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Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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In-game coaching _is_ considered cheating in FGC tournaments

Yep, for any sort of eSport you can’t have outside help/information outside of designated times if the format allows it, but also this isn’t targeted at eSports.

Yeah but it's not allowed in esports because it provides an unfair advantage. It's still unethical and provides an unfair advantage outside of the esports community, there just isn't a judge watching all the players and enforcing it.

Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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As a League of Legends player, it's very common. Virtually everyone that I know that plays this game has some sort of overlay(LolWiz, Porofessor, Blitz.gg, etc.) that provides unimaginable level of detail about the enemy team and my team before the game even begins. I can find out what the enemy players like to do("invade", or initiate cheese fights early), roam to other lanes in the map, and more. I know what their…

Couldn't you look yourself up and adjust your playstyle accordingly? Like "oh, these guys will be expecting me to do X, but now I'm going to do Y instead to throw them off".

From my experience it's most useful for getting information on clear outliers. The ranking system might rank a very good player with terrible players until the ranking settles in. A few players are "boosted" by other players to reach higher ranks. In such situations it might be useful as you know that specific opponent on the other team is the one to watch out for or who to focus.

There is a lot of summary stats available, but the most useful one from personal experience is the win ratio. If the data tells you that one player on the other team wins 70 % of the games, then that's usually a clear indicator that the ranking of that player is most likely lower than it should be.

It might just be a better or worse player overall, so adapting to it might not be possible, except for knowing who to put pressure on.

Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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This sounds like "Deadly Boss Mods for games other than WoW" which probably is just cheating. I'd be really interested in a product that does more of what a human coach would do.

I was thinking the same thing. Blizzard explicitly allows this kind of thing but most games do not. Even with DBM - there used to be an addon that told you exactly where to stand to avoid different bosses attacks. That got banned pretty quickly because it over trivialized the mechanics.

For suresies. I didn't play in Firelands but I heard some stories of the "drawing football plays on the ground" era. We used a similar addon for Sha of Fear p1 side platform but it displayed where to stand on a HUD, not on the actual floor.

Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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Small nitpick/advice, the hero subtext should be a little bit shorter and more to the point (you have 3 instances of "get better at games" paraphrasing). I like how descriptive the rest of your site's copy is, but the hero should be parseable in its entirety very quickly.

Thanks for the suggestion. I believe you're referring to "Up To Date Lol Meta Champions With Tier List" title on the League of Legends page. We'll work on that.

Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

#158

This may be an interesting idea to pivot and apply as an assistive technology for users with disabilities, I'm not sure how many modern games are easily accessible to them.

This is an amazing idea! Thank you very much. We'll definitely consider how we can execute on this.

Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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I was thinking the same thing. Blizzard explicitly allows this kind of thing but most games do not. Even with DBM - there used to be an addon that told you exactly where to stand to avoid different bosses attacks. That got banned pretty quickly because it over trivialized the mechanics.

I'd say DBM being PvE is a big difference. But WoW generally is a whole other beast just because of how addons are ingrained in it.

Competitive PvE exists too (speedruns, world first races, etc). In FFXIV mods are less tolerated and while some raiders use triggers (TTS voice lines triggered by enemy actions or friendly buffs to tell you what to do), many consider it borderline or actual cheating, while others are fine with it because it's similar to having a player do it (ignoring perfect accuracy and no brain capacity used). So it's a controversial area.
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