Mindset

*Back to Tactics*

***"Great men are not born great, they grow great"***
 –Mario Puzo

Having a positive mindset can somehow boost your confidence while playing the game. If you have a bad mindset at the very start of the game, you might affect your whole gameplay. For us to improve at the game one must:

* Know what type of player you are.
* Know your gameplay/ style.
* Know your strengths or weaknesses at every aspect of the game.
* Must set his/her goals.

## ***"What type of player am I?"***

This involves what is your general skill at Special Force 2. What are the things that you are easily pleased and annoyed with. Do you prefer flashy plays that you see at online and onsite tournaments? Do you prefer having friends with the same vibe? Because playing similar traits with players can also gave you a good mindset.

## ***"What is my game style? What is my gameplay?"***

This involves what is your style at the game. Essentially, Players do not have to do everything themselves here are the roles that which might help you distinguished your game style and how to enhance those abilities:

* **Entry Fragger**

This role is the first one at the scenes. Using their quick reaction and solid aiming, they are the type of players who aren't afraid to jump in into action that they think it is risky. But can also help the team to gather intel by clearing and securing the area.

Sometimes not every entry fragger has the highest kills at the game. They can assist the team in executing their gameplay. This can have an exchange kill between players.

To excel in this role this requires quick reaction and solid aiming. Easy trades and rushing carelessly can make or break a team.

* **Support**

This role is for the players who will provide cover for the entry fragger by their utilities. (e.g. grenades, smoke & flashbangs). These players must know the vantage spots of the map. That being said, these players are sometimes skilled by throwing grenades spots and other utilities to provide cover and to stop the team's advancement.

To excel in this role this requires solid teamwork and game awareness. Easy trades and correct use of utilities can make or break a team. For the grenade spots guide we will provide you some links for you to learn.

* **Captain/ In-Game Leader**

Every FPS game when joining tournaments onsite or online. Someone need to call the shots of the game. This role keeps the team on track. They can also fill the spot of entry fragger or support. Throughout the game, they can make the call for strategy, push objectives and locations. They also call the position of the game. This role helps the team to defend or attack smoothly.

To excel in this role this requires high mental ability, qualities of a leader and a strong sense of game awareness. They must also be able to bounce back from tough rounds in order to maintain their team’s morale.

* **Lurker**

Lastly, The lurker. This role is for someone who waits patiently and uses the environment for their advantage. These players focuses on stealth and maneuvering the opposing team. Lurkers are the ones who surprises the enemy team and achieve killing the isolated enemy players. The lurker would be responsible for letting his/her team know about the enemy’s specific locations.

To excel in this role this requires extensive map knowledge and understand the best times to reveal themselves. Discipline is important as it is possible to let one enemy walk back in order to ambush the entire team.

## **Strength and Weaknesses**

"*Build on your strengths, work on your weaknesses*"
-Minh Tan

You as a player must know your strengths and weaknesses. The ideal thing would be to ultimately turn your weaknesses into your strengths. This could be your habit or trait towards the game or the players surround you. For you to improve, You must take advantage of your strengths and do something with it, as well as do something about your weaknesses so they aren’t as weak in the future.

## **Set Your Goals**

Now that we know who we are. Its time go into goals. Having goals is to help the players lessen their frustrations at the game. Also goals will help you improve and make your life easier. We also need to remind ourselves that setting these goals cannot make as a "pro" at this game overnight.

At the end of the day, your goals need to be aligned with your priorities. Also your goals should be align on what who you are, what you care and love about. Honor also the priorities in your life by making them non-negotiable. Before you map out your goals, determine the priorities in your life that you’re not willing to sacrifice. This way, you can identify the activities you need to engage in and what you are willing to give up today in pursuit of a bigger dream tomorrow. Creating those goals into reality will give you some sense while playing Special Force 2.

## **What to avoid**

Improvement and such always takes time. Learning is a process that shows the most significant results after a while when good actions are performed repeatedly.

* **Avoid from comparing your skills to other players**

Sure its a great image for someone who has a inborn skills to begin with But don't worry you will improve from time to time as you go over the game. But avoid doing comparing! Comparing yourself to others is the number one way to make yourself either feel inferior or if you’re lucky in the opposite direction, you’ll give yourself a bigger head than you deserve,

* **Always keep your emotions in check**

Unless you’re playing in a team or by yourself are going to be the only factor appearing in every game that you can actually control. At some point there will be a time that you will encounter players that are toxic and trolling. but spouting verbal abuse at that person isn’t going to help, and smashing your mouse against your desk isn’t going to change the outcome of the match. One of the fastest, most surefire ways to lose multiple games in a row is to tilt or having a team that’s on tilt. it’s important for you to realize that you cannot control everything.

