• Madrigal@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 hour ago

    People keep hating on LoL, but there is one really great thing about it: it keeps a lot of the worst gamers ring-fenced away from other games.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    5 hours ago

    I was just gonna say “LoL players tend to be fucking awful people”, but, seeing that there are many recovered addicts in this thread…

    …unironically challenges my assumptions and gives me hope that people in general can change.

    Now we just need to make Warthunder not work on linux…

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Now we just need to make Warthunder not work on linux…

      Gaijin devs have us all by the crotch lol.

      I would kill for a competitor game. I’d even be happy with a proper DCS arcade mod that let’s you do the same stuff as WT realistic battles.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 minute ago

        I recently watched a youtube video that explains, and I am oversimplifying here, but essentially…

        They managed to reinvent a new kind of Russian Bias, by way of primarily two things.

        1. They apparently do not actually model the amount of time it takes, with an autoloader, to actually switch over to a different ammo carrousel, so switching ammo types and just reloading in general is far too quick

        2. The physics model for shell penetration/internal damage is basically broken in specific situations + several high end Russian vehicles are incorrectly internally modelled, so this results in many high end Russian vehicles being far, far more resiliant than they actually should be.

        At this point, I only keep up with warthunder at all for the shenanigans.

        It is truly masterful how they’ve designed the points and gold and combat systems to essentially constantly gaslight you into playing and/ot spending more, despite the actual gameplay basicslly being a bunch of rabid racists doing the opposite of anything resembling teamwork.

        I can’t say I am aware of a comparable aerial combat game, but, if you’re interested in tanks, I have heard good things about Gunner Heat PC! (GHPC).

      • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        DCS actually has a few “arcade” settings and a third person camera, but very half-baked

    • ghen@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 hours ago

      I love playing League of Legends, it’s a great game. I just can’t play League of Legends because of all the other people that play League of Legends

      • WhiteRabbit_33@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 hours ago

        This is how I feel about most PVP games. I used to love playing smite and overwatch too, but then the player base ruined both of them.

    • redsand@infosec.pub
      3·
      3 hours ago

      They’re not bad people they just care more about realism than military classifications. I enjoy every article I read about them.

  • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10·
    5 hours ago

    Switching to Linux did break my addiction to gaming, though usually I play single player stuff. And then Steam started working, but fortunately crypto came along and made graphics cards shoot up in price and now LLMs have made memory and storage shoot up, so I haven’t upgraded my PC in a long time. So that’s kept me from going back. Now I just play little games on the Switch periodically. But I can’t use those controllers for anything that requires lots of detail control or for long periods., so I don’t play too often.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      Gotta have a healthy relationship with a hobby.

      Its one thing for it to be an important part of your life and you as a person… its another thing when it becomes your entire life, when you start throwing away other things, opportunities, relationships, finances, etc, to keep being intensely dedicated to it.

      • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah, totally. I’ve gotten much better at thst over the years for sure. But I know if something like a new Fallout game were to come out or something, I’d easily get sucked back in. So, whether or not it’s clinically an addiction, I treat it like one. Fortunately, I have ADHD, so addictions are easier harder to create and easier to break. But there’s still some compulsive behaviors that can pop up.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          I mean, with the amount of dark patterns, micro transactions… that we now have words for those concepts…

          A lot of games literally are designed, at the fundamental gameplay level, to wave a theoretical victory/payoff in your face, and give you ladders to climb, that make you feel like you are achieving something…

          But it ultimately still ends up being inconsistent operant conditioning, which fundamentally is the same pattern that is at play in behavioral addictions like gambling.

          So yeah, a whole lot more things either basically are, or literally are addictive, in the same ways that things that are broadly recognized by society addictive are.

          Good on you for being aware of yourself!

  • Wendy (she/her)@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    The only person I know who played League of Legends was entirely toxic, now she’s nice to me, but still, quite immature and a bully towards people she doesn’t like.