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Yeah I usually play with team speak channel off since I honestly think verbal communication in fights does actually more harm than good between randoms. Verbal communication is good when you are premades and know each other and especially if you have one designated shotcaller. But with randoms, one match is too short to even learn who's voice belong to who so when someone scream "behind ME", its more confusing than helpful.
But the reason I posted this post was because I, for funsies, turned it on and I just say WOW. Getting flamed by a premade duo 90% of your matches seems quite on point =)
And just like you said it; these premade duo never care the slightest what you wanna do. They just do whatever they want, whenever they want and they never say anything until they die in a 2v3 fight they chose to engage in. And then the flaming begins =)
I actually tell them in the beginning of the match, purposely passive aggressively, something like "Not a big fan of running after a premade duo that doesnt even ping where they are going, just so you know". And when they answer; always something toxic, I answer "Just dont blame me if you die 2v3".
I dont imply anything here because I dont know how you and your premades actually treat your randoms. So I am just speaking hypothetically now but I wonder if your definition of your random "playing as a team" is totally fair or is it more "playing according to our premade duo"? Do you REALLY and truthfully treat your solo Q random exactly as you would your premade IRL friend? Most likely not if we are being totally honest here. And as the solo Q, you pick up on those small things. Even if its not a huge unfairness you do, these small things add up after 50 games of the same treatment, over and over again.
The most common of such things premade duos almost always do is to always choose when and where the team should go. In best case they just ping a direction of a new area and just runs, but in worse case, they dont even ping. Even if the solo Q is furthest away from there at your current location, they just run. and its not fun to always run after a duo to always be last one there and get whatever loot they dont want. But the list of these "small but annoying things" is ofc much longer.
Thats another thing bout duos, they dont use the mic until they feel the urge to take on other people. Not to comunicate something constructive, that would be to much but just to rage on the third one for no reason at all.
- Balladalidila2 years agoSeasoned Ace
I think @Midnight9746 is actually nailing the main problem here which is that the REAL problem, or the source of the problem, is smurfing and especially in premade duos. Because if there were NO smurfs att all, i.e every player, regardless of rank, played at their peak rank, then everyone would do everything possible to play as well and win as much RPs as possible, i.e lose as little RPs as possible too. This is how I feel when I try to grind to master solo Q in diamond3 lobbies which makes me MUCH more inclined to adjust to my teammates. And actually, most premade duos and solos in diamond3+ are more mindful of me as well, simply because more players in that rank play more seriously and know that they need all team members to work well to have a chance to win RPs.
But these incentives to play seriously dont exist for smurfs. They play for fun and to stomp, not to gain RPs as effectively as possible and this makes them care nothing for their random 3rd player.
- DeepBeats2 years agoSeasoned Adventurer@Balladalidila Yeah it seems to be that way in many cases.
- Midnight97462 years agoHero+@Balladalidila Part of it is just high ranked player doing 99.9% of the work, while their level 20-50 teammate tags along for a boost through the ranks. Not to mention that people would get crazy stats on an account, like the 20 kill bomb, 4k damage, etc. and then turn around and sell the account, especially if they drew an heirloom.