When did being "Sweaty" become a Bad thing? 

I just miss the times when you would actually play the game to get better, now you have to aim train, build fight and such.

A sweat is someone who uses toxic skins and emotes and doesn’t play for fun. They play purely for wins and stats

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so the entire point of this video is to hate on ppl that use the term sweat

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The word people used back in the day was "tryhard". It was used for people who cared more about winning and would use the meta. These are the people who would dropshot and do callouts in public matches. Today, people call them "sweats", although I think the word is a little overused now. "Sweating" has always been seen as a bad thing.

I think everyone Fortnite player needs to watch this. Especially this season.

It became bad when you could tell whose going outside or not based off their building lol

My solution to sweats is playing zero build, as it’s way more casual. The nice thing though is that I can hop into creative and try to learn building.

Ngl one of the best fortnite videos out there. Love the editing so much. Your super underated, keep it up man. You deserve it!

This only happens in fortnite lmao, you arent hated for being good at Valorant, CS2, rocket league, just fortnite mainly because fortnite draws a much larger casual audience

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It's because there's a difference between being good at the game and being sweaty. When you're good, you're good. Simple as that. But when you're sweaty, you wear things like skins that are one singular color and have a small hitbox (They don't so it's not giving them an advantage), and they aren't actually good at the game, they usually just cheese casuals by spamming

Reload cureently is filled with sweats. It doesnt feel good when you get knocked down by some guy 200 meters away, (plus being visually inpaired makes this extremely difficult) then proceed to reboot only to get shot down in midair, thus having to reboot again, and this goes on in a never ending cycle. No matter how far i try to leave the fight so i can basically calm down, collect my thoufhts and reloot, i still end up being shot down. This honestly hurts that i raged so hard as i did as i do want to get better and be my best, but it feels as if i cant when i keep getting knocked and shot down over and over by people who are just better, or who gets a high off getting kills. Aim training and practice can only do so much, and i dont think the AI bots that epic added to the game are any help either. Basically the only things i can kill. I doesnt feel like an accomplishment, just feels like a chore to get them out of the way and that im never going to truly improve. Its hard, truly.

yeah but then you get pieced up, full boxxed, triple edited, 200'd, by some nerd that never goes outside that was born in 2015

and people like to say that people that know how to build or are simply good at the game "need to shower" or "go outside" and it just sounds idiotic to even say

when i die to someone thats to good im just Meh whatever doesn't mater and go back to me doing me

I genuinely don’t think there’s anything wrong with someone being a “sweat”. If this game is something you’re really passionate about and you want to grind to be the best you can be, go right ahead. However, I don’t blame people for getting upset with the sweats. You mention CoD a lot in this video and I feel like I should point out that while CoD and Fortnite are very similar, there’s a lot about them that isn’t. The biggest one being the game modes. Most of CoD’s game modes revolve around dying (or trying not to) and respawning. While Fortnite’s main game modes don’t have a true respawn mechanic. If you’re playing with others on a team, they COULD reboot you assuming they get your card and dont get eliminated in the process of rebooting. But for solos or for anyone stuck in a sticky situation, it’s a one and done kinda thing. CoD was much easier to just pick up a controller and play for a little bit after work or school. You didn’t need to spend countless hours honing your skills to win or to even have fun. Fortnite’s battle royale game modes almost feel like that’s what you have to do to stand a chance of winning at all. CoD had killcams that showed you exactly how you got killed which in turn can help you improve. Fortnite doesn’t have that. You just die and go back to the lobby or ready up and watch someone emote on you. Also I feel that streamers and competitive gameplay in general has damaged casual gaming as a hobby. 9 times out of 10, if I’m not at work, the gym, or with my gf I’m on my pc playing a game. Whether that be a single player story driven game or a game like Fortnite or whatever just depends on the day and my mood and who’s online. I’ve found it much more difficult to commit to playing Fortnite or games similar to it over the last 10 years simply because of the people who do nothing but play those games (which again I don’t have a problem with). If the skill level is too high, it’ll stop new players from coming back just like we saw right before zero build was added.

A Sweat is not someone who is good at a game, it’s someone who miss out on enjoying the game to win

the way he was poking ninja when he said trying to get better :DDDDD

i remember when you would go against someone better, and you wanted to be better then them, now everyone cries when even a decent player gets the up on them and kills them... its so sad, and fortnite wont even seperate casual and competitive so the crying just gets worse and worse

some random 14 year old kid being a sweat forces me to play Zero build because im not going to sit through losing over and over.

