Once you see this, You’ll see Competitive Games Differently | Xaryu Reacts

[00:00] Once you see this, you'll see

[00:01] competitive games differently from

[00:03] Cernex on YouTube. I don't know what

[00:06] this video is really about. The title

[00:08] seems really good. And I quickly uh

[00:11] scrolled through the comments and people

[00:13] are saying this is a gold mine

[00:15] explaining video game design by thinking

[00:16] what would cheat. Uh what cheat would

[00:19] break the game such Instagram viewing

[00:20] it. The perfect coach. This is like like

[00:23] like people seem to really like this

[00:25] video and then someone in my Discord

[00:27] says to watch it. So anyway, let's take

[00:28] a look and see what this is about. Once

[00:30] you see this, you'll see competitive

[00:32] games differently.

[00:33] >> Weird. When someone asks, "What kind of

[00:35] games do you like?" Most people struggle

[00:37] to answer. You say, "Tact,

[00:40] >> no, I don't. I've played World of World

[00:42] of Warcraft."

[00:44] >> Bullshooters. And they respond, "Oh, so

[00:46] you must like Counter-Strike, Valerant,

[00:48] and Rainbow Six Siege." And you say, "H,

[00:52] actually only Counterstrike." You say

[00:54] strategy games and someone recommends

[00:56] you civilization when you wanted

[00:58] something more like Hearthstone. Game

[01:00] genres are kind of broken, but I think

[01:03] there's a better way to think about this

[01:05] and it's a much simpler.

[01:06] >> I feel like for WoW players, it's pretty

[01:08] simple. Like you like MMOs and WoW

[01:10] happens to be the best MMO, so it's like

[01:12] pretty pretty simple. I do remember

[01:14] though when I was in high school and I

[01:16] used to tell people like, "Oh, I like to

[01:18] play games." And they would be like

[01:22] they would just start listing off a

[01:23] bunch of like normie games. Or maybe I

[01:25] was the normie the whole time and didn't

[01:27] know it. But I was like, nah, I came

[01:29] World of Warcraft. This is different.

[01:31] Like I'm I'm I'm in this world. I'm

[01:34] living in this world. I've been living

[01:35] in this world. It's it's an experience,

[01:37] you know? It's completely different.

[01:39] >> A way to look at games. And once you see

[01:41] >> Yeah. Yeah. Like FIFA or like Madden or

[01:44] like I mean Halo isn't like that normie,

[01:47] but like Yeah. the sports games. It's

[01:50] like, dude, no, no, no. I'm playing

[01:52] World of Warcraft.

[01:55] >> You'll see games much more differently.

[01:57] But let's start somewhere everyone can

[01:59] agree. Every game has something that

[02:01] separates the good players from the bad

[02:03] ones. [music] Sometimes it's pure skill,

[02:05] your reflexes, your aim, your timing.

[02:09] Sometimes it's information, knowing

[02:11] things the other person doesn't.

[02:13] Sometimes it's something harder to name.

[02:16] the mental side. Reading people,

[02:19] managing randomness, and [music]

[02:20] adapting on the fly.

[02:23] >> These aren't just different skills. They

[02:26] are fundamentally different kinds of

[02:27] gameplay. And most games mix them

[02:30] together in different amounts.

[02:32] So, let me give you three words. Micro,

[02:35] meo, macro. Interesting. So, like World

[02:38] of Warcraft is very

[02:42] knowledgeoriented. I've said this in the

[02:44] past. If you want to be a good WoW

[02:45] player, it doesn't actually take crazy

[02:47] good reaction time. Crazy like micro

[02:49] like the movement is I mean, you know,

[02:51] you want a base level, but like what it

[02:52] really takes is knowledge. Do you know

[02:54] what buttons to press? Do you know what

[02:56] things are about to happen so you can

[02:58] react to them? Do you know what you're

[02:59] supposed to be doing in the game or not?

[03:01] It's just a knowledge gap most of the

[03:03] time. Of course, there's a baseline

[03:05] level of mechanics you need, but it's

[03:06] not that crazy. In other games though,

[03:10] it requires just much much much level

[03:13] higher levels of mechanics. And the game

[03:14] knowledge is still really good. In any

[03:16] game, it's really good. But if you don't

[03:18] have those mechanics, you're just going

[03:19] to get owned, you know.

