Oh yeah about the age thing, I'm 13 and I'm in the top 200. A year ago that would've been top 100.
Echoing this statement; If you're being "offended" by everyone's advice and you say this game is "hard", then this isn't for you.
People help each other out to get better, not just for this game, but any game in general. If you're not gonna heed advice, then you will continue to struggle. Best thing for you to do is watch tutorials and runs to learn the game properly and work your way to getting a good time.
on that note, i don't believe anybody has mentioned this in this thread yet, but darbian made a great tutorial a couple years ago that's extremely helpful for learning this game (it's a bit outdated for some of the harder strats, but you probably won't have to worry about those until at least a sub 5).
Check out Darpey’s safe strats tutorials as well. Great for beginner to intermediate level players. Here’s his YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKMb1nTT5WLG6kWMYsXjhtw
With Darpey and darbian tutorials posted, and other people’s advice, any complaining by the OP after this point should earn the thread a lock because he would be clearly trolling at that point.
I think the mods should lock this thread by now. Anyone else here that agrees with me?
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