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PaperclipPerfector  2d ago (text post)   1662 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for May 1, 2026

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The game just keeps teaching you that some answers are better than others, and you'd better figure out which is which, fast.

Well, not fast. The game is way too slow for any such learning to reasonably occur; it's not going to be immediately obvious if you lost on turn 1, and if I have to wait for several hours to get back to turn 1, then I'm going to shut the game off and return to browsing YouTube (which, ironically, is full of just the high points of many, many games).

Apex Legends, for a while, had a "problem" with a certain type of player whose strategy would be- and quite reasonably, I might add- "drop, play, die, instantly disconnect". There's zero chance you'll discover any of the winning strategies organically, especially because menuing (which you have to do in fights to win them) is so inherently clunky that doing it quickly is itself its own skill.

They never fixed that, of course, because having a bunch of people who do this is actually good for the game simply because it ensures action happens early.

There's also a gameplay premium on what military types call violence-of-action.

The games I have the most life time spent in are Call of Duty 4 (with 32 or 64 player servers)/Titanfall and Payday 2 for this reason; there's so much of this, or the potential for so much of this, that you actually can reasonably learn by dying a bunch of times to figure out what works and what doesn't, or actually have fun by using meme strategies.

Playing Tarkov for the first time without watching half a dozen new player guides and keeping a map open on your phone is masochism. The game is ridiculously obtuse about its mechanics. That's not a good thing, but once upon a time, the payoff to all that hard work felt very good. I went from a survival rate of 30% to 60% over 5 wipes, and a KD of 2 to 7, I think. Albeit that includes PVE kills too. I was only above average as a PVP player, perhaps just average when adjusting for playtime.

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