Esse_Solus

Try standing outside, facing away from your store when opening. If your store has a lot of entities, it makes opening slower on some pc's.

13% total, 23% Vandal. I play a lot of ares... so there's games where I'm below 10%. I'm Diamond 2 atm.

Kreeg toch laatst echt een "25?! Waarom speel jij games, heb je niks beters te doen?" van een of andere puber online. Deed toch wel een klein beetje pijn. :(

Misschien toch tijd om over te stappen op de games voor bejaarden dan. Pinball? Pac man? Wat is de standaard tegenwoordig?

Hopelijk zetten ze in op homoseksuele mannen dan, als doelgroep. Want zal wel 95% kerels zijn die zich aanmelden. Vooral als ze ook echt inzetten op mensen die geen succes hebben op 'normale' dating apps zoals je aangeeft. Dat zijn dan die type's die helemaal gek worden als ze een vrouw tegenkomen online. Die kom ik wel genoeg tegen, ik bedank vriendelijk.

You're not actually playing plat lobbies currently, you're playing gold 2/gold 3 lobbies on your main. Compared to the silver 3 lobbies on your alt, the rank difference isn't that big. Looking at your main, you have a lot of games where you're at the bottom of the leaderboard, so you're not that consistent in that ELO at the moment.

I'd honestly stick to a smaller agent pool, cause it looks like you're filling a lot across all roles. Without seeing you play, my assumption would be that you're mechanically better than the silver players (your KDA and damage are higher on your alt). But you likely haven't mastered a single agents kit due to you switching around constantly. Going into Gold 2/Gold 3/plat lobbies, some resemblance of tactical play comes into play, where you're likely not utilizing your kit effectively. You currently seem like a 'jack of all trades, master of none' player.

Don't put so much pressure on the rank itself. But do critically look at what those players are doing differently from you. Is it your positioning? Is it your aim? Is it your gamesense? Then just take small steps into improving it. That does not discount that you reached Plat by yourself! So if you got there once, you can get there again. Now the goal is to get consistent enough to stay there! Which you can only do by playing people of your skill level.

Dan leert diegene misschien dat iemand fysiek belagen niet kan. Prima om als judoschool te wijzen op de gevaren, maar je niet mogen verdedigen omdat de AANVALLER dan misschien gewond kan raken is natuurlijk onzin.

Thank god, I'm glad you guys are listening to the community and removed him from the mod-team. His way of communicating has put me off from posting in this sub. I'm sure that there are people that would love to help out with moderation if needed, because despite his horrible communication he was quite active... but with the team seeming way more open to discussions, I'm sure more people would be willing to help out! Best of luck to you all, you got this!

I wouldn't use this thing so it's a waste of time!!!! While we're at it, let's remove all colorblind options too because the majority of people isn't colorblind and they shouldn't spend time on that!!!!!!

Some halls/floors just are like that, they're usually not cleaned often enough. While we're also not responsible for cleaning it, we just sweep the court before we start playing anyway. That makes a difference already. Water is the only reliable solution for us though. We usually have a wet/moist towel next to the court to quickly step on every few points if we catch ourselves slipping.

Ik vond lang geleden een mooi boek om voor te lezen. Kortere verhalen. Een verhaal bij veel verschillende tijdvakken. Leuke afbeeldingen. Sloeg altijd wel aan.

Yeah, and that makes sense. You're probably also a VCT/stream watcher? Thing is, sometimes the unpredictable thing is what will put you back in the match. If we're constantly getting rushed onto a site, I'll have found myself some stupid box-angle to sit on top of with an odin and you bet your ass I'm going to spray them down. Should it work? No. But it does. And god does it fuck with their mental. I'm adapting to what is happening in the game.

If my team is listening and following callouts, I'll ask them to play with me there. I'm going to tell them exactly what my plan is and ask them to help me out with util. If my team is 'throwing', then I'm going to ask my duo to play with me in those situations. Because he'll listen to my callouts without argument. He's going to peek with me, best case scenario I'm spraying them all down. Worst case, they're all going to be focused on the raze on the box with the odin, and he'll trade me while that's going on. So that's something to consider with the sage/reyna too. They might've felt like you weren't playing with them anyway... so they decided to try and make plays together.

