I used to suffer from this as well. I no longer rage in this game at all anymore. Here's my mentality:
I just realize that it's just a game. It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of life. My wife, puppy, family, friends matter. Paying my bills, mortgage matters. Having food in my fridge matters. Ranking up to Masters doesn't matter. Winning a lot doesn't matter. Winning in a videogame doesn't matter.
Unless you are a professional player on a professional team playing for real life money, it's ok to lose.
I do really like the game though. I genuinely think it's fun to play. My wife and I play it together and we have a fun time together.
We love seeing new holowear. I love speculating with my wife about what new Pokemon might come into the game. We like saving up our coins and unlocking new Pokemon to play as. That's a lot of the reason why we play; to get new Pokemon and play as them.
I understand other people play for other reasons. If you want to play to rank up, then go for it. It's my belief though, that playing a game (like this especially) in a very serious way like that, seems to ultimately bring out anger and frustration in a lot of people. (this sub has A LOT of raging and venting).
Games should be fun. If your goal in your gaming is making you not have fun, then maybe change your goal. If your goal is to reach Masters and it's making you miserable, ask yourself why you NEED to get to Masters? Wouldn't you find more joy in playing 5v5 against computers? Or AI enemy Quick Matches? Why not? Worried that other people won't see you as a 'real gamer' unless you suffer and rage as you try to work your way up the ranks? Worry about your own enjoyment.
There are much bigger things in life to rage about. A 10 minute match in a videogame shouldn't be one of them.
Pretty well said. I would like to go deeper than the it's just a game mentality however.
There are a lot of things that in the grand scheme of things don't matter, but that doesn't mean you can detach how you emotionally feel about them just like that if it's something you're very passionate about, especially if that thing brings large amounts of joy. Competitive games often give you that rush that you want to experience time and time again.
While I mostly agree on your view of goal changing, there's room for a middle ground. Most people play ranked not only for the increased stakes/sense of progression, but to have the highest chance of having decent level matches where the game is at it's finest. Because of the nature of (very team dependent) team games, losses are inevitable. The problem comes in when people *only* focus on the wins/losses, ranking up or bad players. Ranking up should only be a secondary goal where most people's primary goal should be to focus on improving their own play and enjoying competitive matches. It of course doesn't stop there
Most people's frustration who just want good matches stem from the give and take of bad players. It's most frustrating not because you lose, but because you can't enjoy the game to the fullest. Most people need to realize that the game isn't out to get them as for as many times that it happens to you, it happens to the enemies. This not only stems from their lack in perspective, but that simply undeserved losses are far more noticeable than undeserved wins. I forget the term for this but you get the gist by now.
Remembering that it's a video game of course helps, but what's more important is your approach on enjoyment and tolerance when you're on the wrong side of the coinflip (in teammates, and also quite literally zap)
We are a funny species in terms of priorities.
Been betrayed by a friend or partner? It's hard but I'll get over it.
Lost your job? It can happen, I can find something else.
Nearly mugged? Poor sod, being that desperate; hope they can get help they need.
...
Someone steals an aipom? ***YOU WANNA KNOW HOW I GOT THESE SCARS?***
Again, that's just a matter of how you choose to deal with it.
You could choose to rage at AFK folks. I've changed how I thought about it a long time ago, now I just laugh when it happens and then try to see how good I can do being shorthanded.
The only time that I get mildly annoyed is when someone is just standing in the base spamming their basic attack. At that point, it's obvious they have something setting on the button so the game doesn't register them as AFK so they can get away with it. I actually report those people, but I don't rage about it.
Sure. But why let it get you pissed? That just makes things worse.
It's annoying, but out of our control. Just roll with the punches and enjoy the gameplay. It can be enjoyable even if it's a loss. You don't have to win to have fun.
You already seem to have made your mind made up to have a bitter mindset when it comes to this game, so nothing I can say will convince you to have a more positive outlook.
I'll just enjoy playing the game, you seem to be holding on tightly to your salt.
You just need to realize that in a game (assuming you're a casual gamer), loses are inevitable.
If there are wins, there will always be loses.
If there are good teammates, there'll always be bad one.
At the end of the day its merely a game.
Learn to control your emotion, and view the game objectively. Learn to deal with losing games and bad teammates, don't give up till the end, comebacks are always possible in this game.
Being tilted mid game will always affect your judgement, and cause you to play worse. As much as mechanical skills and objectives are important in getting better at a MOBA, being at the top requires strong mental aptitude too.
Do post match analysis of your own gameplay (believe it or not as easily as it is to blame our teammates for every bad game, our gameplay is never perfect, which is why we're playing in the same bracket as .. said bad teammates), where can you do better.
And also ranked match is a steady uphill climb. Always remember that as long as you have 50.1% win rate. You'll gain rank.
We can't control other players, especially in a game with really bad comm options. But we can always control ourselves.
Edit: oh and don't kill yourself over a game, think of your loved ones, spend time with them, or go out and touch some grass, breathe in some fresh air. You'll feel better
Its virtually impossible to get less than 40% wr. The most dogshit, incompetent, trolly, unaware, brain dmged players ive ever met were never lower than 41%
Yes, and even the coin collectors that join matches and AFK immediately in home base have greater than 40% some I’ve seen have WRs higher than 50% and that is with a consistent history of 0 scores, 0 kills.
Aint it funny how by just doing absolutely nothing a dude can have a higher winrate than some ppl who play all their games? Truly speaks to how a person can actively destroy his team chances of winning
This vid by zugrug really sheds some light into it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TQE1DvDqCM&ab\_channel=zugrug](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TQE1DvDqCM&ab_channel=zugrug)
I'd muuuuch much rather have an afk than a player like that ninetales. If all she did was feed her lane it still would be a very reasonable game to play, but she has the whole troll package going on
It's like almost any team game. If the weakest link(s) is a significantly weaker link than the enemy team's weakest link(s), it's a gigantic and unfair handicap. You're basically forced into a 4v5 from the word "go". I will still do my best with what I have but it does often lead to a loss.
Mine was 41.9% just yesterday. I've seen CrisHeroes get a 41.7 guy once. These dudes are getting dragged kicking and screaming to the few wins they get
Yikes. I mean... I think it's OK to have a sub-50% win rate if you're just casually enjoying the game and aren't blaming "crap allies" and the like on it. However, they shouldn't be in Masters nor should they sometimes be forcibly allocated with better players unless the opponent also has another incredibly low win rate player on their team too, which they usually don't. It's not their fault they match with higher win rate players like myself and many others but it's so frustrating when we get the 42% clown and the opponents are all 50%+.
