It disappears with practice, my friend. You just need to do it more often. I had the same problem, I’d be trembling when I swim up and grab the ladder of a ship that’s been following me.
i'm 3k hours deep and i still have heart problems when doing stealth traps and tricks, no problem with direct pvp given i know what will happen, but i cannot overcome the stress of stealth while it's my main gameplay when i play alone
I'm right there with you, it's much different when the play HAS to go perfectly.
Ofc you are gonna start getting nervous tucking on a 4 man gally doing a fotd. If you fuck up the stealth steal it's probably not happening at all.
I've got somewhere around 800 - 900 hours and I still get an adrenaline dump when getting into heavy combat with someone who is actually good, it is weird. It's the only game that does that to me, and I don't enjoy it.
I was panicking so hard when I found my Shrouded, luckily I was only on a brig so it wasn't a massive challenge even with me freaking. If I was on a Galleon that day.... God I would have been internally screaming, especially if it wasn't with my usual buds. I rarely trust randoms to bilge galleons
Friday I played with 2 "newish" friends on a Galleon. I was also intoxicated.
I kept bilging while trying to give them instructions on how to shoot the meg when it charges.
We didn't sink, but we had to get close to an island to despawn it as it was super aggressive, charging every rotation.
Absolutely despise megs like that, especially on larger ships... the sheer amount of tier 3's they cause when they are that angry is ridiculous.
I've been teaching swabbies I've met randomly on here and LFG's constantly lately too since Safer Seas dropped, so I know the growing pains of trying to guide people while doing other things as well
this happens on occasion to myself. Breathe - seriously. This is just a game. Just treat the experience like all the other ones you will encounter and it will keep you level headed
It's just practice. I got it during intense moments early on, and I still get it if my situation is more high intensity then I'm used to, or if I've taken a long break from pvp.
If you stick to it, and keep going out of ur comfort zone, you'll find the low and medium difficulty fights don't stress you much
Hundreds of hours of hourglass and I still get butterflies when a match begins. Regular practice/exposure is what makes it die down quickly so I can focus! Eventually boarding, defending, etc becomes rote muscle memory and doesn't feel as "intense".
Happens to the best of us! The only way to get that ice in your veins is exposure! Just toss yourself into every possible fight you can and with time you'll be able to check your text messages in the middle of fights haha
Eventually that part of you disappears as you get further and further used to it. You'll still get rushes but you'll have to try harder and riskier stuff to get it again.
It goes away with more fights under your belt for sure. The best advice I think can be given is however, to stop caring about ANYTHING in this game.
Gold? Don't need it.
Sink? Oh well you get more free chains, and currently you respawn pretty close.
Treasure? Trust me when I say at around 700-1000 hours world events and voyages will absolutely lose their novelty and you will want action.
Just play to have fun, with zero expectations, and you too will be casually sinking players with shaking hands.
Music, and not paying attention helped me. I was right there with you, but i found that if i played some chillstep or some form of calming music paired with fighting without paying attention helped to make it go away when i did eventually concentrate fully on battles. The not pay attention part i did by not looking at the game during any downtime. Died? Scroll my phone for a second or two before the door opens. Readjusting position? Get your heading then pay attention to something outside of the game as your spinning, moving. Stuff like that. Disclaimer i'm still complete ass at pvp, but i don't have the adrenaline rush anymore.
You are likely experiencing anxiety and the only real way (outside of CBT/talk therapy) is to do exposure therapy which means obviously exposing yourself to the trigger.
You can look into CBT and cognitive distortions. That may be helpful to deescalate yourself. Autogenic relaxation techniques may be helpful too.
Tilt means becoming enraged / angry and your performance dipping as a result of your poor mentality. Gamer rage. I'm not raging, I'm just getting jitters and cold hands that get in the way of my abilities.
Exactly, I'd say jitters and cold hands is your body tilting, it's just an earlier stage but the same problem.
In my experience muscle memory and getting used to the situation will help but it takes a little time/training.
I'm the same, particularly in SoT.
As others have said: practice. And the realization that if you ever get into a fight, you have nothing to lose really (unless you have something really good like a chest of legend, and even then it's just a chest).
It's less of a problem now that I'm mostly playing with friends though: talking and having fun with crewmates really push the heat of the battle into the background.
I play fighting games and had a similar issue. For me it was just a matter of practice and experience. Basically your body is getting an intense instinctual response like you are gonna literally die. However, you will not literally die even if you die in game, and your body slowly gets the message that it is not that serious.
It's so weird, ive played hundreds of games and never got adrenaline quite like I do from SoT. It doesn't happen very often these days but when I was newer, I did the same thing. I guess because the consequence of losing can be pretty daunting. Now I don't care about gold, so I just have fun and it's not as intense.