**There are ways to avoid an emotional frustration at the game:**

1.**Limit your Defeats**

An often heard piece of advice is to limit your losses in a row to a certain amount. You could, for example, tell yourself that if you lose two clan match making in a row you’re done for the night, or you at least take a break. This can cause you to want to go aggressive and make some plays, when in reality you’re just feeding.

2.**Make Sure You’re Feeling Good**

Playing games at a somewhat decent level in a serious way can be quite draining. If you’re already mentally empty or in a super bad mood it’s going to be way easier to be pushed over the edge, resulting in the dreaded tilt. Make sure you are in a good condition when you play your game.

3.**Don’t Be A Toxic Player**

Don't be a toxic player like kicking and cussing a player with no reason at all. Just because they can't cope up with your game it doesn't mean that you should kick them or bash them. Instead help them to become a better player.

You also need to be able to take criticism. If you get asked to maybe leave the sniping to another player your teammates usually don’t mean to say that you’re absolutely trash at the game

4.**Rank Doesn't matter**
A lot of toxicity in higher rank players that the can boast their ranks although their skill is not good as your rank.Focus on improving yourself and your overall rank will improve over weeks, months, and years of play. Small fluctuations in your rank shouldn’t bother you.

* **Don't jump into any public matches or clan match making without knowing the basic guides.**

whenever you jump into a game you’ll want to make sure you are prepared. Look always back to the basics of the guides. If you haven’t played your favorite game in a while and you’re not up to date with the newest patches or meta changes you should quickly hit the Playpark sites and message the sites to see what’s up. If you hop into a game and you don’t even know what’s going on you’re not only doing yourself a waste of time, but also your teammates.

Here are the sites for the Facebook Pages:

* https://www.facebook.com/CMAzureOfficial/%7C CM Azure
* https://www.facebook.com/SF2ModeratorDeath/%7C Moderator Death
* https://www.facebook.com/ModFrost/%7C Moderator Frost
* https://www.facebook.com/playpark.sf2%7C Official PlayPark Special Force 2 Page
* https://www.facebook.com/PPSF2Moderators/%7C Playpark Special Force 2 SEA Moderators

* **Don't let your fear of your enemies get into you. But don't get too cocky.**

Something that I see a lot of players (unconsciously) do is having way to disrespect for the enemy players especially players from other countries. you should always be respectful to other players on the other side of the screen. Also there is a policy at Special Force 2 that we should respect/treat everyone fairly no matter what their religion or race they are.

Don't underestimate yourself from the get-go you’re going to be playing worse than you could be playing. There’s obviously another side of the coin too. If you get overconfident you’ll be tempted to make plays which are easy to punish, so try to keep yourself in check. Don’t underestimate or overestimate your own skills

* **Don't be ashamed in accepting criticisms**

One of the aspects in improving at this game is having the ability to take and process criticism, **BOTH** from others and from yourself. No one is perfect at anything, and everyone makes mistakes. The better you get at something the less mistakes you make, but you’ll still be making them. Being able to identify and rectify those mistakes is one of the easiest routes to being a better player

## **Where to learn?**

Experience is important to manage things in a **better** way in the future. So, when you the **experience** of dealing with a rough situation, you learn to remain calm, to refrain from the past mistakes and improve a lot in your gameplay.

You can also learn from other during in game.

* Enemies

Pay attention to what teammates do. How do they set up the objective, where do they use their utilities and how do they react in different situations such as positioning.

* Teammates

Pay attention to what teammates do. How do they set up the objective, where do they use their utility and how do they react in different situations such as positioning and style.

* Watching Tournament Online

Watching how professional players act in a specific situation is also valuable to your improvement.

Keeping up with the meta and watching the pro’s are two different things that seem similar at first glance, but the reason behind them is totally different. Understanding the meta will always help you make sure you are up to date with what’s the most efficient way to play the game.

Watching the pros is a way of learning and boosting your creativity within the game. Watching pro player perspectives both in public matchmaking and competitive games gives you insights into how to execute strategies and mechanics.