Company of Heroes

I was just wondering how you guys dealt with the frustration that comes with losing in company of heroes. I only really get annoyed when i get beaten by horrid, abusive strats. ( i.e kangaroo, or assault nade spam ) But i dont really have any ways of dealing with this and tend to just play consecutive games untill i win again. Often making me lose up to 5 games before one win. ( As im not thinking straight ) So yeah, what do you guys do?

Stop playing 5 games consecutively? Really, if you play this game too much, frustrations just start to grow.

If it's a ragequit, don't play immediately again afterwards, take a little time to relax a bit and do something else that's less emotionally involved for a short while.

beat my g/f

A few mindless round of CoD4 / 5 tend to get my mind off things.


I only really get mad over games where someone abuses faction weaknesses to the extremes, like pioneer spam against the British and getting mine happy against the PE.

Online porn.

and

long walks on the beach with the lieutenant

I never get mad about losing. Just say 'gg' and live on. Play to have fun and if you ever stop having fun for any reason (like losing) then stop playing for a while.

Online porn is a redundancy. "Internet is for porn."

i go to sleep

Simple, I don't. It's a cliché, but I say it nonetheless: Its just a game. I try to get never angry or irritated, the game is not worth it.

Watch the replay of the game you have lost, maybe you'll find mistakes you'll be able to avoid during the next match, you may even find something to counter those tricky strats.

deal with it or best of all dont get mad if you can help it

staying "cool" will help your game a lot

';'peace';'

I noticed as I was reading this thread that there was an advertisement on the right for "Online Anger Management Classes".

I get angry at myself when I lose to someone I know I should be able to beat. I can see that they have been making mistakes, but for whatever reason I'm not on my game and get beat. I'm not an expert RTS player and need to play fairly frequently to be any good, so these losses are the kick in the pants I need to practice.

I surprise myself sometimes by just how pissed off I can get right at the end of a game despite telling myself repeatedly that it's just a game and not let it get to me.

Shame really because 2 or 3 minutes later I come to my senses and think what a good game it must have been to be so long and close that one silly mistake or OP unit made the difference.

On the other hand I think it must be the emotional involvement that keeps drawing me back so in sme ways I welcome the rage. Other wise I wouldn't care and stop getting better.

Oh.

p.s. On topic. Go for a walk. Have a nice cup of tea. In a really bad case - contemplate washing the kitchen floor. Then decide to have just one more game first.

This post has been edited by RonaldDumsfeld: Nov 4 2009, 19:09 PM

CoH doesn't bother me very often as its usually just yourself to blame for losing but HoN, well in HoN I get pretty fucking angry and just rage at the nearest person on my team until I feel better.

Have a break, play something where you cant lose or you may fall deeper and deeper. Talk with friends for some time, will help you get rid of anger and frustration.

And trust me, it still will be hard, even after few years of playing, to keep head cool, sometimes. I can do that in team games, but in 1v1s when someone is abusing it is making me go crazy sometimes.

i usally rage on TS to my clan mates for abit, chill out and do something else and play some more.

I just don't get how people can become so angry at losing a game of coh. The only game I really get wound up by from time to time is football manager, but that's because a couple of downright unfair results can wreck a season that takes weeks to complete. I still regard that as pretty sad, but people who get in a proper rage over an RTS probably should go see someone.

I don't get angry, but I get very frustrated when I lose games where I feel I outplayed my opponent. Things like starting at the bottom of sturz generally lead to a game of frustration

I confess that i become very emotinal over Coh.
You just need to ask my 2v2 partners.

My own mistakes/bugged game mechanics (retreat not working, units stoping on the retreat) get me angry. (notso)cool story: in one if our last 2v2s i got so angry over a fail retreat i hit on my table so hard the phone i was using to communicate with my mate jumped up and fell on the floor.

Losing/facing OP stuff not so much, it just frustrates me. So i mostly stop after a losing streak of 2-3 because i know it wont lead anywhere.

Seems like i can accept others beeing better than me, but not me myself failing.
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This post has been edited by ElDiabolo: Nov 4 2009, 21:05 PM