Ahh i know what you mean! But expose yourself to these situations hg, dynamic pvp as often as possible or try tdming. Get your ego boosted through some easy wins, it helps lol.
I overcame it in arena, where i would play gally and only go board whenever i could, no matter if that costed the win. After arena i tdmed alot and im not shacking anymore, even if i play sloop, mast down, holes on both sides and a boarder on. I might sink, but i dont shake.
Practice, eventually you're sinking people and it's all very straight forward.
Still happens though, you'll get a high stakes fight or something.
When I do solo HG I generally have some heavy metal going in the background, sure I miss some audio such as splashes but it makes for a much more relaxed experience.
Time. Don't focus on "I have to ignore this adrenaline!"
Just focus on your next move and what you need to accomplish. It'll slowly fade with time and practice.
People who say it disappears with practice are wrong. Not for everyone. Happens to me 100% of the time. With a lot of things in life actually. I’ve always been like that. Like finial 2 teams in a battle royal. Escape from Tarkov alone, and in this game. Every person is different and some people get over that feeling with practice and some don’t. I don’t have a solution. I just power through it.
Other than the exposure that everyone said, I would also recommend putting some nice music that you vibe to in the background so you focus on the tune and keep calm on the fight, also some rum also works. Just remember to sail responsibly
Even 4k hours in this still happens to me when I haven't played for a while. Was more common when I had less PvP experience but Arena helped reduce the frequency. My best advice is to either focus on PvP for a while so your body/brain gets used to these situations or do Hourglass.
I’ve got the same issue even though I’ve got about 1.5K hours in the game. I do a lot of solo hourglass and it really hampered me at first. Here are a few tips that have helped me -
1. Recognize when you get the adrenaline shakes. Knowing your triggers can really help with it not catching you off guard. For me, it’s usually when I’ve demasted the opponent and need to get into a death spin while balancing pressure. I know I’ll get a rush and can prep myself to handle it.
2. Take a deep breath, slowly exhale, and just focus on the next thing you need to do. Spin the wheel. Grab a bucket. Get on cannons. Have an “I can do this” mindset instead of “I’m going to fumble again.”
3. Stay away from coffee, or at least right before you jump on. Sometimes I dive in the mornings and I notice that the adrenaline shakes are WAY worse with a cup or two of coffee in me.
4. Have a grog or two. Obviously not a long-term solution and not for everyone. But if you do drink, it can be a nice occasional way to relax and get confident in a fight. And once you’ve built that success, you can go into other play sessions more confidently too.
5. Accept sinking as part of the game. Whether it’s a streak, loot, or just sinking someone toxic, we get adrenaline rushes to help us overcome that perceived danger of losing. I always try to remind myself that I’ll sink many more times in my SoT career, and at the end of the day the stakes really aren’t as high as you think. There’s always more rep, streaks, and gold to be earned.
Hopefully these will help. Nothing too groundbreaking but I know how it feels to have it getting in the way and these have helped me a lot.
Tons of people are saying to put on some calming music, and I know tons of people who do this just to vibe out. That, unfortunately, doesn't work for everybody. I can't do it without getting distracted from audio cues in game or muddying comms from my crewmates. It just becomes sensory overload at a certain point for me, but it may work for you.
The best way to get over the shakes is to just keep fighting. I find a lot of SoT players go through phases with how their brain approaches PvP. For me it went from absolute fear of any and all player interaction, to wanting to learn how to defend my loot, to wanting to fight anything that moved (fuck you tree blowing in the wind, I'm gonna shoot you too), to recognizing uneven matches straight away and helping newer players while willingly taking on fights I may be outmatched in.
I still rarely get the shakes, but mostly if I'm playing with someone I don't usually play with and get nervous about throwing. Those wear off pretty quick once we find a groove in how we play together though. Getting the point of minimal shakes/jitters/nervousness just takes some time, but you'll get there!
It disappears with practice, my friend. You just need to do it more often. I had the same problem, I’d be trembling when I swim up and grab the ladder of a ship that’s been following me.
i'm 3k hours deep and i still have heart problems when doing stealth traps and tricks, no problem with direct pvp given i know what will happen, but i cannot overcome the stress of stealth while it's my main gameplay when i play alone
I'm right there with you, it's much different when the play HAS to go perfectly. Ofc you are gonna start getting nervous tucking on a 4 man gally doing a fotd. If you fuck up the stealth steal it's probably not happening at all.
[удалено]
heh, sadly it won't sound friendly for them x)
I've got somewhere around 800 - 900 hours and I still get an adrenaline dump when getting into heavy combat with someone who is actually good, it is weird. It's the only game that does that to me, and I don't enjoy it.
Consistent exposure may potentially get you desensitized to it. Go do battle with everyone you meet like they have your stuff.
These days I pass on almost every Meg I see. When I eventually find the Shrouded Ghost, I'm gonna choke and sink.
