• Best and Worst playerbases in games
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Any of the "mainstream" mass-competitive games. Dota, LoL, WoT, CSGO, and WT have some of the worst playerbases on the planet. Minecraft, Unturned, DayZ, and Rust also have horrible playerbases, the former two being composed of plenty of less-than-smart kids. TF2 lies in the middle. On the 'Good' side, I'm not too sure. Insurgency and Red Orchestra are generally pretty good.
people who play obscure (but still good) indie games are some of the most chill people I know of, save for some undesirables.
Best: Dark Souls Worst: Dark Souls
AOE2 has the best one for sure. It's the only game I know of where you can enter a 4v4 ranked game with 7 strangers and when one person disconnects everyone agrees to save and leave the game, ultimately making it a draw. Also, in rare cases when the DC was accidental everyone will reload the game and start over from where the DC happened. Most people I've come across in this game has been down to earth and honorable for lack of a better word. For the game with the worst playerbase I will go with dota or csgo. The amount of flamming and hate you will get in public games for no good reason is simply astounding and sometimes people will even go to your profile page and continue their rant there.
CS:GO with brazillians was the shittiest thing i've ever experienced in my life, legit gave me some form of PTSD. Completely changed my standards. I'm 100% okay with the DOTA community these days.
[QUOTE=The_Funk;48047182]Best: [B]Insurgency[/B] has a relatively serious userbase, not so serious that they'll chew you out for dying or making a mistake, but committed enough that people will help if you're new or unfamiliar. This is also one of the [i]very[/i] few games where I would bring a mic, as it's easy to build up a level of camaraderie even with randoms. The lack of real shitheads is due to how easily you can die, there is very little room for egos when cocky rambo tactics get shut down immediately.[/QUOTE] While Insurgency has a very low amount of shitheads, it still kinda bothers me how inactive the voice channels are in a teamplay focussed game. Matches are pretty much always chaotic and their outcome random. The only way to play Insurgency somewhat organized and tactically are competitive PUGs, which unfortunately are only played in 5 vs 5 matches (which is not what I got Insurgency for).
It's a shame Rust's community is utterly abysmal, because it looks like such an interesting game. That's why i'm generally rather hesitant of multiplayer-only games, because if the community is either dead or intolerable then i've basically wasted money. [editline]28th June 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Mezzokoko;48073582]While Insurgency has a very low amount of shitheads, it still kinda bothers me how inactive the voice channels are in a teamplay focussed game. Matches are pretty much always chaotic and their outcome random. The only way to play Insurgency somewhat organized and tactically are competitive PUGs, which unfortunately are only played in 5 vs 5 matches (which is not what I got Insurgency for).[/QUOTE]Yeh, my general experience has been that random Insurgency pubbers are not rude, but generally uncooperative and incompetent; a problem in a game all about teamwork.
Warframe doesn't have too much of a bad community. Most people are generally nice and helpful, though there are a few jackasses here and there, especially in the trading section. As for terrible, MOBAs generally have terrible communities, but god help you if you play Ark: Survival on a non-PvE server.
I find that Paradox games have both a good and shitty community. The mod makers can occasionally come up with neat alt history scenarios or well made tweak/rebalance mods but on the flip side a number of their fans have their heads so far up Paradox's ass that they could release a DLC that changed every other word to "chicken" and they would hail it as a great addition to the game.
Destiny community was the friendliest community I've met. So many random people helped me and explained me how to do raids and stuff.
I had extremely pleasant experiences with the God Eater community.
Best: The fighting game community, tons of people looking to have fun and talk shit, usually hilarious The Souls community, filled with friendly, helpful people who will go out of their way to help you through the games without spoiling them Strategy game players The Dwarf Fortress community, I've never seen a negative comment come from a Dwarf Fortress player The Role Playing community, especially for games like Fallout or the Elder Scrolls, or for older CRPGs, you just have to avoid the porn mods. The many, many porn mods. Worst: The fighting game community, tons of people looking to sling shit and can't handle when they're beaten, many people who take trash talking too far and are just insulting. The Souls community, too many min-maxxers who refuse to deviate from the meta and insist that new players "git gud" without ever trying to help. MOBA players, especially LoL's community FPS players, Call of Duty holds the crown for most children and adults who act like children but they're all filled with these assholes, CSGO, Battlefield, Killing Floor you name it and you'll run into whiners who complain that you aren't playing right even when you're twice their score. Usually people who don't play the objectives and just go for kills.
I'm just going to say WoT again. fuck those guys. FTP really brings the trash in.
