(12-04-2024, 11:22 PM)Chxlls Wrote: Either you are understating the skill level of the people you're fighting, or you're overstating your own abilities in fights.
I don't think either. I'm comparing with the guys I used to beat about 40% of the time. I now win an exact 0%. I don't even get hull damage off in most fights. And on the other side of the coin, the few people I did beat regularly went from 60, maybe 70% to a solid 100%. Its like the skill gradient went from a gradient to just a set of bricks. Anything beyond some specific line is just a guaranteed, no contest loss, and anything beyond another line is a guaranteed, no contest win.
I know where my skill level is at, it's somewhere below average. Your average player beats me with barely any effort, and I beat low skill players with barely any effort. If I were to talk about gaining skill at all, I'd say that being in one of these 6 minute long death timers teaches me exactly nothing. I've watched plenty of PvPer videos for theory, but in practice its just watching myself die for a few minutes while unable to do anything about it. Instakills, I had a slow process over thousands of deaths that taught me exactly what it looked like right before I got instakilled. I knew when I had made a mistake and was going to die instantly for it. Now my mistake is starting the PvP in the first place. It's like those chess memes where you play the very first move of the game and it's mate in 20.
In the case of people that I beat, I've spent literal hours explaining the details of this interaction and how to beat it.
(11-30-2024, 02:01 PM)TheSauron Wrote:
Quote:he totally exploited game mechanic in a 1v1 snub fight allowing the master of the hack to permanently sit behind their less experienced foe was only ever counter-able with insta kill moves. In a ten min fight your enemy is on you screen for maybe 30seconds in total, which is the only time you can unleash this damage.
Turn the opposite way. Their momentum will carry them back onto your screen.
When it was brought up in KNF chat, I answered the question there as well.
Despite me knowing my fight style and explaining exactly what it is and exactly how to beat it to the people I try to teach, the results do not change at all. People learn what the technique is, but the actual skill gap is impassible. In 4.9 I could land hull damage on Rax, maybe 1/8th HP. Today, absolute zero. I'm not even sure what changed other than 5.0, I don't know the actual diagnosis for this. I just know the symptoms very well. It demonstrably goes both ways. If the problem disappears once you reach the highest levels of skill, that's great for you, but down here its not very fun where every fight is going to be boring (you slamming enemy with no contest) or boring (you being slammed with no contest).
I'll do something about my superiority complex when I cease to be superior.
"Whatever happened to catchin' a good old-fashioned passionate ass-whoopin and gettin' your shoes, coat, and your hat tooken?"
