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[[[ Super long, boring, incomplete Reckoner post incoming, had some time to kill and it felt okay to write in a document. Merry Xmas! :p Just a personal post, no big take-aways from this, super self & ego centered, you ain’t getting the TLDR! xD Just go to sleep =) ]]]
Yo, it’s yer boy who doesn’t play currently, ain’t got a (desktop) PC, but waiting patiently for my move out to the new apartment, better (fiber optics) internet, new gaming PC and such in March next year or so.
I’d want to go about the game in the future quite differently - This includes how I balance activities & tasks and things outside of the game too. The famous balance in everything and such and I’d like to play casually still, jaja! :D
Factors to include are mental health, recovery by taking time away from the screen, level of hydration, quality of sleep, daily fitness/exercising routines and more specifically “The mental game of TFC”, understanding how to improve performance significantly. This also helps to negate that strong fatigue and frustration + auto-piloting during a given match.
Just getting older, no point in playing long sessions, gotta wash dishes by hand and take time to cook a nice dinner too.
Auto-piloting in this game is awful and the worst thing is I can sometimes get results too in the form of flag captures... Yuk, what a reward. I’ll describe it a bit later to provide context, you’ll probably understand how to define the word either way. There’s so many layers and nuances I feel.
If I notice at any given time that there’s auto-piloting going on where my mind’s basically Away From the Keyboard, I may have to choose to finish that match at a mentally slower pace (instead of instantly disconnecting/RQing).
I’ve noticed that the longer I stay in the zone of gaming and being hyper focused on it is going to make my mind zoom in all the way on micro events, instances happening in a given game that’s running. Feeling attachment to the “avatar” in-game here happens after playing many hours each day in a given week. Let’s say there’s a team shooter for like one time by accident - If I was playing 7+ hours a day every day of the week > The game becomes my world, mind space, and I would get annoyed for like 75%. If I play shorter sessions and have balance IRL/offline it would be a 10-15% feeling of annoyance.
Writing below what I think will be of great help to see why in general - even though I’ve played very little in 2024 - my overall anxiety & mental fatigue rises so quickly regardless of having won/lost multiple matches during a gaming session.
A [memory buffer] would require more experimentation, all of the below I have never done consciously and I’d like to be much more aware of this process. All of the below will help to create a [range] of play.
The most difficult opponents are ones that can adapt well to how you perform and who can also predict what tactics & variations you’ll attempt to counter them with on the next instance. It’s not just based on classes: “Look at me, I switched classes from medic to spy, I’m clearly going to play a different style now entirely.” That just ain’t true. :p We know…
[Range]: Becomes less important in a full 26 player server type of match as there’s simply the element of multiplayer that comes into play. It’s why running at least (hopefully more than) 2 big ol Med boys on O is always a net positive. I find it also interesting how we can identify a player’s level of experience based on observations done in a matter of seconds and sometimes we categorize the players too in boxes. Of course if you build your sentry gun on the battlements, I’m going to assume many things about you. ;)
After getting fragged, which I can of course expect to happen, how do I build the correct mental buffer in my mind’s eye vision to understand what I’d have to do in the next X amount of seconds. Some of the gameplay elements and situations you find yourself in are going to be thrown into the pre-calculations depending on your mind’s capabilities with regards to how well you can predict what’s going to happen next. Having to use muscle memory without actively thinking about what key to press next and for how long (if concing and such) is always an active skill.
2fort, playing medic on O 1 specific idea would be a real time flowchart and it will depend on how I can best get to a position on the map:
Get fragged versus specific class in a location on the map after attempting to put pressure on flag (...) > Time to respawn semi-instantly > Make a routine thinking of “Last known exact location of enemy class(es) and static defense = This will help with finding specific counter timings to get a possible advantage in the next combat situation > Prioritize classes that you’re most likely to “meet” on the way to the flag > [Variation in movement, timing, doing the same micro-tactic as last time (even if I aim better or w/e) isn’t going to be the answer] > Execution of adjusted plan (...).
In the mind it’ll go faster of course without using entire sentences or the words, basically it’s going to be snapshot images of: Dead, respawn > [Purge memory, clean, move on to next problem] > Enemy location > finding a variation and/or solution > Executing the plan/idea > Result > Repeat after every respawn.
Expect failure, but don’t linger on it, also building consistency in my own gameplay performance. Improving mindset. This is just exactly 1 of multiple ideas I’m testing.
Major mistakes I’ve made are “evaluating my own plans, actions and results” while the game is running. {That last thing I tried didn’t work, is it because of A/B/??, finding excuses, blaming noobs on the team and fighting my own mind}.
If I really want to take time to evaluate, wait till the matches are over for the day - I’d need to just watch my own demo file at 2x speed or something. ;)
While all these mental processes are running, there are going to be feelings & emotional layers involved too. This is where if I haven’t balanced my day properly, it’s going to be more difficult to maintain performance and composure.
0% Music at all times during a match. Tough one, but I have to do it. And for god sake Reckoner, use the microphone - even if it’s just to call out Sentry Guns and flag locations only.
I can understand why there are not many medics on the server. How do you go about learning this stuff anyway? ^_^ Shit is stressful for reals. :p | |
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