In this Guide I simply share my Insight’s how I found peace with a personal Issue by playing Mechabellum. My Issue was (and still is but to some much lower degree): Feeling Anger and Stress while and after a Battle. Especially when defeated. Here I share what was important for myself to learn so far. My Background In this Guide, Iam talking about my own experiences, methods that works and was interesting to research and learn for myself based on my own difficulty to really fully enjoy Mechabellum. Or to be more specific: While playing the game itself, and especially losing at the end, made me feel stressed and angry – And at the same time I still really enjoyed the gameplay. So I kept playing but more and more with the desire and upcoming question how to enjoy and stay relaxed while playing. I wanted to learn that. - It seemed absurd to me to feel anger & stress by a fictional video game, with no impact to real life, in which even the human interaction is largely based on a simple “gg” in the chat, meaning basically no clear insults that add's kind of „reasonable“ anger and stress level human to human wise while playing. Funnily the methods (how to solve my problem) or the new mindset, to be more precise, that occured to me basically came up all at once on the same day. And in the days that followed, I was able to articulate these insights more clearly for myself and confirm their effectiveness in practice as often as I wanted – with increased Peace and Enjoyment while playing Mechabellum as a side effect (Whereby this achievement also transfers when dealing with similar issues but in real life. But more on that later. :-)) Just to tell clearly what my results so far are, after more than a Week of counterchecking: ¤ I can tell I enjoy playing Mechabellum now. It’s like a „80% improvement“. - Still Iam practicing in Enjoyment and Relaxation. The Time before, I could’nt say from myself that I really enjoy Mechabellum but now I do. ¤ Being defeated is way less triggering emotions. - Still practicing to find peace while and after being defeated. If I find any worthy insights to add (in general), I maybe share it in this guide in a dedicated „News“ section. But still, losing isn't really as big a problem as it used to be. ¤ Iam very surprised myself that my MMR continuously increased from 1,4k to +1,7k since that moment. Honestly I was expecting the opposite. I played and playing mostly 1v1, with vissible rank. But that one is more of a „fun fact“. „How to reach higher MMR“ thats something iam not aiming for. ¤ And some personal things that I think and feel are’nt interesting enough to share here. However, I think about this Guide like a offered bouquet of flowers to someone. We take the Flowers we are interested in. And sometimes there is’nt anything interesting to find for ourself. If you’re still interested in reading: So, let’s find out. :-) 5 things I realised / changed for myself 1. Observing my Intentions and choosing the Fun Decisions When I make Decisions – I observe and ask myself: Is this Decision based on Idealism/ Perfectionsim / "Thats the Winning/ Safest Strat" or is it a Fun, Curiosity or Joy based decision iam about to do? Simply realising whats the Intention behind my decision brings me into the present moment and relaxes me. It reminds me: why Iam here, what really matters in the end when I play… . And in the next step, I try to put the fun decision into practice. (Although “Fun-based Decisions” isn't exactly the term Iam satisfied to use to describe my point of view. But I hope it’s or it gets more understandable by reading along what I mean with that.) - So simply: Every Decision Iam about to do, Iam watching out for Decisions In which I feel stress myself thinking: „ , that Iam forced to run after the Victory winning Feeling“ and replace such Decisions with Fun based ones instead. Whatever Fun means in these moments. For example: Instead of following the Feeling to be forced to play in a specific, usual way – to cross check myself if I would enjoy to go for an unusal unit combination instead. Taking use from crazy cards like „Crawler Lv5“ or „+500% HP Raiden Card“ is an example. Right now while writing, It doesn't make sense to me to give more examples, to go more into detail. The following “4 Key Points” sufficiently complement this topic, giving some other examples of Fun or Peace generating decisions someone can make. It's a journey of self-discovery not even tied to game decisions. 