Comment by AussieWog93
1 day ago
I used to really enjoy this aspect of older games like Warcraft 3 and TF2.
You'd get the one guy on your server who was just in another league compared to everyone else, and it was so satisfying to get the kill on him. And sometimes, it would be you pubstomping.
Then again, back then I don't think people cared as much about winning and losing.
Something definitely was lost with the addition of ranked ladders and global skill-based matchmaking systems. It was quite a long time, maybe 10y, before TF2 even got one.
And yet it had a healthy, if unhyped, competitive scene long before that.