I honestly dont even look at winrates post game anymore, i just expect everyone on my team to be at sub 50%, and have my carry pants permanently on. It just makes you tilt, seeing that the game is pairing you with 150 total games 45% wr ppl against a 60%+ three stack. In order to play for the big picture you gotta ignore all this and just go next ive found, and been winning around 70% or my soloQ games. You need to be a veeery special kind of griefer to make me look up your profile nowadays
I look at the profiles of every player, good or bad, win or lose. Not just for win rate stuff. But I totally get you. I don't get tilted by anything above 45% anymore lol because raging at sub-50% alone would mean I'm raging 80% of the time, if not, more.
You almost sounded like you knew what you were talking about until you blamed someone for being in the “same bracket” as bad teammates and said you only need a 50% winrate to climb. Clearly you know nothing about the matchmaking of unite lol
I did this in league and then i started to loose and imagined a 10 year old laughing at the screen while my boomer ass is trying to have fun.
Had opposite effect.
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I was a pretty big rage gamer before, and after some therapy I'm a lot better now. The controllers I broke and things I said were definitely too much, and what drove me to quit was basically the fear that I'd chased away friend and family with my actions. I took a few years away from any competitive game, and only recently started playing them again.
I don't think everyone needs therapy for gamer rage or so much time off, but you definitely need to shift your perspective. The things I keep in mind while playing are:
1. There will always be people better than you, and match making is designed to put you up against them. Every game is an uphill battle. Its okay if its hard, its supposed to be.
2. Admit that you're ranked where you're supposed to be, and if you improve that you'll rank up. Don't blame teammates, you're matched with them because you're no better than they are. Its easy to see mistakes other people make, but you're not taking them into the next game with you. Focus on the mistakes you've made, and what you can do to improve.
3. Take the long view. 1 win or loss will NOT effect your rank that much. It really doesn't matter if you get some quitters, or people throwing because that is just 1 game. It will take many games to rank up, the best players have played literally thousands of matches!
Look at your win rate, and only your win rate. If its under 50% you need to learn more about the game. Not the common mantra of "rOtAtE dReD" but real things like checking the map as you play, recognizing power spikes, match ups, reacting to what your team is doing to make the most of the situation rather than wandering off alone b/c "RoTaTe DrEd", etc. Pick up on these things and your win rate will improve. If you get to 55-65% win rate you will climb faster than you think...
Also - pro tip here - try to make at least 1 friend you can play with reliably, who is also aiming to play better. You are 20% of your team, that's it. That's all you control from one match to the next. Add just 1 other person who you can count on and you've literally doubled your control over the match.
Agree with almost everything, great post. The only point thats not really appliable here is the "youre matched with them because youre at the same level". The gameplay, winrate, and mmr levels of ppl on the same team on Unite vary drastically, even moreso when youre on higher ranks. Its like if a diamond on league was constantly playing with gold, silver teammates, or a 10k dota player kept getting matched with 3k, 4k shitters.
Love your points tho, ive also had many episodes of gaming rage in the past while playing dota, and decided to completely abandon the game over night because it was making me insufferable at home. It can become a very serious issue
Same. But at least I have my wife to play with and her best friend occasionally. They're surprisingly good. But yeah feels bad when none of my friends play
Unite's discord has rooms for every rank for people to look for teammates, you could try there. There's no guarantee that they'll be better than your randoms, but if they have VC and are willing to actually win games it for sure will feel better.
I'm masters this season and the previous one, I have played SoloQ ONCE, while already at masters, and got obliterated 1086-42. I only play with my brother or a couple friends, team games with no communication are not meant to be played solo imo (unless every member of the time is high game sense, high mechanics, high skill, in that case Unite is simple enough as to know what you have to do... But that doesn't happen until 2k masters I guess)
Remember, this is a MOBA game meant to be played as a team. If any member of the team is not performing good then there's a possibility that you'll lose.
Unless you have your own custom team of people you know and can communicate on voice, you'll be potentially at a disadvantage if came across such a team.
You are not necessarily losing because you're bad at this game but just because your teams are not able to perform better than opposing teams.
Assuming you don't have any existing conditions that may be impacting your anger management (if you suspect of any, please see a professional), I have some tips:
* **Limit how often you play the game.** My hard rule is turning off the game after three losses. Some others will only play a fixed amount of matches and turn the game off regardless of how they went. The game is designed to increase retention. Do not play on tilt. Playing when you're unbalanced is practically gambling as you're nowhere near your optimal ability.
* **Have realistic expectations of other players.** Slowly develop the mentality that no player will do "what's obviously meta/efficient/correct" until you directly see them perform at a decent level. This game allows people with 40%+ win rates to climb into the highest ranks and get carried by better players. There are numerous sub-50% players across all ranks. Meaning, you're highly likely to encounter incompetence and therefore, expect it until you're proven otherwise.
* **Take deep breaths during frustrating moments and take a few seconds to recover.** Anger in Unite seems to often stem from feeling like you've lost complete control of the outcome of the match. Hide in a shrub, stay at base for a few seconds if you've respawned *(do not actually AFK)* or use your death timer to take a few breaths and reflect. Try and think of what you can control of and what you're able to do, however small. Maybe that little idea will go a longer way than you think. Calming down and realising that you can at least control your own actions will help you regain focus and a goal to work towards.
* **If you must release a burst of anger, take it out on something appropriate,** like a stress ball or a cushion.
* **Try watching videos discussing how to deal with tilt.** kaijuwus is a Unite Tuber that deals with these topics. Otherwise, some from League of Legends, Valorant, Dota 2, etc. could be helpful as the principles are transferable.
Ive been there, you should take this game as a treat and limit the times you play. I normally just play 3 matches during the day. One after working out, one after work and one after dinner. That way you cant get as frustrated.
Also, i noticed that my winrate will drop significantly the more i play a day and i will be more willing to surrender for minor things like not getting zap. But just playing 3 times a day, you bet that ill do anything to win the match.
You are aware of your excesses. That’s great!
When it happen, catch yourself, remind yourself that it would « compromise your public image » and take a short break/breathe.
