When you play wattson you get posessed by nessie and the spirit of lochness forces you to sit in the middle of the map placing nessies for 10 minutes straight before a wraith ttv noscopes you with a kraber and spam finishes you before tbagging your corpse. Only when the wraith main begins to emote and shoot your box as well, is the spirit happy enough to let you return to your family for a generous 1.4 hours to see your family
Ahh yes, the philosophical implications of the legend choices, another interesting topic I didn’t think I needed, now I’m having an existential crises just trying to survive ring 3 in ranked.
Former Apex player here. Played for about 7 seasons and I really think everyone watching who has played any class-based games before will relate a lot to this video. I've never really thought about WHY I got mad when playing a character, I just knew I did so I kept rotating between legends I like. I still predominantly played Valk and I played her till pred or masters most seasons, but I loved playing Fuse, Gibby, and Bloodhound too. I think the number of legends in Apex really makes it a fun game, that's why I can always enjoy playing pubs.
I'm glad that what I said resonated with you, thank you for sharing that. I wonder if the variety kind of keeps us stuck, in a weird way - like, if I get mad pushing as Octane, I can switch to Vantage and hang back, until I get mad doing that, and then switch to Bangalore, and so on... it might become a bit cyclical.
Thank you. I find that, for me, it applies to different builds in RPG games, too. If I do a heavy strength build in Elden Ring, I'll have a different experience to someone doing a light dex or a ranged sorcery build.
This video is unbelievably underrated. This is the first time I watched a video and thought, “Yo… This is the difference between me who keeps dying and those who killed me.” At first it wasn't because of what you said, but how you played. It didn't feel like it was because of a bunch of tab strafing, insane movement craziness. It was, instead, your SMART positioning and options. That coupled with the amazing commentary makes this easily a top tier video to me. I hope this blows up.
My first main was bang. After a few thousand kills on her I'm now programmed to focus on LoS, player focus, and positioning. From the gaps in her kit, one of my biggest weaknesses is prying open cracks and collapsing fights quickly. Those are skills I'm working on, but your main definitely affects your attitude and play style. Nice vid
Thank you. It's really cool to hear your reflections about playing bang. I played fuse for a while, especially when I played arenas, because his cluster nade was great for whittling through the opponent's limited shields. But it reinforced my habits of staying back without pushing, for sure
I’ve definitely experienced the same thing as you. I main Wattson but sometimes I’ll jump on Octane or Pathy for a few matches and my playstyle will go from slow and methodical to just full INTing lmao. Extremely surprised by the quality of the video compared to your sub count and looking forward to more!
Loved the video, liked listening to your story and how the game has affected you As someone that has been trying to get better at apex I've have recently fell into a loop where I don't play as long sessions as I used to because of in a negative mental state. I used to be able to look at a death and say why I died and move on, but as time has gone on I have been getting less tolerant of these small annoyances so much so that it can effect my entire day. I tend to get off if I'm not doing well and If I am, I stay on longer. This is terrible for someone that wants to get into competitive apex. After watching your video, I feel I'm going to try and be more aware of why I do things and why I play and choose the characters I do. Thanks for the vid man, hope you make more like this :)
Thank you for sharing your experience. What you said about the annoyances becoming less tolerable really resonates with me. Sometimes, I feel like I'm up for considering losses or deaths to be opportunities for learning and growth, but sometimes I just want an experience that requires less focus and concentration
Wow this is seriously the best analysis of apex legends mentality I've seen. As an octane main, this hurt my soul 🤣🤌 Can you make a video about wraith too? There's the cliche that wraith players are the most toxic and I can honestly tell that when I play wraith I get toxic too. For no particular reason.
Thank you. I'd be interested to hear more about what you mean by "toxic", if you're willing to share. I once heard a friend say "sweaty bald Wraith", like that's a category of player
Oh sweaty bald wraith definitely is the category. See when apex first launched wraith was the OG favorite character of everyone cause she was op. She was nerfed over the years but lots of streamers still play her. And lots of people that watch those streamers (like ACEU) 1/3 everyone with wraith, they think they can do the same. Usually these types of people try really hard to be extra and do insane movements and their favorite skins are recolors of bald skins. They live on streamer building in fragment east on world's edge 🤣 they will 100% always land there, or cage in KC, or gardens in Olympus. They will either not even find a gun and try to somehow punch everyone, or get a gun and insta rush 1/3, die and leave 🤣 but also make sure to tell you it's your fault they died. Oh and they leave even before they die, just if they're downed they leave (like bruh maybe I can revive you wtf (. Guess it hurts their pride or smtn 🤣
That's a really interesting explanation. I didn't start playing Apex until about season 15, and haven't played the BR much, mostly arenas and mixtape, so it's interesting to hear a theory about a character from a kind of 'historical' view. Sounds like maybe you could make the video about Wraith!
