You have to do spicy drops to get into the fight fast, but the fast fights are scraps with low-tier weapons. The maps are massive and reward snipers, but in the majority of games, new players aren't acquiring sniper rifles with 8x scopes.
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So, a new player can spend twenty minutes walking around, none of them learning. This is different from games like UT and CS, where I'd hop into a match and learn within minutes. The structure increases the skill gap.
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Most of the players who have the skills to succeed in BR are carrying skills over from games that actually teach those skills. There's macro-level tactics unique to BR, but at the end of the match, you still have to win a fight the genre doesn't prepare you for.
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You can still learn purely from playing a Battle Royale game, of course. I just think it would take ten, twenty times as long as another shooter that rewards the same skillset.
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That's a good point. There's also the common "1 death and you have to find a completely new match" design decision compared to the extremely fast respawns on a lot of older shooters which again feels like it can slow down learning the shooting mechanics
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Yep. That's the part that sticks with me -- this entire genre punishes learning. And shooters are entirely about learning. It took me entire summers as a teenager to learn the fundamentals of competitive shooters.
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Wow! Thank you for this insight. I wondered why I dislike these games SO much and yet used to love shooters. I realise it’s also reflexes and I’m old now, as well, but this explains quite a bit.
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