[03:23] Now, here's where it gets interesting

[03:25] and a little uncomfortable. What if I

[03:27] told you the clearest way to understand

[03:29] what a game is actually testing is to

[03:32] think about how you'd cheat in it? If

[03:35] you wanted to completely break a game to

[03:37] make it trivially easy, what cheat would

[03:41] you use? The answer to that question

[03:44] tells you more about a game than any

[03:46] genre.

[03:47] >> Oh, I never thought about that. Okay,

[03:48] hold on. If we're going to cheat in WoW

[03:50] arenas, how are we going to cheat?

[03:55] I haven't really thought about this.

[03:57] like the best possible bots.

[04:00] I mean, they would just they would they

[04:02] would anytime a cooldown is popped on

[04:04] the enemy team, they would instantly

[04:06] have the perfect response to it. So that

[04:09] just a stupid amount of knowledge win

[04:11] trading. No, no, not like cheating your

[04:14] arena rating. Cheating like a a cheat to

[04:17] make you impossible to like lose an

[04:19] arena match. Um, you would have kickbots

[04:22] and scripts, but it would like react

[04:24] perfectly to every situation. Not just

[04:26] like a guess or an approximation, but

[04:28] like a perfect response, a perfect

[04:30] defensive response to every offensive

[04:33] the opponent used. Right? So, let's put

[04:36] this to the test. What is micro?

[04:40] >> Micro is the execution layer. It's your

[04:43] aim, your timing, your movement, your

[04:45] muscle memory. Yeah,

[04:46] >> an example of a microche looks like an

[04:49] aimbot. Perfect inputs every single

[04:52] time.

[04:52] >> Is that an aimbot? Oh my gosh.

[04:53] >> The game can [laughter] be broken by

[04:54] perfect execution. That's a micro game.

[04:58] OSU, Geometry Dash, Aim Trainers, and

[05:01] Tetris are a few examples. You can cheat

[05:04] in osu with perfect cursor tracking. You

[05:06] can cheat in Geometry Dash with perfect

[05:08] jumps.

[05:09] >> Gosh,

[05:09] >> these are execution cheats and you can

[05:12] feel them microness when you play them.

[05:14] Okay.

[05:16] >> Mezzo is the probability layer, the

[05:18] place where mind games exist. You're

[05:21] reacting to the unpredictable nature of

[05:23] people.

[05:24] >> So, this is mainly what WoW arenas are,

[05:26] and it's mainly why I've liked them so

[05:28] much. It's just it's a it's a mind game,

[05:32] bro. What am I going to do? Am I going

[05:33] to trinket? Am I going to hold my

[05:34] trinket? Am I going to pop the cool

[05:35] downs or not? Am I? And you just kind of

[05:38] wait for each other. You just stare each

[05:39] other down. If someone makes a move,

[05:41] boom, punish them, right? And it's like

[05:43] that's what's fun about arenas, you

[05:45] know,

[05:46] >> not mechanics. A messo cheat looks like

[05:49] stream sniping, knowing someone's habits

[05:51] before they show them. Reading cool

[05:53] downs, seeing things you shouldn't see

[05:56] yet. The best example for the purest meo

[05:58] game is rock paper scissors. There's

[06:01] zero. Still, it's [music] entirely

[06:04] mental and probability. Among Us also

[06:07] runs on meo. So does Liars Bar. [music]

[06:10] Even the stock market is built around

[06:12] this layer. If you wanted to cheat in

[06:14] Among Us, you'd [music] stream snipe to

[06:16] know who the impostor is. If you wanted

[06:18] to cheat in stocks, you'd insider trade.

[06:21] Notice how none of these cheats involve

[06:23] executing anything better. They involve

[06:25] knowing something you shouldn't.

[06:28] Interesting. So, like in WoW Arenas, one

[06:30] of the best cheats could be like if you

[06:31] had AI in the other team's Discord call,

[06:35] and you could hear AI basically saying,

[06:37] "Hey, let's smoke bomb kidney the rogue

[06:40] in 15 seconds." And you then had the AI

[06:43] tell you, "Hey, they're going to smoke

[06:44] bomb your rogue in 15 seconds." So then

[06:46] the rogue would know they're about to be

[06:48] targeted and move back. So you would

[06:49] never be able to do anything.

