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Kristoff Atruin
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Posted - 2014.02.28 05:04:00 -
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People sync when they can because it's more fun when you've got a full team of people willing to play as a team, and because it makes the game actually fun when you get matched against a stacked team (synched or otherwise). Outside of PC, which is a hilariously bad and broken game mode, it's the only way to practice working as a team with your team.
This whole QQ thread is basically the same as calling people out for joining a squad of people they know instead of going into battles solo. |
Kristoff Atruin
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Posted - 2014.02.28 06:20:00 -
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Meta level never comes into it. Subdreddit takes out opposing proto-bear teams in pubs all the time while using very little proto, since we abandoned PC a long time ago and just can't afford to throw isk out the window like it isn't worth anything. It's the teamwork that makes syncs worth doing.
And it's exactly the same as complaining about people joining squads, you just move up the food chain where instead of looking at a player as one game unit you look at a squad as a unit. Take two teams where one side has a full squad of teamwork oriented players and the rest of the players are disorganized blueberries. The team with the squad will win, period. The same thing happens when you have one squad on one side and two on the other. All this thread is, is "abloo bloo, they brought one more squad than we did".
Saying that the comparison is invalid because there's no mechanic yet for forming a team as a unit before pressing the find match button is flat out silly. Team deploy is coming, whether or not scotty currently has the ability to put two squads into the same team is irrelevant. All that means is soon it will be even *easier* to deploy an entire team at once. Right now when you try to sync you've got about a 50/50 chance that your squads will be on opposite teams, so means you get to trash talk each other which is hilarious (ask me about the time I killed Dent 10 times during a match from the side turret of an assault dropship, laughing and calling his name when I spotted him). When team deploy arrives this won't happen unless we're actually trying to fight each other.
Syncing is *not* hard, all you need is a shared channel to talk in and make sure both squad leads press the button at the same time. You're all basically coming into an mmofps and complaining that you're getting rolled by people who are being more social than you. The squad finder is handy, but it's just a convenience...you need to go and actually talk to people to take your game to the next level. When the big Caldari FW / State SOCOM push was happening that's what we did...we had a big channel where squads of people who didn't really know each other would sync up. The only thing stopping you from doing the same thing is you. |
Kristoff Atruin
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Posted - 2014.02.28 19:53:00 -
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A synched team isn't necessarily a sign that you're about to get stomped. Sometimes what you're looking at is a pile of drunk dudes with tunnel vision. There's been a few times where I've gone into a skirmish alone against two organized, wealthy squads and we won. What happened was I put on my uplink / hacker suit, called in a lav and drove around capturing things and keeping the other team off balance. They could have easily won if they'd left defenders instead of massing up into a wrecking ball, but people don't always play smart.
I make bank on those kinds of matches, since I score more WP than anyone else in the match and do it in militia suits. |
Kristoff Atruin
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Posted - 2014.02.28 20:21:00 -
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The most satisfying thing in Dust is getting into that kind of match where they come out hard and heavy with the proto at the start, and through fighting hard and smart grind them down until they're in the redline sniping or switching to free fits. Especially when you finish the match with a profit. When that happens I don't even care if we won or lost. |
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