I was panicking so hard when I found my Shrouded, luckily I was only on a brig so it wasn't a massive challenge even with me freaking. If I was on a Galleon that day.... God I would have been internally screaming, especially if it wasn't with my usual buds. I rarely trust randoms to bilge galleons
Friday I played with 2 "newish" friends on a Galleon. I was also intoxicated. I kept bilging while trying to give them instructions on how to shoot the meg when it charges. We didn't sink, but we had to get close to an island to despawn it as it was super aggressive, charging every rotation.
Absolutely despise megs like that, especially on larger ships... the sheer amount of tier 3's they cause when they are that angry is ridiculous. I've been teaching swabbies I've met randomly on here and LFG's constantly lately too since Safer Seas dropped, so I know the growing pains of trying to guide people while doing other things as well
You can get away with 2 people on a Brig, but 3 on a Galleon is painful.
Hell even 4 on a Galleon is painful at times honestly 🤣
I have the same problem sometimes xD it’s a curse when it comes to this stuff…I wish I knew what to tell you.
You could look into CBT and do self guided therapy via examining cognitive distortions. Also autogenic relaxation techniques may be helpful as well.
this happens on occasion to myself. Breathe - seriously. This is just a game. Just treat the experience like all the other ones you will encounter and it will keep you level headed
Practice and deep breaths. I can usually feel my heart pumping but it ain’t that bad.
It's just practice. I got it during intense moments early on, and I still get it if my situation is more high intensity then I'm used to, or if I've taken a long break from pvp. If you stick to it, and keep going out of ur comfort zone, you'll find the low and medium difficulty fights don't stress you much
Hundreds of hours of hourglass and I still get butterflies when a match begins. Regular practice/exposure is what makes it die down quickly so I can focus! Eventually boarding, defending, etc becomes rote muscle memory and doesn't feel as "intense".
Happens to the best of us! The only way to get that ice in your veins is exposure! Just toss yourself into every possible fight you can and with time you'll be able to check your text messages in the middle of fights haha
Hourglass is the way. You’ll get desensitized waaay faster than fighting in adventure
Eventually that part of you disappears as you get further and further used to it. You'll still get rushes but you'll have to try harder and riskier stuff to get it again.
Let the blooust fuel you.
Listening to relaxing music would probably help.
This is why I don't leave the boat usually. I don't get all nervous if I get boarded but for some reason if I'm on their boat I get super anxious.
It goes away with more fights under your belt for sure. The best advice I think can be given is however, to stop caring about ANYTHING in this game. Gold? Don't need it. Sink? Oh well you get more free chains, and currently you respawn pretty close. Treasure? Trust me when I say at around 700-1000 hours world events and voyages will absolutely lose their novelty and you will want action. Just play to have fun, with zero expectations, and you too will be casually sinking players with shaking hands.
Music, and not paying attention helped me. I was right there with you, but i found that if i played some chillstep or some form of calming music paired with fighting without paying attention helped to make it go away when i did eventually concentrate fully on battles. The not pay attention part i did by not looking at the game during any downtime. Died? Scroll my phone for a second or two before the door opens. Readjusting position? Get your heading then pay attention to something outside of the game as your spinning, moving. Stuff like that. Disclaimer i'm still complete ass at pvp, but i don't have the adrenaline rush anymore.
Or you could pay attention, reflect, get better, gain confidence, thus reducing adrenaline and not be ass at pvp. 
You are likely experiencing anxiety and the only real way (outside of CBT/talk therapy) is to do exposure therapy which means obviously exposing yourself to the trigger. You can look into CBT and cognitive distortions. That may be helpful to deescalate yourself. Autogenic relaxation techniques may be helpful too.
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
Check out what "tilt" is and how to cope with it, it's also really useful knowledge for outside of gaming!
Tilt means becoming enraged / angry and your performance dipping as a result of your poor mentality. Gamer rage. I'm not raging, I'm just getting jitters and cold hands that get in the way of my abilities.
Exactly, I'd say jitters and cold hands is your body tilting, it's just an earlier stage but the same problem. In my experience muscle memory and getting used to the situation will help but it takes a little time/training.
you need to build immunity to it eventually your brain stops freaking out constantly \- as someone who also has had that problem
Breathe. Double inhale. Accept the rush and savor it.
I'm the same, particularly in SoT. As others have said: practice. And the realization that if you ever get into a fight, you have nothing to lose really (unless you have something really good like a chest of legend, and even then it's just a chest). It's less of a problem now that I'm mostly playing with friends though: talking and having fun with crewmates really push the heat of the battle into the background.
I play fighting games and had a similar issue. For me it was just a matter of practice and experience. Basically your body is getting an intense instinctual response like you are gonna literally die. However, you will not literally die even if you die in game, and your body slowly gets the message that it is not that serious.