[06:53] >> Macro is the systems layer. It's your

[06:56] routing, your resource management, and

[06:58] your win condition. You can think of it

[07:00] like the mathematically correct way of

[07:02] winning the game. A macro cheat looks

[07:05] like a chess engine, economy automation,

[07:08] or you can imagine like a perfect coach

[07:10] telling you exactly what to do.

[07:13] >> Ping it. Ping it. Ping it. We need to

[07:15] let our team know what's up.

[07:17] >> Games are almost mathematical puzzles.

[07:19] Think Factorio, Polybridge, Connect 4,

[07:23] tic-tac-toe. Once you find the optimal

[07:25] solution, the game is solved.

[07:28] >> But here's where it gets really

[07:30] interesting.

[07:30] >> So, wow arenas are a lot of games aren't

[07:32] just one of these. They're combinations

[07:34] of them in the combinations.

[07:35] >> So, like WoW arena, very little micro,

[07:38] pretty heavy messo, very heavy macro,

[07:41] right? So, that's why when you try to

[07:43] swap games as a WoW arena player, often

[07:45] times it's hard cuz your micro is just

[07:47] not up to par because it doesn't take

[07:48] much to be great at WoW Arena. So you

[07:51] can have like a rank one player who's

[07:52] just like very average. Like you just

[07:54] never really use this skill too much cuz

[07:57] it's all just over here, right?

[07:58] >> Tells you everything about what kind of

[08:00] game it is. So let's look at micro plus

[08:03] macro.

[08:05] These tend to be single player precision

[08:07] games. You need to know the optimal

[08:09] solution and execute it fast. Think

[08:12] Rubik's Cube speedrunning, Mario 64,

[08:16] Jump King, and Getting Over It. If you

[08:19] were to have a perfect micro cheat in

[08:21] Elder Ring, you'd have perfect dodges.

[08:24] But if you were to have a perfect macro

[08:26] cheat, you'd use the mathematically

[08:28] optimal build. [music] But there's one

[08:30] weird multiplayer outlier here. Eight

[08:32] ball pool. There's a mathematically

[08:34] optimal shot and then there's the skill

[08:37] of actually hitting it. So even though

[08:39] it is player versus player, the room for

[08:42] mind games doesn't really exist. And I

[08:44] think it's a really

[08:45] >> I know you can play pool online. What

[08:47] the heck? Next, let's look at micro plus

[08:48] mezo. This is PvP skill expression

[08:51] games. These tend to be your fighting

[08:54] games. Street Fighter, Tekken, Smash

[08:57] Bros, Brawhalla. Your skill matters and

[09:00] reading your opponents matters. But

[09:02] also, you have some other examples like

[09:04] Mario Kart like the micro of driving and

[09:06] the mezzo of random items and

[09:08] unpredictable opponents. We even see

[09:10] some.

[09:11] >> So, the reason World of Warcraft has

[09:13] such low micro is because the targeting

[09:17] um cast base system. There is no aiming.

[09:22] You have a target and your spell hits

[09:24] your target. So, like in terms of uh the

[09:27] World of Warcraft target and focus

[09:29] system, there's just very little micro.

[09:31] You literally just press fire blast and

[09:33] it hits the guy, right? Of course,

[09:36] there's still movement and line of

[09:37] sight. Like there's still an element,

[09:39] but it's just so low compared to like

[09:41] most games.

[09:42] >> Neat games like Tetris 99. The original

[09:45] Tetris is pure micro, but Tetris 999

[09:49] also involves Mezo because now you're

[09:51] managing who to send the garbage to. You

[09:54] also have physics- based PVP like Fall

[09:56] Guys and Game Beasts, which also fits

[09:59] into Micro Plus Mezo. The next one is

[10:02] Mezo plus Macro. These are the mind and

[10:05] math games. Think Hearthstone, TFT,

[10:08] Pokemon VGC, and Battleship. Now, chess

[10:11] is theoretically a pure macro game, but

[10:14] at the human level, there's a massive

[10:16] messo component. You're optimizing for

[10:18] your specific opponent's habits.