I hate that Fortnite added bots to the game cuz i remember for awhile while Fortnite wasn't as popular all id go up against were the fake players but once i went up against a real person I would get caught totally off gaurd because most of that natch i was fighting against bots and get frustrated because most of the time the real players were way better than me and the bots just reinforced my bad playing habits, idk i just dislike artificial players Fortnite should've just decreased the player count if loading into a game was taking too long because I feel like half the damn lobby is filled with bots and it just makes me feel like im the worst player in the. Lobby

The way i see it there's a thin line of being sweaty and a try hard. A try hard wants to win but a sweat is most likely better then the entire lobby. Some people are casuals and think sweats ruin the fun whereas a sweat enjoys destroying lobbies. A sweat trys to get better at the game to win whereas casuals don't want to get better but still want to have fun. I think you need a certain skill level to truly have fun at a game. I play zero build because i know I'm not cut out for builds and I'd actually consider myself good at zero build because that's where my skill level thrives

as a casual if i try to relax play a creative map and see a guy who is pro being toxic the problem is that casuals cant get good easily bc they are gonna get desttroyed i am fine with sweats yes i am angry but i respect sweats and i hate bc in brawl stars i grind a lot and always touch grass its a videogame etc i think that if u dont cry about O items or being toxiceibg a sweat is good

okay but 603 CROWNED VICTORIES (that reset every season) is a bit much for someone who should probably have a job

I think there’s a clear difference between being good and being sweaty

Fortnite should turn off turbo building I don’t care how much hate I will get. No one will change my mind.

It changed when people became good enough to prevent other people from having fun

Rather than looking down on gamers as a whole, fortnite made people begin to frown upon only those who are good at video games

Thanks for making this video this replicated my opinions perfectly. ❤

It's not that I don't understand the argument that casual players dog a little too hard on players focused on honing their skillset. I just think there's some room for nuance there. For example, when I was a teen in the 2010s I was grinding the hell out of my preferred competitive game Smash for hours and hours a day, trying to hone my skillset as much as I could. These days however I'm a working adult and simply don't have enough time in the day to balance my responsibilities and logging the necessary hours into getting good at Fortnite builds. It just feels like sometimes "sweats" like to flaunt their ability to focus exclusively on grinding out creative 1v1 boxfights all day when I'm just trying to run a solid few games of BR after work is all 😭good video tho keep it up!

The problem is the skill based matchmaking is broken. They put people that average 1 kill a game up against people that get 20 kills a game. I'm above average and my duo's a giga sweat who can solo squads. But if we want to play against each other in BR we can ready up at the same time in solos and end up in the same lobby this should not be possible.if skill based matchmaking worker right Plus aimbot and other cheats are in almost every game in fortnite most people don't notice but I play every day and I mean every day you notice stuff like this if you play as much as me and reporting does nothing. And cross platform is a joke PC has a unfair advantage against console players that's why all the competitive players all play on PC and the glitches because of frame ps where you can be behind a wall but some how the other player still hit you. (The ping the frames the cheats the cross platform the matchmaking this is why people hate sweats) Even if they don't realize it

people nowadays are just mad that they are bad

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I see sweats as those who DONT play for fun but rather to run the chance of making money. Those who care about winning rather than enjoying the game. Gaming imo is about having fun, and in a game where the skill based matchmaking is awful, most players end up having to try their hardest to achieve the bare minimum which is not fun. Losing is fine until it feels unfair

i woke up at 2:30 pm for this

w video ngl gaming now adays is just a skill issue just get better ngl i didnt play fortnite for 7 years just to die to some nitro fist w nerf on epics part

It always been

Sweaty was negative from the very beginning. It didn't become neutral/positive until later didn't it?

It drives me crazy that people just blame other people for being too good instead of thinking about their own actual skill. When did this become a thing? Like bro, they just need to realize that they are not as good as the opposing player, and either try to improve, or just not care that much. People need to realize that they won't get a 20 bomb every game.

imo its just copium, casual players say "this guy is sweating hard while im playing for fun" when they lose, but when they win they go estatic

i cant even play a casuel game of fortnite without seeing people just crank so bad i just leave sweats are everywhere

I've never heard a good player call anyone "sweaty" 😂 you're either decent or garbage

It became a bad thing when the toxicity started becoming the majority

Sweats carried fortnite tho, what got the game famous? its world cup after its release

