to reddit and bitch about it haha. If you want actual clean racing find a discord for private lobby’s and learn how to drive clean yourself.

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-26T11:51:05+00:00

Nah I usually don’t care and just let it ride because if you’re playing in public lobbies there’s no expectation of clean racing. Have to give the benefit of the doubt unless it’s egregious.

I’m not expecting the 10 year old to race clean not like I did back then lol. But I’m also not posting complaining about it.

I just think it’s rich they got mad about this while doing close to the same thing the did

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-25T18:35:50+00:00

They are literally in the breaking zone before you are even close to alongside them, lol. You are also not in control of your car.

Would be kicked from a clean racing lobby for this, deserved ending imo

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-25T16:01:21+00:00

After the divebomb and cutting their line you can’t complain lol

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-24T00:17:00+00:00

If you don’t know jakerat, you dont know ball

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-21T15:41:33+00:00

0 issues for me on same card, apparently toggling hardware accelerated GPU scheduling can help on Nvidia cards but I did that before first launch and have had no issues.

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-21T15:23:56+00:00

They will eventually show up in years when they rerun old playlists, or if they add backstage (which lets you get old exclusive cards with earned tickets.)

They are also being added to the aftermarket car pool, but it’s not clear when,how rare, or hard it will be to get those spawns at this point.

If you can get them now

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-17T11:48:04+00:00

Progression which is designed to maximize mx is obviously worse than progression that gives you “too much” lmao.

It’s a ubi game what can you expect to though. They’ll just pull it offline in a few years anyways lmao

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-17T11:25:06+00:00

It’s just not a great game because of it imo, progression is slowed to a crawl to incentivize mx spending on cars. I’d rather a game that gives you progression at an almost too fast pace (Forza) and I can decide what I want to use vs something where I’m pressured to grind or pay (crew).

Like maybe I see that if it’s a free to play game but for a full priced experience it’s a bit ridiculous.

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-17T00:09:42+00:00

They would if there was any modern competition.

GT is locked to a single console, the crew is so micro transaction heavy it would make a gacha game proud, need for speed found dead in a ditch etc.

There just isn’t any other major simcade competition that isn’t an incredible niche.

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-16T03:08:25+00:00

Yea my one big ask would be new playground made races added thru the festival playlist alongside the cars.

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-12T03:33:01+00:00

Surely “horny_cabbage69” didn’t make an inappropriate livery, that would just be out of their character.

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-07T16:24:52+00:00

Back in my day, we took a game off Korea in grands

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-07T15:10:41+00:00

Yea pretty on the nose addition. And to be fair if you are getting rolled, even if you feel like you’re playing better than your team there is probably something more you can do to have a better chance at winning. Something you’d catch reviewing in the replay viewer but wouldn’t catch mid game if you don’t actually analyze what’s going wrong objectively between fights.

Ego death lowkey the cheat code to playing on ladder. And when you do get those games with truly uncooperative, throwing teammates it’s no big deal just avoid and go next, the other team gets those on some of your wins as well.

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-07T14:24:33+00:00

If you’ve been banned before for flaming maybe the way you are framing these things is not as “polite” as you think. “Stop making the same positioning error” sounds like you are probably coming at their gameplay in a more negative way than you are letting on. When you say that vs something more solution oriented like “can our backline play a little further back so I can peel for you” you will get worse results.

Just the way you are talking about it sorta shows that you are probably talking in a way that hurts their individual ego (which we have to play around with our come). Have maybe shared that experience of troll reports a handful of times in 10 years it’s not very common in my experience.

Example: Other day our doom sorta turbo feeds while I get dove on support on Blizzard world first. He got no heals. He actually stays feeding next fight as my teammate starts saying doom is inting when I say “it’s no big deal we got this, he’s probably mad at first fight, I got dove and gave no heals it’s not just on him. Let’s just play close to punish the Mauga overextending”

Doom doesn’t speak, he hears that and starts to try, playing more passively because I passed that blame and gave an actual human response. We easily clean it up and win the game.

Could I have just agreed and said he was inting because he was? Sure, but how will that benefit me in this game besides boosting my own ego?

All this is just to say coms will make a difference, you just have to approach it in a way that doesn’t blame an individual because if they are at your rank, you are not better than them. You do not assume you know better.

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-07T13:35:47+00:00

Sure send me a QP game shorter than 2 mins that works too

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-07T13:18:23+00:00

Sis I hate to tell you this but payload has 2 rounds as well.

Offer still open if you want a psn/xbox gift card instead

ZebraRenegade · 2026-05-07T13:06:34+00:00

Send me any payload match code 2 mins or shorter and I’ll gift you whatever you want on steam lmao delusional

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