[10:20] >> Even chess has a micro component. I've

[10:22] thought about this before. Um, if you

[10:25] watch chess, sometimes they drop the

[10:27] piece when moving it or sometimes they

[10:30] bump a piece or like like technically in

[10:34] Hearthstone, I've thought about this

[10:35] too, it's very simple. You just like

[10:37] click the card, but sometimes you can

[10:39] misclick the card or click end turn on

[10:42] accident or misclick and you actually

[10:44] just ruin your whole turn. So, there's a

[10:46] tiny micro component even to a Hearstone

[10:48] or a chest. Tiny, but it's there. That's

[10:51] why studying opponent matters in

[10:52] highlevel chess. And then there are some

[10:55] weird outliers. Balatro is a

[10:57] singleplayer game, but it's also mezo

[11:00] macro because the RNG of the card

[11:02] combines with the math of maximizing

[11:04] your hand. You're not executing anything

[11:07] difficult, but you have to pick and

[11:08] choose your cards wisely and play to

[11:11] their biggest strength. Phasmophobia is

[11:13] also a weird game that fits into Meso

[11:15] Macro. It's a co-op game, but it fits

[11:17] here because you're deducing a ghost

[11:19] using evidence, which is macro, while

[11:22] the ghost behavior has RNG, me.

[11:24] >> Oh my gosh, that's scary.

[11:26] >> Expect non PVP Mezo macro games slowly

[11:29] converge towards pure macro over time.

[11:32] Once players fully map the RNG, it stops

[11:35] feeling uncertain and becomes a speedrun

[11:37] problem. And then there's the middle,

[11:40] all three overlapping. This is where the

[11:43] biggest competitive games [music] live.

[11:46] League of Legends, Dota 2, CS2,

[11:49] Valerant, [music] Overwatch, Marvel

[11:52] Rivals, Rocket League, Apex, Rainbow 6.

[11:55] >> Well, I Okay, so I would argue that all

[11:57] like is there any game that isn't all

[12:00] three? Like I would argue that every

[12:01] game is in all three, but

[12:05] some are so low in certain areas that it

[12:08] like barely counts. Like chess in the

[12:10] micro section for example, but like it's

[12:13] still present technically.

[12:16] >> World of Warcraft.

[12:17] >> Here's the thing.

[12:19] >> We got mentioned. Let's go. I WAS LIKE,

[12:23] IS HE GOING TO MENTION WoW in this

[12:24] video? We got mentioned as all three. I

[12:27] will say WoW does have all three. It's

[12:29] just a little lower on the micro than

[12:31] maybe a counter strike, right? And much

[12:33] higher on maybe like a a macro or

[12:35] something like that. But here's the

[12:37] thing, they're not all the same balance.

[12:40] >> Exactly. And the cheat test tells you

[12:42] how exactly they differ.

[12:44] >> So, let's use Counter-Strike as an

[12:46] example. Can aimbot win a game of CS

[12:49] completely alone? [music]

[12:51] >> Almost certainly, yes. If you never

[12:54] miss, most duels are over before they

[12:56] start. [music]

[12:57] That makes micro extremely high in CS2.

[13:01] But what about X-ray seeing through

[13:03] walls? Pros have done experiments with

[13:05] one player with X-ray versus five

[13:07] without X-ray. The five still usually

[13:10] win, but the X-ray player takes rounds

[13:12] they have no business taking. This makes

[13:14] me very high in CS2, which means macro,

[13:19] the strategic layer, is relatively the

[13:21] lowest. That's interesting because like

[13:23] if you play Counterstrike, I mean I I

[13:26] haven't really I played a tiny bit. Like

[13:28] a lot of people will be like, "Well,

[13:29] yeah, there's a lot of strategy

[13:30] involved." But when you compare it to

[13:32] this, no way. And as a WoW player, it's

[13:35] it's like completely the opposite. Like

[13:36] micro and the WoW is like much lower.

[13:39] It's so much macro. It's so macroheavy.

[13:42] Um and that's why when you see a WoW

[13:44] player trying to play like

[13:45] Counter-Strike, I mean, sometimes

[13:47] players are good at both, but like often

[13:48] it's just like no, bro. Like [laughter]

[13:50] there's no crossover here at all, you

[13:53] know.

[13:53] >> CS isn't about long-term economy

[13:55] optimization the way MOBAs are. The

[13:58] rounds are short and the execution is

[14:00] everything.

[14:01] But let's try this test with Overwatch.

