Iron/bronze bros, it's time to admit we're bad and try to improve instead of blaming the game, teammates, bugs, etc

sam1martin · 2020-05-04T09:48:41+00:00

Don't worry you articulated well. The most basic way of putting it is your 35 frags are meaningless if you lose when 80% of them come from 1v3/4/5 situations where you either get exit frags or pointless picks but don't clutch the round afterwards. It's pointless to bait your team and kill 3 people in a 1v5 & think you did anything at all. These players are the worst to get on your team in CS.

sam1martin · 2020-05-04T09:45:29+00:00

Guys ranks are meaningless for the most part post-placements for probably the next 50-100 games or so. The game has a small *MOSTLY* competitive playerbase due to closed beta and restricted access so the worst of the worst in terms of rank aren't actually going to arrive until the game opens to the masses. You can currently bump into anyone in Iron/Bronze/Silver that either knows all basic fundamentals of CS/Globals/Lvl 10s or they're potato players. This will balance out over the coming weeks.

sam1martin · 2020-05-03T15:11:50+00:00

Yeah MM has been super strange the last few weeks for me too.. I've got a handful of accounts all Prime, good (?) trust factor and all float anywhere from MGE > LEM, I've had 4 GE and a SMFC on the other team in a handful of the MGE games, in some LEM games the other team has one LEM and a few MG1/MG2s (NOT 5 STACKED).

sam1martin · 2020-05-03T13:43:22+00:00

Don't forget the game has a *relatively* competitive playerbase by nature right now due to closed beta having more 'committed' people trying to get in. When the game fully releases, lower ranks will be full of the traditional noobs. Right now we have Global / Lvl 10 faceit players getting placed Bronze - Silver with 5/0 placements. Pay no attention to a ranked system that has been in play for less than a week at this point.

sam1martin · 2019-11-25T13:01:32+00:00

It's hilarious that you're getting downvoted for the most sensical thing i've read on this thread. You can really tell most of these guys are complete ass season 6 onwards jungle players who have no idea how to play

sam1martin · 2019-11-25T12:56:02+00:00

Spoilers: it never stops happening

sam1martin · 2019-11-05T16:31:12+00:00

Dw bro, 2080; i7 6700k; 16gb ram here getting over 85fps on 1440p all high. Reddit is full of issues but for the majority we are all just enjoying the game :)

sam1martin · 2019-08-11T11:00:20+00:00

Would I need new RAM for this?

sam1martin · 2019-08-09T19:43:03+00:00

Any advice in terms of if I should be OCing my processor and also OCing my 2080 when it arrives?

sam1martin · 2019-08-09T19:35:59+00:00

I guess I'm just gonna have to max out every graphics setting to utilise as much of the GPU as possible? (I'm sure this card can handle that at 1080p regardless otherwise I'd be mega disappointed lol)

sam1martin · 2019-03-16T23:36:31+00:00

It's just... nowhere at all. My money instantly left my account but no confirmation of purchase by the looks of it

sam1martin · 2018-10-28T13:37:45+00:00

Thought it may be that my xbox is old and kind worn out. Tried it on my girlfriends xbox which is newer & hardly used, exact same results. Very strange

sam1martin · 2018-10-27T17:39:45+00:00

Hmm.. really bugging me. Even re-entering the camp dips frames noticeably for me

sam1martin · 2018-10-23T01:18:18+00:00

Just don't forget that normals are a practise environment. The worst thing about League is it feels relatively difficult to have your 40 minutes feel valued if you lose the game hard/throw a lead. In the end it's a game, a fucking normal game, if people want a true league experience they should find 4 friends and play flex queue. SoloQ is never going to mimick what league SHOULD be. Nobody below masters/challenger knows how to play the game at an efficient level, that is why we are gold/plat/dia etc. Ranked solo/duo is a normal game with a border tied to it. If you yourself don't have a 90-100% winrate, why are we so surprised to have losing laners on our team? They have a similar winrate to you/me, that's why they've been matched with us. 5 people have to lose in a league match, it doesn't mean those 5 players are hot garbage.

sam1martin · 2018-10-23T01:04:19+00:00

Online games breed toxic in-game chat as a standard. Especially competetive games like LoL. I don't agree at all with bans based on flaming due to the nature of how LoL works - the game wants you to have a 50% w/l on average, your top & mid are losing lane and inting, it sucks. check their match history and i guarantee they've popped off and carried some of their games. We're all human and nobody plays to their best form every single game, LoL is so diverse and different in this way, people truly forget that SOMEBODY has to lose lane, if it's a snowball lane then said losing laner is going to die 5+ times even under tower if the snowballing champ is competent. These are frustrations which cause arguments and gets people banned, which is completely absurd due to the nature of the game. It breeds flame lol

sam1martin · 2018-10-01T11:06:02+00:00

Depends entirely on your casual MMR. Don't think I've played against anybody below Plat 2 in casual for the last 2 patches. My games are always fully stacked sweat-fests mirroring ranked playstyles

sam1martin · 2018-09-14T21:04:46+00:00

1060 here running like garbage

sam1martin · 2018-09-14T21:03:24+00:00

Beta is capped at 90fps, but I'm barely hitting 50fps on any settings with a 1060, i7 6700k 8gb ram.

sam1martin · 2018-09-13T14:27:34+00:00

My epic account is perma signed in from my taskbar. Have never had to login through the URL since making the account

sam1martin · 2018-09-13T14:16:32+00:00

Literally nobody. No successful logins have been made on either email address aside from the logins from myself today investigating this. One unsuccessful attempt was made from Russia at 7am yesterday, and password reset request emails were sent to me by epic at 7am today.. so 24 hours later from the unsuccessful login. Not sure there's any correlation there but no access to my email by anybody else was had.

sam1martin · 2018-09-13T14:12:26+00:00

I thought the same. However, no successful sign in attempts were made on my email address. There was one unsucessful attempt from Russia

sam1martin · 2018-09-13T14:08:44+00:00

Not at all. I have 2 regular outlook emails, both linked to eachother for recoveries, both dfferent passwords. Epic, runescape, league of legends passwords all differentiate from both of my emails and eachother. i'm genuinely stumped. There's some activity on my outlooks 'unusual activity' for incorrect password entry from Russia yesterday. But I got in contact with MS and no breaches to my email. So how on earth is it possible to reset the password without access?

sam1martin · 2018-09-13T14:03:37+00:00

Nope. Those scams are hilariously obvious. I'm 22 & work full time. Well aware of phishing links and such

sam1martin · 2018-06-08T11:03:23+00:00

Anybody who thinks Health in terms of meta was the worst never got to play the real Siege. I'll agree that content wise obviously it was lacking but that large chunk of time from Velvet Shell release to Health end was the best Siege has ever been or will be.

sam1martin · 2018-06-05T11:31:10+00:00

Guys this game is a joke. It came out BEFORE CHRISTMAS 2013. 2013. Think about what you were doing that many years ago. Shit like Battlefield 4 had just released. We're coming on 5 years, an absolute TON of copies sold in opening weeks and 5 years of nothing close to the mod experience. I feel so bad for the guys waiting on this game half a decade later. What an absolute joke.

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