Poll: Competitive multiplayer success handling

[iLikeHippos]

Different settings to suggest competitive players challenging competitive players, looney players challenging other looney players, etc. online.
They have it in Halo, so if you don't give two shits about talking, want to win and you're not all that aggressive, there is a setting for that and vice versa.

Otherwise, I don't know how to balance things. Humans aren't on the same level as everyone else, and bringing up bullshit benefits will just dampen the experience for everyone regardless.

 

[MrGalactus]

I think there should be a Pro mode, where you lose perks and weapons as you level up.

 

[DazZ.]

So you're saying competitive players only go after kills and not for objectives?

As a matter of fact, yes. I have yet to observe one who was going after objectives. They're always the ones with 30:2 KDRs, they're always the ones talking trash and ruining it for people who want to enjoy a round of game X, and they're always complete assholes.

A competitive player would be someone that actually does go for objectives and actually does defend it, otherwise, he would just be someone who does nothing but "kill-whore".

Competitive players don't play for fun, they don't play for objectives, they seek out a better KDR they can brag about on forums.

Play some scrims Watch some scrims/tourney play of TF2 and you'll see it's clearly not about K ratio, it's about team work or the objective. I've played a fair few games competitively and it's the only time people don't care about your personal ratio and is actually about gelling together as a team to get the objective done. Private servers are the only time people consistently play for objectives, instead of public games where all your teammates are "throwaway randoms" which makes it easy to be selfish and not care about anyone but your own kills. It's obviously going to be more focused on teamwork on the competitive scene where you're playing to win. TF2 isn't the only example either, I'll happily say this about every FPS I've ever played "seriously". If I want my teammates to actually be helping me out I'll go for a scrim, if I'm messing about I'll jump in a pub and chat away whilst doing whatever I feel like.

Also I only play racing games to crash into my friends and play about, I really don't take them seriously or get competitive at all unless we're including Mario Kart, that shit is serious business (which incidentally caters to people losing a lot more fondly on the power ups front).