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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.
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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".
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
#153How is this different from metafy.gg who just raised a pretty large round?
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#154As opposed to an actual person and an actual game.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers
#156Small 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.
Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers
#157Can your models explain why certain moves are better and not just recommend what to do next?
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#158This 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.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.