The best playerbase used to be the one of Jedi Outcast/Academy. There were people teaching other people how to play and stuff like that around every corner. Everyone was cool.
For the worst one, I'd also have to nominate the Souls community. It used to be just fine back in the day, but nowadays it's full of assholes, hackers and people like that. It's all about pvp.
[B]Payday 2[/B]: I join GO bank, spawned in, the host immediately turns and fires a rocket at me thus alerting all the npcs, I get downed, then he revives me, but proceeds to kick me for no reason 2 minutes later as we were drilling into the vault. Now to be fair there are still decent and nice people within the commuity and when I do end up in pubs with those sorts of people there is always fun to be had. (and before you say it, I play pubs because my friends never really play it).
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[B]Speedrunners[/B]: Has a nice community from what I've seen even though I only got the game recently from the Steam summer sale. It is still enjoyable and I haven't run into any pricks so far.
[B]Chivialry[/B]: The fact that you can friendly fire in this game is just a poor design choice especially when multiple people are attacking one guy, you will most likely end up killing one of your allies or two trying to hit the enemy. But then there are those people who flat out team kill you on purpose for no reason because that is how they get their kicks. Let's just say I haven't touched this game in a while.
[B]Killing Floor[/B]: I enjoy this game and have yet to run into a single asshole but maybe I am just lucky.
These are just a few examples of games I have played.
Speaking of any MMO, I've found RP servers to be the most fun community wise. Players/guilds tend to be way more polite and there are usually server events going on all the time, depending on how active the server is. I couldn't play on any other type of server when there's the option, honestly. Especially during long dry spells between patch releases.
I JUST JOINED A TF2 SERVER WITH FRIENDLIES ON BOTH TEAMS. It was about 8 people on each team and these guys kept whining that people were killing them. Meanwhile, our team is losing and, what do you know, our team had the most of these friendly idiots.
These people need to fuck off to trade servers.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;48028685]I JUST JOINED A TF2 SERVER WITH FRIENDLIES ON BOTH TEAMS. It was about 8 people on each team and these guys kept whining that people were killing them. Meanwhile, our team is losing and, what do you know, our team had the most of these friendly idiots.
These people need to fuck off to trade servers.[/QUOTE]
It's like 87% of the TF2 players don't realize that FPS games are about killing, maybe they see TF2 as a hat and taunt trading sim?
I'm surprised people are saying Dark Souls for worst.
Me and my Dark Souls buddies are all a bunch of giddy guys and gals who just love the series, and huddle around our digital bonfires watching our covenant leaders like ENB and the like. All good times.
[QUOTE=revios;48028732]It's like 87% of the TF2 players don't realize that FPS games are about killing, maybe they see TF2 as a hat and taunt trading sim?[/QUOTE]
If you look at my Steam page right now, you'll see that I've got some some trading under my belt, and I have some slightly "rare" items. But the reason I have them is because the game itself is fun.
Meanwhile, these bozos are spending money on rare hats and bullshit and don't want to play the game, thereby compensating Steam for bullshit that will never be used and renamed to whatever "playful brony furry fetish" these guys are going to tot around. [I]And they want to be your friend.[/I]
My friends don't roleplay, they deathmatch. I always kill friendlies, and if you don't you're part of the problem. I'm running for president and euthanizing TF2 players is my platform. waut3r 2016.
Any old RTS where there's only 20 active players left are always really nasty.
Guild Wars 2, people are SUPER friendly for the most part. You'll get your fair share of elitists like any other game but I'd say the number of good outweigh the bad.
Dino D-Day, I've found a lot of hilarious people playing that game.
World of Tanks has a horrible community :v:
Skullgirls, or at least the Skullheart forum. Everyone sucks at the game and all they care about is the waifus, not playing the game. There are some people who are completely obsessed with a single girl, completely denying anything bad that happens to them in Story Mode, or whether or not they are even actually playable or just a shitty background npc with one line of dialogue in one character's story mode.
Oh and did i mention that NOBODY ACTUALLY PLAYS THE GODDAMN GAME, THE ONLY LIKE IT FOR THE LORE, AND THEIR WAIFU'S FEELINGS/BOOTY.
[B][U]Best:[/U][/B]
The Souls Community: All of my friends are Souls players, and the ones I run into online are either friendly phantoms or invaders desperate for the goods. By NG++ I pretty much hand out all of the important stuff that I have multiples of like Humanity or Hero's Souls.
Guild Wars 2: "Hey look, it's Santa!"-One friendly player who doesn't know about Gwyn or Dark Souls(2014). I need to go back.
TF2: Every Steam buddy of mine has sinked in hundreds of hours into this game and are some of the best MvM partners I've ever known. Thanks to them I can Demoknight into Mann Up Mode meta without fear. Even the squeakers are nice!