[14:04] And right away, we see a unique case

[14:06] because the answer actually depends on

[14:08] your role. But since it varies so

[14:11] heavily by character and roles, I

[14:13] decided to ask someone who knows about

[14:15] Overwatch way better than I do.

[14:21] So, if you compare all three like maxed

[14:24] out versions of the perfect version of

[14:26] it, like a cheat version of it,

[14:28] >> which one would have like the highest

[14:30] win rate, and how would the distribution

[14:32] be?

[14:33] >> I would just say support is more

[14:34] macroheavy,

[14:36] >> DPS is more microheavy, and then tank is

[14:39] more messy.

[14:40] >> Oh, okay. Okay.

[14:42] >> Also, the way that it works is you have

[14:44] offense, defense, and control. Um,

[14:47] control refers to like map control.

[14:50] Offense refers to offensive options,

[14:52] defense refers to defensive options. And

[14:55] if you a character's mixture or or like

[14:58] kind of design links to the this concept

[15:01] of uh offense, defense, and control,

[15:04] tanks tend to depend on more control,

[15:07] supports, more defense, DPS, more

[15:09] offense. And if you if you actually like

[15:12] dissect each individual hero, they will

[15:14] have different like varying levels or

[15:17] [music] varying focuses on defense or

[15:19] control.

[15:20] >> So I'm thinking about it like this,

[15:21] right? If you were to give each role one

[15:25] cheat,

[15:25] >> you would give aimbot to DPS.

[15:28] >> And for tank, you would give um the

[15:32] ability to see enemy cooldowns as a

[15:35] perfect cheat, right? You can literally

[15:37] see the enemy cool downs with like

[15:39] omniar and wow. [laughter] And

[15:41] >> yeah,

[15:42] >> for support you would have uh a coach or

[15:45] an engine. Perfect coach.

[15:46] >> That's that's perfect. That's that's

[15:49] exactly perfect. And also especially in

[15:51] Overwatch cuz it's it's 5v5 cuz you only

[15:53] have uh one tank. Like if you can um win

[15:56] every duel as a tank, that's kind of

[15:58] like a free win. So, like going back to

[16:01] this for a second with a cool down info,

[16:04] I actually think WoW arenas are more fun

[16:08] when you have no add-ons. So, for a long

[16:10] time at LAN um for WoW tournaments, no

[16:15] add-ons were allowed. You just couldn't

[16:17] use any. Blizzcon regionals, no add-ons

[16:20] were allowed. You played on their

[16:22] computers,

[16:23] you couldn't bring any add-ons. There

[16:25] was no add-ons pre-installed. Go. So,

[16:29] um, what what did players do? So, what

[16:31] players did at the highest level is not

[16:33] used any add-ons because they wanted to

[16:35] practice how they would play at land so

[16:37] they could actually win regionals or or

[16:38] Blizzcon without practicing with

[16:41] add-ons. So, that was the the the meta

[16:42] that was like the just the what's like

[16:46] the culture the culture in WoW arenas

[16:49] for for a decade a decade and a half was

[16:51] let's just all play with no add-ons. And

[16:54] it was great. Like what what happened

[16:56] was

[16:57] um people made more mistakes because

[17:00] add-ons make you play better since you

[17:02] have cooldown info quite literally like

[17:04] you you have to guess and which means

[17:06] players made more mistakes but when

[17:07] players make more mistakes it opens up

[17:11] counterplay. It opens up this back and

[17:13] forth that's really interesting to

[17:15] navigate because oh this player messed

[17:16] up now let me see if I can capitalize on

[17:18] it or not. Um or maybe it was just

[17:21] complete bait and I'm falling for it

[17:23] right now. it goes into that whole messo

[17:25] category that the video is talking

[17:26] about. Anyway, WoW without add-ons is is

[17:29] actually really fascinating in PvP. But

[17:33] in 2019, 2020, COVID hit, regionals was

[17:37] online, Blizzcon was online, and uh

[17:40] well, there was no BlizzCon, I suppose,

[17:42] but you know, the the tournaments were

[17:43] online. They Blizzard decided to remove

[17:47] the no add-on rule because they couldn't

[17:48] enforce it. Literally, it's everyone's

[17:50] at their home computer, so it's like,

[17:51] "Okay, use whatever add-ons you want."