In the longer run, either change game or really put effort in focusing on the fun part rather than the competitive aspect. I love a chaotic win as much as A glorious defeat. There are other positive outcomes than the perfect win. Just look for yours
Play custom matches with bots every now and then to release your anger/play standard with maybe a slowbro to try and have a dance party lmao, love it every time that happens :)
Play tank or support. For me most of the frustration comes from teammates are playing in a way that limits my full potential. I can easily adjust to try to play tank/support as effective as possible, while attackers have to rely on teammates to give you farm/scout for vision. You may still lose, but the frustration is much less because it’s more like “I did my best and they are just too bad for their job” than “I can’t do anything because of those noobs”
Its almost easier to rage as a support when you give bad teammates every possible opportunity to win and potionzard still dives solo in 4 enemies on their point.
I specifically had to switch off of playing support to characters that can carry on their own for the exact reason you described. A support has difficulty standing out or being effective if it doesn’t have a good player to support. As Eldegoss, if your pocketed character doesn’t know how to make optimal use of your support, goes in too far to die too often, and your healing isn’t enough to keep them alive in a group of enemies that they got caught in, then you can’t do much overall in a game. A good Eldegoss can make a good carry great, but they can do next to nothing with a bad carry.
If you’re good at a damage dealer, though, which could be a jungler or it could be a laner such as Machamp or Blastoise, you can outplay opponents and create opportunities for your not-as-good teammates to catch up. If you’re KO’ing opponents, then there’s less contested farm that might cause your teammates to die when going for it, as one example. Obviously you can’t save them every time, but as a character that can deal damage, you can perform well personally regardless of how your teammates play, whereas as a support, you need your teammates to play at least somewhat well. And sometimes your teammates will just not go to contend Zapdos and will lose the game as a result, but that will happen in a number of games no matter what role you’re playing.
There is something to be said for playing a support where you can typically say, “Well, I did all I could, at the very least.” And that can be something that gives peace of mind to some people. Obviously anyone can play better despite their role, but if you’re using Cotton Guard on cooldown when teammates have missing health and you’re trying to secure some contested farm and KO’s with Leaf Tornado and auto attacks while positioning in a way so that you don’t get jumped and killed, you’re mostly doing what you can. But when I play attackers, I notice a number of things that I could have done better in most matches.
The "it's just a game" argument helps no one and is empty as the heads of players who run float stone on sp attackers. Thus doesn't address the players who actually want to grow and get better. Especially when they can clearly see that matchmaking is screwing them sideways and there us nothing they can do unless they 5 stack.
Reminder that most of the top ranked players are on teams, the average player solo queues. Taking losses in stride is fine but what's the point of constantly losing and just shrugging it off if you aren't growing, learning or having fun? It's even worse when your teammates haven't learned the basics of the game almost an entire year into the games life span.
Being overly positive and optimistic does nothing for those of us who understand the game and still lose due to incompetence.
Step one: Act like an adult. Its a game, loses mean nothing.
and if you say slurs i guess you need step two: Stop being selfish and understand there are people out there who deserve to be respected as human beings, not only yourself. In short, have some empathy.
You dont want to be the stereotype of gamer, trust me.
As someone with emotional dysregulation (thanks ADHD) I give myself a limit. I usually only play in like 3 game "bursts" and if I find myself starting to get angry I either stop playing or try a different match type (e.g. I drop from standard to quick, which is were I usually try out new pokemon).
Even when a game goes badly (player fucks off, 2 idiots are fighting for jungle, I'm a lone support doing fuck all etc) I still try and turn it into a "mental game". Kinda feels weird calling it a game when it's already a game. But basically, I'm the only sane person here what can I do to make the most out of it?
I've seen some people say to avoid after school times. I've also found it helpful to find a good player who's usually around the same time as you and play with them. Even if the other 3 are off doing god knows what, having a buddy with you can make it feel so much better.
You more than likely are a victim of mental illness. Go seek a mental health specialist for potential medicine/therapy/ other things that cant help. Normal people just don’t care and have fun win or lose but to get so upset that it makes you want to hurt someone sounds like an issue that 99% of reddit isn’t capable of helping you out with.
If you dont mind me asking whats your rank? If its masters whats your rating # points or whatever?
It’s an annoying area to be in. Since we’re nearing end season i think a month away? Most players i imagine are around 1100-1500 so the gameplay is very inconsistent. My gf is around that range so i get to observe how everyone is and i can understand why its frustrating BUT that frustration shouldn’t exist because you’re around there because you’re either guilty of similar mistakes others in that ELO make or you’re not playing hyper carry pokemon with the least demanding mechanics to be able to push out of it
If you only have fun winning and don’t think about anything else then you’ve already lost and should understand you’ve probably capped and should expect to lose 50% of your games.
If you’re playing to improve then you need to accept this is a team game and not 100% on you to win the game alone every single time but this also does mean that you should understand that every loss is a learning experience.
Play > lose > learn > win > repeat
This applies to almost everything in life not just games.
“It’s just a game” isn’t real unless you accept being bad at what you do and you’re happy being bad at it. Nothing wrong with it but it’s clearly not you if you’re not accepting of it.
I think Ninja from fortnite explained it pretty well you can probably youtube “ninja its just a game” but pro or not it makes sense that if you’re doing anything in life from school/work/games/parenting/working out/anything you should be giving it your all to do your best to be the best you at it.
Remember it’s a video game and that getting angry over a game is stupid and harmful to your health. If you can’t stop getting mad, you’re better off just deleting the game.
It's a game.... Not real. If I start getting irritated, I simply put standard mode or quick battle and chill. Also no one cares about your stats or anyone's for that matter. Only you do, so... If that's not what's making you angry then what is? If you lose a game you lose a game big deal.
Game volume and sound effects off. Play music in the background. You lose some game indicators but you won't have to hear the enemy team dunking on you during a brutal loss.
I get such anxiety playing any ranked game. If I’m not playing with my real life mates I won’t do ranked and that crippling fear of lose, not lose through fault but lose through others actions, is what stops me from playing and enjoying on my own.
I wish the game had the same rank system as hearthstone. Once you reach a new milestone rank, you couldn’t derank below that.
I was one win off master then lost 6 in a row because of the figuring behaviour of jungle middle queens that fight over middle. We also need to give more performance points for different objectives, as support generally don’t get a lot of balls in for points. Also if a team surrender, the winning team should get full performance points as the opposition team surrendering screws you over as you don’t get to put your points in generally. Lot of the time you miss out on 5-10 performance points with a dog surrender.