Honestly it’s almost always been, even tho they were easier to afford an all that. It rly blew up when Fortnite pulled the halo effect in an age of social media, an gamer money. So basically the effect that always existed got louder an the only real thing that changed is public opinion on gaming. Sweats tho have always been bitched about, sucked off by their groups/friends/fans Small tidbit: another change I forgot is before you were MORE likely to get flamed for bein bad than good, now it’s kinda evened out

It's funny though because this attitude also permeates different "factions" of the gaming community. Not all gamers are FPS, BR, Deathmatch lovers. My younger brother is arguably a much bigger gamer than me in our adult lives. I got back into gaming in part because of Fortnite and teaching my son how to play with his friends. It re-ignited my old Doom/Quake/Unreal Tournament deathmatch memories and I dove back in. But I was always an FPS game style lover. My younger brother looks down on Fortnite. He thought Fortnite should have stuck with it's Save the World iteration, and he hates Battle Royale with a passion. So even as a gamer, he looks down on Fortnite and those that are good at it. And I know there are others out there with that attitude as well. To him, the recent Fallout collab was lame, simply because Fortnite did it. So, it's interesting. You are right. Fortnite changed the industry and the whole social landscape around gaming in a way we hadn't seen in a long while. Great take and great video as always. And while I don't play comps (I will probably give it a try soon just to see what the experience is like) I love the grind of learning and improving my skill mainly at Builds. I play ZB as well, but to me, the build mechanics were the truly unique gameplay aspect of Fortnite. And learning that new game mechanic is the challenge that brought me back to gaming as an old man LOL (47yo here yikes!). But I pay attention to your vids when they drop and try to incorporate as much as I can into my gameplay.

ive played the game since primal and my friends only like to play zero build so thats what i will play with them but ive been playing br with them less and less because i want to continue playing build and improving at it even as a casual, i dont think unranked build mode is "sweaty" at least from my experience playing it even in squads and alot of the time its easier to get a win when im able to rev my friend and not need to worry about the whole lobby sniping me because its end game and theres no cover except for a thin tree to which they just get sniped as soon as i finish reviving (how tf is this fun) zero build got really boring and not fun really fast for me and the only thing that makes up for not being able to build is having powerful items to mess around with like caps shield or the nitro fists also one of my friends started playing like chapter 3 season 2 the moment zero build dropped so to this day he has no clue what editing is and if i make a small base for us to hide in he will start destroying the whole thing leaving us completely exposed to the enemy team just so he can exit ☠

as a zero build player, i refer to somebody as a sweat when they use micro skills such as aim, tech, and apm to carry them rather than macro such as positioning, rotations, and resource management. these type of people arent "good" at the specific gameplay loop fortnite has to offer, theyre good at fortnite because they have good aim. theyre still capable of climbing ranks due to spending countless more hours practicing their aim and brute forcing through matches. thats why ive become disillusioned with shooters. it doesnt matter what quirks and mechanics a game actually has to offer because as long as you have better aim than other players, youll be the one to climb. having good aim is basically the baseline for playing a shooter. if you dont have good aim, youre not going to have a fun time. this wouldnt be an issue if there was a shooter that actually catered to casuals (think larger bullets, aim assist, longer ttk, no hard to learn tech, no apm check). causals like me would probably play that game over any sweaty shooter because i would actually stand a chance to potentially win rather than each interaction just coming down to an aim check.

Sweats are one of the main reasons why I’ve lost some of the love I’ve had for the game. I have been playing for a long time, starting all the way back in season 5, and I’ve seen how the community has changed, as well as how people perform in game. I’m not saying that sweats are bad, but rather how they act and what they do is what really ticks me off. They often take things too seriously, don’t usually have any sort of control when it comes to playing against people who aren’t as skilled as them, and my ‘favorite’, pub stomping. It’s something that I universally hate, because it just sucks out what remaining fun you can have. It’s why some of my friends don’t play the game, and I completely understand why. Just loading up a match of trios, only to get stomped by a team that miles better then you, on a fairly consistent basis is not fun in any real way. I’ve mainly sticked to no builds, because I’m partially handicapped due to being console stricken (my laptop can’t physically run the game), but even then my building skills aren’t bad, I’d argue they’re pretty good for a controller player. But when you pair that against a PC player, there’s no real chance in me every coming out on top. I don’t have a problem with sweats directly, rather it’s some of their habits (like pub stumping) that tend to make the game not as enjoyable as it could be. I often find myself getting annoyed at the fact that there’s just nothing I can do to really beat the PC sweats as a controller player due to some console limitations, but I never get frustrated or upset. The main takeaway is that sweats are necessarily bad, but it’s some of the things that they often do that really give them a bad reputation.

