This is on OCE specifically.
I'm not sure if its just me noticing it but it feels like every game is dominated by What a Saving trashtalking scumbags. I've not had a single positive interaction with anyone online playing the game this week.
Plus it seems like the playerbase has dropped dramatically, I seem to match the same players over and over.
I don't want to say 'dead game' but yeah.
Posted Apr 28, 2022, 11:39 AM UTC
I've noticed it in USE a lot lately as well, whereas I didn't see as much of it a month ago.
I usually assume it's young, immature kids doing it. I'm also a Gold 3 level player, so that doesn't help.
The changover ranks are toxic af. Gold3/plat1....plat3/dia 1 and especially d3/c1. ..... Dunno about any higher. I've been bouncing from d2 to c1 and back again for the last 2 seasons.
I'm stuck in D3 for 2v2 and have seen the same.
I have noticed that as well! Why would that be?
Shouldn't gold 2 or diamond 2 be as toxic as gold 3 or diamond 1 respectively... why would they clump there?
Maybe because that's where the most tension is. People desperately trying to rank up and need the win and people who deranked and are tilted and angry.
OK thanks. That makes a lot of sense.
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Yeah the "What A Save!" spamming does get under my skin, especially when it's my teammate in a 2v2. Often times it really was a tough save, or it was their fault. Or I just messed up.
Makes me want to disable emotes entirely. Right now I sometimes report/block when it's particularly egregious.
Can confirm, GC3 is pretty toxic too. Actually all of GC is pretty toxic
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My toxic encounters come from team chat LOL
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I get "what a saved" more from teammates than opponents lately.
OH! I played a game last night where I made a bad pass to the other team (in first 30 seconds) and teammate said he reported me for throwing.
I was like "I'm not throwing, I just suck" lol
He had the lowest score at the end of the game, too.
Fun times.
I turned off chat 2 years ago and never looked back
Yeah people cant seem to accept that demos are part of the game and say youre bad because you demo.
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Oh I dont go for those types of demos much. I go from behind when the other guy has the ball infront of him when he can’t see me. Or when hes dribbling the ball and my teammates behind me I go for the demo
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Not sure. Muted chat about a year ago, when it started to wear me down too much. Been nothing but bliss since then. Fuck chat 💬
It is not a dead game. I have not had an issue with matchmaking and I usually play against different players every match. It just depends on ur server and time when you play.
I've actually had the opposite experience. I haven't had a single toxic player in like 2 or 3 months now.
I turned off chat.
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Most of the interactions with team8s have been fine. The typical hand shandy exchange of nice shot great pass etc. Opponents trash talk themselves as much as us sometimes. At the end of the day it's words on a screen to me.
I know what u mean about the same players. I got the same dude on my team almost 10 times in a row it was not good
The higher the rank you are the harder it is to find matches I think, and more likely to find same players etc
S/O to my hardstuck C2 GC tourney teammates! Claimed they were on their college’s esports team and said I was trash after round 1 knockout. Only to rematch them in round 1 of the second chance tourney and beat them 3-0 😘
For me to. I played 3 ranked 2s games like 2 days ago and all 3 I was told I was garbage, even though 2 I hard carried with like 3-4x as many points as my teammates and the 3s one I was having issues with the server. (Gotta love the new server issues)
Anyway yea, having teammates blame you for their own mistakes and then repeatedly cutting you off because they don’t trust you to cover for their mistakes is a cool experience.
This is why I don’t play ranked. 6mans is much better...
Its not even the chat that bothers me at all
A lot of games that I'm in, if lets say we are down by like a couple goals or something with 3 minutes left. If I don't forfeit: they'll either just AFK, or they'll try to score goals against me. Like what is even the point. I don't even understand the logic behind it.
People are just fucking babies. And it's honestly disheartening to see how common it is
I hate that too.. We have 3 minutes to score 2 goals. Grow up and play the game haha.
Lag issues are the likely candidate for both ingame issues and resulting player frusrtations.
it'll resolve once the servers are optimized/code fixed
Turn chat off and poof it’s over
Just you.
If you win what could they say?
Did you change the time of day you play at?
I play during the day and as soon as school gets out things always go to shit
OCE here, I’ve been having overly wholesome games lately. I think it’s to do with how close you are to the border, everyone at d3 is so close to champ that they get really sweaty. Once you get to the middle of a rank set it calms down again, and this is coming from a demo heavy player
Tbh if u care about that, mute. When i get what a saved i just say thanks or typ nothing till i win and what the safe the hell put of them, regardless i join into the next game and allready forget the toxicity. If u really care, and let urself district from some trash talking kids. Ur problem, that's exactly what they want
I think it’s just the meta mate, you’re dealing with huge inflated ego’s and some people just can’t tolerate small things. It’s even, much, much worse at the higher ranks. The worst part is that the OCE GC+ pool is so “small” you run into the same people over and over. So everyone develops some form of inner hatred etc..
Pain in the ass, I recommend just play with chat off, I’ve had mine off for a long time now and my game mentality couldn’t get better
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I don't turn my chat off but the second someone starts talking rubbish I ignore them. It's funny cause they flame you at 2-0 down say nothing when you equalise but once you start winning they behave again.