(Disclaimer: this rant is based on my observations and participations of many LD games and players over the past several months and singles out no one in particular.)
You know, I've come to realize the more I play combat heavy single player games (things like Bioshock or pre-reboot Devil May Cry), that when it comes to methods of dispatching enemies, there are no real "noob" methods; there are only "impressive" and "more impressive." I always sort of translated this mentality to optimizing and being flashy in combat to SK (which had some amount of potential for such an approach), and when LD came out, it was really fun to experiment with things.
Methods only become an issue when you have a bunch of twits flooding chat with their overly opinionated, rage fueled, borderline simian senses of "fairness" and "skill". Not to say that there aren't issues with Lockdown functionally, but that's somewhat beside the point.
Now, I get that, in any sort of PVP gametype, there are, tragically, always a number of hyperactive pre-pubes who like to be nitpicky, trash talking imbeciles. But in LD I've noticed it becoming quite excessive and with prolonged exposure to such sub-human intellect and personalities, it's easy to get into an unnecessarily hostile mindset. Normally calm people become residually frustrated and end up arguing with morons that shouldn't be indulged to begin with. On top of that, there's simply not enough time or energy before, during, or after matches that can or should be dedicated to intelligently explaining why these screaming man children need to grow up and actually use their brains to develop TACTICS AND STRATEGIES instead of their childish little brat mouths to regurgitate "lol u mad AAer ASI abusing lag exploiting noob" over and over again. And worse than that are the passive aggressive ones that just sort of condescendingly throw out a compliment or say GG just to satisfy their own ego. You don't say "GG" to a team you goddamn spawn camped the entire game winning 905-75. And this happens a lot, believe me.
So faced with these sorts of people, what does someone with a rational mind do? It's infeasible (and impractical for socializing) to ignore everyone, even if there WERE ever to be an ignore all feature implemented. So at the end of the day, what is left? Because honestly, the only thing that comes to my mind is to simply start telling them: "Shut up, and/or grow up." Competitive things like this ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FUN and have some sense of SPORTSMANSHIP and CIVILITY, not be filled with condescending morons who just like to provoke.
Because quite frankly, the rate at which the LD community has devolved is frighteningly pathetic, and soon enough we'll ALL be feces-flinging apes. And I'd rather not see that happen further, especially in a game that's basically surviving on its community and its PVP alone at this point.
Great idea. Yes, LD community is terrible (in T3 mostly). Yes, we need to stop being [redacted]s to each other. Yes, we need to actually use strategies sometime.
How do we do that? Fix how you become skilled.