Originally Posted by
loli
i agree soo much, i rant and cry about this a lot
in abd, trying to leg grab, shovel, use decap openers, or anything like that was a huge faux pas back in the day. nobody did it and if you did you're an asshole. people played to have fun and now people only play to win, by any means possible. abd used to be my absolute favorite mod and now i havent had fun playing it in a long time. similar stories for the other popular competitive mods.
meta evolved to cancer, everyone plays the exact same way
i really miss the 2012-2016 days of toribash
This is what I sum it up to. It's the reason why wushu is dead to me and i can confidently say it is to others too. I don't care to win or lose, I try to make the most out of every fight. Even if I'm up 10k points in wushufixed, I'll always arm up a comeback and do it. Where's the fun in just holding all? Duels are a bit different so it doesn't really apply all the time, unless you're just friendly wagering things, then by all means do whatever.
This is the same reason I've always had respect for select members in RelaxAll, Alpha, and Fl0w. Back in their own respective days, there would be private lobbies full of them, or scattered about just playing the game trying to make the most of it; trying to just have fun and give it their all. There's more skill to show after a series of comebacks and strikes in wushu but still losing, versus holding all or running away after a point lead.
People seem too fixated on the win, they forget everything else about the game. This is how I see it.
Maya's response above was also good.