Great vid. I feel like most people exaggerate their egos as a means to push themselves to go outside their comfort zones and fight and improve, but alot of times they blame the game to save their ego instead of utilizing the tool that is humility in order to improve at the game, so they can minimize mistakes and have a more intellectually stimulating experience. I main Wattson and play very aggressively so this game is alot like 4D chess to me
That's an interesting and pragmatic view of improvement. I wonder if our ability to think that way depends on what we want from our experience, which may differ based on our mood. It takes a lot of resilience to improve, which we might not always have, if we think of it as a finite resource. Some days, people might want to come home, hop on a shooter, and be made to feel like a winner, as opposed to having to earn it. Thank you for sharing your thoughts
@@jimmysnakehands yeah, but most great things in life have a learning curb. It takes patience, accountability, and understanding to truly improve and get the most out of said experience. The hardship is what adds value to the skill and/or activity. Most want to be comfortable and have their egos reaffirmed which keeps them mediocre. I've been reading alot of David Goggins recently, and his philosophy on life is applicable in so many situations.
@@oldjebidiahbrown2454 yeah, I hear you. I believe that what I said in the video about the desire for skill expression resonates with what you said about hardship adding value to skill and/or activities. Playing games with this mentality is surely great for people who are interested in taking them seriously as a competitive outlet, but I wonder if it gatekeeps players who want a more casual experience, or who want to be able to choose between the two based on their mood or emotional/cognitive resources. Maybe these games aren't for casual players, and your pragmatic view is one that adapts to the game, rather than wanting the game to adapt to them.
When you play wattson you get posessed by nessie and the spirit of lochness forces you to sit in the middle of the map placing nessies for 10 minutes straight before a wraith ttv noscopes you with a kraber and spam finishes you before tbagging your corpse. Only when the wraith main begins to emote and shoot your box as well, is the spirit happy enough to let you return to your family for a generous 1.4 hours to see your family
I was wondering why that happened when I played Watson
How did you know that im just spawning nessie using emotes while looking at zones?
Ahh yes, the philosophical implications of the legend choices, another interesting topic I didn’t think I needed, now
I’m having an existential crises just trying to survive ring 3 in ranked.
You're welcome!
Former Apex player here. Played for about 7 seasons and I really think everyone watching who has played any class-based games before will relate a lot to this video. I've never really thought about WHY I got mad when playing a character, I just knew I did so I kept rotating between legends I like. I still predominantly played Valk and I played her till pred or masters most seasons, but I loved playing Fuse, Gibby, and Bloodhound too. I think the number of legends in Apex really makes it a fun game, that's why I can always enjoy playing pubs.
I'm glad that what I said resonated with you, thank you for sharing that. I wonder if the variety kind of keeps us stuck, in a weird way - like, if I get mad pushing as Octane, I can switch to Vantage and hang back, until I get mad doing that, and then switch to Bangalore, and so on... it might become a bit cyclical.
you point of view is very interesting. I also have those feeling of changing my play style base on the character that I play.
Thank you. I find that, for me, it applies to different builds in RPG games, too. If I do a heavy strength build in Elden Ring, I'll have a different experience to someone doing a light dex or a ranged sorcery build.
I mean that's the point of having different roles 😂
Very underrated
Thank you very much
This video is unbelievably underrated. This is the first time I watched a video and thought, “Yo… This is the difference between me who keeps dying and those who killed me.” At first it wasn't because of what you said, but how you played. It didn't feel like it was because of a bunch of tab strafing, insane movement craziness. It was, instead, your SMART positioning and options. That coupled with the amazing commentary makes this easily a top tier video to me. I hope this blows up.
Thank you for leaving such a kind comment
My first main was bang. After a few thousand kills on her I'm now programmed to focus on LoS, player focus, and positioning. From the gaps in her kit, one of my biggest weaknesses is prying open cracks and collapsing fights quickly. Those are skills I'm working on, but your main definitely affects your attitude and play style. Nice vid
Thank you. It's really cool to hear your reflections about playing bang. I played fuse for a while, especially when I played arenas, because his cluster nade was great for whittling through the opponent's limited shields. But it reinforced my habits of staying back without pushing, for sure
I’ve definitely experienced the same thing as you. I main Wattson but sometimes I’ll jump on Octane or Pathy for a few matches and my playstyle will go from slow and methodical to just full INTing lmao. Extremely surprised by the quality of the video compared to your sub count and looking forward to more!
