I would actually argue that the problem isnt tryharding, but that the mods we play competitively arent actually that good for interesting competitive play.
All the duel mods are basically as old as this game, and use the default tori.
These mods were made back in the day when people didnt really know what the optimal ways of playing this game even were.
Nowadays we know that crabbing, shoveling and just running are basically the best ways to win.
I would argue that if people could look for new more interesting mods with more complex methods of winning, for example such as mods where everything else but feet dq, making balancing super important on top of just dq or dmg. This way we could find interesting competitive matches.
None of the mods we currently play competitively really house that much competitive variety and that I feel is the problem.
Nobody has a problem with people tryharding in CS:GO or Tekken or maybe Dota, because those games are designed with competitive variety.
Toribash isnt that, and I doubt we ever will see people giving new more complex mods a shot, since the playerbase is already small, and set in its ways.
Last edited by cowmeat; Mar 16, 2020 at 03:16 PM.