Competitive multiplayer, be the hero or zero?
Competitive multiplayer, the place where legends are born or people get brutally destroyed in online competitive matches. It can be a simple deathmatch, where everyone is the enemy, or you can work together with friends or strangers and try to win. It seems simple but it sometimes just takes one thing to ruin everything or to grab the win. I think it's this tension and high risk high reward system that draws so many people in. But we all try to be the hero while in fact most of us will most likely not play that role often or at all.
When you win life is good?
Oh yes! When you win you're the hero, well in some games at least. I've seen people carry a team and pretty much getting them the victory and not getting one thank you or like for that effort. I guess the hero can't always get the praise but I think most people realize that they played an important role in that victory. It's nice when people cheer and when they're happy, when you could play an important role and that you're the reason your team won. That's a pretty good feeling and I won't deny that I love it! Yesterday I played an Overwatch capture the flag match, both teams failed to score and in sudden death the flags are put closer to the middle which creates more tension but also more possibilities. The enemy team grabbed our flag and I chased them as Reaper, I shot them to piece with help from other team mates and managed to grab their flag in the process. Then I returned the flag to our side and we won the match. Everyone on my team said thanks and they were jumping. It might seem like nothing special but it's great when people are happy and everyone is having a good time. Well everyone, I guess the other team didn't have a great time losing at the very end after getting so close to winning.
When you lose life is bad?
There is still honor in defeat, you can't win everything and sometimes you lose. Sometimes you lose a lot and then there are people that just can't stop losing matches. I've been in all of these situations and that sucks! I don't mind losing but when you lose several times in a row then you become salty and the slightest things can already make you pissed off. I always try to keep a positive mood but sometimes when your team plays really dumb, for example nobody protects the objective or people keep charging the enemy team on their own, you can't help but get frustrated and that absolutely doesn't help winning a match. When you eventually lose in one of these bad matches then there's the blame game, people pointing fingers and saying that it must have been the fault of the healer because they never got heals or the fault of the tank because he never protected them. Having played both the healer and the tank roles in games I know that these are important roles and also not always that easy. Sure you want to heal someone but if someone keeps charging the enemy team on his or her own then it's not easy to keep that person alive. The same counts for the tank, when people constantly rush forward then being a tank is harder because you either have to rush with them and risk the chance of being flanked or overwhelmed or you have to try and rally your team around you. In Overwatch people also say thanks when you lose but this isn't meant as a kindness but more as a mocking way to say thanks for wasting my time or making certain that we lost. I guess these kind of people are just salty but sometimes it's difficult to contain your frustration. I don't think that it's a nice thing to be so negative to your team though, even if they were completely useless.
Hero or zero?
I personally don't care too much about that but of course I would prefer not to be the zero in the team. Which pretty much means you're the person who keeps dying, can't stick with the team and just pretty much fail at everything you do. I try to do my best and of course try to win, but the most important part is often for me to have a good time which usually involves winning but that isn't always a priority when it comes to having a good time in a game. Sometimes I end up being the hero in a match, I make the winning point or I held a strong defensive making certain the other players couldn't grab or destroy the objective. This does mean that sometimes your efforts go unnoticed. So I would strongly advice you not to do it for the attention, but do it because you want to help or just have a good time. Even if you were the most amazing player in the match and you alone secured the victory it only makes you look like a douchebag if you let arrogance blind you there. When you play as a team then you also win as a team, share the joy and share the victory. Games become a lot more fun that way and in the end we're all just people playing a game and trying to have a good time. If you do end up having a bad time in a game and things aren't going so well then take a break and try again later, sometimes that's all you need to make the first steps to become a hero in the game. Even if it's just this one time.
When you win life is good?
Oh yes! When you win you're the hero, well in some games at least. I've seen people carry a team and pretty much getting them the victory and not getting one thank you or like for that effort. I guess the hero can't always get the praise but I think most people realize that they played an important role in that victory. It's nice when people cheer and when they're happy, when you could play an important role and that you're the reason your team won. That's a pretty good feeling and I won't deny that I love it! Yesterday I played an Overwatch capture the flag match, both teams failed to score and in sudden death the flags are put closer to the middle which creates more tension but also more possibilities. The enemy team grabbed our flag and I chased them as Reaper, I shot them to piece with help from other team mates and managed to grab their flag in the process. Then I returned the flag to our side and we won the match. Everyone on my team said thanks and they were jumping. It might seem like nothing special but it's great when people are happy and everyone is having a good time. Well everyone, I guess the other team didn't have a great time losing at the very end after getting so close to winning.
When you lose life is bad?
There is still honor in defeat, you can't win everything and sometimes you lose. Sometimes you lose a lot and then there are people that just can't stop losing matches. I've been in all of these situations and that sucks! I don't mind losing but when you lose several times in a row then you become salty and the slightest things can already make you pissed off. I always try to keep a positive mood but sometimes when your team plays really dumb, for example nobody protects the objective or people keep charging the enemy team on their own, you can't help but get frustrated and that absolutely doesn't help winning a match. When you eventually lose in one of these bad matches then there's the blame game, people pointing fingers and saying that it must have been the fault of the healer because they never got heals or the fault of the tank because he never protected them. Having played both the healer and the tank roles in games I know that these are important roles and also not always that easy. Sure you want to heal someone but if someone keeps charging the enemy team on his or her own then it's not easy to keep that person alive. The same counts for the tank, when people constantly rush forward then being a tank is harder because you either have to rush with them and risk the chance of being flanked or overwhelmed or you have to try and rally your team around you. In Overwatch people also say thanks when you lose but this isn't meant as a kindness but more as a mocking way to say thanks for wasting my time or making certain that we lost. I guess these kind of people are just salty but sometimes it's difficult to contain your frustration. I don't think that it's a nice thing to be so negative to your team though, even if they were completely useless.
Hero or zero?
I personally don't care too much about that but of course I would prefer not to be the zero in the team. Which pretty much means you're the person who keeps dying, can't stick with the team and just pretty much fail at everything you do. I try to do my best and of course try to win, but the most important part is often for me to have a good time which usually involves winning but that isn't always a priority when it comes to having a good time in a game. Sometimes I end up being the hero in a match, I make the winning point or I held a strong defensive making certain the other players couldn't grab or destroy the objective. This does mean that sometimes your efforts go unnoticed. So I would strongly advice you not to do it for the attention, but do it because you want to help or just have a good time. Even if you were the most amazing player in the match and you alone secured the victory it only makes you look like a douchebag if you let arrogance blind you there. When you play as a team then you also win as a team, share the joy and share the victory. Games become a lot more fun that way and in the end we're all just people playing a game and trying to have a good time. If you do end up having a bad time in a game and things aren't going so well then take a break and try again later, sometimes that's all you need to make the first steps to become a hero in the game. Even if it's just this one time.
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