Those Days

[Alvendor]

I've found it helps a bit to have both friendly and league games going at the same time. Now and then I get the urge to experiment with some new stuff, doing that in friendlies (and loosing) gets me more concentrated in the league games.

I also do all of the above mentioned mistakes, except for the daughter thing! Part of it is just skill I think. Being good in Outwitters includes learning not to undeploy the bombshell by mistake etc. My most common issue is that I see one or two moves that are obvious for a round and I do them first as it helps me visualize the rest of the turn better. Only to find out that the obvious moves weren't obvious at all and a better move was possible..

But I have also done some really stupid stuff:
* Thinking a soldier can one-shot a boosted mobi
* Forgetting to take the wit space
* Spawning a unit at the wrong spawn point so I end up with two medics at the same place

I don't even understand how it is possible for me to do these things. Maybe the only comfort is that everyone else does stupid stuff as well?

[GoHeat 3]

Whenever I make a stupid mistake in one game it tends to make me play terrible in the next because all I can think about is the loss before and how easily I could have won. Yeah it just happened to me.

[Ja Karta]

I keep thinking (for whatever reason) that a soldier and a runner will kill a boosted soldier.

Twice recently (and more in the past) I have a heavy/sniper, runner, and two soldiers set to kill two boosted soldiers... and then I attack incorrectly.
Quickly losing the resulting exchange...


Hasn't cost me a league game yet (that I can recall), but man it's frustrating when you have the higher level strategy working for you and you blunder the tactical portion.
:/




For what it's worth OP, those 'brain stalls' are part of why I play the game.
Things like forgetting that my base was at 4hp and not adjusting my defense or that there was a sniper in the FoW.
They're annoying when they happen. But they help me call attention to poor cogntive habits. I've only been playing (and moderately) for a few weeks and the number of *terrible* blunders I make is significantly reduced.
Still a long way to go. But I like to think that the game is making my brain a better organ.



PS: To +1 Alvendor, I went from having really irregular quality games to a (thus far continuing) ~20 league game win streak once I started playing not more than one or two league games at a time and playing a number of friendlies instead. Friendlies, besides letting you try new strats let you play more loosley. (Play what feels right, as opposed to calculating everything.) Personally, I sometimes just want to get a game in and friendlies are good for that.

If you don't have any mates to do friendlies with just ask someone you had a good league match with. Everyone I've asked has been happy to.

[harvarnold]

Two recent mistakes of mine:
In a 2v2 game, my base what at 1 health, but we had a huge unit advantage. My heavy is surrounded by 3 runners, 1 green who will go next turn, and 2 blue. I kill one of the blues, totally ignoring the fact that we will lose next turn. We lose next turn

In a tournament game against harti!, I had five wits left and a soldier 2 spaces away from my spawn. I spawn a heavy, move it, and then suddenly realize I have no more wits. *Facepalm*

[Gf!sh]

I once forgot that my base was at 3 hp, thinking I could win a base race.

[jimbo2shady]

I usually click a selected unit again to un-select them, and almost always uproot my bramble the same way.....but I bet it freaks the other player out for a brief second, or they get vision of my entire base and think I'm an idiot.

[Willythewile]

(02-26-2013 09:59 PM)harvarnold Wrote:  Two recent mistakes of mine:
In a 2v2 game, my base what at 1 health, but we had a huge unit advantage. My heavy is surrounded by 3 runners, 1 green who will go next turn, and 2 blue. I kill one of the blues, totally ignoring the fact that we will lose next turn. We lose next turn

In a tournament game against harti!, I had five wits left and a soldier 2 spaces away from my spawn. I spawn a heavy, move it, and then suddenly realize I have no more wits. *Facepalm*

Facepalm??

[connor34911]

(02-26-2013 10:21 PM)Gfich Wrote:  I once forgot that my base was at 3 hp, thinking I could win a base race.

This happens to me but in a slightly different way. In long games (50 turns) I will sometimes forget that my base had been hit by a runner at the beginning of the game. Since 4hp bases don't flash much, I will not notice and will let a runner and mobi sniper through then lose the game. This most commonly happens on TG, but recently happened to me on CCM in a 2v2 game.

[Mag!cGuy]

(02-27-2013 01:01 AM)Willythewile Wrote:  

(02-26-2013 09:59 PM)harvarnold Wrote:  Two recent mistakes of mine:
In a 2v2 game, my base what at 1 health, but we had a huge unit advantage. My heavy is surrounded by 3 runners, 1 green who will go next turn, and 2 blue. I kill one of the blues, totally ignoring the fact that we will lose next turn. We lose next turn

In a tournament game against harti!, I had five wits left and a soldier 2 spaces away from my spawn. I spawn a heavy, move it, and then suddenly realize I have no more wits. *Facepalm*

Facepalm??

It's when you put your hand on your head because you realise that what you did is stupid, or simply when you see someone being dumb never been on 9gag?

[joelduque]

What happens to you when you have a bad day?
I tend to make more mistakes.
What do you do when you're having a bad day?
I relax to destress. Hopefully, it would become better.
How do you avoid making mistakes in general?
I study the correct way of doing things and focus on doing them.