I haven't played CS:2 since it was CS:GO. I think games have always been like that to a point, especially CS type games, but I really don't remember that well. I never really invested the amount of time to games in the early days of online FPS to hold my own in the "good" servers, but I used to enjoy games with server browsers that allowed different rules. There was lots of fun to be had in a night server, shotguns only, no snipers, whatever. Go in there and have fun and the people that needed to tweak everything to perfection weren't able to.
It does seem like a lot of people can't just screw around and have fun though. The height of my COD days, we would sometimes just go in with weird setups and laugh at our success or failure. I was mediocre skill at best, but one of my friends had some success at national tournaments (the in-person kind). He was good. We never cared to always be perfectly maxed out. I had a build just to shoot down helicopters fast so they couldn't get kills with them, or I'd go knife-only, or put that stupid riot shield on and just charge people. It was sometimes fun.
I actually blame the streamer culture for a lot of what I hate. That may very well be an "old man yells at clouds." Everyone that tries plays the same, it's a max build, certain strategy they saw some internet stream. As an example, I've been dragged into Fortnite by my cousin a handful of times. I'm bad at that game and I really don't do the building part at all. It's funny though, the good players all immediately start building these giant convoluted towers in every single fight. I've gotten a handful of kills just quietly going and finding good "natural" cover and angles and waiting for them to actually quit all their building shit and actually fight. You can almost see the deer in headlights look when after all that some guy pops out flanking them from behind a rock and puts them down. Why was I there? I was supposed to be sperging out building things.
Weird, I play other games with controller much more often than KB/mouse. Yet I can't stand Fortnite with a controller. Aim is never my issue anyway. Except maybe the snipers, something seems off about them. I've probably fired a total of 20 shots through them so it's likely a case of just haven't figured them out.
I haven't played CS:2 since it was CS:GO. I think games have always been like that to a point, especially CS type games, but I really don't remember that well. I never really invested the amount of time to games in the early days of online FPS to hold my own in the "good" servers, but I used to enjoy games with server browsers that allowed different rules. There was lots of fun to be had in a night server, shotguns only, no snipers, whatever. Go in there and have fun and the people that needed to tweak everything to perfection weren't able to.
It does seem like a lot of people can't just screw around and have fun though. The height of my COD days, we would sometimes just go in with weird setups and laugh at our success or failure. I was mediocre skill at best, but one of my friends had some success at national tournaments (the in-person kind). He was good. We never cared to always be perfectly maxed out. I had a build just to shoot down helicopters fast so they couldn't get kills with them, or I'd go knife-only, or put that stupid riot shield on and just charge people. It was sometimes fun.
I actually blame the streamer culture for a lot of what I hate. That may very well be an "old man yells at clouds." Everyone that tries plays the same, it's a max build, certain strategy they saw some internet stream. As an example, I've been dragged into Fortnite by my cousin a handful of times. I'm bad at that game and I really don't do the building part at all. It's funny though, the good players all immediately start building these giant convoluted towers in every single fight. I've gotten a handful of kills just quietly going and finding good "natural" cover and angles and waiting for them to actually quit all their building shit and actually fight. You can almost see the deer in headlights look when after all that some guy pops out flanking them from behind a rock and puts them down. Why was I there? I was supposed to be sperging out building things.
Weird, I play other games with controller much more often than KB/mouse. Yet I can't stand Fortnite with a controller. Aim is never my issue anyway. Except maybe the snipers, something seems off about them. I've probably fired a total of 20 shots through them so it's likely a case of just haven't figured them out.