I feel like Fortnite would have a healthier ecosystem if turbo build was never added. Of course it’s too late to take it back but if speed was capped better players would still win most of the fights but the casuals would feel like they still have a chance

I feel like the most difficult part of the building mechanic is the editing. Building boxes, 90s, and whatnot aren't too mechanically difficult. But where I see many casual struggle with is the editing, piece control, etc. It's a lot harder to counter and perform than simply building. I feel like a mode that nerfs or limits editing would be good for those of us who like buidling but struggle with editing. One of my ideas is to limit editing to fully built structures, that way there's more time to react to and anticipate an edit.

Personally what I consider a sweat is someone who does NOT want to drop from the number 1 spot in Unreal rank. Like bro, don’t you have anything better to do than upkeep some worthless rank number? Being number 1 in Unreal will get you no bitches and I am so sorry you gave up your social life in favor of a video game

Ive played fighting ganes my whole life, I can't wrap my head around wanting easy vics. Gotta lose to win, hold that FPS community

My Freind always say I never touch grass as a excuse to losing. W vid

This is the corniest video I've ever watched. Mf talking about he's a "true gamer" that "wants to defeat his opponents" like WHAT??? 😂

For me im just trying to have fun play the game but get killed instantly by a shiter with a slighty better gun I can't play and get better if I get shit stomped in every two seconds

Yeah I remember when being really good at Fortnite and other games was a big flex but now everyone is going to make fun of you

Me who is both Good at video games and sport I do find myself saying this guy is sweating so much but also I started the game late in chapter 3 season 3 and maybe that might be a little bit of a disadvantage if IAM playing against someone who started in chapter 2 because they have more experience But I could also just be using that as an excuse I just need to get of console and get like a pc and my dream is to be the best Footballer ever but I still juggle to 2 Sports and Video games competitively

the term sweaty is bad for me because ima a decent player and my worse friend's friends always say i don't want to play with him because he is too sweaty.

The difference between having skill in Esport And Sport is that in esports even if you have the skill the talent whatever you still need a Good pc with good hz and low delay to show your full potential where has normal sports its like normal you and everyone are the same no advantage no disadvantage all you need is skill and talent maybe thats why sport pays more idk

I like how you refer to "sweats" as "true gamers", because the spirit of gaming is to win. Winning requires a fair playing field, which is why casuals don't complain about BS and "sweats" do. We care about the game being a sport, just like many great games past. Just because FN has an infinite skill ceiling doesn't mean that the OBJECT isn't still to improve.

I started play Fortnite S5 C1 and it was kinda annoying getting deleted but in a way I kinda formed a personal challenge. I like how things ended up

Dude I remember you from when you first started lmaooo I haven’t seen you in forever what’s been up

Season 4 when start get sweaty but when creative mode when fully got skill cap gone new all to nobhead xD

I feel that what happens in fortnite is that the lobbies are too big for fair matchmaking so people who are not as good will always have one or two people who are a lot better than them, making the game just not as fun when they can play normally most of the match just for the last 2 circles to be a very big jump in difficulty. There should definitely be a bigger divide between competitive gamemodes and casual stuff, just because you are having fun getting better and being a "true gamer" doesn't mean the casual player should just not be able to have fun

Im trying to get good I learnd how to triple Edit and mongral classic

Dude can u do a video explaining how you do triple edits and more build mechanics like 90s ,etc. Like each actions or key that you press to do it and show it in slowmo or just do it very slowly. Like you place that build, stop running, edit or place and edit then continue running forward. And do you hold the left mouse click when placing builds or release it after placing each build. Also in the video, can you show where you need to place the crosshair to put a build when building and where not to when doing different build mechanics like 90s, etc. to avoid mistakes. This will truly be helpful to me because everytime i try even on the slowest speed, i cant even do a single edit when running up a ramp. Ive been trying for months. 😭 Example is press W to move, then side mouse button for stairs and then other buttons for the rest please. It will truly help me if you can explain it to me like that.