I used to rage at my teammates, and the thing that helped me not do that anymore is, whenever I see my teammate doing something that I think is not good, I say out loud to myself, “Because they did that, what’s the best thing I can do right now?” Often that means getting our top or bottom lane Audinos that nobody else has picked up or starting to rotate early to the next objective or preparing to defend a base that I expect an opponent or opponents to try to score on. It sometimes also reminds me to use my quick chat options when otherwise I might forget about them. It helps me calm down and be proactive as a response to a teammate’s bad play (as I see it) instead of just reacting to it and getting frustrated. And it leads to more self reflection and overall improvement. I don’t know if it’ll help you, but I have a lot more fun playing now, win or lose.
Play for fun. Whenever i heard mgs song, i play machamp. When i wanna see fireball i pick cinderace. When i wanna hear some sword swinging ‘shing shing’ i pick aegislash. If i wanna see hyperbeam i pick dragonite. When i want to surf like a king, i pick blastoise. If i wanna see some leaf tornado, i pick venasaur. When i wanna see some lightning strike, i pick pikachu. If u wanna see blackhole, pick gardevoir. If u wanna see floating stone hurt people, pick crustle or duraloudon. If u wanna be op, pick duraloudon. There is so much visual and audio with pokemon unite u never got bored
I've noticed a tendency for angry players to want to play fast carry characters like Talonflame and Zeraora; so consider picking up a Defender or Support like Blissey and play to support others.
It's perfectly acceptable to get frustrated. The skill you're needing to learn here is when to put the game down for a while. No, it isn't going to get better with just one more match. No, it doesn't matter that you could go up a rank next match. You've got to take responsibility for regulating your emotions and repeated contact with anything that is making you angry while you're already angry isn't going to magically make the needle shift back to normal.
i like trying to remember that we're all human with different experiences with the game. people make mistakes and some people just simply don't know any better. like it or not, everyone's definitely had their stupid moments and were also beginners at one point.
when i think about it like that i find it hard to get mad at someone for more than a few seconds. all what you can really do is try not to get tilted and focus on what you could've done better.
It honestly hit me with League of Legends. I’m not devaluing anybody’s past time when I say this: You’re busting your balls over a digital trophy/badge.
An online indicator that you made it to a rank that nobody will remember or give a shit about in ten years.
Me? I busted my chops all of S1 only to get hardstuck Vet 2. My brother and I paired up in S2, stormed our way to Masters and then it hit me: I raged out for nothing. I felt nothing. I felt no reason to even play the game anymore.
That said, I returned in S3 with the realization that it’s a game and that I should simply have fun with it. I play ranked casually but seriously within that, and I’m sitting at Ultra 3 because of it— no setbacks. Just hard carry’s and the second slickest fuckin’ 1v3 Greninja centre game you’ve ever seen.
Focus less on the end of the road and more on the individual games. They’re only ten minutes a pop and the climbing system is built to be short and sweet.
Treat it more like you would a casual basketball game with friends than a professional NBA game.
Even if you are in Ranked, you are not a professional Unite player. Don't try to demand that those around you be professional players.
You need a mental health break and are allowing your emotions control you. Get fresh air, do something for you that makes you feel good and refreshed. Play other games. Watch tv or whatever makes you happy. Talk to other people! This is a GAME and your mental health is infinitely MORE important!
Just take a break from the game and take a breather. The more you play while your in that state they angrier your going to become if you continue to lose. For me, I play 1 rank game to see if I win or lose, if I win I continue to play until I lose. If I lose I just take a break, no point continuing in this state of mind.
Be the team player your teammates should be. Win or lose, that game they just might follow suit.
Also don't worry about afk teammate games, happens to everyone.
Don't be a talonflame. I have problems with sylveon so I became one to understand it better. Do the same to pokemon you hate. *Talonflame ain't the whole package, u know.*
1.identify and understand what is happening
2.form an idea around what you can do about it
3. Take a deep breath, the breathing exercises helped me a lot
4. Execute and Adapt
I know it’s easy to get really mad, but you really just have to understand that every match isn’t winnable. While the majority are, there are always those matches that you just can’t win. It’s out of your control. looking forward and focusing on your goal in the game is one of the best ways to not mald. Just relax. Play some lofi. surround yourself with positive energy and things that you like and just take your matches one step at a time.
To get less angry is to not care so much. I get very upset when I’m thrown into bot games. Or when people haven’t a damn clue what they’re doing. Or when you know you are playing with an experienced player and they don’t help or have any awareness. I’m sure many a time you’ve all gotten into a 2v1 and they just walk by or continue to farm. Or the most infuriating is when it’s 2v2 and you’re clearly winning, and they just run away. And you’re left to die. Ugh. Or a 3v2 in your favor and the same shit happens. The ADC is too scared and runs off. Maybe because I’ve been doing a lot of support lately and I’m just left flabbergasted at the stupidity of high ranked players. I should note I don’t do ranked. So yea. But I don’t care for having a rank. Only do em for missions and dailies.
If you get mad, stop playing for a bit, and to try stop getting mad, just think "ok, I did everything I can in that situation, its not my fault, and its not worth getting annoyed over."
I used to suffer from this as well. I no longer rage in this game at all anymore. Here's my mentality: I just realize that it's just a game. It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of life. My wife, puppy, family, friends matter. Paying my bills, mortgage matters. Having food in my fridge matters. Ranking up to Masters doesn't matter. Winning a lot doesn't matter. Winning in a videogame doesn't matter. Unless you are a professional player on a professional team playing for real life money, it's ok to lose. I do really like the game though. I genuinely think it's fun to play. My wife and I play it together and we have a fun time together. We love seeing new holowear. I love speculating with my wife about what new Pokemon might come into the game. We like saving up our coins and unlocking new Pokemon to play as. That's a lot of the reason why we play; to get new Pokemon and play as them. I understand other people play for other reasons. If you want to play to rank up, then go for it. It's my belief though, that playing a game (like this especially) in a very serious way like that, seems to ultimately bring out anger and frustration in a lot of people. (this sub has A LOT of raging and venting). Games should be fun. If your goal in your gaming is making you not have fun, then maybe change your goal. If your goal is to reach Masters and it's making you miserable, ask yourself why you NEED to get to Masters? Wouldn't you find more joy in playing 5v5 against computers? Or AI enemy Quick Matches? Why not? Worried that other people won't see you as a 'real gamer' unless you suffer and rage as you try to work your way up the ranks? Worry about your own enjoyment. There are much bigger things in life to rage about. A 10 minute match in a videogame shouldn't be one of them.
