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So, I recently got into some online gaming again. Vermintide, Rocket League, that kind of stuff. And well, I have noticed some patterns.
Without fail, whenever someone with a cyrillic handle joins, they treat the game as a single player game in which they are the protagonist. Zero communication (that at least is understandable due to the language barrier), extremely selfish play, zero team play whatsoever, just CHAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE straight ahead and fuck it up for the whole team, сука блять. It's like every single gamer from Russia is 13 years old.
Am I wrong here? Any speculation as to why that is?
Russian players being the way you described is one of the most common memes in gaming, CSGO at least. The CSGO analog is "RUSH B, cyka blyat" which is practically the same thing as CHAAARGGEEE. It's just Russian kids. Once you go into higher ranks you don't see that many of them around.
FYI, this specific selfish no teamwork main character playstyle is exactly how South East Asia servers in general are, across games. It doesn't matter if they are Indian, Pakistani, Phillipino, Indonesian, Korean, whatever. If they play in SEA servers, they will have 0 concept of teamwork. It seems to me Russians behave more like their Eastern counterparts than their Western ones even though most of the time you will run into Russians in EU servers.
In my experience, the best random teammates are Scandinavians. The team just works like a well-oiled machine if you get matched with a few Swedish/Danish guys.
I am aware that this dynamic might flip in other game genres like RTS or MOBA where East Asians tend to dominate.
My geographical taxonomy having played CSGO all over the world with randoms are as follows;
Middle East: Generally chill teammates, things work decently enough.
North America: Too much talking on mic, other than that about the same as Middle East, thinks work fine enough.
Europe: Things work great even with language barriers. Best teammates to have in general.
South East Asia: Worst teammates to have by far. Way too much ego and terrible teamwork. Criticism of playstyle gets met with extreme self harming prejudice.
My experience is that Brits are the worst, even worse than Russians.
Russians might be raging egomaniacs but at least they consistently want to win. Brits throw shitfits if other people don't do as they say and have superiority complexes because they are native English speakers.
Give me a russian demanding mid and screaming the entire game any day over some primadonna self appointed leader.
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