We are playing it right now in grade 12 social (a combination of history, geography and civics). It’s heated to say the least, we have had bribery and people sneaking in spy mics so far. But the Russian empire will never fall, I will win this.
Played with a group of friends. Another player was plotting to betray me and other players let me know, and so I convinced them to back me in resisting. I lied to them as well and wiped the player from the game instead of just pushing back. That was the last time I was invited to game group. I think the guy I wiped also would stills ay I'm a bastard over it.
Secret Hitler, Mafia, and even Among Us don't crush relationships as much because people are assigned to be the bad guy which feels better than someone betraying you of their own accord.
Big A is right. If you get someone to play a board game you like and you have them win the first game (and it feels natural/real) they might get hooked and want to play a game. If you just sweaty stomp them... they're probably never going to play again. My little cousin won a game of Risk once (we were just being nice and playing for fun) and since then he wanted to play it like every time we got together. Even when we started playing more seriously and he'd lose he just got competitive and wanted to play again. Because he started with the belief that he could compete. Apex Legends seems like a great fun game and something I could fall in love with. But when I first started (recently) it was just full of hackers and OP skilled sweats. I later found out like 25% of the player base is Master ranked. Basically Apex is just full of cheaters and people who've played thousands of hours. Every time I shot a single bullet I'd have 4+ people aim botting onto my head and would basically just have to hide or instantly die. The skill ceiling was just too high and not friendly towards players learning the game. Either you play at the top 1% level or you get stomped. Unless Apex Legends changes that (i.e. introducing new game modes, a better anti-cheat system, a campaign to get a large influx of new players, etc.) it's going to eventually die out. I know it has a bunch of tournaments still going... but the game has an expiration date if it doesn't make changes. If they keep the servers up they'll still have a dedicated core of users... but even 10k users is a dead game basically from what it used to be.
I agree it’s not super like new player friendly but it definitely isn’t dying anytime soon. Before the fortnite of season which brought an influx back, apex had more views on RUclips and twitch than fn. the game is still pretty massive
If youre new and just learning the mechanics, or your friends are new, the best way I found to get over that curve is by playing the Arena mode. It teaches teamwork, cover, extending, communication and holding angles. And gives you a lot of flex in terms of character picks. The trouble for a lot of new players is learning skills and guns and running around empty handed, while everyone else already knows those basics. Arena helps mitigate that with buying guns directly and being able to try different ones over diff matches
@@PlayerXIII Yeah, I wish I had started when Apex came out. I just don't think Apex has game modes that are as friendly towards new players. Valorant isn't new player friendly either with all the smurfing. Realistically the answer is simple... people of similar skill levels need to be matched together. If Apex Legends had better/more game modes, a better anti-cheat, and better matchmaking I'd play it more. But for now I think I'll just play Overwatch 2. It just feels a lot more casual and not like I have to spend 100+ hours researching/training to not just be auto-killed immediately. Games shouldn't be more work than my actual job. If you want to compete at the highest level, sure, but even to just be mediocre takes a lot with these games due to the bad matchmaking.
I have a friend who has threatened multiple times to break up with his girlfriend if she didn't trade him the resources to get an edge in Settler's of Catan. He then wonders why we don't seem incredibly optimistic to play board games with him.
played diplomacy with mates, one of my favourite games ever, you really have to have the right group of friends and before the game we were like (anything happens in the game is in the game, dont take it personally)
The mention of all these games reminds me of Commander in Magic the Gathering. I used to play all the time with my old friend group. I absolutely loved playing decks that fed into the diplomacy aspect of the game. I luckily had a good friend group who mostly kept their word. The moment you betray someone you get branded as someone untrustworthy and it’ll follow you far past that game into every game moving forward. That’s how you guarantee you lose the next however many games for a good few weeks.
Used to play Liar's Dice with some friends back in the day- essentially a game where you lie to each other or call out the bullshit with real money at stake. Never had a fight and was always a grand ol' time, wonder if the beer is to credit for that.
I feel like having "liar" in the name helps. You expect friends to lie to you instantly. The tank game should have been like, tricky tanks or treacherous tanks. Idk.
I played diplomacy with my friends in high school and each turn was a school day and moves had to be submitted by 4 each day. It took almost a whole semester to complete the game, it was so fun
We played diplomacy in my high school world wars class. Genuine rifts grew in that class because of the betrayals.
We are playing it right now in grade 12 social (a combination of history, geography and civics). It’s heated to say the least, we have had bribery and people sneaking in spy mics so far. But the Russian empire will never fall, I will win this.
Played with a group of friends. Another player was plotting to betray me and other players let me know, and so I convinced them to back me in resisting. I lied to them as well and wiped the player from the game instead of just pushing back. That was the last time I was invited to game group. I think the guy I wiped also would stills ay I'm a bastard over it.