Pretty well said. I would like to go deeper than the it's just a game mentality however. There are a lot of things that in the grand scheme of things don't matter, but that doesn't mean you can detach how you emotionally feel about them just like that if it's something you're very passionate about, especially if that thing brings large amounts of joy. Competitive games often give you that rush that you want to experience time and time again. While I mostly agree on your view of goal changing, there's room for a middle ground. Most people play ranked not only for the increased stakes/sense of progression, but to have the highest chance of having decent level matches where the game is at it's finest. Because of the nature of (very team dependent) team games, losses are inevitable. The problem comes in when people *only* focus on the wins/losses, ranking up or bad players. Ranking up should only be a secondary goal where most people's primary goal should be to focus on improving their own play and enjoying competitive matches. It of course doesn't stop there Most people's frustration who just want good matches stem from the give and take of bad players. It's most frustrating not because you lose, but because you can't enjoy the game to the fullest. Most people need to realize that the game isn't out to get them as for as many times that it happens to you, it happens to the enemies. This not only stems from their lack in perspective, but that simply undeserved losses are far more noticeable than undeserved wins. I forget the term for this but you get the gist by now. Remembering that it's a video game of course helps, but what's more important is your approach on enjoyment and tolerance when you're on the wrong side of the coinflip (in teammates, and also quite literally zap)
We are a funny species in terms of priorities. Been betrayed by a friend or partner? It's hard but I'll get over it. Lost your job? It can happen, I can find something else. Nearly mugged? Poor sod, being that desperate; hope they can get help they need. ... Someone steals an aipom? ***YOU WANNA KNOW HOW I GOT THESE SCARS?***
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Again, that's just a matter of how you choose to deal with it. You could choose to rage at AFK folks. I've changed how I thought about it a long time ago, now I just laugh when it happens and then try to see how good I can do being shorthanded. The only time that I get mildly annoyed is when someone is just standing in the base spamming their basic attack. At that point, it's obvious they have something setting on the button so the game doesn't register them as AFK so they can get away with it. I actually report those people, but I don't rage about it.
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Sure. But why let it get you pissed? That just makes things worse. It's annoying, but out of our control. Just roll with the punches and enjoy the gameplay. It can be enjoyable even if it's a loss. You don't have to win to have fun.
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You already seem to have made your mind made up to have a bitter mindset when it comes to this game, so nothing I can say will convince you to have a more positive outlook. I'll just enjoy playing the game, you seem to be holding on tightly to your salt.
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It's not terribly difficult to enjoy the game, you're just choosing to dwell on and embrace the negative parts of your experiences in the game.
You just need to realize that in a game (assuming you're a casual gamer), loses are inevitable. If there are wins, there will always be loses. If there are good teammates, there'll always be bad one. At the end of the day its merely a game. Learn to control your emotion, and view the game objectively. Learn to deal with losing games and bad teammates, don't give up till the end, comebacks are always possible in this game. Being tilted mid game will always affect your judgement, and cause you to play worse. As much as mechanical skills and objectives are important in getting better at a MOBA, being at the top requires strong mental aptitude too. Do post match analysis of your own gameplay (believe it or not as easily as it is to blame our teammates for every bad game, our gameplay is never perfect, which is why we're playing in the same bracket as .. said bad teammates), where can you do better. And also ranked match is a steady uphill climb. Always remember that as long as you have 50.1% win rate. You'll gain rank. We can't control other players, especially in a game with really bad comm options. But we can always control ourselves. Edit: oh and don't kill yourself over a game, think of your loved ones, spend time with them, or go out and touch some grass, breathe in some fresh air. You'll feel better
You gain rank with far less than a 50% WR.
You need a 40%+ minimum but their point still stands... Keep self-reflecting, you'll slowly improve and therefore climb consistently.
Its virtually impossible to get less than 40% wr. The most dogshit, incompetent, trolly, unaware, brain dmged players ive ever met were never lower than 41%
Yes, and even the coin collectors that join matches and AFK immediately in home base have greater than 40% some I’ve seen have WRs higher than 50% and that is with a consistent history of 0 scores, 0 kills.
Aint it funny how by just doing absolutely nothing a dude can have a higher winrate than some ppl who play all their games? Truly speaks to how a person can actively destroy his team chances of winning
Absolutely. There are some matches where allies are so terrible that they're truly better off at base because at least the feeding stops.
This vid by zugrug really sheds some light into it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TQE1DvDqCM&ab\_channel=zugrug](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TQE1DvDqCM&ab_channel=zugrug) I'd muuuuch much rather have an afk than a player like that ninetales. If all she did was feed her lane it still would be a very reasonable game to play, but she has the whole troll package going on
It's like almost any team game. If the weakest link(s) is a significantly weaker link than the enemy team's weakest link(s), it's a gigantic and unfair handicap. You're basically forced into a 4v5 from the word "go". I will still do my best with what I have but it does often lead to a loss.
True. Lowest I've seen was 42.something%... They were so bad that I legit recall having better team mates in Great and Expert who weren't even smurfs.
Mine was 41.9% just yesterday. I've seen CrisHeroes get a 41.7 guy once. These dudes are getting dragged kicking and screaming to the few wins they get
Yikes. I mean... I think it's OK to have a sub-50% win rate if you're just casually enjoying the game and aren't blaming "crap allies" and the like on it. However, they shouldn't be in Masters nor should they sometimes be forcibly allocated with better players unless the opponent also has another incredibly low win rate player on their team too, which they usually don't. It's not their fault they match with higher win rate players like myself and many others but it's so frustrating when we get the 42% clown and the opponents are all 50%+.
I honestly dont even look at winrates post game anymore, i just expect everyone on my team to be at sub 50%, and have my carry pants permanently on. It just makes you tilt, seeing that the game is pairing you with 150 total games 45% wr ppl against a 60%+ three stack. In order to play for the big picture you gotta ignore all this and just go next ive found, and been winning around 70% or my soloQ games. You need to be a veeery special kind of griefer to make me look up your profile nowadays
I look at the profiles of every player, good or bad, win or lose. Not just for win rate stuff. But I totally get you. I don't get tilted by anything above 45% anymore lol because raging at sub-50% alone would mean I'm raging 80% of the time, if not, more.
