2 way communication is key

3 years ago by CluelessDude to c/gaming

XCraftMC 133 points 3 years ago

all of these cliché relationships where people don't seem to understand basic forms of communication just confuse me. if you feel this way, tell them! If you don't like something their doing, say something! this isnt highschool; it's not a guessing game anymore, it's people.

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Neil 65 points 3 years ago

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starman2112 42 points 3 years ago

It's always high school. Always has been, always will be. After generations of learning how to interact with each other in romantic contexts from media, what do you expect? Especially when we spend our formative years watching media that's written to appeal to people in their formative years, you end up with a lot of people acting like poorly written characters because that's how they learned to interact with each other.

Not to say that our generation is worse than previous generations, of course. Back then dudes didn't know how to not hit their wives. Now we just don't know how to talk. A marked improvement, I'd say

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Maeve 11 points 3 years ago

Back then dudes didn’t know how to not hit their wives.

A good manny still don’t know, until the wife/gf teach them, usually via reciprocal means. :-/

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idunnololz 3 points 3 years ago

I'm really glad I was able to develop good communication skills in my life of work. When I just started out I made some pretty bad communication errors and I got to see the effects of the errors and learn from my mistakes.

Pretty much learned from the start to just never assume anything. If it's important, say it even if you think the other party knows it already. Because at "worst" you just said something obvious but at best you realize there is a communication gap ASAP.

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Lucidlethargy 130 points 3 years ago

Bullshit.

All gamers ever say is shit like "it's over here!!", or "I'm here, dude!! Right over HERE."

I'll tell you, once we all find out where "here" is, the gamers will have nothing left to stop them from world domination.

Alas, the search continues...

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A_Very_Big_Fan 24 points 3 years ago

You're playing with silvers

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Artyom 23 points 3 years ago

There are two types of games. There are games where locations are unnamed, and there's CSGO, where Hog Dog is an extremely specific place.

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OrekiWoof 8 points 3 years ago

it's not a problem in CS at least, just look where he is on the minimap

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idunnololz 6 points 3 years ago

Also people can definitely be passive aggressive playing competitive games.

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CurlyMoustache 6 points 3 years ago

I played PUBG with a mate of mine back in the day. He was awful at communication. "THERE! I SEE SOMEONE!!", he would shout into my ear after talking about boring stuff like DnD, which he loves. Then he'd die seconds after, and get pissy because I didn't help him kill the other player.

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jaybone 3 points 3 years ago

That sounds fun.

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EvacuateSoul 1 point 3 years ago

Classic Pubg: "By the tree!"

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AngryCommieKender 5 points 3 years ago

You've never heard Goonswarm Comms. Utter chaos until someone utters the word "Check." Then we all turn into pilots with complete comms silence except the guy calling for help and the fleet commander that gets to jump in to save the dummy.

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Aqarius 4 points 3 years ago

My kingdom for a properly phrased contact report

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winky9827b 0 points 3 years ago

Meanwhile, in Dead By Daylight, people have divided all maps in to numbered zones for this shit. Lazy gonna be lazy. Smart gonna be...

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Swedneck 71 points 3 years ago

everyone going on about how gamers can't communicate for shit, meanwhile deep rock galactic players INSTANTLY agree that the compressed gold must be pinged unceasingly until management shouts at you, with no verbal communication whatsoever.

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AnUnusualRelic 20 points 3 years ago

We're rich!

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JayJay 14 points 3 years ago

We're rich!

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Shadow 10 points 3 years ago

Yes yes, we're rich we're rich. Now get back to work.

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Electricorchestra 6 points 3 years ago

Also all gamers immediately Rock and Stone!

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Swedneck 3 points 3 years ago

For Karl!

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TheBlue22 56 points 3 years ago

In houndreds or public matches I've played in CS over the years, maybe like 10 had teammates who all actually used callouts

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Cethin 21 points 3 years ago

I used to solo-queue almost exclusively. Almost always every teammate communicated. This was like 5+ years ago though, so maybe things have changed. I also frequently initiated the communication and kept things going and didn't get mad at people, so that all helps too. From my experience, be nice and communicate and general the same will be returned, but against this was a while ago.

(I'm assuming CS is Counter Strike, and not like competitive multiplayer Cities Skylines or something.)

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Natanael 6 points 3 years ago

(I'm assuming CS is Counter Strike, and not like competitive multiplayer Cities Skylines or something.)

"Natural disaster, meteor from northwest, prepare fire fighters!"

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Anticorp 19 points 3 years ago

100% of them called out that they fucked my mother though.

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CurlyMoustache 10 points 3 years ago

Who hasn't?

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A_Very_Big_Fan 17 points 3 years ago

I've been exclusively queueing Office since CS2 dropped and most people know the call outs. Idk what it is about that particular map. (Dust2 is okay too)

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fiddlesticks 8 points 3 years ago

Anyone you meet on office has likely never played a different map and therefore knows everything about it.