[QUOTE=Anderan;48077214]I find that Paradox games have both a good and shitty community. The mod makers can occasionally come up with neat alt history scenarios or well made tweak/rebalance mods but on the flip side a number of their fans have their heads so far up Paradox's ass that they could release a DLC that changed every other word to "chicken" and they would hail it as a great addition to the game.[/QUOTE] There are 2 kinds of Paradox fans 90% of the time. Side A: Loves Paradox to death, and refuses to say anything negative/accept anything negative about Paradox. They will support game features being removed and sold as DLC (ps: they've done that), they will blindly support game-breaking/fun-ruining updates/"bug fixes", and will do anything they can to get recognition from the Paradox team. Side B: Hates everything that Paradox does, refuses anything outside of the most abysmally "hardcore and realistic" mods that remove all entertainment, will shit on you for playing certain nations/shit on you for playing certain nations differently than they want.
The Worst Are - Competitive games like MOBAs, Counter Strike, e.t.c. - The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. You get these amazing, expansive games and all people do is bitch about them. -Survival games. Rust, DayZ, ARK. All of them just turn into glorified, unbalanced PvP. - Free to play titles in general are bound to attract shitheads. - Total War's community is toxic and entitled - ARMA. I love these games and have plenty of friends who play them, but holy shit it is by far the most arrogant community of armchair warriors in the world. Any criticism of the game of Bohemia Interactive is deflected with "its not CoD bruh" to the point where they are worse than the CoD fanbase they spit on. - Virtually any online sandbox game is filled with people who just want it to be a free for all deathmatch. The Best Are - Roleplaying games (sans TES) always seem to have nice communities. - Paradox Interactive, although their community is sometimes [I]too[/I] loyal and will defend them for their awful DLC policy. - Some FPS communities are nice. That's it to be honest. Most communities are ass, and the more competitive the game, the worse the community.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48103663]They will support game features being removed and sold as DLC (ps: they've done that) [/QUOTE] Do tell.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;48116016]Do tell.[/QUOTE] You are required essentially to purchase the "Common Sense" DLC to be able to access features for building up provinces or playing as the protestants.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48116069]You are required essentially to purchase the "Common Sense" DLC to be able to access features for building up provinces or playing as the protestants.[/QUOTE] I don't mind there expansions so much, but most of the DLC is just ridiculous. You want your characters in CKII to not look like fucking potato people? Pay us 2 dollars please. You want European units to not look like the same jackoff in a byrnie? Another 2 dollars. You want [I]fucking event pictures for Muslims?[/I] Gib monee. It's completely ludicrous.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48116069]You are required essentially to purchase the "Common Sense" DLC to be able to access features for building up provinces or playing as the protestants.[/QUOTE] Don't forget that they removed pirates at one point only to add them back in a later DLC.
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;48116350]I don't mind there expansions so much[/QUOTE] Oh no I'm not kidding. Without the Common Sense expansion pack, you are unable to build certain improvements in your provinces that will benefit you in the long run, and huge amounts of features for protestant nations are stripped out and put behind a paywall (events, bonuses, playstyle changes, etc.)
LoL is fucking shit Stopped playing a while ago because I would just get shouted at because I was messing up. Ace Attorney community is fucking rad! Some of my best mates come from that fandom. Even if I don't keep up with the series anymore it's just so nice to see people excited for the new releases.
I can't stand what probably amounts to half of the Dota 2 community because of how damned elitist they are. The instant you mention league, smite or HoS they go absolutely apeshit. Like, seriously, I actually think they beat their chests and crap in their hands and smear it on the screen in sheer anger.
I've met a lot of chill people on Synergy. For some reason it attracts a lot of foreigners, though. Met plenty of Russians and some Chinese players. Thankfully they weren't shitheads. And I can agree, L4D2 has a shit community if you even try to play Versus mode. It's still fairly fun to play through the campaign with random people. I've never been kicked from a session while playing the campaign, and typically people are rather nice. You do have to deal with really bad players who often leave whenever they become incapacitated, but it's not that bad.
For me Good - DCS - ArmA Communities (yes fparma i love you too) - War Thunder (to an extent) Bad - MOBAs - CSGO - Rust - Majority of the ArmA public (literally cancer)
Best community I've been a part of is the Smash Brothers competitive community. met loads of cool people through it and we all just want to see each other improve.
[QUOTE=paul simon;48040194][B]Any community with a forum that isn't Facepunch[/B] - I find the lack of banned people quite disturbing[/QUOTE]this, and so much; almost every other place i've ran into has felt like an irradiated, meme-filled special needs kindergarten compared to Facepunch
[B]Best[/B] Mount and Blade: Warband native. Helpful bunch of people who are excellent but don't show off. Red Orchestra 2: Cool people who want to help new players get good at the game. Half Life community: Full of great modders and interesting people. Company of Heroes: Generally friendly and quite helpful. [B]Worst[/B] Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Wars. Memeshit, ''get rekt olol" and chat spam of "America is shit." and "ISIS is glory." Call of Duty: Full of whining 6 year olds and micspam. Rust/DayZ: "plz unban me from servur pls!!!11" is what makes up some of the community. CS:GO: PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH FOR CHRISTS' SAKE.
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