So we’ve all played with some pretty bad people, people who don’t aim well are one thing, but I’m talking about a specific group of people. People who do not know how to revive, plant, do basic roles necessary to play the game, can’t move or navigate the map worth damn, etc.
These people clearly have no idea how to play a shooter like this…SO HOW DO THEY FIND THIS GAME???
It’s free to play sure, but Steam would recommend games you’re accustomed to, that you play regularly, so one must assume that if they find Dirty Bomb, they must have some kind of experience with shooters so, just…HOW?
I often compare them to bots. Like on Quake when you open an arena with bots on level 1 “take it easy” lol.
Every day you’ll see some guy who is new to the game, is getting about 20fps, can’t run and turn at the same time etc. It literally looks like someones 3yo kid is playing the game who has never touched a computer before and has no idea how to use the mouse and keyboard in combination.
I know the type you mean, and I won’t ever get it either. I some times get angry at newer players (I try my best not to be toxic, but some times it can’t be helped) when I see someone forgetting the basics but some times it just does my head in. Level 15-20 guys with 100+ hours who still some how manage to go 2/25 in every game, don’t know how to revive players, never airstrike the EV and just all the basic things that are so simple that most of us learned by the time we were level 2.
Oh you mean like those medics who stand on your body for 5 seconds trying to revive you (at least I think that’s what they are trying to do) and then get shot by a sniper…
Or the guy that blows everything up with his airstrike… everything except the EV and enemies…
Seriously though I think the reason is the F2P nature of the game. More people are willing to try something new when it’s free. They probably went to the free games tab on Steam and saw that this game had a positive rating and just downloaded it.
That’s the only explanation I can think of.
Fun fact: yesterday there was such a guy in my team who was whining over voice chat and at the end of the match (with the lowest amount of exp and a K/D of 3/19) said that we were (and I quote): “a bunch of f*ckin noobs”… He was lvl 8 or so I think…
Millenials, they merely adopted the FPS. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the good FPS games until I was already a man; by then, it was nothing to me but point and shoot!
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i would love to see the statistics of how many players actually think tutorial makes a difference at all.
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At least they would know what button to press if they want to revive someone…
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That would require them to want to revive someone in the first place.
SD should have a badge/small inecntive/steam achievement upon completion of tutorial, at least it forces/encourage newcomers to go through the basics of the game, rather than ranting it’s a p2w game cough angry j** cough
Steam, among other things, suggests games with similar tags. So if you play one F2P game, it tends to suggests plenty of other F2P games with partially matching tags. Right now, DB does have the specific tags “FPS” and “Shooter” but also the more generic ones “Action” and “Multiplayer”.
Just today Steam suggested to me to play “Puzzle Pirates” because it is tagged “F2P” and “Massively Multiplayer”. :s
Not a bad idea. Hell, even give them a guaranteed gold card case for completing the tutorial or something if it gets people doing it.
They need to make the tutorial more complex though, like say where you have to airstrike the EV, stock dummies up on ammo, heal dummies with health packs & revive dummies as well or something, just to cover all the basics. From memory the current one just tells you how to give ammo.
They could even make the tutorial slightly more interactive like the movement course, where there is a whole bunch of tasks you have to do (ammo, health, revives etc) and the more you do or the faster you do them earns you a higher score and ultimately, give out prizes based on your score. Bronze, silver, gold and cobalt cards for one.
Cosmetics are pretty simple. Most people like them. Guarantee if there was an in depth tutorial that could earn you a cobalt card straight off the bat, players would really try to learn the basics more so than now.
unless tutorial is ‘demonstrate you understand a concept before moving on’ structured, it won’t get you far.
And in the end, regardless of people understanding something during the tutorial, there is little that you can do about clueless mules wearing horseblinds. Even if you tell someone ‘press ‘e’ to revive nearby teammates’ 50 times, it won’t help if they are just blind during gameplay, and have only enough awareness to keep up with staring down ADS at one enemy in a distance.
Stick to minlvl servers if you don’t want potato play.
[quote=“Kaur;c-218005”][quote=“tominatorx;c-218000”][quote=“Szakalot;c-217999”]
i would love to see the statistics of how many players actually think tutorial makes a difference at all.
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At least they would know what button to press if they want to revive someone…
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That would require them to want to revive someone in the first place. [/quote]
have you ever seen sparks revive with her hand before?
have you felt the rage inducing traumatic event you just watch?