I'm glad to hear that what I said resonated with you, thank you
Way too good of a video. You deserve more views. Keep up the good work
That's very kind of you to say, thank you
Loved the video, liked listening to your story and how the game has affected you
As someone that has been trying to get better at apex I've have recently fell into a loop where I don't play as long sessions as I used to because of in a negative mental state. I used to be able to look at a death and say why I died and move on, but as time has gone on I have been getting less tolerant of these small annoyances so much so that it can effect my entire day. I tend to get off if I'm not doing well and If I am, I stay on longer. This is terrible for someone that wants to get into competitive apex. After watching your video, I feel I'm going to try and be more aware of why I do things and why I play and choose the characters I do. Thanks for the vid man, hope you make more like this :)
Thank you for sharing your experience. What you said about the annoyances becoming less tolerable really resonates with me. Sometimes, I feel like I'm up for considering losses or deaths to be opportunities for learning and growth, but sometimes I just want an experience that requires less focus and concentration
@@jimmysnakehands glad we could relate :D
12:25 that next minute is such a spot on diagnosis of the state of video games today. ‘Games are businesses instead of fun’
Wow this is seriously the best analysis of apex legends mentality I've seen. As an octane main, this hurt my soul 🤣🤌
Can you make a video about wraith too? There's the cliche that wraith players are the most toxic and I can honestly tell that when I play wraith I get toxic too. For no particular reason.
Thank you. I'd be interested to hear more about what you mean by "toxic", if you're willing to share. I once heard a friend say "sweaty bald Wraith", like that's a category of player
Oh sweaty bald wraith definitely is the category. See when apex first launched wraith was the OG favorite character of everyone cause she was op. She was nerfed over the years but lots of streamers still play her. And lots of people that watch those streamers (like ACEU) 1/3 everyone with wraith, they think they can do the same. Usually these types of people try really hard to be extra and do insane movements and their favorite skins are recolors of bald skins. They live on streamer building in fragment east on world's edge 🤣 they will 100% always land there, or cage in KC, or gardens in Olympus. They will either not even find a gun and try to somehow punch everyone, or get a gun and insta rush 1/3, die and leave 🤣 but also make sure to tell you it's your fault they died. Oh and they leave even before they die, just if they're downed they leave (like bruh maybe I can revive you wtf (. Guess it hurts their pride or smtn 🤣
That's a really interesting explanation. I didn't start playing Apex until about season 15, and haven't played the BR much, mostly arenas and mixtape, so it's interesting to hear a theory about a character from a kind of 'historical' view. Sounds like maybe you could make the video about Wraith!
@@jimmysnakehands hahha I don't make videos but mAybe I should
Came for apex , left with a psychology lesson , good vid
Thank you, I'm glad you got something out of it
And that’s why my friends and I drop matches if an octane joins
I'd love to hear your experience with other legends!
Great vid. I feel like most people exaggerate their egos as a means to push themselves to go outside their comfort zones and fight and improve, but alot of times they blame the game to save their ego instead of utilizing the tool that is humility in order to improve at the game, so they can minimize mistakes and have a more intellectually stimulating experience. I main Wattson and play very aggressively so this game is alot like 4D chess to me
That's an interesting and pragmatic view of improvement. I wonder if our ability to think that way depends on what we want from our experience, which may differ based on our mood. It takes a lot of resilience to improve, which we might not always have, if we think of it as a finite resource. Some days, people might want to come home, hop on a shooter, and be made to feel like a winner, as opposed to having to earn it. Thank you for sharing your thoughts
@@jimmysnakehands yeah, but most great things in life have a learning curb. It takes patience, accountability, and understanding to truly improve and get the most out of said experience. The hardship is what adds value to the skill and/or activity. Most want to be comfortable and have their egos reaffirmed which keeps them mediocre. I've been reading alot of David Goggins recently, and his philosophy on life is applicable in so many situations.
@@oldjebidiahbrown2454 yeah, I hear you. I believe that what I said in the video about the desire for skill expression resonates with what you said about hardship adding value to skill and/or activities. Playing games with this mentality is surely great for people who are interested in taking them seriously as a competitive outlet, but I wonder if it gatekeeps players who want a more casual experience, or who want to be able to choose between the two based on their mood or emotional/cognitive resources. Maybe these games aren't for casual players, and your pragmatic view is one that adapts to the game, rather than wanting the game to adapt to them.
@@jimmysnakehands yeah, I suppose so.
This is such a great video. Very interesting subject. Love it!
I'm glad to hear you think so, thank you
Only 100 followers?!?! You would think how well made it is would be higher so underrated 🔥 hopefully you blow
Thanks, I also hope I blow
Very good video sir. Subbed right away!
Thank you very much!
Hidden gem right here
This is the content I didn't know I needed :>
I'm glad you got something out of it
Octane mains deserve no human rights
what about the right to party
Very great video
Thank you
I don’t need to watch this video to know that it is absolutely useless
Exactly 3 times more thought put into apex than EA (Titanfall 3????)
Hit pice on octane mains describing your own skill issue. Get better
JUST STOP PLAYING APEX LET IT DIE SO TITANFALL CAN BE MADE