Vyuru
Algintal Core
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.08.05 17:25:00 -
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Tossing in my 2 ISk.
I'm on both sides here.
There have been plenty of games I have fought to the bitter end, there have been plenty of games where I joined late, and I can point to my contribution as the reason we turned the match around. People are right, you can turn around a match last minute, and I know exactly what the MCC armor point is where we can turn it around and beat an almost full health enemy MCC if we can keep the point. And I've done it plenty of times. It does require a team working together (or mostly together) though.
However there are also other times where no matter what I do, my team refuses to work as a team, push for an objective, and get slaughtered en masse.
For example, I had a Domination match not long ago, 11 vs 14 in the enemy team's favor. Myself and 5 other people went dashing for the objective, the rest of my team took up sniping positions of all things in a map that did not favor sniping (indoor objective, and lots of indoor action) 3 of my team mates peeled off to hack useless turrets and ignored CRU's. Myself and the other 3 people hacked and briefly held the objective against a full 14 man team with no help from the rest of the team. Once they saw what my team was like, the enemy team switched to proto gear and redlined 'em, while leaving 5-8 people to guard the objective.
Even if the rest of the team had followed in Heavy's and arrived late, we could have kept that point. The enemy team was not that good frankly. No one spawned in on our uplinks. We were entrenched first and we could have held that objective. As it was, we brought the enemy MCC's shields to half before we were overrun.
I was the ONLY one who tried to sneak past and hack the objective, sneak uplinks, hack other things, etc. Not a fun match in any way shape or form.
These matches are not an every day occurance, but they are not infrequent either. You can normally see some common signs that what you are about to get into is one of those one sided fights.
Pretty much boils down to, if my team is going to try, I'll stick around and fight with them. If my team is going to mess around and not even try to hack the first point next to our redline? Not sticking around unless I want to cause havoc and mayhem for the opposing team. Which sometimes I feel like, sometimes I don't.
And frankly, why should I be punished for not wanting to waste MY isk and MY K/D ratio for people who are basically AWOXing? That is really how I view it. |