Why do people only choose training stage?

[RESIST AUTHORITY]

It's the most boring, unhype stage ever, but some people will always default to it, why? Don't those people have the desire at all for something more interesting?

[Jim]

It's the stage that is less prone to lag and any distraction going on in the background.

[GMR4LOIF]

I wouldnt say its less prone to lag, but it has no distractions.

Also for modders, training stage usually is the first thing to get modded to something else. So you see training stage, they see something cooler.

[Useless Bunny]

If you want a stage without any kind of lag and distractions, lower your graphics to minimum in the settings, so the background becomes a black/gray/whatever screen. Picking training stage for those reasons is ridiculous.

[M3rcur1us]

Originally posted by Raptor1138:

It's the most boring, unhype stage ever, but some people will always default to it, why? Don't those people have the desire at all for something more interesting?

There's several reasons :

- Some people are too paranoid and think your computer is bad.
- Some people think there's less lag, but it's actually a placebo effect.
- Some people want an additional advantage with characters that rely on zoning and spacing.
- Some people hate fun and don't like distractions.
- Some people are actually beginners.

My advice is : if you really hate the training stage (I also hate this stage and this is one of the reasons I almost always create a lobby), just create the lobby. This way, you can select the stage (personally I generally choose random stage).

[Raven]

Originally posted by M3rcur1us:

Originally posted by Raptor1138:

It's the most boring, unhype stage ever, but some people will always default to it, why? Don't those people have the desire at all for something more interesting?

There's several reasons :

- Some people are too paranoid and think your computer is bad.
- Some people think there's less lag, but it's actually a placebo effect.
- Some people want an additional advantage with characters that rely on zoning and spacing.
- Some people hate fun and don't like distractions.
- Some people are actually beginners.

My advice is : if you really hate the training stage (I also hate this stage and this is one of the reasons I almost always create a lobby), just create the lobby. This way, you can select the stage (personally I generally choose random stage).

100% agree...

Until some days ago I was using this mod-background:
http://i.imgur.com/WV3mDON.jpg

Now, as I'm a Honda user, I switched to this "tokyo-sento" bath stage... :D
http://i.imgur.com/x7FpRuA.jpg

;-)

[Jim]

Originally posted by M3rcur1us:

There's several reasons :

- Some people are too paranoid and think your computer is bad.
- Some people think there's less lag, but it's actually a placebo effect.
- Some people want an additional advantage with characters that rely on zoning and spacing.
- Some people hate fun and don't like distractions.
- Some people are actually beginners.

My advice is : if you really hate the training stage (I also hate this stage and this is one of the reasons I almost always create a lobby), just create the lobby. This way, you can select the stage (personally I generally choose random stage).

Riiiight...

People who play this now for 6 years, might be sick of seeing those old stages over and over again. The training stage is a neutral stage with no silly music playing on it (in all honesty I even turned off the music in general...). This hardly makes those people beginners.

Before some1 jumps at me with:"but, MODS!", some might take the game as it is and some are just downright incapable in installing mods (Look it up in this forum. He can't uninstall his mods.).
The stage mods are okayish really. But I guess I'm too less of a PC gamer to fancy mods in that manner.

The advice however should be handy for those, who desperately want to play and fancy colorful stage, since the actual match might too boring :)

Oh btw.: Toying with your settings to get a blank background, while the game offers you the just exact same, sorry, but that is just ridiculous.

[Useless Bunny]

I like how you talk about people being sick of playing those old stages over and over again after 6 years when that's exactly why people don't like training stage, because it's the most boring stage due to the fact of being overused. And by the way, blank stage still should be "less laggy" than training stage background, so no, it's not exactly the same.

Honestly I believe that if you are somehow distracted by the background that's actually part of a bigger problem of your own. I don't even understand how can someone be distracted by it, it just means they are not focused enough in the fight.

Mods are all awful in my opinion so that's why I don't use them on that cursed training stage. I don't mind the stage itself, I just hate how 90% of the matches are played there.

[Cipher Esteria]

I think training stage is boring too.thats why I use mods to replace stages like this.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=340848526

Other reasons are mostly that training stage have nothing in the background.Less framedrops and the game runs in general a little bit smooter.

[Zianicon]

Originally posted by Useless Bunny:

If you want a stage without any kind of lag and distractions, lower your graphics to minimum in the settings, so the background becomes a black/gray/whatever screen. Picking training stage for those reasons is ridiculous.

When I lowered my graphic settings, I saw automatically the training stage on every map.

[unclassified]

Originally posted by Raptor1138:

It's the most boring, unhype stage ever, but some people will always default to it, why? Don't those people have the desire at all for something more interesting?

because the people think your a noob which they have to show how to play the game and because of that they pick the trainingsstage just for you....badumtssss

on a serious note...i do it because of the "lag thing" there at least some maps which can cause lags and due to that the trainingsstage is the safest way to avoid that.
at the end what counts is the fight...i dont care about the backgrounds at all..i mean do you concentrate on your opponent or do you prefer to watch what the dinosaurs do in the background?

[Midnight Meows]

When I do this it's usually just me being lazy. Being that I played this on PS3 I can't mod my stages, so my reasons were:

* Dino stage needs fixed. The audio is badonkers loud so I avoid it.
* Too manys tages on which various characters blend into the background / I can't see
* PS3 is a sloppy port and has frame delay problems on a couple of stages

...so I chose Training stage to avoid all of the above rather than manually selecting the few stages that were worth playing on.

On the PC it was most of the above reasons plus modded stages made it so much more interesting.

[Monk]

it was prone to lag in vanilla only. The reason why other ppl and I often choose training stage its because it helps you understand the matchup, and it also helps with measuring spacing (lines on the floor and the wall) and adjusting yourself accordingly. It actually gives you slight advantage actually if you know what's up.

[Swarna]

Even if you get an A on the benchmark if you barely got it your computer will be prone to dropping below 60 FPS when you play online as it's more demanding there. I've fought people who slow down the match with FPS lag because their PC's couldn't handle the stage. Otherwise, I do tend to pick random stage select.