Hey people
So I am trying to be productive and helpful here , so I want to make a discussion for everyone to participate in and throw in their two cents about how to avoid being in a tunnel vision.
We all have these matches where some of our teammates or even ourselves are so focused on one thing at a time that we become completely oblivious to our surroundings , we let our healers die, we don’t heal our teammate which is right behind us , we charge in like idiots and die in an instant and than we’re dumbfounded about where the hell is our team when we couldn’t even notice that 4 people died already.
This happens usually in the lower ranks, but I am guessing that there are stuff like that on the higher levels as well.
So, to avoid being in a tunnel vision let’s give out helpful tips that will hopefully improve the ranked experience for all.
USE AN HEADSET - this amazes me all of the time but being able to hear foot steps around if you are vigilant enough can and will save your life or your teammate’s life.
I disagree on that one because even when we team fight I can hear footsteps behind me, an enemy tracer blinked behind us and tried to flank probably to pulse our Ana and because I’ve heard that I turned around and killed her, but I guess this varies from person to person and of course it matters what headset you’re using.
Narrate your games as you’re playing. Seriously. Even if you don’t/can’t use voice chat, talk to yourself and say what you’re seeing.
“Their Lucio is wall riding above the point, I saw their McCree going to right side, maybe flank. Enemy Rein is charging. He pinned our Mercy. Widow just got a headshot on our Lucio. Our Genji just popped off with a 3k nanoblade. Hammond is spinning around the payload.”
etc etc. This makes you actively pay attention to wtf is happening around you and much less likely to develop tunnel vision.
After doing this for a while you begin to have a running commentary in your head of what’s happening. It becomes second nature.
and develop a method that works for you to combat the tunnel vision in the first place as having a habit of tunnel vision isn’t something you can go ‘lol, I’m not doing that anymore’ and fix it.
Maybe for you. But not everyone is capable of doing so in the heat of a game. I know it took me a while to stop doing it in older games even though I knew I was prone to tunnel vision.
The best method is learning to prevent it in the first place for a larger majority of people.
I chew my nails when I’m nervous/tense. I KNOW I do this. Usually I don’t think about it until its too late because it’s such an ingrained habit and I’ve never found a method to prevent myself from doing it in the first place.
Unconcious actions (ie, tunnel vision) are incredibly difficult for humans to stop doing it whether or not they’re aware they do it in the first place.
It’s replacing that habit with something more productive. The answer isn’t just ‘stopping’.
Addiction might not be the best example, but it does work as an extreme example. I didn’t quit smoking just by stopping. I replaced the habit of smoking with something more productive.
Neither of you are capable of making a point here; you’re making empty sentences that don’t mean anything so I can’t respond to them.
Please provide an argument.
This is a simple and sound solution that does and will work effectively as engaging in tunnel vision is a concious action, you do choose to engage in the fight and continue in it after all.
So in identifying the actions you’re making conciously you can again, identify and eliminate the problem.
Thus this mindset becomes habit and you adhere to it naturally.
This is why this comment is so incredibly wrong. They aren’t sub-sets of eachother.
Nice thread! It’s good to have a break from “REVERT MERCY, BUFF SOMBRA” all day.
The main problem with tunnel vision guys, is that they have in their mind what “their job” is, and rarely deviate from it, then blame their team when everything falls apart. What I do, is see what I can do to help the team in places where they’re struggling.
For example: if our Zen keeps dying, I ask myself why he’s dying, then I notice a Sombra is camping him and we have no stun, so I switch to Mccree and stand near him. Little things like that can make all the difference in enabling your teammates. My precense alone is enough to make Sombra think twice before decloaking, which can help Zen heal everyone and/or pop off.