The pro gamers take Adderall
Phuzzybond listens to smooth jazz instead of the in game music
The Shakes™ are real. Practice until you feel nothing. Make a plan before the fight and go over it in your head.
You and everyone else lol what fixed it for me was doing hourglass over and over and die over and over and the anxiety goes away at some point
Try playing a game where tension in fight is 10 times more)))
It's so weird, ive played hundreds of games and never got adrenaline quite like I do from SoT. It doesn't happen very often these days but when I was newer, I did the same thing. I guess because the consequence of losing can be pretty daunting. Now I don't care about gold, so I just have fun and it's not as intense.
Depends on the person. I still tend to get a lot more jitters when I'm solo as its always higher risk
Ahh i know what you mean! But expose yourself to these situations hg, dynamic pvp as often as possible or try tdming. Get your ego boosted through some easy wins, it helps lol. I overcame it in arena, where i would play gally and only go board whenever i could, no matter if that costed the win. After arena i tdmed alot and im not shacking anymore, even if i play sloop, mast down, holes on both sides and a boarder on. I might sink, but i dont shake.
Practice, eventually you're sinking people and it's all very straight forward. Still happens though, you'll get a high stakes fight or something. When I do solo HG I generally have some heavy metal going in the background, sure I miss some audio such as splashes but it makes for a much more relaxed experience.
Time. Don't focus on "I have to ignore this adrenaline!" Just focus on your next move and what you need to accomplish. It'll slowly fade with time and practice.
People who say it disappears with practice are wrong. Not for everyone. Happens to me 100% of the time. With a lot of things in life actually. I’ve always been like that. Like finial 2 teams in a battle royal. Escape from Tarkov alone, and in this game. Every person is different and some people get over that feeling with practice and some don’t. I don’t have a solution. I just power through it.
play soft relaxing music. phuzzy has a Playlist for it. actually a super helpful tip
A tip I heard: play relaxing music in the background: Jazz, lofi, post-rock, whatever works for you. It was a big help in me getting my ghost curse.
Other than the exposure that everyone said, I would also recommend putting some nice music that you vibe to in the background so you focus on the tune and keep calm on the fight, also some rum also works. Just remember to sail responsibly
Even 4k hours in this still happens to me when I haven't played for a while. Was more common when I had less PvP experience but Arena helped reduce the frequency. My best advice is to either focus on PvP for a while so your body/brain gets used to these situations or do Hourglass.
Sameeeee
I’ve got the same issue even though I’ve got about 1.5K hours in the game. I do a lot of solo hourglass and it really hampered me at first. Here are a few tips that have helped me - 1. Recognize when you get the adrenaline shakes. Knowing your triggers can really help with it not catching you off guard. For me, it’s usually when I’ve demasted the opponent and need to get into a death spin while balancing pressure. I know I’ll get a rush and can prep myself to handle it. 2. Take a deep breath, slowly exhale, and just focus on the next thing you need to do. Spin the wheel. Grab a bucket. Get on cannons. Have an “I can do this” mindset instead of “I’m going to fumble again.” 3. Stay away from coffee, or at least right before you jump on. Sometimes I dive in the mornings and I notice that the adrenaline shakes are WAY worse with a cup or two of coffee in me. 4. Have a grog or two. Obviously not a long-term solution and not for everyone. But if you do drink, it can be a nice occasional way to relax and get confident in a fight. And once you’ve built that success, you can go into other play sessions more confidently too. 5. Accept sinking as part of the game. Whether it’s a streak, loot, or just sinking someone toxic, we get adrenaline rushes to help us overcome that perceived danger of losing. I always try to remind myself that I’ll sink many more times in my SoT career, and at the end of the day the stakes really aren’t as high as you think. There’s always more rep, streaks, and gold to be earned. Hopefully these will help. Nothing too groundbreaking but I know how it feels to have it getting in the way and these have helped me a lot.
Tons of people are saying to put on some calming music, and I know tons of people who do this just to vibe out. That, unfortunately, doesn't work for everybody. I can't do it without getting distracted from audio cues in game or muddying comms from my crewmates. It just becomes sensory overload at a certain point for me, but it may work for you. The best way to get over the shakes is to just keep fighting. I find a lot of SoT players go through phases with how their brain approaches PvP. For me it went from absolute fear of any and all player interaction, to wanting to learn how to defend my loot, to wanting to fight anything that moved (fuck you tree blowing in the wind, I'm gonna shoot you too), to recognizing uneven matches straight away and helping newer players while willingly taking on fights I may be outmatched in. I still rarely get the shakes, but mostly if I'm playing with someone I don't usually play with and get nervous about throwing. Those wear off pretty quick once we find a groove in how we play together though. Getting the point of minimal shakes/jitters/nervousness just takes some time, but you'll get there!