I've been observing this for a while now and and it somewhat puzzles me. For those who didn't notice, there is a kind of social justice movement among elite CQC players that makes them play in certain way. I don't know when it started because I'm new to CQC myself. I think the idea was to 'welcome new players' and 'not to drive new people away from CQC' due to low population in CQC. Noble indeed. Some veterans genuinely had good heart/intentions, the others follow the suit not to look bad.
But how does it really look in practice:
- Veterans in their circle don't want to be seen as noob killers, obviously they used to be, to get elite rank they killed thousands of noobs. They try to spread the idea onto other new regular players or people who are grinding their ranks, but it's easy to preach and be a white knight now when they no longer need to grind their rank.
- When Veterans join games full of noobs, they often don't try to win them, but they usually excusively pick on the most skilled player in the group (i.e. rank 20 or 30 player or even regular prestige 1 or 2 player that dominates) to 'level the playing field' in a way lol. That is to protect noobs. So if you are one of those talented noobs that stands out and manages to dominate your peers, veteran 'on duty' will just bring you down to make you achieve no better result in the game than everybody else for the rest of the evening. Because only 'the same' is fair and everyone is happy like in cloud cu.ckoo land lol.
- Veterans pretend they go easy on noobs switch to inferior weapons i.e. rapid cannons (yet when they are 2 veterans with rapid cannons in one game they usually don't fight each other, they focus on noobs lol.. I don't know how such teaming up makes it easier to noobs, but who am I to judge? lol)
- Veterans sometimes go for assists rather than kills - They basically join to troll new players. Stripping noobs off their shields to improve their CQC experience of course. I tried that a few days ago, boring as ...... I rather play something else than do that.
I think efforts to encourage people to play CQC are misplaced...
IMHO I think what noobs really need is lack of veterans' persistent presence or interference, like veterans had no interference back when CQC was new.
If you really want to help new players just let them play alone, let them decide the scoreboard, let them progress, have a 1-3 game blast yourself if you must, then have a break.
Don't troll people grinding their cqc elite rank for 10-20 games or all evening (ye beat them in 1-3 games, show them who's da boss lol, but please don't do that for 20 rounds, have a break), grinding the rank is tedious enough as it is.
And for god's sake, CQC doesn't need social justice police. Why people just can't play normally like old Quake Arena days? Have a blast, then get out.
Just my 2 cents. I'm not saying I'm right here, just my opinion.
But how does it really look in practice:
- Veterans in their circle don't want to be seen as noob killers, obviously they used to be, to get elite rank they killed thousands of noobs. They try to spread the idea onto other new regular players or people who are grinding their ranks, but it's easy to preach and be a white knight now when they no longer need to grind their rank.
- When Veterans join games full of noobs, they often don't try to win them, but they usually excusively pick on the most skilled player in the group (i.e. rank 20 or 30 player or even regular prestige 1 or 2 player that dominates) to 'level the playing field' in a way lol. That is to protect noobs. So if you are one of those talented noobs that stands out and manages to dominate your peers, veteran 'on duty' will just bring you down to make you achieve no better result in the game than everybody else for the rest of the evening. Because only 'the same' is fair and everyone is happy like in cloud cu.ckoo land lol.
- Veterans pretend they go easy on noobs switch to inferior weapons i.e. rapid cannons (yet when they are 2 veterans with rapid cannons in one game they usually don't fight each other, they focus on noobs lol.. I don't know how such teaming up makes it easier to noobs, but who am I to judge? lol)
- Veterans sometimes go for assists rather than kills - They basically join to troll new players. Stripping noobs off their shields to improve their CQC experience of course. I tried that a few days ago, boring as ...... I rather play something else than do that.
I think efforts to encourage people to play CQC are misplaced...
IMHO I think what noobs really need is lack of veterans' persistent presence or interference, like veterans had no interference back when CQC was new.
If you really want to help new players just let them play alone, let them decide the scoreboard, let them progress, have a 1-3 game blast yourself if you must, then have a break.
Don't troll people grinding their cqc elite rank for 10-20 games or all evening (ye beat them in 1-3 games, show them who's da boss lol, but please don't do that for 20 rounds, have a break), grinding the rank is tedious enough as it is.
And for god's sake, CQC doesn't need social justice police. Why people just can't play normally like old Quake Arena days? Have a blast, then get out.
Just my 2 cents. I'm not saying I'm right here, just my opinion.
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