[17:53] Um, and the whole no add-on thing went

[17:56] out the window. All the PvPers

[17:58] downloaded weak auras. They got really

[18:00] strong weak orasuras, and the weak oras

[18:02] got better over time. Now, what arena

[18:05] looks like, and this is separate from

[18:06] the the current just like metag game of

[18:08] the game itself. I'm talking about like

[18:10] the the information that players have

[18:11] available is a full-on spaceship of

[18:14] information and every player is playing

[18:17] so perfect which means less mistakes,

[18:19] less room for improv, less room for

[18:21] counterplay which makes the game quite

[18:24] boring. So, this video like perfectly

[18:26] explains like almost like the downfall

[18:29] of WoW PvP in a sense of like you almost

[18:31] want no add-ons at all in WoW PvP or at

[18:34] least very very very very minimal. Um,

[18:37] for it to actually operate and behave in

[18:39] a way that's like interesting to want to

[18:41] take place in. Um, yeah, that's pretty

[18:44] much what I want to say.

[18:45] >> A coach or an engine perfect coach.

[18:48] >> That's perfect. That's that's exactly

[18:50] perfect. And also, especially in

[18:52] Overwatch because it's it's 5v5 because

[18:54] you only have uh one tank. Like if you

[18:56] can um win every duel as a tank, that's

[18:59] kind of like a free win for your team.

[19:02] >> But what about Apex? Apex sits

[19:04] remarkably balanced across all three. If

[19:07] you think about which player is most

[19:09] likely to win, a guy with perfect

[19:11] aimbot, a guy with perfect wall hacks,

[19:14] or a guy with perfect ring knowledge,

[19:16] all three actually has a pretty good

[19:18] chance of winning the game. If you have

[19:20] aimbots, you can easily kill anyone

[19:22] rotating, but any close-range fight will

[19:24] tend to go either way.

[19:25] >> So, let's just talk about this for WoW

[19:27] PvP, too. Like, from from micro mezo and

[19:32] macro, like if you were to cheat in WoW

[19:33] PvP, the like say you have the like

[19:36] perfect micro, so perfect movement and

[19:38] perfect like kicks and interrupts, like

[19:39] you never missed a kick and you always

[19:42] fake casted perfectly and you were

[19:44] always like in the perfect spot. Um,

[19:46] that would be good in WoW, don't get me

[19:48] wrong.

[19:50] But you would still lose games if you

[19:52] didn't know who to kill and when to kill

[19:55] them and like you didn't have the macro

[19:57] element or the meu element. Like you

[19:58] would actually like if you had a bot in

[20:00] WoW 3v3 arena and they had perfect micro

[20:03] just like perfect kicks, perfect damage

[20:05] rotations, like you would still just

[20:07] lose against most of the top players cuz

[20:10] they just like don't know the strategy.

[20:12] So they'll just be like doing the wrong

[20:14] thing. It like won't actually matter. Of

[20:16] course it it matters a little bit once

[20:18] you have the macro and the micro

[20:20] element, bro. Like you're I mean that's

[20:21] like trill or something, right? Like

[20:22] you're in a great position, but one like

[20:26] micro doesn't matter much in WoW if you

[20:28] don't have if you don't have these

[20:29] pieces, right? So the perfect cheat in

[20:31] WoW, I think macro would be like

[20:33] definitely the most heavy. You know

[20:35] exactly how to respond to every sit

[20:38] situation. Exactly how to respond. The

[20:41] micro element like the perfect kicks and

[20:43] damage like that's that helps. But this

[20:46] one, this one's the big one.

[20:48] >> Bot, you can easily kill anyone

[20:50] rotating. But any close-range fight will

[20:52] tend to go either way. But with perfect

[20:54] wall hacks, you can use your nades and

[20:56] abilities to take a team down. But

[20:59] you'll still lose to someone with good

[21:00] ring positioning. But even with perfect

[21:03] ring information, you could still easily

[21:05] die to someone who wants to contest that

[21:06] position. But let's test this in a

[21:09] really unique game, Rocket League. I

[21:12] asked Pro Rocket League coach Luke on

[21:14] his answer to this thought experiment,

[21:16] and this was his response. Basically,

[21:19] perfect micro or perfect mechanics in

[21:21] Rocket League would be defined as taking

[21:23] the ball from point A to point B as

[21:25] quickly and as efficiently as possible.