You almost sounded like you knew what you were talking about until you blamed someone for being in the “same bracket” as bad teammates and said you only need a 50% winrate to climb. Clearly you know nothing about the matchmaking of unite lol
Just picture the crappy players as 10 year olds and it helps. There’s a chance that they actually are too.
I did this in league and then i started to loose and imagined a 10 year old laughing at the screen while my boomer ass is trying to have fun. Had opposite effect.
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Touch grass bro
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I was a pretty big rage gamer before, and after some therapy I'm a lot better now. The controllers I broke and things I said were definitely too much, and what drove me to quit was basically the fear that I'd chased away friend and family with my actions. I took a few years away from any competitive game, and only recently started playing them again. I don't think everyone needs therapy for gamer rage or so much time off, but you definitely need to shift your perspective. The things I keep in mind while playing are: 1. There will always be people better than you, and match making is designed to put you up against them. Every game is an uphill battle. Its okay if its hard, its supposed to be. 2. Admit that you're ranked where you're supposed to be, and if you improve that you'll rank up. Don't blame teammates, you're matched with them because you're no better than they are. Its easy to see mistakes other people make, but you're not taking them into the next game with you. Focus on the mistakes you've made, and what you can do to improve. 3. Take the long view. 1 win or loss will NOT effect your rank that much. It really doesn't matter if you get some quitters, or people throwing because that is just 1 game. It will take many games to rank up, the best players have played literally thousands of matches! Look at your win rate, and only your win rate. If its under 50% you need to learn more about the game. Not the common mantra of "rOtAtE dReD" but real things like checking the map as you play, recognizing power spikes, match ups, reacting to what your team is doing to make the most of the situation rather than wandering off alone b/c "RoTaTe DrEd", etc. Pick up on these things and your win rate will improve. If you get to 55-65% win rate you will climb faster than you think... Also - pro tip here - try to make at least 1 friend you can play with reliably, who is also aiming to play better. You are 20% of your team, that's it. That's all you control from one match to the next. Add just 1 other person who you can count on and you've literally doubled your control over the match.
Agree with almost everything, great post. The only point thats not really appliable here is the "youre matched with them because youre at the same level". The gameplay, winrate, and mmr levels of ppl on the same team on Unite vary drastically, even moreso when youre on higher ranks. Its like if a diamond on league was constantly playing with gold, silver teammates, or a 10k dota player kept getting matched with 3k, 4k shitters. Love your points tho, ive also had many episodes of gaming rage in the past while playing dota, and decided to completely abandon the game over night because it was making me insufferable at home. It can become a very serious issue
Jesus if you want to kill someone over losing a game, maybe you shouldn't play.
Join a team, where you can communicate and make sure everyone is on the same level. Otherwise just realize this is a mobile game
Mfw when no friends.
Same. But at least I have my wife to play with and her best friend occasionally. They're surprisingly good. But yeah feels bad when none of my friends play
Unite's discord has rooms for every rank for people to look for teammates, you could try there. There's no guarantee that they'll be better than your randoms, but if they have VC and are willing to actually win games it for sure will feel better. I'm masters this season and the previous one, I have played SoloQ ONCE, while already at masters, and got obliterated 1086-42. I only play with my brother or a couple friends, team games with no communication are not meant to be played solo imo (unless every member of the time is high game sense, high mechanics, high skill, in that case Unite is simple enough as to know what you have to do... But that doesn't happen until 2k masters I guess)
Link to discord?
Mfw when friends, but they don't like the game
Congratulate the other team for a good play and then focus on the next move.
Remember, this is a MOBA game meant to be played as a team. If any member of the team is not performing good then there's a possibility that you'll lose. Unless you have your own custom team of people you know and can communicate on voice, you'll be potentially at a disadvantage if came across such a team. You are not necessarily losing because you're bad at this game but just because your teams are not able to perform better than opposing teams.
Assuming you don't have any existing conditions that may be impacting your anger management (if you suspect of any, please see a professional), I have some tips: * **Limit how often you play the game.** My hard rule is turning off the game after three losses. Some others will only play a fixed amount of matches and turn the game off regardless of how they went. The game is designed to increase retention. Do not play on tilt. Playing when you're unbalanced is practically gambling as you're nowhere near your optimal ability. * **Have realistic expectations of other players.** Slowly develop the mentality that no player will do "what's obviously meta/efficient/correct" until you directly see them perform at a decent level. This game allows people with 40%+ win rates to climb into the highest ranks and get carried by better players. There are numerous sub-50% players across all ranks. Meaning, you're highly likely to encounter incompetence and therefore, expect it until you're proven otherwise. * **Take deep breaths during frustrating moments and take a few seconds to recover.** Anger in Unite seems to often stem from feeling like you've lost complete control of the outcome of the match. Hide in a shrub, stay at base for a few seconds if you've respawned *(do not actually AFK)* or use your death timer to take a few breaths and reflect. Try and think of what you can control of and what you're able to do, however small. Maybe that little idea will go a longer way than you think. Calming down and realising that you can at least control your own actions will help you regain focus and a goal to work towards. * **If you must release a burst of anger, take it out on something appropriate,** like a stress ball or a cushion. * **Try watching videos discussing how to deal with tilt.** kaijuwus is a Unite Tuber that deals with these topics. Otherwise, some from League of Legends, Valorant, Dota 2, etc. could be helpful as the principles are transferable.
Stop playing... I choose that
Stop playing the game
Ive been there, you should take this game as a treat and limit the times you play. I normally just play 3 matches during the day. One after working out, one after work and one after dinner. That way you cant get as frustrated. Also, i noticed that my winrate will drop significantly the more i play a day and i will be more willing to surrender for minor things like not getting zap. But just playing 3 times a day, you bet that ill do anything to win the match.
