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It finally happened. Two days in a row of poor matches and generally poor gameplay by me finally did it.

I tilted. Serves me right for posting this one.

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Okay, so my tilt might be a bit different than yours. You might not even consider it tilting, really, when the only effect you see from me is a heavy sigh. But ask the inner me at the time of my last games (2 custom 3 v 3s w/ clanmates, happened after the arena match), and SMITE was the last thing I wanted to play.

In the last 2 1/2 years since I've been playing, I don't think I've ever felt like that. I've always known I'm not the best SMITE player. I might have some amazing games here and there, but on the whole, I don't know if I'm being optimistic in considering myself an average player. And it's sad, because I've been a gamer pretty much my whole life. Grew up on consoles, starting with the Intellivision, and graduating through the various systems as they came out (NES, SNES, N64/Playstation, Gamecube, Wii/PS3). Played on PCs during the days of the 286 and up. Played some crazy Quake CTF matches, Counterstrike mod, Team Fortress mod, OG Starcraft, Diablo, Everquest, etc. Used to feel like a pretty badass gamer. Key word: used to.

But damn if I feel like I'm getting too old for this ****. I can't believe the level of gameplay today. I remember hearing something about how many hundreds of individual inputs a pro LoL player does per minute? WTF?!? I couldn't even dream of that level of coordination, and the ADD thought process that goes along with it. Are their brains able to handle anything but the most awkward of true social interactions?

In a way, it's nice that I was playing with mostly complete clan groups...my SF peeps are good peeps...Bullfrog, Zilb, Prism, GGF, Stuke, Taco, Ferrum...and they don't come down hard on me. I don't have a clan experience like this poor gal. That said, it starts going the opposite way, where I start feeling guilty, like I'm the sole reason my team is losing. This, of course, really makes me feel awful. I don't mind losing, myself, but when friends have to share in the experience, bleh.

And I mean, I don't know if I'm always the cause (I'm definitely on a woe-is-me kick). The arena match, followed by the ADC conquest match were 2 in a row where I actually did pretty well overall. Especially on the one, we didn't have much chance...we were doing solidly until Prism DCd (and never came back). Fairly confident we would have won that one.

Oh well. So I didn't play last night...worked on my Bacchus and Freya guides instead. Yeah, still connected to SMITE, but what can I do? I just bought Westerado (Steam sale), so I might check that out tonight. Might finish up the modifications to the Freya guide. But who knows...might end up playing again, despite myself.

Thanks for listening to my rant.

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(400) |

Thanks guys. I'm pretty much over the tilt. I played 4 rounds last night...2 wins, 2 losses, and in the losses, I still felt I did well.

I was surprised at my Nemesis match. No tank, so I had to build a bit tanky (started Urchin, eventually got Stone Cutting and Spirit Robe). Did pretty darn well on the tanking part, and I didn't realize I did as much damage as I did. It's tough when the majority of the other team have ranged abilities. Is Nem that good, that I outdamaged the Rama? It was fun playing her, but I'm definitely not very comfortable with her yet.

Maybe I should look at Prism's new guide =P

(46) |

can easily outdamage hunters. Her shield and hard hitting basics (correct build, ofc) make for this. The problem is getting close to them with enough health. Once that's achieved it's just a game of hack & slash and get the victory, lol

(400) |

Made more difficult when I have to tank and be the first one to initiate, AND stay close to continue the damage. So I'm guessing, despite my K/D in that match, I didn't do too poorly. Cool.

(46) |

Don't get discouraged Bran, it happens to everybody.
When I'm on a losing streak, I play Drawception. Just browsing through completed matches tends to make me feel better.

(132) |

Now I feel bad for picking in that custom and in Arena Bran :[ If anyone threw those games it was me not you, I can easily do better with other characters in those situations. Sometimes I just forget that when you're playing with friends you should try to play a little better so that you're not the only one having fun, since let's face it, winning is more fun than losing, and even if you're having fun playing the character you wanted I probably could have had just as much fun with a character that better matched our comp.

To be honest though it sounds like you're more just burnt out. A lot of what you're describing is how I feel about Overwatch right now. I keep logging in but not really wanting to play. Like last night I turned on Overwatch at about 1 am, and got into a Route 66 match on defense. In the span of 15 seconds, two people chose Widowmaker, one chooses Hanzo, the Hanzo leaves (is not replaced) and someone chooses Ana. I know it's quickplay, and that it doesn't matter, but I just couldn't handle going through what I knew would be a tedious and one-sided match no matter who I played, and fed up I just quit the application.

Playing any game for too long kind of gets you in that state of playing it because it's your routine, rather than because you want to. My recent matches with Smite have actually been super fun, and I've been having a blast. But before that Smite had gotten to a point of monotony, where Overwatch has basically gotten to now. Maybe I'll pick it up a bit more in the coming weeks, however, I was actually thinking of grabbing Titanfall 2 since I enjoyed the original. I'll blast away at some mechs for a month or so and then come back to my other games with fresh eyes!

(27) |

When I have such long losing streak, it's usually the time you log in and come help me.
To sad that I can't return it to you.

Don't be that discouraged though. You had a couple of good winning streak too, it's just that winning is fun and losing is not.
However, SMITE tries to keep you at a 50% win rate.
You can blame the game for that, but that's how it's supposed to be.

Just accept it, have faith and wait for your next winning streak.
It's just a game.

(46) |

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However, SMITE tries to keep you at a 50% win rate.

Seems like I'm usually at 33%.

(56) |

Bran, I've gone through 20 game loosing streaks, when you reach my level, you can post a rant about it. XD

Anyway, I had to go cuz I screamed with Taco RIGHT AFTER HE JUST STOOD FOR A WHOLE SOLID 10 SECONDS LOOKING AT ME THROUGH TOWER-LINE CUZ HE WAS TOO SCARED TO GO AND FIGHT A ~100 HEALTH VAMANA BEING CHASED BY CATS.

Rant over -qqq

Anyway, I would have stayed that match if it wasn't by that......

(46) |

Haha yo that isn't even near how bad I sometimes have it. Over 10 games in a row all losses. Oh, and neg. K/D/A most of the time aswell. At least you got some victories in there hha.

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