Source: am office player

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Reddit_Is_Trash 2 points 3 years ago

Office has an entire community that mains just that one map

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MystikIncarnate 3 points 3 years ago

I could never figure out the built in callouts... Anytime I played with the bots in CS:GO, they would always do callouts and I'm pretty sure they're just baked in, but I have no idea where, or how to use them.

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Cethin 7 points 3 years ago

Those are displayed on your minimap. Some of them are used by players, and players will know what you mean anyway, but most position calls by players are different from those. They're also frequently regional, so there can be many calls for a single position. They're pretty much always one or two syllables, and usually there's a few similar ones that appear on many maps. Cat, for example, is any catwalk (the most important one on the map if there are multiple). Heaven/Hell is any raised or lowered area respectively, usually with Hell just below Heaven.

You just have to listen to people and ask if you don't know them, maybe also watch some professional matches as the casters also usually use the most common calls for that language.

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MystikIncarnate 3 points 3 years ago

Thanks for the insight. I appreciate it.

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TSG_Asmodeus 51 points 3 years ago

As someone who has played ranked FPS' since... they existed (sigh), and the number of times I had a male teammate throw a tantrum and then refuse to make callouts is... Probably in the hundreds. From QTF to CS to TF2 to Apex...

During a CAL-im match, Dan? Really, Dan?

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quinkin 15 points 3 years ago

Oh yeah, even with friends. Everyone in my discord has had a good sook at the others. "I thought you were with me!" proceed to scatter like cats yet again with everyone 'leading'

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MystikIncarnate 5 points 3 years ago

Everyone is the leader, and zero people are following. Gg everyone.

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A_Very_Big_Fan 7 points 3 years ago

QTF

we got a fossil over here

(I'm too young to have played Quake when multiplayer was a thing ;-; but I do speedrun it)

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CurlyMoustache 5 points 3 years ago

I have fond memories of playing Doom via a null modem cable

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ChronosWing 3 points 3 years ago

Quake Multi-player is still alive with the remasters that were released recently.

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A_Very_Big_Fan 4 points 3 years ago

I've tried it and I had a lot of fun with it at release, but the queue times for matchmaking got unreal (pun intended) pretty quick. I mainly play Half-Life and Quake Live now but it's not quite the same

(but HL1's multiplayer is the bomb tbh, just a lot of servers are dead)

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ChronosWing 3 points 3 years ago

Yep, I have very fond memories of HL1 multiplayer, also there were SO many HL1 mods that were just incredibly fun.

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poplargrove 43 points 3 years ago

Ah yes, "wife bad", a staple of boomer humor.

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Isoprenoid 64 points 3 years ago

This was more "guys bad. Nuh, uh, girls bad." Everyone getting dunked on in this one.

Maybe it was the communication issues we gained along the way.

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sj_zero 7 points 3 years ago

Huh? But my wi-fi is fine?

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echodot 59 points 3 years ago

It's a response in kind to a equally dumb comment.

The original comment is massively generalist so the response is equally generalist.

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LavaPlanet 1 point 3 years ago

I don't know, I read the original meaning, believe they're capable, in rebuke to the stereotype men just *can't do anything, so don't even try, like they're incapable toddlers, or something. To me it was a cheeky way of taking a shot at that thinking, that men aren't capable.

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pyrflie 26 points 3 years ago

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spacecadet 17 points 3 years ago

30% positive communication, 70% ending life long relationships over a missed gank

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Draegur 7 points 3 years ago

easy summation of why i refuse to play League or any other game in its genre.

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Fallenwout 19 points 3 years ago

The built-in "storm the front" and "go go go" voice buttons is all we needed.

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Draegur 15 points 3 years ago

i've been in relationships where someone passive-aggressively refuses to communicate (or simply through incompetence doesn't know how, and/or came to believe that I was supposed to already intuitively know their position and condition)

One such relationship recently ended on thankfully good terms.

One such relationship was years ago and never quite got off the ground because I was NOT going to play along with the stupid games.

Several others got up through the initial courtship phases but then disintegrated as I realized that my partner at the time was not going to engage me on an honest basis.

These people are real. They're really out there. And they're either destined to be vaguely miserable forever, or someone is going to have to teach them and make them intensely miserable in the immediacy until they learn - and not many people have the patience or psychological energy to guide someone (who is kicking and screaming objections about how they shouldn't have to change or grow or adapt because they're special and perfect just as they are) through establishing a basic understanding of communication.

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LavaPlanet 4 points 3 years ago

When people are adults, it's their job to learn the things and seek the knowledge and self improve. That thinking that you can save someone, that one will always get you in hot water. You just focus on improving you. And leaving the drift wood behind.

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Fixbeat 11 points 3 years ago

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wreckedcarzz 16 points 3 years ago

This is the way to the big gay

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Chivera -6 points 3 years ago

Exact

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andrew_bidlaw 6 points 3 years ago

Love is...

...to be communicated via MW2 lobby lingo.

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