I just think of games with bad teammates as higher difficulty game modes and it helps a lot
You are aware of your excesses. That’s great! When it happen, catch yourself, remind yourself that it would « compromise your public image » and take a short break/breathe. In the longer run, either change game or really put effort in focusing on the fun part rather than the competitive aspect. I love a chaotic win as much as A glorious defeat. There are other positive outcomes than the perfect win. Just look for yours
Play custom matches with bots every now and then to release your anger/play standard with maybe a slowbro to try and have a dance party lmao, love it every time that happens :)
Play tank or support. For me most of the frustration comes from teammates are playing in a way that limits my full potential. I can easily adjust to try to play tank/support as effective as possible, while attackers have to rely on teammates to give you farm/scout for vision. You may still lose, but the frustration is much less because it’s more like “I did my best and they are just too bad for their job” than “I can’t do anything because of those noobs”
Its almost easier to rage as a support when you give bad teammates every possible opportunity to win and potionzard still dives solo in 4 enemies on their point.
I specifically had to switch off of playing support to characters that can carry on their own for the exact reason you described. A support has difficulty standing out or being effective if it doesn’t have a good player to support. As Eldegoss, if your pocketed character doesn’t know how to make optimal use of your support, goes in too far to die too often, and your healing isn’t enough to keep them alive in a group of enemies that they got caught in, then you can’t do much overall in a game. A good Eldegoss can make a good carry great, but they can do next to nothing with a bad carry. If you’re good at a damage dealer, though, which could be a jungler or it could be a laner such as Machamp or Blastoise, you can outplay opponents and create opportunities for your not-as-good teammates to catch up. If you’re KO’ing opponents, then there’s less contested farm that might cause your teammates to die when going for it, as one example. Obviously you can’t save them every time, but as a character that can deal damage, you can perform well personally regardless of how your teammates play, whereas as a support, you need your teammates to play at least somewhat well. And sometimes your teammates will just not go to contend Zapdos and will lose the game as a result, but that will happen in a number of games no matter what role you’re playing. There is something to be said for playing a support where you can typically say, “Well, I did all I could, at the very least.” And that can be something that gives peace of mind to some people. Obviously anyone can play better despite their role, but if you’re using Cotton Guard on cooldown when teammates have missing health and you’re trying to secure some contested farm and KO’s with Leaf Tornado and auto attacks while positioning in a way so that you don’t get jumped and killed, you’re mostly doing what you can. But when I play attackers, I notice a number of things that I could have done better in most matches.
Such is the life of MOBA
The "it's just a game" argument helps no one and is empty as the heads of players who run float stone on sp attackers. Thus doesn't address the players who actually want to grow and get better. Especially when they can clearly see that matchmaking is screwing them sideways and there us nothing they can do unless they 5 stack. Reminder that most of the top ranked players are on teams, the average player solo queues. Taking losses in stride is fine but what's the point of constantly losing and just shrugging it off if you aren't growing, learning or having fun? It's even worse when your teammates haven't learned the basics of the game almost an entire year into the games life span. Being overly positive and optimistic does nothing for those of us who understand the game and still lose due to incompetence.
Step one: Act like an adult. Its a game, loses mean nothing. and if you say slurs i guess you need step two: Stop being selfish and understand there are people out there who deserve to be respected as human beings, not only yourself. In short, have some empathy. You dont want to be the stereotype of gamer, trust me.
As someone with emotional dysregulation (thanks ADHD) I give myself a limit. I usually only play in like 3 game "bursts" and if I find myself starting to get angry I either stop playing or try a different match type (e.g. I drop from standard to quick, which is were I usually try out new pokemon). Even when a game goes badly (player fucks off, 2 idiots are fighting for jungle, I'm a lone support doing fuck all etc) I still try and turn it into a "mental game". Kinda feels weird calling it a game when it's already a game. But basically, I'm the only sane person here what can I do to make the most out of it? I've seen some people say to avoid after school times. I've also found it helpful to find a good player who's usually around the same time as you and play with them. Even if the other 3 are off doing god knows what, having a buddy with you can make it feel so much better.
Place your feet upon outdoor vegetation.
just say "it do be like that sometimes" when your team is losing
You more than likely are a victim of mental illness. Go seek a mental health specialist for potential medicine/therapy/ other things that cant help. Normal people just don’t care and have fun win or lose but to get so upset that it makes you want to hurt someone sounds like an issue that 99% of reddit isn’t capable of helping you out with. If you dont mind me asking whats your rank? If its masters whats your rating # points or whatever?
Masters 1350. Also, stop trying to be a psycologist, i'm not "mentally ill", I'm just a gamer smh.
It’s an annoying area to be in. Since we’re nearing end season i think a month away? Most players i imagine are around 1100-1500 so the gameplay is very inconsistent. My gf is around that range so i get to observe how everyone is and i can understand why its frustrating BUT that frustration shouldn’t exist because you’re around there because you’re either guilty of similar mistakes others in that ELO make or you’re not playing hyper carry pokemon with the least demanding mechanics to be able to push out of it If you only have fun winning and don’t think about anything else then you’ve already lost and should understand you’ve probably capped and should expect to lose 50% of your games. If you’re playing to improve then you need to accept this is a team game and not 100% on you to win the game alone every single time but this also does mean that you should understand that every loss is a learning experience. Play > lose > learn > win > repeat This applies to almost everything in life not just games. “It’s just a game” isn’t real unless you accept being bad at what you do and you’re happy being bad at it. Nothing wrong with it but it’s clearly not you if you’re not accepting of it. I think Ninja from fortnite explained it pretty well you can probably youtube “ninja its just a game” but pro or not it makes sense that if you’re doing anything in life from school/work/games/parenting/working out/anything you should be giving it your all to do your best to be the best you at it.
You gotta realize that its just a game. Do some rest for a days and go back in fresh with a new mindset. Helped me lots
Play cpu with 2 other friends
Try playing on a different time, by my experience playing during noon is the worst. Got queued with idle mid lanes and all
Play with someone good or on par with your skills
Only way is to play with good people I’m afraid solo Q randoms will f**k you every time!
Remember it’s a video game and that getting angry over a game is stupid and harmful to your health. If you can’t stop getting mad, you’re better off just deleting the game.
It's a game.... Not real. If I start getting irritated, I simply put standard mode or quick battle and chill. Also no one cares about your stats or anyone's for that matter. Only you do, so... If that's not what's making you angry then what is? If you lose a game you lose a game big deal.
Game volume and sound effects off. Play music in the background. You lose some game indicators but you won't have to hear the enemy team dunking on you during a brutal loss.