Secret Hitler, Mafia, and even Among Us don't crush relationships as much because people are assigned to be the bad guy which feels better than someone betraying you of their own accord.
100%
Big A is right. If you get someone to play a board game you like and you have them win the first game (and it feels natural/real) they might get hooked and want to play a game. If you just sweaty stomp them... they're probably never going to play again.
My little cousin won a game of Risk once (we were just being nice and playing for fun) and since then he wanted to play it like every time we got together. Even when we started playing more seriously and he'd lose he just got competitive and wanted to play again. Because he started with the belief that he could compete.
Apex Legends seems like a great fun game and something I could fall in love with. But when I first started (recently) it was just full of hackers and OP skilled sweats. I later found out like 25% of the player base is Master ranked. Basically Apex is just full of cheaters and people who've played thousands of hours.
Every time I shot a single bullet I'd have 4+ people aim botting onto my head and would basically just have to hide or instantly die. The skill ceiling was just too high and not friendly towards players learning the game. Either you play at the top 1% level or you get stomped.
Unless Apex Legends changes that (i.e. introducing new game modes, a better anti-cheat system, a campaign to get a large influx of new players, etc.) it's going to eventually die out. I know it has a bunch of tournaments still going... but the game has an expiration date if it doesn't make changes. If they keep the servers up they'll still have a dedicated core of users... but even 10k users is a dead game basically from what it used to be.
I agree it’s not super like new player friendly but it definitely isn’t dying anytime soon. Before the fortnite of season which brought an influx back, apex had more views on RUclips and twitch than fn. the game is still pretty massive
Apex definitely isn’t friendly to new players. But I have run into 1 hacker in my 1k hours of playtime.
@@fbiiswatchinyou1234 same
If youre new and just learning the mechanics, or your friends are new, the best way I found to get over that curve is by playing the Arena mode. It teaches teamwork, cover, extending, communication and holding angles. And gives you a lot of flex in terms of character picks.
The trouble for a lot of new players is learning skills and guns and running around empty handed, while everyone else already knows those basics. Arena helps mitigate that with buying guns directly and being able to try different ones over diff matches
@@PlayerXIII Yeah, I wish I had started when Apex came out. I just don't think Apex has game modes that are as friendly towards new players. Valorant isn't new player friendly either with all the smurfing.
Realistically the answer is simple... people of similar skill levels need to be matched together. If Apex Legends had better/more game modes, a better anti-cheat, and better matchmaking I'd play it more. But for now I think I'll just play Overwatch 2. It just feels a lot more casual and not like I have to spend 100+ hours researching/training to not just be auto-killed immediately.
Games shouldn't be more work than my actual job. If you want to compete at the highest level, sure, but even to just be mediocre takes a lot with these games due to the bad matchmaking.
really appreciate the work for us youtube frogs, more atrioc content
I have a friend who has threatened multiple times to break up with his girlfriend if she didn't trade him the resources to get an edge in Settler's of Catan. He then wonders why we don't seem incredibly optimistic to play board games with him.
lolol
This is the funniest thing
i hope you accidently used the word friend two times... damn
It seems you've mistakenly put an 'r' in fiend.
played diplomacy with mates, one of my favourite games ever, you really have to have the right group of friends and before the game we were like (anything happens in the game is in the game, dont take it personally)
Id recommend uploading clips of him that he hasnt offically uploaded.
like this one?
nvm now I remember this one
The mention of all these games reminds me of Commander in Magic the Gathering. I used to play all the time with my old friend group. I absolutely loved playing decks that fed into the diplomacy aspect of the game. I luckily had a good friend group who mostly kept their word. The moment you betray someone you get branded as someone untrustworthy and it’ll follow you far past that game into every game moving forward. That’s how you guarantee you lose the next however many games for a good few weeks.
Used to play Liar's Dice with some friends back in the day- essentially a game where you lie to each other or call out the bullshit with real money at stake. Never had a fight and was always a grand ol' time, wonder if the beer is to credit for that.
I feel like having "liar" in the name helps. You expect friends to lie to you instantly. The tank game should have been like, tricky tanks or treacherous tanks. Idk.
My favorite RTS board game is called Scythe it’s basically Risk or Catan but 100 times better. Highly recommend.
I was about to say that i feel like i watched atrioc react to this already
I played diplomacy with my friends in high school and each turn was a school day and moves had to be submitted by 4 each day. It took almost a whole semester to complete the game, it was so fun
This video is about Diplomacy? I read an article about it! This HAS to be good
good video, liked it a lot
good video, liked it alot
good video, liked it alot
Playing SH crossfaded is SO fun
good video, liked it alot
The Atrioc Angle :pepeHands:
YOOO I WAS AT THAT SAME PAX SOUTH ME AND MY SIBLING MET MARKIPLIER AND I DIDN'T KNOW YOU EXISTED YET
good video, liked it alot
good video, liked it alot