[21:28] Like how in a firstp person shooter,

[21:30] aimbot moves the crosshair to the target

[21:32] as quickly and as efficiently as

[21:34] possible.

[21:36] For Rocket League, smarts cannot make up

[21:38] for the fact that a more mechanical

[21:40] person can just take the ball to the

[21:42] open net far more than someone with less

[21:44] mechanics. [music] This makes Rocket

[21:46] League heavily micro dominant. But after

[21:49] micro being the most dominant, he put

[21:51] macro second and meo last. This is

[21:54] because even if perfect Mezo allows you

[21:56] to hear enemy [music] coms or see enemy

[21:58] boost, doesn't change the fact that all

[22:01] information in Rocket League is able to

[22:03] be known at all times. And for how

[22:06] fast-paced the game is at the highest

[22:07] level, listening to a perfect coach

[22:09] verbatim would be better over hearing

[22:12] enemy comms or seeing enemy boost. Also,

[22:15] the closest thing to perfect micro in

[22:17] Rocket League is the AI bots. I came

[22:20] across footage of three semi-pro players

[22:22] versing three of the best Rocket League

[22:25] AI. What? That's interesting.

[22:29] >> Oh my god. [laughter]

[22:31] >> And the three AI bot were able to win

[22:33] comfortably.

[22:35] So, here's what this framework

[22:37] >> I'm curious if you could make an AI bot

[22:39] that understood macro perfectly because

[22:43] we actually talked about this exact

[22:44] thing a few months uh back and the

[22:47] conversation was like how long would it

[22:48] take to make a an AI WOW play like a WoW

[22:52] arena team that would just never lose.

[22:53] And the chat was like not that long at

[22:55] all. Like you could make it really easy.

[22:57] And in my mind, I was thinking AI can

[22:59] only do micro well. And I was like that

[23:02] already exists. did scripting and they

[23:04] get owned by the best players. It's not

[23:06] even close. I mean, don't get me wrong,

[23:08] like scripts are good, but you just lose

[23:10] to rank one players anyway. But if you

[23:12] can make AI understand and master macro

[23:16] in WoW, I mean, yeah, they they would be

[23:19] per it would be perfect player. Are you

[23:21] kidding me? You know, but with micro,

[23:23] it's like me. You could have perfect you

[23:25] could have perfect micro, you'd still

[23:26] just lose, you know? actually gives you.

[23:29] It helps classify games, but it also

[23:32] helps understand yourself as a player. I

[23:34] noticed something when I looked at which

[23:36] games I genuinely enjoy. I gravitate

[23:38] toward games in the middle. The full

[23:40] micro meal macro cluster.

[23:41] >> Where is Where's World of Warcraft?

[23:43] Where is it? Where is it? Where is it?

[23:44] Where is it? Where is it?

[23:48] He didn't put it in there. Oh, yeah.

[23:49] It's right there, guys. We're right

[23:51] there. That's us. That's us. That's us.

[23:54] Where's Minecraft? Cuz that's also us.

[23:56] Is Minecraft on here? Probably not.

[24:00] >> And toward pure micro and pure macro,

[24:03] but I don't really enjoy micro macro

[24:05] games. Speedrunning doesn't scratch the

[24:07] right. And when I looked at why it

[24:10] mapped exactly in Apex, I'd argue I aim

[24:14] pretty well and have respectable

[24:15] movement. I'd say I also have a solid

[24:18] understanding of rotations and ring

[24:20] positioning, but I tend to tunnel vision

[24:21] in close quarter fights, specifically

[24:24] when we're in the same building. So, I

[24:26] tend to miss meo reads when the pressure

[24:28] is high. And this exactly explains the

[24:30] gap in my game. Because here's the real

[24:33] insight. Every player has a natural

[24:35] lean. Some people are micro players.

[24:37] They grind mechanics obsessively and

[24:40] they want the skill gap to feel fair.

[24:42] Some people are messers. They love

[24:44] raiding people and they thrive in the

[24:46] chaos of PvP randomness. Like we even

[24:49] see a common cluster of people who play

[24:51] Among Us, GTA, luck based games like

[24:54] gambling along with many other party

[24:56] games. And then we also see that some

[24:58] players are macro players. They love

[25:00] efficiency. They draw routes on maps.

