No-one-ganks like-Gaston
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Posted - 2015.08.08 02:34:00 -
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tl;dr I had a bad match with some idiot squadmates who were vehemently against actually being a team.
I just got out of a couple of FW matches in a squad of randoms and we were doing okay-ish. Could have done much better, but okay. Literally everyone had a microphone but no one was talking.
We lose a few times, win once, one of our squaddies suggests in the squad chat we split up the gang to cover ground and (look for clues) hack objectives rather than keeping all eight of our guys huddled on A all match, something we were doing just to stick together because no one had laid out a plan yet, and the other eight of the rest of the team split up in tiny or solo groups trying to do everything else, and I suggest someone should mic up to take control so we can coordinate. Another squaddie, apparently a friend of the squad lead, tells us 'if you want to go out and hack other objectives you should just do it yourself. We won that match without the squad lead saying a word. You mic users need to learn how to play the ******* game'. So apparently this is a squad of solo players, squad lead refuses to drop orbitals because 'it's too easy to hit allies' and used the squad commands all of three times through five matches, and squaddie 2 thinks people who use mics drink their own **** and kick puppies or something.
So enter next match and we're up against a squad of Prima Gallicus, I think is how you spell it. I'm irritated with squaddie 2 so I tell them 'Hey, a squad that doesn't communicate versus a squad that does communicate. I wonder who'll win?'
We lose hard. Our MCC is almost destroyed but we're cloned out first. And according to squaddie 2 it's my fault we lost because I apparently spent the entire match typing out that message rather than helping. And while it's flattering squaddie 2 thought we would have won if I had been the shining hero of the story, I actually was out there trying my best. Literally every death of mine was to a group of three or more Primas. I don't think a non-Prima ever got me. I never even got sniped, but there was definitely someone trying. To be fair, if we had a stronger hold on the objectives it would have been a very close match. Opposing team's MCC was at a little over half armor. But we were still a team of solos going against a strong killing squad.
Long story short, it's just confusing as **** that you would start up or join a squad if you have no intention of actually being in a squad. Literally talking down to anyone that suggests communication or teamwork or, ugh, tactics. You don't get any benefit. You're just running solo with green dots instead of blue dots. It's not like our squad lead used the orbitals we earned for him. At all, even on a place completely devoid of blues but thriving in reds. So why even squad?
Long story even shorter, **** randoms. |
No-one-ganks like-Gaston
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Posted - 2015.08.08 17:12:00 -
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Joel II X wrote:@OP, I stopped reading pretty early on in your post. Do you mean those that squad up, but don't play as a team (whether you talk or not is kind of whatever in certain situations)? If so, I share your pain. I have a few buds who never listen to the squad leader and play the game like they would Super Mario Sunshine.
It's pretty "meh", but in Factional, I'm actually pretty serious about it, especially when I'm squad lead. It's one of the reasons why I don't like having lead in the first place.
Squads are for chatting, anyways most of the time, except a few other people that use actual chat rooms as intended.
Yeah, people who squad up but don't team play. Just running around solo with green dots instead of blue dots. And this happened in a factional, which is one of the reasons I was bothered by it. The people who suggested coordinating being talked down to because 'we did fine one match, you all just need to get good' was another reason, as if a team effort in a team based game is a bad thing only scrubs do. |