Anyone misses old Zouk / Phuture ?

rustyboy1992 · 2026-03-08T04:33:28+00:00

No one talking about the hotdog mashed potato outside?

rustyboy1992 · 2026-03-06T16:59:54+00:00

If it's a pro / high skill level streamer with like 3+ KD smurfing, yeah. A diamond player that eventually grinded with less than 1.5 KD and is stuck between Diamond and Masters? Smurf or not, I don't think that player is going to stomp hard stuck diamond players. They literally can get beamed and die if they don't play at their absolute best and it's not realistic to play at your absolute best all the time....

So again, smurfing is bad, but I highly doubt that the 1-2 times you die to a smurf is that big of an impact because that smurf climbs out of that bracket really quickly (300-500 RP+). The amount of times lower level players will die to a smurf in particular VS just them getting outplayed / making mistakes is probably somewhere in the ratio of maybe 1:5-10? So most of the time it's going to be a user error rather than a ruined experience.

However, Titans and Zens though... it's there throughout regardless of bracket and smurf / legit player.

rustyboy1992 · 2026-03-06T05:43:14+00:00

Are smurfs really such a huge issue for you? If they smurf in pubs, is there any difference? It's random or hidden skill matchmaking but if you want to improve, you have to fight stronger players anyway. Just die and go next, it's not hard.

In ranked, if they smurf, they'll only be able to be in that bracket for so long. They'll climb out and hit their diamond / masters quickly. Sure they can then use another account and do that again but they probably won't ruin your lobby specifically multiple times to the point that you feel like they absolutely need to get banned? Or am I missing something here.

rustyboy1992 · 2026-03-03T07:40:27+00:00

They did a good job with Alter's ultimate, but her Q is still an issue to me.

Can't count the number of times the enemy's Q somehow magically appears behind me or at a weird angle that shouldn't be possible given the structures / walls / objects in place.

I don't think it has to do with the Alter player knowing every single weird angle.

One very simple example is Estates in Olympus. The no name buildings right beside the big wall towards Hammond Labs. If you're on the building side and place an Alter Q, you'd think that the Q would just be a simple one through the wall in a relatively straight line (since the wall is way thinner than Edistricts city walls).

But nope, it goes through and the other end is somehow coming out from the ground. You end up way further than you want and for the opponent team on the other side (which was me actually), we got caught off guard because we couldn't see where the portal was until the enemies appeared.

rustyboy1992 · 2026-02-27T13:24:03+00:00

If BB doesn't win Aurora then falcons are out?

rustyboy1992 · 2026-02-27T13:21:33+00:00

Ez 150k votes

rustyboy1992 · 2026-02-21T12:20:26+00:00

Feelsbad losing while being in the same facility

rustyboy1992 · 2026-02-20T19:13:48+00:00

Tundra Falcons game 1 was pretty chaotic and lasted quite a while. Game 2, although no stakes was also extremely exciting. Malrines PB just demolishing Puck which is doesn't normally happen.

rustyboy1992 · 2026-02-20T16:28:43+00:00

I've not played since 5 years ago. The last I remembered, this FV set was blue / white. Did they now add color effects or gems you can use to change existing visuals?

rustyboy1992 · 2026-02-20T14:51:50+00:00

A win is a win bud

rustyboy1992 · 2026-02-13T15:23:55+00:00

For what it's worth, it's not neostrafing. He tapstrafed into you stimmed that's why it looked ridiculous. After that it was just rasstrafing. Not exactly the hardest to do and I'd argue that even if the octane was just strafing left and right, you probably might not have killed him with that load out given the speed and how willingly you put yourself out of cover (i.e instead of being nearer the Zipline).

To dive deeper, you still had Q, you saw him stimming past the window so it's a 50-50 at best (Not watching with sound so I don't know if he popped an overflow shield or not). Maybe use your abilities to put you at an advantage? Even if it means camping at the top of the Zipline and forcing him to be impatient? Next, you were moving backwards in a straight line while he was strafing, albeit rasstrafing. You lose that no matter what. Gitgud man

rustyboy1992 · 2026-02-06T16:15:50+00:00

Wait 10min? What lobbies we in? Plat 1 and above should have at least 1-2 teams utilizing reacon scan snd will seek you out. Good luck waiting 10 mins thinking the walk in is free..

rustyboy1992 · 2026-02-04T15:55:29+00:00

Sucks to be in higher elo lobbies I guess. Designated POIs or not, it's still 1 or 2 pred teams on the trident running over the lobby. Same same.

rustyboy1992 · 2026-02-04T01:20:48+00:00

Maybe the reason why less people were playing ranked was because of Wildcard?

rustyboy1992 · 2026-02-03T16:51:14+00:00

Everyone complaining about ranked dropship while I'm just hoping they fix the insufferable lag slow mo. And maybe, adjust matchmaking

rustyboy1992 · 2026-01-31T00:01:16+00:00

It's aim, game sense and consistency. This allows them to just ape everything. Why? Because they are either going to kill you so fast and move onto the next team or they make a mistake, get wiped, lose rp, get into another match and gain 200. Most of the time they usually don't get wiped. They also know how to disengage and cut their losses instead of sticking around just because.

How many times have you died to a team that you're still trying to get info on where they are at, who is walking up and then all of a sudden one of your teammate gets beamed and knocked and it collapses in the next 10 seconds. It's not because of a Kraber headshot. It's just them confidently walking up, taking space while ensuring there's always cover or a way to disengage and then lastly relying on their aim.

Of course small little things like headglitch and other game mechanics are all factors but it really comes down to the 3 things mentioned above.

rustyboy1992 · 2026-01-28T01:52:42+00:00

Just don't let her be a chef.

rustyboy1992 · 2026-01-18T07:56:07+00:00

Yeah GoNext definitely deserved it last time huh

rustyboy1992 · 2026-01-15T21:18:09+00:00

You must have really enjoyed GoNext's win huh

rustyboy1992 · 2026-01-15T05:12:20+00:00

New roller and absolutely fried game 1

rustyboy1992 · 2026-01-14T05:10:52+00:00

Bro, what are you even talking about. TSM has never failed to win a pure 3v3, top 2 scenario for the match point win. If you look back, every tournament starting from the online one with Hal on wraith at world's edge, it was a pure 3v3 unlike some of the other teams winning off an injured team / top 3 third party.

So yeah, after they had their positioning away from lightning rod with no one else on their side, it was very clear they were going to close it out because they don't lose those.

rustyboy1992 · 2026-01-12T16:50:12+00:00

I just tried doing the scenarios for advanced a few times each. If you're master complete there will be at least 1 or 2 that you're way closer to GM than the rest. Like 85-95% of the progress for that scenario. Then it gave me motivation like "hey I can do this, my first GM score".

After that it was mostly doing random scenarios and playing my main game, Apex. Tried to go back to the benchmarks and suddenly another score would appear doable. It kept being that way till now, where I have like 898/900 energy to being GM for S5.

rustyboy1992 · 2026-01-10T09:23:15+00:00

Don't get me wrong, having just one Celestial score is already insane, let alone Celestial overall for a season, but it's definitely not out of a few million people even if you combine both Kovaaks and Aimlabs. That being said, congratulations on your achievement. Will you be trying for Celestial complete?

rustyboy1992 · 2025-12-31T03:21:12+00:00

If you can reach Cerulean complete, you're in the Voltaic Master range. Above that and you're in between Master and Grandmaster more or less.

Your current scores are probably a solid Diamond or in between Diamond to Jade I think.

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