[25:02] They think about the game between games

[25:04] more than during it. [music] And most of

[25:06] us are a mix. But

[25:08] >> like for me, I feel like my micro is

[25:12] definitely my worst by far, right?

[25:17] my like like for WoW it's it's like I've

[25:21] said this over and over but like it's

[25:22] definitely more macro messo. So when I

[25:24] play a new game like if I were to play

[25:26] Counter Strike I would suck, bro. I

[25:29] would get dumpstered. Like it would be

[25:31] embarrassing. I've never even played on

[25:32] stream cuz it would be that

[25:33] embarrassing. Maybe I'll have to play on

[25:35] stream one day to show you guys how

[25:37] embarrassing it would be. Like oh my bro

[25:39] I would just like it would be worse than

[25:41] Peekaboo playing and that was pretty

[25:43] bad. Like anyway, but with the with the

[25:46] macro stuff, I played uh I played uh

[25:50] Hearthstone on stream like 10 years ago

[25:53] for the first time and we went from rank

[25:55] 25 to legend in a few days. Um like

[25:58] that's the stuff I like like the

[25:59] strategy. Although like I kind of sucked

[26:00] at chess, but the thing about chess is

[26:03] that there's like thousands of years of

[26:05] like metag game and I wanted to go in

[26:06] blind like I do for every game. I don't

[26:08] like to do any lookups. So, I went in

[26:10] blind on chess and like, bro, I'm

[26:11] queuing up chess games blind and I'm

[26:13] just getting smoked by people with the

[26:15] all these different kinds of openers

[26:17] that have figured out the macro for

[26:18] thousands of years and I'm sitting over

[26:20] here just like

[26:22] trying to descri I'm like, "Oh, what if

[26:23] I open up with this first and I just

[26:26] doesn't work, you know?" So, anyway, not

[26:29] an equal mix. The games that frustrate

[26:32] you the most, they're probably demanding

[26:34] something your brain doesn't naturally

[26:36] give.

[26:37] >> The games you keep coming back to You're

[26:39] probably rewarding the part of you that

[26:41] already runs at full power.

[26:42] >> Yeah,

[26:43] >> genre labels never told you any of this.

[26:45] >> Yeah,

[26:45] >> action RPG doesn't tell you whether

[26:47] you'll be grinding execution, reading

[26:49] opponents, or solving systems.

[26:51] >> This is a good video.

[26:52] >> It just tells you there's a sword and a

[26:53] level bar. And maybe more importantly,

[26:56] you can stop blaming yourself when a

[26:58] game doesn't click, cuz maybe the games

[27:00] are testing things you haven't built

[27:02] yet.

[27:03] >> Yeah,

[27:03] >> in my case, it's the underdevelopment of

[27:05] Mezo. And that's the three dimensions of

[27:08] games. Michael,

[27:09] >> I was like surprisingly bad at League of

[27:11] Legends, though. Like I thought I would

[27:13] be like I've never played League and I I

[27:15] did a League series last year where I

[27:17] just hopped in brand new level 30

[27:19] account, didn't even level it. Um just

[27:22] hopped in, instantly queued ranked. In

[27:25] my mind, I'm like, well, I'm pretty good

[27:26] at games. I'll be platinum.

[27:30] [snorts] It took me a month to go from

[27:32] iron to silver. Are you kidding me? I

[27:35] thought I thought I would just go

[27:37] straight platinum. Just not even because

[27:39] I because I'm just like, "Yeah, I can

[27:40] just move around people and this and

[27:41] that." Like, "Yeah, I'll just I'll just

[27:43] be different. I'll just go straight

[27:44] platinum." First starting. Yeah, right.

[27:47] I went I It took me a month to hit

[27:49] silver.

[27:50] >> As a macro, every game lives somewhere

[27:52] inside them. And now that you know where

[27:54] to look, you'll never see a game the

[27:56] same way again.

[27:58] >> Yeah, this is a great video. Um I

[28:01] someone in my Discord recommended this,

[28:03] guys. If you ever have video

[28:04] recommendations, you can throw it in

[28:05] Discord, like general chat, whatever.

[28:06] I'm I'm in there. Um, this is a

[28:08] [clears throat] great video. I don't

[28:09] know if I ever would have seen this. So,

[28:11] CernX, well done. It's a lot of stuff

[28:13] I've thought about before, but like

[28:14] maybe not in this exact way.