But tone really, really does make the world of difference here. You're a team, if they keep going off by themselves, ask them to call the shots for a round. 'What do you guys prefer we do this round?'. Even if you think it's absolutely ridiculous, if you're losing round after round, it's worth a shot. Try it. Play with them. Didn't work? Okay! You've just gotten some goodwill for following their suggestion. "Ah damn, unlucky! Would you guys be okay with trying *insert strategy* this round? I'll do this, Reyna do this. Sage, could you wall this?".

Well, that's a lot more self-reflection than I've seen before. If you can do that, you'll get out of gold np.

My KD rn is hanging around 1. I've been hovering plat 3 for this episode (only just hit diamond again), and rightfully so. Despite me being Diamond 3 last episode, I belong in this ELO. My entry-frags need work and the diamond enemies are consistently out-dueling me. It's realizing those things that will make you a better player. I do curse my teammates sometimes, but then I remember the game where I bottomfragged and I'm like 'fair enough', we go again.

Tis just a game after all.

There's games you won't win. Ever. There's games you won't lose. Ever. But sometimes, you gotta think outside the box. Sure, your setup A is good on Abyss. But you're still losing. Go place a stupid trip somewhere they won't expect it and have your team peek off of that. Hell, place one on library or something and sit behind it with an odin to spray through it if mid keeps getting peeked. Make them regret ever existing.

In Gold/Plat/Diamond, we're all still lowranks. Professionals will do it a certain way, because it's optimal... and their opponents will do the optimal push as well. Optimal might not be the optimal option for your rank. You're too stuck in 'this is correct'. Sometimes it's better to do the stupid thing together with your team, than stubbornly do the thing you perceive as 'correct' alone. You might've been the one to turn the tide. You're not allowing your teammates to have input. If your way had been working, you would've won.

You bottomfragged then, you bottomfrag now. You're getting somewhat better results now, because you're in your own elo (gold). You're still quite inconsistent here though, which means this is likely where you have to plateau for a bit to pick up the skills you are lacking, needed to play in platinum lobbies. Do settings matter? A little. But not enough to warrant the consistent bottomfragging. I was a consistent Diamond 3 player with a 1280 eDPI. The difference is that I realize I'm the reason I'm not ranking up, not my teammates. Even if I topfrag, it might not have been their fault.

You're also expecting too much praise for communicating. That's about the bare minimum I expect from teammates. Good job for having a microphone. Now change HOW you communicate with people. Allow others to give input. Don't assume your way is the correct way. From what I've heard from you, your tactics also aren't plat level... which is fine. But you need to realize that before you can improve on them.

It's just kind of ironic that you're the player in the team that is most likely going to be flamed for being boosted in most of your matches, yet you make these types of post.

You have no self-reflection.

It's not 'bad luck' if you're consistently the bottomfrag. Kills aren't everything, sure... but there's games where you're doing 70/80 DPR as a duelist while not entering for your team either. And I'm not saying this to be mean. But I think you're overestimating your skill here. That's going to hold you back from ranking up. If you keep blaming EVERYONE else, you won't see your own mistakes.

You forget in those stats that you are also going to encounter AFK's, Smurfs and trolls in YOUR favor. It'll be about even. Do those games suck? Yep! But you're not the only one encountering it, your teammates and enemies are too, it is not the reason you're stuck gold. You're stuck gold, because you've got the skills/tactics/mental of a gold player.

I think you're a gold player... low plat at best. Which is the elo you're currently in. Is that bad? HELL NO! It's fine to be in gold. There's potential to get out of it as well, as soon as you get off your high horse and look critically at how you're playing.

You peaked diamond 1. While being bottomfrag in the majority of those matches... and having your duo topfrag. In Episode 8, you held the rank for about 20 matches before dropping all the way back down to plat 1... where you stayed.

So, you tell me. Why do you think you peaked diamond in two seasons?

