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Genius

"Hurry up! We can converge on this singular DPS alone!" Danny exclaimed. Joseph who is still getting used to the map "Retro" shifted his attention over to the target marked on the map. He is very much confused by what is happening, and just proceeded to tag along with his other four teammates. He got dragged along onto a casual game, but Danny's ELO as he explained it is relatively high, so he could not take his time to learn the game. "I'm sorry I forgotten about it!" Danny answered him mid-way into the game. Joseph sighed and attempted to play the game seriously. His character is a very well balanced character, it could become a "Tank" if need be , Tanks are the front-liners of any team composition and try to absorb the damage taken by the rest of the team. His character could also become a "DPS" character. "DPS" are the damage dealers of the team, normally they are equipped with ranged weapons although there are some who use melee weapons as their main weapon.

Joseph glanced over to Danny's PC and noticed that his mouse movement is well-trained. His wrist movement are adept and quick to snap onto a target. His arm is perfectly pivoted well on the table and his forearm adjustments to navigate around the environment all perfectly show how much of a veteran he is in FPS.

This enemy "DPS" who is so out of position with his team, frantically picked up the pace to escape through the city-like environment. His character is well-customized with blazing red hair and a fitting ruby like eyes that is meant to intimidate his opponents. His build is fairly thin, perfectly suited for the agile escape he needed to execute right now. "His Wall bounces and Bunny hops are maintaining his speed currently!" Danny exclaimed. "What are you saying?". "Shut up no time to answer your ass!". Joseph remained silent after that.

Joseph perhaps got his answer after this enemy seemingly bounced off a wall he needed to climb and got over it with the momentum from the bounce off the wall without triggering a climb animation. He understood immediately that this was a high level technique. "Shoot! What the hell are you guys doing?" Danny shouted. Joseph reacted on reflex and began to use his ranged weapon, a gun modelled after the AK-47 called "Taker" and sprayed it horrendously off target, his teammates were shocked by how bad his aim is, thanking god that his role wasn't the main DPS.

Joseph was playing as a secondary "DPS", a standard in a team composition, it did not require much game knowledge unlike the "Support" and "Sentinel" role which made it perfect for newbies to play. Danny got more aggressive as he realized that the red hair assailant was about to reach his teammates. "What the F***???", the main DPS went under heavy scrutiny as Danny was shocked by how he could not finish off a target that was just running away. "bro he was just too good", "chill out" and "its just casual..." messages began to appear in the chat box. The team was initially using voice chat but after this mistake, began to hide away in the chat box.

They lost the DPS player at a shopping mall, surrounded by shops that sold clothes and jewelries. Being on the first floor exposed with no cover is certainly not what anybody wants, but their aggression led them to this horrible position. On the third floor directly above them a sniper had them in sights, she glanced over at her mini-map and maintained trigger discipline immediately after realizing she had no follow-up after firing the first shot. Her team was rushing to this location after the constant screaming and shouting from this "DPS" who overextended. She invested multiple points into movement techniques, allowing her to wall run and double jump, making her much faster than the rest of her team.

"I hope some of you b****** brought some smoke grenades?" Danny questioned after realizing the plight they are in. The entire team except for Joseph immediately popped the smoke grenades and followed the Tank Danny. Danny showed stellar positioning for a tank and became the pivot for which the team moves around. He has a plasma shield that will block any incoming damage up to 500 damage before it breaks which he activates throughout this entire sequence of movement. Danny guided the team outside of the mall safely through the smoke thanks to his experience in this map.

At the internet café, a lean figure scanned the café, seemingly interested in the players around the café. She has long blue hair and a figure that is stunning, many of the dwellers in the café are taken aback by her beauty as their heart began to race slightly faster. "Oh wow! what kind of form is that?" she thought as she looked at Joseph's grip on the mouse. She strolled over to take a look at his gameplay all while bathing in the attention from her surroundings.

Outside of the mall, the enemy team rallied around their tank, their tank has a similar build to Danny's build and is carrying the same plasma shield, their DPS began to shoot at the shield being held by Danny. Their sentinel diverged away from their team and unsheathed her sword, "Stinger" , a sword that can be brought in the shop for a decent price and charged towards the left side of the plasma shield. Joseph noticed this and quickly began rotating over to spray the sentinel down. "Olly help him! " Danny shouted, Olly who is the team's support did not hesitate and began to apply a damage buff to Joseph. He thought earnestly at this point that Joseph did not have what it takes to take down the sentinel despite being a DPS. Olly only did as told out of respect for Danny and did not want to be screamed at if he rebelled against his orders.

It was only 5 minutes into the first round, in an insignificant match, Joseph focused himself mentally, breathing and taking in all that is to see. It was chaotic as he quickly took aim, everyones' gaze were attracted by his decisive action and yet, in this moment the advancing sentinel lunged towards Joseph, completely oblivious to the atmosphere. He felt anxious when the players stared at a lone figure, this figure whom they acknowledged to be new to the game, maneuvered perfectly in position. Many thoughts raced through his mind, a pretentious veteran player could never imitate even a fraction of his inexperience but a cold roar was heard next. This bullet did not allow the regretful self facing it run, it was rather unavoidable. There was a moment of tranquility as the enemy sentinel was shot in the head by Joseph. A perfect one-tap onto the head. The spectating woman was stunned, she who saw everything was amazed by the sheer confidence of the man she was watching.

The sniper navigating down from the third floor and was right on the entrance saw the opportunity and took a shot at Joseph. But she could not feel her controls anymore, she froze when she realized she had been shot, not by their main DPS who was still shooting at the enemy tank but by their secondary DPS Joseph. "There is no way! The flick required such high sensitivity and roughly about a 105 degrees turn?". She thought of this as the shot registered onto her head.

It became a 5v3 very quickly, the opposition had no chance as the plasma shield was broken down by the damage dealt by the main DPS and the others. Quickly, they were killed and the round was over.

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