Adipem Nothi wrote:Boot Booter wrote:
Inb4 "get a squad" , **** you I play how I want. Joining a squad shouldn't be a requirement to enjoy the game. I've always liked playing solo for the challenge and it never used to be an issue.
^ Amen to that. I'd rather get my teeth kicked in solo than be bored out of my mind in a stompsquad. Seems to be one extreme or the other as of late.
And your teeth shall continue to be kicked in lol!
It's a team oriented game geared toward team play and tactics. There's comms, vehicles with multiple roles, complimentary roles in dropsuits, bonuses to running in squad, etc.
Personally, I don't feel CCP should change the entire direction of THEIR game so COD players can twitch strafe and send "get gud" mails?!
You can literally be a part of the team in every single role in the game. You can also play every role solo, but without squad benefits. Getting whacked by four guys communicating your location, and expecting different results is insanity.
You guys needed a game like this to bring you back to reality! I love how close to realism CCP tries to bring this game to! Get rid of the childish jump mods and unrealistic strafe speeds, and we might be making progress. Video games like COD give youth an unrealistic idea about something as real as war. You think I'm over reacting, but I'm actually in the army, and you wouldn't believe the amount of chair jockeys we get that think they're "operators" and know weapons lol!
If you play solo you will do alot worse than the 4 man squad. Why do you guys think you should be wrecking 4 guys, on comms, by yourself? I'm not saying it's not possible, but it SHOULD be hard!
I agree with the OP about the lack luster battles in the pubs. The pubs suffers from lack of team play, squads, and team work. No one helps the blues or newbs with training or in battle. Everyone is so worried about their personal kd ratio that they let blues die in front of them, and let newbs run fits they don't fully understand so they can be easier to kill.
Guys complain about the pubs, FW, and PC, and don't get me wrong so do I! However, the real problem isn't the squads, but the lack thereof! 4 man squads means, theoretically, 4 squads per team. Each squad is capable of either pushing/defending points, working as AV, running vehicles together, playing scouts and Ewar together, etc. If more of this was going on the battles would be much better all around!
Instead, we have 12 solo players, and 1 4-man squad trying to do everything by themselves?! FAIL! The 4 man squad is getting trashed by at least 3 4-man teams. While the 12 blues aren't helping out?! 5 have started sniping, but have to look for singular targets without any intel. 2 are in rail tanks... basically sniping in a bubble?! 1 is scouting in utter futility because 7 are in the redline not spawning?! Some more are pushing into walls of bullets with no help, that's you?!
Do you see how dumb this solo bs is?
My advice? Find guys you're compatible with who's roles are varied and complimentary to your own. Make sure their personality matches yours. Then try some squad play. It's the only thing that will help these redline fails. The pubs is suffering from lack of teamwork. It doesn't need MORE solo play, it needs less.
Sorry for ranting o7