As cool as this game was, it just highlights a lot of the frustration I have for teammates. Love watching BAR games and probably watch 2-3 a day atm, but I don't play at all
Econ sudoku. Bro, they gotta prominently publish econ sudoku meta data or something so people can dodge them. Or at least give it increased weight in the skill rating. Whether those people are on your team or not, how is it any fun? I'd rather just play a game with -1 teammate so at least the resources aren't going down the sink and you aren't left waiting all game for support that ain't never gonna show up. Thank heavens I don't have the setup to run BAR. Those kinda people would just give me an aneurysm lol. Newbies who lose due to lacking knowledge, experience or skill? Totally fine. Everyone's been there. But death by econ? Willfully ignoring the obvious tide of a game over 40 minutes even as it's directly bearing down on you? Bruh. Actually speaking of -1 teammate, asymmetric maps in terms of an inverse correlation between player count and resource accessibility sounds like something that could be pretty fun.
Hey man I've been watching you for a while. Love this game. but I mostly play against AI and it gets pretty boring, but whenever I go to play a noobs game its A. Strait, and B. Theres like 6 ~30 TS players. I'll be relegated to frontline because if I ask for flank or back they say give it to someone with experience, and invariably one of the opponents will be one of the ~30 TS guys and I get bulldozed, while my other frontline is just staring and everyone else in the lobby just goes "Well you were roadbump, gj I guess". So basically I don't feel like I'm ever able to actually play a game, any suggestions? I keep hearing people talking up the community and inclusivity and I've seen you sympathize with new player experience, but I haven't really gotten a whiff of any of that myself, if anything it's always been a pretty selfish experience, but I keep watching and enjoy the idea of playing, having the early game knife tilt skirmishing and trying to tab back to base to scale and eventually trying to have some game impact.
I'd probably start with trying to find lobbies that aren't Supreme Strait only as the map is honestly somewhat difficult for newer players. It sounds like the frontline spots you're describing are the two front spots directly in mid and honestly those spots do tend to be a speedbump overall on that map. The backline spots are also much harder to play properly and far more important to the overall chance to win on that map. Finding an all welcome or noob map rotation lobby or even a noob glitters lobby is probably the best first step. One of the things that helped me a lot when I first started was finding the high TS sweaty lobby and spectating players that are more knowledgeable and seeing not only how they handle their frontline but even more importantly how they scale their economy. I feel like as a whole the community is honestly pretty good towards new players but with anything online there will always be people that are assholes and I imagine this is far worse in the noob lobbies as you get people that generally have so little idea how little they know and are unwilling to have accountability for their own actions. If people are being dicks you can easily CTRL click their name and mute them. The timezones can be weird but my stream is another good place to learn as usually people are totally down to answer questions and I am as well if I'm not totally focused on the game I'm in the middle of.
Hey thanks! RU-vid didn't give me an alert because of RU-vid things so I figured I'd check and you did! I can give that a go, to be fair this came right off of one such game, but it'll be good to see that. Biggest issue has been trying to manage front and eco, look away to scale and front dies, or I'm microing and overflowing.@@lostdeadmanthree
The biggest thing that will come from experience is queueing up a lot of the eco you need for the t1 phase relatively early or at least queuing it up in batches so you end up spending the majority of the time looking at your army and only rarely looking back at your base. It definitely can be easy to lose a whole lot of units with a single moment of looking away. You can also grab the discord link from my more recent video's description if you want to ask more questions and get probably quicker answers from me or the people there.@@Lemmywinkks