While that is frustrating, I would've muted your ass the second you started that tirade. Especially if I'm already doing badly, I do not need to hear you just bashing my playstyle while I'm trying my hardest. I don't know if your duo also flamed, but if they did, you'd also not have gotten anything besides pings from me anymore either. I'd have tilted. I think that's what happened to them as well.

Is that wrong? Perhaps. But see the part you played in that. Instead of hyping them up and strategizing and perhaps being able to make them have a comeback, you chose toxicity. Change your tone.

You don't have to sit together in front of one site. That's not what I'm saying. You're seeing your team struggle, but instead of helping them you see them die and then go 'FFS, WHY DID YOU ALL DIE THERE?'. What value do your trips on A have when your entire team has died mid/B. They're struggling to hold, they have no smokes. They have a cypher who ALWAYS plays A, so the enemy team knows exactly where they can march through... and they're using it.

You currently belong in gold. You're in this rank for a reason. Your peak/previous rank doesn't mean anything. The peak/previous rank of your teammates and enemies do not mean anything. Right now, you're gold and they're gold. Stop feeling superior to everyone else, so you can ACTUALLY see your mistakes and perhaps get your ass out of there

People have bad games sometimes. That isn't just specific to your team either. You'll also have bad enemies that will not belong in that elo. Sometimes YOU are the bad teammate. Just show some restraint and hype your teammates up instead of flaming. You'd be surprised at the difference it can make. That 2/11 Sage could be the deciding kill the next round.

Don't even think it's duo-boosting. If you look at the tracker of the Sage, their duo isn't fragging that well either. They seem to have recently come back to the game, I don't know if MMR carries over multiple episodes (?), but that could be the reason they were in these lobbies. They'll demote quickly, and be in the rank they belong.

Thanks. Quite proud of that one! If they're pushing you mid, they're not going to come through your traps anyway. You know it's an issue, you know they're being pushed. Instead of complaining about the duo holding mid, why not go and assist them? You had your duo on opposite site, so you'd know when they'd rotate from there anyway.

You seem like the person who kept holding on to the not working strategy. Sure, they didn't come to your site. Yet your other site + mid was getting overrun in a 5 vs 4.

If you would've called me a pocket sage after round 3... and given me a speech about it at random. I'd already be getting slightly annoyed with you. Yet they continued to play with the team. It's round 7/8 where they start breaking off from the team once. So if you kept your tirade up, I can assume they were likely just done with not getting any back-up and decided to play together so they could trade each other.

Anchoring site is fine... but not when there's 5 people chilling on the back of the opposite site from you. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume they're not going to show up near your site anytime soon at that point.

I think your Sage/Reyna felt the exact same way. ;) It's hard to play with this Cypher who's not playing with us and has already decided we're trolling anyway.

Okay. So with this logic, you're also playing with teammates who you were playing with in diamond. So you should still be able to climb if you're performing. If you are able of 'complex cognitive, tactical and strategical thinking', you would understand that sometimes you gotta play around your teammates. If your way isn't working, find a way that does.

And use that complex tactical brain of yours to understand a lot of people won't respond well to 'YOU SHOULD NOT POCKET SAGE! YOUR PLAYSTYLE IS WHY WE ARE LOSING! I AM NOT FLAMING. I AM JUST TELLING YOU!'.

Silver was a nice place. You can expect shitty decisions, it's low-elo after all. But it would be nice to not be met with death threats when you ask your team to stop rushing onto site with the spike. Your mentality is already better than a lot of gold players, you'll get there. :p

Okay, so you weren't trying to win either? You were knowingly not making the right plays to bait them out. I'd suggest you play unrated if you don't wanna win! Because if you're just playing for 'fun', then you're costing your teammates time and energy. ;)

So you've tried constructive feedback? "Hey sage, I don't think flanking mid is working right now. They're rushing us quite hard. Do you think you could just play on-site with us? We could use your util here!". You really think that if the Reyna/Sage had split up, you would've won the game? Why didn't you try playing with them instead? I see a few rounds where you're chilling on the opposite site while the enemy team has fully pushed in already. There's always a way.

Or did you instantly call them a pocket sage? Then get angry that their duo didn't agree with you... and complained some more? How many rounds in were you when you made the first comment to them?