[B][U]Worst:[/U][/B]
CoD: Online full of hypocrites and elitist pricks. Will never go back until the next one lets me make a melee dude and gives me short swords and giant mechs to pilot.
The Fighting Game Community. Lose one match to a random guy and suddenly you need to block everyone from that game because of the spam hate messages. Never again unless I have my actual friends and MKX.
[QUOTE=MadBomber;48029233]World of Tanks has a horrible community :v:[/QUOTE]
Eh, to me War Thunder has a worse playerbase in the NA compared to WOT. But I can't think of a more toxic community to complement scummy devs.
[QUOTE=maddogsamurai;48029350][B][U]Best:[/U][/B]
The Souls Community: All of my friends are Souls players, and the runs I run into online are either friendly phantoms or invaders desperate for the goods. By NG++ I pretty much hand out all of the important stuff that I have multiples of like Humanity or Hero's Souls.
TF2: Every Steam buddy of mine has sinked in hundreds of hours into this game and are some of the best MvM partners I've ever known. Thanks to them I can Demoknight into Mann Up Mode meta without fear. Even the squeakers are nice![/QUOTE]
The exact opposite of my Souls experiences.
And I think this thread is on about the general community of said game, NOT your Steam friends. TF2 would be a massive lie.
For me, Project Zomboid's community has to be my favourite.
[QUOTE=NightmareX91;48029410]The exact opposite of my Souls experiences.
And I think this thread is on about the general community of said game, NOT your Steam friends. TF2 would be a massive lie.[/QUOTE]
They're pretty much friends because I ran into the nice ones in the game. Most of the people I meet are kind and are able to work as a team. With the exception of one A-hole who kicked me for my loadout and thought that I had no opinion in continuing to play. Fuck that guy.
[QUOTE=saintsim;48029236]Skullgirls, or at least the Skullheart forum. Everyone sucks at the game and all they care about is the waifus, not playing the game. There are some people who are completely obsessed with a single girl, completely denying anything bad that happens to them in Story Mode, or whether or not they are even actually playable or just a shitty background npc with one line of dialogue in one character's story mode.
Oh and did i mention that NOBODY ACTUALLY PLAYS THE GODDAMN GAME, THE ONLY LIKE IT FOR THE LORE, AND THEIR WAIFU'S FEELINGS/BOOTY.[/QUOTE]
I come to skullgirls place to discuss Valentine cup size and everyone is talking about crossups resets IADs and god knows what else.
We should exchange urls.
Touhou fanbase can be good and bad, but mostly they take it easy.
if your not a fan of bullet hells then go play some fan games or the official fighting games.
Don't Starve has a great and fun fanbase, most of the baddies are on tumblr
From whom I've been around in high school, I can say that a large majority of Smash players are the biggest fucking dicks I've ever seen. I feel bad saying that because I know of a few guys from WAYT that are way into Smash, and are legitimately cool people, but I still have to say that the Smash player base, in general, is toxic as bloody hell.
from what i've experienced, as its been stated before. most free to play communities are garbage.
However here are some specific examples of trashy communities:
[i]-League of legends
-CS:GO
-DOTA 2
-Garrysmod (multiplayer)
-Magic the Gathering(for the most part, not all)
-Minecraft
-Anything that gets regular stream time via twitch
-competitive Smash bros players
-Tohou
-tf2
-any weeaboo related game[/i]
I mainly have gripes with these communities because its due to the fact that a significant amount of students at my uni fall under these categories. over the years they have completely ruined any places to study and get homework done. They tend to be loud and rambunctious. order shitty pizza and make a mess everywhere. All of the tables are taken up by either, a magic the gathering tournament or a smash bros competition, wherein they bring large televisions and fill up the room with them. Also there is hardly any walking space to get to classes. About 80% of these people have 'Mouth Fedoras' I.E. vape pens( im not kidding) they smoked so much there that the school had to put regulations in for vaping indoors. Try to walk to class and navigate through a vapor filled room, that smells like artificial fruit flavoring, neckbeard, pizza, and weeaboos. It's literally an ocean of most of these fan bases all in one area..
On the bright side, here are some good ones:
[i]-M&B communities
-Total war franchise communities
-Battlefield franchise
-Project Reality
-ArmA franchise
-KSP community
-Red Orchestra franchise
-Starbound(chucklefish forums)
-Men of War franchise
-Warhammer universe(for the most part, there are some real dildos out there on tabletop)
-Garrysmod Screenshot community(for the most part again..)[/i]
And last but not least a community that is in the middle of shitty and good
[i]-Cities:skylines[/i]
due to mainly having to deal with the community first hand. when releasing content via workshop. most people were alright, however there were quite a few annoying 'Requesters' and 'Ideas Guys'.
terrible playerbases are
CS:GO's eastern europe side. I got super pissed off because i kept getting matchmade with cykas that refuse to speak english and insult me because i speak english
GTA Online. Toxic kids, script kiddies, retards. Right now i only hang out with trusted people and cats that take pictures
NFS World. bunch of wannabe ken blocks that make disgusting designs: neons on european super cars, riced out turds.