2. Avoid Speeding Up I avoid speeding Up the Game. Thats a huge, a HUGE Stress Factor I discovered for myself. Sometimes I feel forced myself to speed up because Iam thinking my opponent expect and wants me to do so. And sometimes I also speed up, out of habit, when I notice my mistake in a hurry - in the hope of being able to correct it in the next Round... . However. The free Time, not speeding Up: I can chill out and think about what I want to change in my strategy. I found this to be an enriching, kind of mind blowing discovery for myself. During this break, I am now also fully enjoying the battlefield instead of focusing primarily on the active phase of unit placement. - Enjoying the full Auto-Battler Concept that way. :-) I avoid speeding up no matter if Loosing or Winning. Just watching the Great Battle or the Great Failure, hehe I only speed Up when Its no longer Fun to watch the Battle. (Fun Decision :D) 3. How and What do I feel right now? Constantly checking myself: What do my Body (parts) feels like right now? In what Mood Iam right now? - More or less constantly counter checking these questions. Doing so, it brings me into the present moment and helps me find clarity when I want to make decisions and feel good about myself. An example: „I feel uncomfortable. Am I sitting comfortably? Am I too close to my monitor?“ - Sometimes, I realise while playing, my hands rest on the keyboard while the Auto-Battle is going on, and that makes my body feel tense up. „What if I take my hands off the keyboard and just watch the battle from a more zoomed-out view?“. … Staying in the present moment and discovering such unconscious unpleasantness was another turning point for me. * Dear reader, as you read my words, How and What Your body feels like right now? * Very often, I feel stress or tension in my neck and shoulders when playing. When I notice this, I relax these parts of my body by reminding myself that nothing bad is happening in my real life, simply observing the tension in my shoulders and realizing that this stress is actually pointless. Remembering myself to take deep breaths helps a lot aswell. So, in the essence: Come into the Present Moment, Feel the Body, Breathe consciously, Correct something if necessarily. 4. Distract myself when things gets too intense If something is to intense for me: Remembering that I can watch away helps very well to interrupt the connection to the situation. Remembering that Iam not forced to stay the same all the time. (I mean: Looking all the time on the Screen and only focusing on the Game.) I can: Switch to another program, look around the room, close the eyes and mute the computer instantly with a button - these are a few examples how to take care and protect ourselves for the own well being. Sometimes things are to intense and it needs distance to process it. - I think, some things may sound obvious in this Guide. It was interesting for me to consciously remember these five things, apply them, and check the results. 5. Viewing Video Games as a Form of Therapy and Self-Discovery Tool By Time I realised that I can look at Videogames as an relatively safe form of Therapy. (Thats how I call it) Knowing that Iam repeatedly facing the same problem in a specific game, such as: fear of human contact; shyness + speaking up; stress/fear/issues with defeat; being insulted; difficulty in communicating the own limits; impatience; being rushed; engaging in pointless, energy-sapping discussions; ignoring to listen to intuition; having a weak memorability; … or whatever could someones personal issue. I can make new experiences and experiment in a relatively safe and predict-, controllable environment. I can lose how many times I want without negative impact in real life, or making experiences in leadership, how to deal with mean people as a Host or Participant; learn how to identify good and toxic people based on the sound of their voice, the way how someone communicate or experimenting how to find peace when my Teammates, as usual, does’nt perform and don’t play the way I want them to - Improving my mindfulness, wisdom and social skills by doing so, which applys / I can cross-check in real life scenarios aswell. Considering Mechabellum (or games in general) as a alternative therapy for dealing with stress and defeat turned out to be a relaxing and expanded perspective for me. Instead of viewing video games predominantly negatively. Finding solutions for the very own real life problems. All of that by just playing videogames I like. I know these are not always „complete solutions“ for real life problems that were found and some issues are’nt a safe space to experiment with in videogames (Iam thinking about people with epilepsy for example), but I don't feel like going into every little detail in this Guide. Anyone who reads my words is encouraged to read between the lines, to think and check the content for themselves to see how much it makes sense. With this in mind, I wish you all the good on your own journey of discovery, finding new perspectives and ways of dealing with games = personal life issues. :-) Not everyone reacts to the same situation in the same way. There are always different ways to approach a situation. And I think the best ones are those that bring us more relaxation, enjoyment of life and inner peace. News - last update: December-2025