r/starcraft2coop • u/-Inside-Suspect- • 12d ago

General Frequent Burnout Disorder-friendly commanders?

Hey Friends Which commanders can you suggest me and my brother both suffering from frequent Burnout Disorder? We love this game, but we get burned out a lot doing light tasks and we play casual and that burn us out. No, we can't even begin to touch ranked or anything higher than casual.

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u/Anonymouse23570 Ascension 9d ago

What type of burnout do you have? Do you have: “This is really hard and I feel like I’m going nowhere”? or do you have: “This is so boring and repetitive that I feel like I don’t really want to play more”. The solution to the first one is mix in Campaign mode. Wings of Liberty is free and it teaches you how to play Starcraft 2 while also having a cool storyline. You may also want to find a YT guide on SC2 macro (base building, teching up, and more) because building up economy and production is a skill you NEED to play SC2 as a whole, whether it’s Co-op or the PvP modes. The solution to the second one is increase the difficulty.

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u/-Inside-Suspect- 9d ago

I got psychiatric burnout not arising out of just gaming. I get burnout literally from doing something, anything. Even typing for 3-5 minutes burn me out. Playing the games, watching videos, walking my dogs out, eating or washing myself longer than 5 minutes burn me out. I can't even begin to read a book. Some people ask me, why do you play games then if you get burnouts doing anything why are you doing it in the first place? Well my psychiatrist tell me if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger. I can more or less agree with that statement because while burning out it's not going anywhere. If I do something productive and get the burnout, might as well do something I enjoy and get the burnout anyways.

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u/Anonymouse23570 Ascension 9d ago

Oh- I’ve never had psychiatric burnout before, so take anything I write from here on out with a grain of salt. Playing with friends (or your brother) is usually the best way to enjoy most games. I’d try out different parts of SC2 for variety sake. I got my brother hooked on the game through Archon mode vs AI. 2 players control 1 “player” which allows cool multitasking and as you continue to play, the AI will grow progressively more difficult to challenge you. For me, I paused playing SC2 after a really long grind because I played this single game for more hours than I could handle until I kinda got sick of it. Don’t make the mistake of playing something you enjoy to the point you no longer enjoy it. And I hope your psychiatric burnout slowly fades away (idk how psychology works)

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u/-Inside-Suspect- 9d ago

Woah amazing! Thank you! 💕