I agree with everything you said in your video. Fortnite gets the most hate for sweats/good players Fortnite has one of the highest skill gaps in gaming. Imo going against a Fortnite sweat vs another game sweat is vastly different imo as let say for example, im pretty average decent at Fortnite lets say if i 1v1 a pro Fortnite player i wouldn't stand a chance it would feel like i dont stand chance because of the building mechanic it feels like they can hit me but i cant hit them and it feels like im just awaiting to lose and i will prolly lose every round unless its a 50 50 situation or i can catch them off guard basically luck or a good prefire. Now im pretty decent at r6 if i 1v1 a r6 pro they prolly beat me but i have a way more of chance beating a pro rainbow six player 1 round than a Fortnite pro 1 round. In r6 i could had beat the pro one round maybe if i had better crosshair placement,better aim,good movement all it takes for me to kill a r6 pro is one headshot and you actually feel like you can beat this pro atleast 1 round but in fortnite you stand no chance in most cases of beating someone way better than you.

There is a big stigma when it comes to "sweats" because of many reasons over time, but I feel like the one that is currently the most relevant is the fact that Fortnite is just so stubborn keeping competitive and casual modes as similar as possible I used to think competitive ruined fortnite, but now I think it isn't necessarily competitive existing that did it, but how it was handled by Epic games Ppl should stop blaming each other and instead get mad at Epic games

I agree with this a little, sweats are definitely good at the game, don't get me wrong, but it does get annoying when you're just trying to play a casual match and you get full sweated on, but other than that, great video!

bruh my controller stopped working, need to repair it

1:25 bro stfu dont let these companies know about that

my mom said if i get 1k subs she will get me a gaming pc

Good job making this video !

Idk and idc in overwatch theres no such thing as sweat, you are ok or youre trash pls swap gg next

i remember bragging about my best placement being 3rd and my friends being 5th

Wish private lobbies still existed or whatever

Because fortnite community is full of crybabys

Id say im a true gamer, id be one of those people considered not touching grass i suppose, ive been playing fortnite since chapter 1 season 5 and remember when i actually stood a chance to get a win, i pretty consistantly make it to top 10 or better but am not the best at the game by any means, and even after all these years im garbage at building to point i gave up on trying to 😅, but now every time i reach the finale its always the guys that spent way to many hours playing the game and it's just a lot now (not so much this season since almost all the sweats left because they couldnt adapt, i had to adapt to taking out builders from the ground you can adapt to this, and no i hate zero build i still play build), feels almost impossible because theyre just to good at the game, im more of a casual player with fortnite but do have my competitive side when it comes to the game so ill make the comments about them not touching grass and such but not really mean it cause obviously im the same, but yeah i agree with the casuals, sweats do ruin the game to a point i dont blame them for getting good at the game, i mostly hate how cocky they are, when ever you see a video of a sweat you go into the comments having the casuals saying their usual stuff then the sweats "oh thats easy bro just go practice in creative and just say youre trash at the game" and its pretty that comment every single time, and of course streamers being "so good" that if you kill them youll get banned for being a hacker or stream sniper *cough* ninja *cough*

hyy reid i got a question i have trouble placing builds fast there are litterly 4 builds i cant press em togather i can edit fast but cant put builds fast enough idk how to fix that

The problem is while back then it was maybe 1 or 2 people, and not everyone and their mother, and then they stay in pubs like ranked doesn’t exist for that reason 💀

I just wanna say thanks Reid. I haven’t really played all season (I’m not trying to start a fight okay) but this video makes me want to pick the game back up!

I’m on a airplane back so I can play soon

When i clicked, I thought this video is going to be about sweat

When it made all the good content creators leave the game 😔

W vid man❤ This was a really interesting video concept

Ok never heard a "fortnite got truined by a sweat" video by a sweat.

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1:22 But minimum wage is still the same

I think my biggest issue is that not everyone can sink the hours into the game that others can. I'm not totally garbage, but I'm nowhere near the skill level of the lobbies i get, and it's very disheartening. I make small improvements here and there when I have the time to game, but I can't hammer down on my skills because I have other things to do. That's my biggest problem; I don't have the time to dedicate to becoming as good as everyone else, because gaming is a simple hobby I have to unwind from a stressful day. I can't play all the time, which leads to my skills growing rusty, and I have to re-learn much of the stuff I had gotten. I still enjoy playing the game, but it's frustrating to have the feeling that I am not going to be as good, simply because I don't have the time.

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Here before 20k! ❤

I’m thinking of learning how to edit videos and since you have a really simple but effective style may I ask what editing software do you use? Btw great vid I’m watching it at 11:32pm over here.

cool video

This is an incredible analysis and I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a much bigger RU-vidr

Ive been trying to get better even if im only going to play pubs for now and its so fun so see how much ive progressed!