Denak Kalamari
Intaki Liberation Front
Intaki Prosperity Initiative
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Posted - 2014.02.10 16:22:00 -
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The blueberry and greenberry terms are just useless, everyone can be an idiot regardless of what color their dot is. I've went into matches often times alone, which would make me a blueberry, and still work well to benefit the team and win the game ultimately, and I often score on the top of the scoreboard. Equally, greenberries can be annoying and clueless idiots who have no concept of teamwork.
Sure, there are always going to be those people who just go sniping right away and get one kill the entire match, and those who completely ignore you when you're in need of a revive even in safe places, but both squad members and non-squad members are prone to do this. The reason why your average non-squad member seems to be more stupid and/or clueless is because they might be part of another squad, following their own orders which might look useless to you, but serve to benefit his squad. Or in case of unsquadded players, they usually go do their own things as there is no one to guide them.
A blueberry can't know that people are coming without a squad member using an active scanner, leaving him oblivious to danger and quickly killed because he got no warning at all aside a vague "You have been scanned" message before dying. Without this kind of information, they are often left clueless as to what to do and where to go to be the most effective, so they just wander around aimlessly trying to find something to kill. When you keep dying over and over again to organized players, even if they're not protostomping, many of them resort to sniping because then they can minimize the risk of death and still have something to do.
People usually determine the value of a non-squad member on the limited information they're given from the few glimpses they saw him in battle, and the scoreboard result at the end of a match. Someone who only got 25 warpoints and died 20 times may seem like a waste of clones, but he could have just been trying to defend a heavily contested objective and kept being slaughtered by better equipped and skilled players. There's a lot of information you don't know about the people you see on the scoreboard, and low scores don't always mean that they're bad players.
But MCC shooters and redline missile installation campers are still idiots, as are the people the OP described.
Grahisha of ILF // Writer of Thoughts of a Clone Soldier // Latest entry published Feb. 10th
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