This is really just a little thing I have noticed over the last week or so. My game has really started to take a down turn, such as im finding myself with 7 kills to 18 deaths and loosing alot on supreme commander: FA.
Im not sure what has caused this sudden down turn in my playing abillaty, but I think I've narrowed it down to lack of sleep, grenade launchers and mainly friends.
The lack of sleep is not from playing games too much but from 2 other things. 1. Labradors, my dogs have taken to sleeping on my bed and moving around during the night and 2. Downloading GTA4 which has taken me 6 days to download on steam so I've had to leave my PC running with its overly loud fans and bright blue lights.
The grenade launcher for obvious reasons. If I could go back in time I would remove the grenade launcher from history just to stop the suffering of millions of gamers and extra's in 80's action films. Its just a quick and easy way to kill someone. So much so that it defeats the object of having bullets at all, infact I feel sorry for the grenade launcher, in games like Battlefield 2 you hardly use it because for the biggest and most sinister thing brought into gaming. Regenerative health! If people lost health from bullets and didn't magically gain health back then their would be alot less 'noobtubing' and more shooting.
However I can't change that in modern games. So my last point and biggest is friends.
I'm not the most popular of lads, I know that, but I have 8-9 close friends who I see reguarly. 2 of them are hardcore gamers, 4 of them are casual gamers who play an afternoon of xbox a week and maybe have a small LAN at mine, 1 is a royal marine (he did the full training but got medically discharged before he went into combat) the most gaming he did was complete boarderlands, 1's a girl who had one game of CoD6 and beat me with one kill and has never let me forget it, but apart from that she hates games, and the last one is my marine friends older brother (thats why its a 8-9) he hangs around from time to time and talks alot of older games like the original AoE and things. Anyhow, the reason that they may be an issue with my gaming is because with the British summer on our door steps everyones been realing out the BBQ's, so instead of gaming ive been socialising and going to the local to enjoy a cider on a sunny afternoon. So this week (or whats left of it) I have got nothing planned at all, until Sunday, besides games. If I want to get back into my grove of positive KD/R then I've got to get focused and less social :lol: