Just me or pub games getting way better?
Apreche2
Join Date: 2012-08-06 Member: 154849Members
Join Date: 2012-08-06 Member: 154849Members
Title says it all. I feel like the quality of pub play, at last on the East USA servers I frequent, has gone way way up. It used to be I would play tens of games every time I sat down, and maybe one of them would be decent. That decent game would still have one team clearly dominate, but it would just take them longer to get to gg.
Lately it seems like most pub players know how to play. Sure, some games still end pretty quickly due to a successful rush, but about one in three games in the past week has been extra long with lots of back and forth. I've played multiple games over an hour long.
Just yesterday we had one that was truly epic. We already had a few good games on the server, and I alien comm'd one last game before bed. We started in cave. Right away I cysted up cavern, central, crushing, sorting, deposit, and central. We tried to push repair, but marines took it. They let us in deposit surprisingly easily. I built the deposit hive first, but we lost central. We couldn't take central back, and it wasn't long before they arc'd deposit. That's when it all got crazy. I can't even remember the sequence of events. I remember the cyst chain was constantly being broken. I remember having to rebuild upgrades constantly as they got harassed by jetpackers. I remember cave and sorting both going down at least once. I got kicked out of the hive at least twice and had to run to get to a new one. I felt like we had definitely lost quite a few times when exos were in deposit and cave. I was ready to give up multiple times, but we stuck with it. I think I built almost as many hives as I did harvesters in that game. All I remember about the end was that we got three hives fully grown again, retook central, I bought onos eggs, we put a fourth hive in repair, and sealed the deal.
Anyone else having this experience?
Lately it seems like most pub players know how to play. Sure, some games still end pretty quickly due to a successful rush, but about one in three games in the past week has been extra long with lots of back and forth. I've played multiple games over an hour long.
Just yesterday we had one that was truly epic. We already had a few good games on the server, and I alien comm'd one last game before bed. We started in cave. Right away I cysted up cavern, central, crushing, sorting, deposit, and central. We tried to push repair, but marines took it. They let us in deposit surprisingly easily. I built the deposit hive first, but we lost central. We couldn't take central back, and it wasn't long before they arc'd deposit. That's when it all got crazy. I can't even remember the sequence of events. I remember the cyst chain was constantly being broken. I remember having to rebuild upgrades constantly as they got harassed by jetpackers. I remember cave and sorting both going down at least once. I got kicked out of the hive at least twice and had to run to get to a new one. I felt like we had definitely lost quite a few times when exos were in deposit and cave. I was ready to give up multiple times, but we stuck with it. I think I built almost as many hives as I did harvesters in that game. All I remember about the end was that we got three hives fully grown again, retook central, I bought onos eggs, we put a fourth hive in repair, and sealed the deal.
Anyone else having this experience?
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Playas be learnin'!
Most of that is because the AUS community is small so at night you generally have 1 or 2 servers with players, both of which are stacked to the ceiling for one side. Can't remember the last time I've had a close game on an AUS server tbh.
Just the other night I specced 4 maps in a row where it seemed like a scrim with the same players on each team every round. I'm not saying it was a 'deliberate' stack but the AUS community is so small the good players end up wanting to team with other people they know can play the game.
I've started playing USA servers. Most of them are positive on the mic more as a start. From what I've seen it's not a rampant stack you get 90% of AUS games. The biggest complaint I've had is my 250 ping which I can understand, and I always ask if I'm teleporting or just lagging.
Wait until you get sick of the competitive mentalities, lol!
No fun anywhere ever.
Wouldn't say I'm starting to hate pubs, but I know the feeling.
Although I have to agree with the OP, the average skill level has certainly gone up since release, but I guess it's only normal.
Just need to find a better server. We require people to listen and have headphones, else we sometimes boot people. We are less concerned with skill and more concerned with working with other players and comm.
Every time there is a steam sale I cringe.
Most players have stopped doing really stupid/hopeless things and are playing more strategically now. Overall team strategies are a lot better now.
The other night on Veil when your comm trapped me in that bonewall in cargo I thought I was stuffed, then I turned around and was looking into your panic filled Lerk eyes as you flapped your wings so hard trying to escape. I acutally started laughing over mic before I remembered to shotgun you. :P
Then later that night on Summit I was in Vent shotgunning the alien RT when I got bonewalled right over the railing and into the abyss!