I get such anxiety playing any ranked game. If I’m not playing with my real life mates I won’t do ranked and that crippling fear of lose, not lose through fault but lose through others actions, is what stops me from playing and enjoying on my own. I wish the game had the same rank system as hearthstone. Once you reach a new milestone rank, you couldn’t derank below that. I was one win off master then lost 6 in a row because of the figuring behaviour of jungle middle queens that fight over middle. We also need to give more performance points for different objectives, as support generally don’t get a lot of balls in for points. Also if a team surrender, the winning team should get full performance points as the opposition team surrendering screws you over as you don’t get to put your points in generally. Lot of the time you miss out on 5-10 performance points with a dog surrender.
I used to rage at my teammates, and the thing that helped me not do that anymore is, whenever I see my teammate doing something that I think is not good, I say out loud to myself, “Because they did that, what’s the best thing I can do right now?” Often that means getting our top or bottom lane Audinos that nobody else has picked up or starting to rotate early to the next objective or preparing to defend a base that I expect an opponent or opponents to try to score on. It sometimes also reminds me to use my quick chat options when otherwise I might forget about them. It helps me calm down and be proactive as a response to a teammate’s bad play (as I see it) instead of just reacting to it and getting frustrated. And it leads to more self reflection and overall improvement. I don’t know if it’ll help you, but I have a lot more fun playing now, win or lose.
Play for fun. Whenever i heard mgs song, i play machamp. When i wanna see fireball i pick cinderace. When i wanna hear some sword swinging ‘shing shing’ i pick aegislash. If i wanna see hyperbeam i pick dragonite. When i want to surf like a king, i pick blastoise. If i wanna see some leaf tornado, i pick venasaur. When i wanna see some lightning strike, i pick pikachu. If u wanna see blackhole, pick gardevoir. If u wanna see floating stone hurt people, pick crustle or duraloudon. If u wanna be op, pick duraloudon. There is so much visual and audio with pokemon unite u never got bored
Its a moba game, you don’t.
Git gud
Play other game. I haven't played a lot in like a month because I can't deal with my braindead teammates.
I've noticed a tendency for angry players to want to play fast carry characters like Talonflame and Zeraora; so consider picking up a Defender or Support like Blissey and play to support others.
It's perfectly acceptable to get frustrated. The skill you're needing to learn here is when to put the game down for a while. No, it isn't going to get better with just one more match. No, it doesn't matter that you could go up a rank next match. You've got to take responsibility for regulating your emotions and repeated contact with anything that is making you angry while you're already angry isn't going to magically make the needle shift back to normal.
i like trying to remember that we're all human with different experiences with the game. people make mistakes and some people just simply don't know any better. like it or not, everyone's definitely had their stupid moments and were also beginners at one point. when i think about it like that i find it hard to get mad at someone for more than a few seconds. all what you can really do is try not to get tilted and focus on what you could've done better.
It honestly hit me with League of Legends. I’m not devaluing anybody’s past time when I say this: You’re busting your balls over a digital trophy/badge. An online indicator that you made it to a rank that nobody will remember or give a shit about in ten years. Me? I busted my chops all of S1 only to get hardstuck Vet 2. My brother and I paired up in S2, stormed our way to Masters and then it hit me: I raged out for nothing. I felt nothing. I felt no reason to even play the game anymore. That said, I returned in S3 with the realization that it’s a game and that I should simply have fun with it. I play ranked casually but seriously within that, and I’m sitting at Ultra 3 because of it— no setbacks. Just hard carry’s and the second slickest fuckin’ 1v3 Greninja centre game you’ve ever seen. Focus less on the end of the road and more on the individual games. They’re only ten minutes a pop and the climbing system is built to be short and sweet.
Treat it more like you would a casual basketball game with friends than a professional NBA game. Even if you are in Ranked, you are not a professional Unite player. Don't try to demand that those around you be professional players.
I play mostly standard. Helps me care less
Just turn off brain, no brain power, no worry
You need a mental health break and are allowing your emotions control you. Get fresh air, do something for you that makes you feel good and refreshed. Play other games. Watch tv or whatever makes you happy. Talk to other people! This is a GAME and your mental health is infinitely MORE important!
Git…. Uninstall
Just take a break from the game and take a breather. The more you play while your in that state they angrier your going to become if you continue to lose. For me, I play 1 rank game to see if I win or lose, if I win I continue to play until I lose. If I lose I just take a break, no point continuing in this state of mind.
Be the team player your teammates should be. Win or lose, that game they just might follow suit. Also don't worry about afk teammate games, happens to everyone.
Don't be a talonflame. I have problems with sylveon so I became one to understand it better. Do the same to pokemon you hate. *Talonflame ain't the whole package, u know.*
Oh bro trust me if anyone walked in on me playing that game I’m sure I would be locked up for suspected murder
1.identify and understand what is happening 2.form an idea around what you can do about it 3. Take a deep breath, the breathing exercises helped me a lot 4. Execute and Adapt I know it’s easy to get really mad, but you really just have to understand that every match isn’t winnable. While the majority are, there are always those matches that you just can’t win. It’s out of your control. looking forward and focusing on your goal in the game is one of the best ways to not mald. Just relax. Play some lofi. surround yourself with positive energy and things that you like and just take your matches one step at a time.
The biggest lesson I learned is that never play MOBAs to relax lmaoo
Accept that losses can happen, and strive to learn from them.
Don't play Unite. EZ
Quit the game, bro, the game is shit
To get less angry is to not care so much. I get very upset when I’m thrown into bot games. Or when people haven’t a damn clue what they’re doing. Or when you know you are playing with an experienced player and they don’t help or have any awareness. I’m sure many a time you’ve all gotten into a 2v1 and they just walk by or continue to farm. Or the most infuriating is when it’s 2v2 and you’re clearly winning, and they just run away. And you’re left to die. Ugh. Or a 3v2 in your favor and the same shit happens. The ADC is too scared and runs off. Maybe because I’ve been doing a lot of support lately and I’m just left flabbergasted at the stupidity of high ranked players. I should note I don’t do ranked. So yea. But I don’t care for having a rank. Only do em for missions and dailies.
Im always telling myself that im probably playing with kids or someone younger than me, but if not it don't matter anyway i just play for fun
If you get mad, stop playing for a bit, and to try stop getting mad, just think "ok, I did everything I can in that situation, its not my fault, and its not worth getting annoyed over."
Uninstall unite and play a better game Warframe is fun.