Should I quit playing online multiplayers?
I've asked myself this multiple times, only to ignore it to fuel my addiction to the rush of getting kills on actual players instead of bots. I tend to just hate myself for putting so much time into ...
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@jokool_aid Personally, I'd do what you want.
Don't live for other people, or others' expectations. Live for yourself. If you enjoy playing online games then play them and don't feel bad because you feel like you should be doing something else.
Obviously moderation is key, but the most important thing is you and how you feel. If you're finding yourself raging at the games, then maybe you should take a break. Personally I rage at Apex tons, I'm frequently cursing out my teammates to myself - as long as you're not sharing that with them and it stays internal or out loud to yourself I think it's okay.
As for the being worse than people, man do I ever feel you on that! It's awful to play a lot and feel like you're standing still while everyone is sprinting past you.
But, recently I've definitely started to see huge improvements in myself. For me, playing around with my actual settings helped a ton. I lowered my sensitivity a LOT and I've seen a ridiculous improvement in my aim for it. So I'd try playing with settings some for some potentially quick and easy benefits.
Aside from that, the best advice I've heard for improving is a couple things; first off, after every game wait a second and don't isntantly queue for another game. Take a minute to calm down and think about what happened. Why did you win/lose? What could YOU have done better? Blaming your team is cool, and often deserved, but you can't control what your random teammates do - either you find a premade team to play with or you have to just focus on getting better yourself so you can carry.
The second bit of advice is to really hard-focus on improving one thing at a time. Find one area you need to improve on and focus solely on improving that one thing every game. Like for me, I'm absolutely TERRIBLE at super close fights. I land 90% of my shots with a sniper, I'm very comfortable with mid-range, but as soon as it gets close range I start panicing and flailing and I do 12 damage then die. So I'm working on landing super hot, grabbing something like an r-99 or a volt, and getting as close as I possibly can to people. I died a LOT, I had a TON of 3 damage games where I was beyond useless and I was super upset, but coming out the other end of it I don't panic as much in close range fights and I hit my shots. I'm still absolutely atrocious compared to so many people, but it's not an instant game-over if they get close to me, and it's not nearly as frustrating.
But the best advice of all is absolutely to not compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to you from yesterday. If there's improvement it's a win - if there isn't then figure out what you can change to get ANY improvement at all. I found I was starting to get really frustrated with myself after I'd been watching Apex YouTubers while I was eating lunch for a few days. It was frustrating seeing them just casually playing and killing people, seemingly effortlessly, while I was struggling just to not be a burden to my team. But it's important to remember with stuff like YouTube videos that they can cut the bad games and only put together the games they want to show. And everyone has different skill levels. Some people are just naturally better at shooters, and others have put in an incredible amount of effort to get to where they are, dozens of times more than you or I - you just don't see it. You can only really compare yourself to you and try to do better.
Don't live for other people, or others' expectations. Live for yourself. If you enjoy playing online games then play them and don't feel bad because you feel like you should be doing something else.
Obviously moderation is key, but the most important thing is you and how you feel. If you're finding yourself raging at the games, then maybe you should take a break. Personally I rage at Apex tons, I'm frequently cursing out my teammates to myself - as long as you're not sharing that with them and it stays internal or out loud to yourself I think it's okay.
As for the being worse than people, man do I ever feel you on that! It's awful to play a lot and feel like you're standing still while everyone is sprinting past you.
But, recently I've definitely started to see huge improvements in myself. For me, playing around with my actual settings helped a ton. I lowered my sensitivity a LOT and I've seen a ridiculous improvement in my aim for it. So I'd try playing with settings some for some potentially quick and easy benefits.
Aside from that, the best advice I've heard for improving is a couple things; first off, after every game wait a second and don't isntantly queue for another game. Take a minute to calm down and think about what happened. Why did you win/lose? What could YOU have done better? Blaming your team is cool, and often deserved, but you can't control what your random teammates do - either you find a premade team to play with or you have to just focus on getting better yourself so you can carry.
The second bit of advice is to really hard-focus on improving one thing at a time. Find one area you need to improve on and focus solely on improving that one thing every game. Like for me, I'm absolutely TERRIBLE at super close fights. I land 90% of my shots with a sniper, I'm very comfortable with mid-range, but as soon as it gets close range I start panicing and flailing and I do 12 damage then die. So I'm working on landing super hot, grabbing something like an r-99 or a volt, and getting as close as I possibly can to people. I died a LOT, I had a TON of 3 damage games where I was beyond useless and I was super upset, but coming out the other end of it I don't panic as much in close range fights and I hit my shots. I'm still absolutely atrocious compared to so many people, but it's not an instant game-over if they get close to me, and it's not nearly as frustrating.
But the best advice of all is absolutely to not compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to you from yesterday. If there's improvement it's a win - if there isn't then figure out what you can change to get ANY improvement at all. I found I was starting to get really frustrated with myself after I'd been watching Apex YouTubers while I was eating lunch for a few days. It was frustrating seeing them just casually playing and killing people, seemingly effortlessly, while I was struggling just to not be a burden to my team. But it's important to remember with stuff like YouTube videos that they can cut the bad games and only put together the games they want to show. And everyone has different skill levels. Some people are just naturally better at shooters, and others have put in an incredible amount of effort to get to where they are, dozens of times more than you or I - you just don't see it. You can only really compare yourself to you and try to do better.
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