Any DayZ type survival game. Everyone act like autistic kids, tryin to ruin everyone's fun
Best
Battlefield 3
SA:MP. Mostly native playerbase
League of Legends for both.
Dota 2 has a horrendous community
Best I've experienced is Natural Selection, lots of mature and helpful people there.
An older flying MMO I used to play called Air Rivals had a pretty damn chill playerbase, both player factions were pretty closely knit with each other. The amount of teamwork that went into PVP events was insane, it was amazing.
I joined as a part of ANI, then later on made an account to see how the BCU side was. They're a bit more organized and militaristic, while ANI is mildly rambunctious.
ANI 4 lyf.
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[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;48036205]An older flying MMO I used to play called Air Rivals had a pretty damn chill playerbase, both player factions were pretty closely knit with each other. The amount of teamwork that went into PVP events was insane, it was amazing.
I joined as a part of ANI, then later on made an account to see how the BCU side was. They're a bit more organized and militaristic, while ANI is mildly rambunctious.
ANI 4 lyf.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/wjwyajM.png[/img][/QUOTE]
I played that MMO when it was still called Ace Online, it was kinda cool but I never got too far, it was so grindy at one point, and the PVP was kinda laggy for me. This was like on my first PC though, Xfire and MSN were still a thing at the time :v:
[QUOTE=RaTcHeT302;48036737]I played that MMO when it was still called Ace Online, it was kinda cool but I never got too far, it was so grindy at one point, and the PVP was kinda laggy for me. This was like on my first PC though, Xfire and MSN were still a thing at the time :v:[/QUOTE]
Yeah, once you hit level 40 it got super grindy. I ended up giving up at 47 because I could not get passed a certain mission, even with help.
As for PVP lag, if your flagdog isn't lying, it was due to your distance. Only recently did I learn that Ace Online us the US version, while Air Rivals was the EU version.
Unless you were talking about FPS lag v:v:v
Post-GTAO GTA fanbase (started with GTAO, not even with GTA V) is pretty fucking cancerous.
I'd go as far as to say the CoD fanbase is more likeable.
Worst:
[I]Freelancer Multiplayer[/I]
When I regularly played it years ago, it was filled to the brim with elitist bastards with servers that have so many rules the only thing you really get out of playing is fighter to fighter PVP around that one planet where people know to look for it.
[I]Mount and Blade Napoleonic Wars[/I]
A rather large percentage of the regiment/line battle community is composed of elitist shits who just want the feeling of raw power and being able to tell 20 people to do whatever they want, while acting like they're god's gift to mankind.
Of the 4-5 regiments I've been in, the Guards of Istiniar group that took part in the first LB were polite and great to play with, the 5th BRG were a massive load of laughs but I saw the majority of the scummy shit going on elsewhere in the community there, the 5te was led by a power-tripping teen and the 28th is composed of mostly ex-5te who got tired of that shit. I consider them good because you're never screamed at for presenting instead of moving your target reticule or something equally stupid and the people running it have a sense of humour.
The fun regiments were the ones who didn't take it seriously and recognised at the end of the day, enjoyable linebattles involve getting in a line and laughing your arse off as your regiment tries desperately not to get wiped out.
[I]Total War Multiplayer[/I]
I've seen a 5-1 ratio of spammers/trolls/rude bastards/rule-breakers to genuinely fun people to play with.
[I]Wargame Red Dragon Multiplayer[/I]
Actually, usually quite polite despite the active community being <3000. The only problem is that being able to view the win/loss scores of everyone on the server in seconds means its an arse ache to find a game outside of 10v10, since you'll get kicked from most servers for not having about minimum 100+ wins and spend an awful lot of time waiting for people with actual balls to stay in the server and risk losing against players with better win/loss ratios.
Also, you have to regularly look out for pub-stomps, even on 10v10 servers.
public servers in any game
[editline]24th June 2015[/editline]
hint what i'm trying to say here is they are the worst
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;48037096]Yeah, once you hit level 40 it got super grindy. I ended up giving up at 47 because I could not get passed a certain mission, even with help.
As for PVP lag, if your flagdog isn't lying, it was due to your distance. Only recently did I learn that Ace Online us the US version, while Air Rivals was the EU version.
Unless you were talking about FPS lag v:v:v[/QUOTE]
No, network lag, there were some PVP Arena thingies you could play in, but I never won either because other players had way better equipment, or I simply couldn't hit them.
When I played Ace Online I lived in Italy though, I only had a 700 kb/s connection (for 50€, which was a huge rip off).
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