16th March 2025, 10:52 PM
(12th March 2025, 4:28 PM)Camer the Dragon Wrote: Super Animal Royale a while ago
I used to try to hide until the top 3 then hope to get lucky and win, but what'd happen is the last people would kill me because I had bad weapons, as I was too busy hiding to loot, and I had little to no experience fighting properly.
I then decided to focus more on kills than wins to train, getting less nervous and more experienced in fights. For a while it made it so I wasn't surviving until the end of the match as much due to dying in early or midgame fights more, but eventually I started getting to the end a decent amount again. I even started to surpass the amount of games I survived until the endgame back when I was focussed on hiding, and I was winning a lot more of a proportion of the matches that I got to the endgame in.
A lot of times, when you’re dealing with experienced players, they’re like hunters who will look for anyone trying to hide and get an easy win. With inexperienced players, bad weapons and hiding might work out for a little while. It’s a good thing you left your comfort zone and changed your strategy. Sometimes winning requires taking risks as well.
(16th March 2025, 8:10 AM)Master Raiden Wrote: It's nice to win and beat everyone all the time, but getting beaten by someone at something you thought you were good at is also a valuable reality check and can serve as some motivation to improve even further.
Couldn’t agree with you more. This is the same reality check that I received when playing Black Jack 21. I spent $9 on the entry fee for the game hoping to win $18. It didn’t work out and l lost that game.
(16th March 2025, 8:10 AM)Master Raiden Wrote: I'm probably more motivated by competition than anything else.
It's difficult to know how good you are at something if you are just doing it alone, or are far better than everyone else and don't really have anyone better to compare yourself to which can make you complacent and halt further growth.
Absolutely. This is why we have others who are more experienced and wiser than us, critique us on our performances. We can’t possibly be our own judges at something because consistent winning streaks make you less humble without losses.
(16th March 2025, 8:10 AM)Master Raiden Wrote: For the past year and a bit, I have been playing GeoGuessr at work and managed to become pretty dominant in the weekly games I played with my team. I once managed to win 8 games in a row and rarely came 2nd or 3rd.
Then I started playing with people from a different team and all of a sudden, I was consistently 3rd. I think I am on a 7 week streak of being 3rd now and I think I would have gotten complacent if it weren't for better people beating me.
Also, for the GeoGuessr link above, just press Tab until the oval-shaped button on the left is highlighted, then press Space and you can play without signing up.
Sounds like an interesting game to play. I’ll go and check it out. Did you learn anything from those people from a different team, beating you?
