Having a hard time Online

[Redhollow]

Why is the skill gate to playing others online so high? I'm personally finding it hard to believe that I'm getting this much of a diffculty spike against other players compared to cpu / locally.

[Matsunaga™]

I just started and faced 3 of top20's global in a row. Whenever I play against people of my level range the match is fair.

[Kenshiro]

Both Tetris and Puyo Puyo are very old games to begin with, so people could get ahead many years before this game came out.

I'm a noob at Puyo Puyo (only played a bit of Robotnik and Kirby before), but I got my modern Tetris experience with tons of Tetris DS, without any opponent, and this game has exactly the same mechanics. I just have to play it a bit differently here due to the combo thing. With that, I can have fun playing Tetris online, especially outside of Puzzle League since I'm not even that good.

So yeah, it's prior experience with those games that exist since decades that makes them that good at the game. You gotta play more and learn advanced techniques, that's all there is to it. Take your time.

[Julian]

yeah i'm also struggling it feels like i'm vsing a god every time i get matched with someone. They just do everything so fast and i lose in a blink of an eye.

[Altia]

1. learn T-spin (for tetris) and try to at least do 5 combos of puyo puyo.

2. if you can't beat any AI consistently, stay out of online play, because you are most likely to be beaten or get wrecked.

3. you can always kick someone that is considerably stronger then you. While I really hope they would have a better match-making system, I think it is safe to kick anyone that's more then 1000 rating points stronger then you.

4. A good advice is to learn the patterns of setting up a T-spin/combo. Playing Puyo's fever mode would somehow help you understand some common patterns of comboing, such as Sandwiching. However, you really can't avoid learning or looking at opening.

5. There are lots of people who have categorized opening patterns for both the game either on youtube or on some wiki (namely, sites like Harddrop and PuyoNexus) that you should be able to find easily.

From a Tetris player's prespective, It takes some time to getting used to new patterns, and many (especially T-Spin set-ups like STSD, DT Cannon, and opening a 4-wide combo vs 2 wide/3 wide) were quite anti-intuitive. And, by getting used to, I mean you can build a certain pattern without even thinking (like what you would've done with building a Tetris or combo, i.e. build intuitively), and playing AI battles would be a good place to start. Once you understand the mechanics and the core of some of the build, you can at least have some play and would avoid getting outplayed/outspeeded quickly.

As for Puyo, I have little experience, so I would not say much.

[S3]

I give this game a couple of weeks and online is going to unplayable because the player base will be exclusively filled with pro players.

[Gruu]

Was 0 - 20 before my first lucky win...
Now again 20 loses in a row.. won like 2 rounds total

I guess gotta keep practicing.

[Derplord]

I tried online for luls... I picked tetris pieces, other one had puyos... Before I managed to get 10 pieces down there was lots of japanese screaming and suddenly my whole screen was grayed out :D

[Kenshiro]

Also the in-game tutorial for both Tetris and Puyo has an advanced section with demonstrations of advanced techniques like t-spins and long chains in Puyo. Good place to check to improve, imo.

[lobstersteve]

yeah, i also had a pretty hard time in online, even though i played tetris on facebook for quite a while. i guess people who actually pay money for a tetris game are already good at it, because they want a polished tetris game, instead of a cheap free one on the internet.

[S2LSOFTENER]

Normally, the pro players would eventually hit a rating so high they don't get matched with newbies anymore. However, there's a glitch in the game right now where your rating will randomly get reset back to default.

[Sneeze]

It's an amalgamation of things.The PC version, like S2 said above has an annoying bug that deletes your rank. Both Puyo Puyo and Tetris are games which you get better at with experience, and there are many legacy players, many others could have been playing anywhere from 2 to 20 years. Lastly, this is a port of a localization that launched nearly a year ago now. A lot of people who were in your current predicament about a year ago are now better, and have double dipped with the PC version.

Try not to be discouraged if you want to get into puzzle games though, the process of learning these games is by playing them, so if you have fun fighting the CPU or trying to make long chains/combos, you already have a great way to improve your play.

[Redhollow]

Looks like it will take a long time to improve my game. I just personally find it hard to believe that people have been playing 2 decades of tetris. Truth be told this is my first tetris game that I ever played for more than 5 minutes. And for Puyo Puyo, I somehow beat the Mean Bean Machine boss in chemical plant (Sonic Mania) through a lot of luck.

[Infinite Fury]

It takes skill to beat players online. Expert Tutorials teach you how to get a bit BETTER at Puyo or Tetris.

[Kenshiro]

Originally posted by flameh82:

Looks like it will take a long time to improve my game. I just personally find it hard to believe that people have been playing 2 decades of tetris. Truth be told this is my first tetris game that I ever played for more than 5 minutes. And for Puyo Puyo, I somehow beat the Mean Bean Machine boss in chemical plant (Sonic Mania) through a lot of luck.

It will take the time you need to take, it doesn't matter how long. I mean, while I don't follow the Tetris scene closely, I enjoy watching the high-level Tetris section of the Games Done Quick events. There's a player who stands out the most in the bunch, KevinDDR, as one of the best modern Tetris players in the world, and he's been playing the game since between 10 and 20 years, if I recall correctly.

The most important part is this: putting in the work you need to put is far from the most fun part of getting better at something, but seeing results, such as improvement, makes up for it. Good luck!

[Leander.quest]

Online is hell. Played against #2 worldwide and #20. Game over within seconds.
Puyo Puyo seems to be the easier game. Played some matches vs. 3 other players and I am not automatically last during Puyo Puyo (in swap mode)...Tetris is more difficult as everything is so fast and I am used to playing in couch mode vs. friends with beer...we never use hard drop or swap as our old Tetris versions never had these options. Moreover, as we play slooowly I am used to rotating my blocks in one direction only. :D

It's interesting to experience that after playing many, many games online, against amateurs and pros alike, there's no game I get destroyed so much in as this. :D Forget Street Fighter, Counterstrike, FIFA...Puyo Puyo Tetris is your worst nightmare online. :D