Remove Kings Canyon
The map is way too small. If you start a fight, every team across the map converges on your position. You don't even get chance to heal, its just one team after another, after another. If you use a...
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I usually hot-drop straight out of the ship and go vertically down (so edge drop). There's usually only one or two teams - that's sustainable. You can fight that and win most encounters if you think tactically and put the third team between you and your initial opposition, and rotate around the fight rather than straight through it to prevent revives etc...
The problem is, once you've dealt with your one or two, because of the sounds being so audible at long ranges, people in the next region hear it, and traverse to you - so that's usually 3-4 additional teams heading your way... and the audio doesn't stop in the next area, its usually those on the NEXT area from those that start heading your way too.
You may luck out and get them to engage on each other before they reach you, but you need to have completed the following IN THE TIME IT TAKES FOR ONE TEAM TO TRAVERSE A SINGLE AREA:
- Engaged in the current fight, and won it
- Healed and reloaded all your weapons
- Looted for more ammo / heals
If you're operating in a scenario where the opposition team does not have any transition abilities to move through the surrounding areas quicker, and they're not stopping to loot at every building or pill box. The entire fight has to be concluded within 30 seconds - which is unreasonable unless the initial teams are fully exposed and have low armour or heals.
I raise this as a concern because I was fighting artillery from drop. One other team landed with us. We fought the first team, and killed two of them within about 60 seconds. One ran away that we thought was a Crypto because a drone scanned us. The Crypto was part of another team from the tower connected to artillery. We wiped that team. Then another team came from behind artillery (I don't know that area's name), and while they attacked us, we quickly fell back to the building next to the climbable wall area to heal, and reload, and another team came through the wall.
While they were pushing on us, ANOTHER team came through the tunnel to engage on the team that came from behind artillery.
That's SIX teams converging on one spot because of a fight breaking out. This being an area that only has TWO connecting drop-sites (Tower, and that bit behind). People were coming from Containment, Radar, and that bit near run-off... just to get involved in a third-party fight, all in the first zone, all in the space of about 2 minutes.
When we finally died, there were 9 squads left, and 3 squads still in the Artillery area (even more turned up) even though it was no longer in the zone as zone 1 was closing.
It's utterly ridiculous.
@Stevoyd
Artillery may be an edge drop, but even an edge drop is bad if it's the first available POI on the drop line. I don't know if you've ever delayed your drop and turned around while still in the drop ship to watch where and how other people jump, but it's instructive. In my experience being first out of the ship is bad, edge or no. Being last out is usually good. Center of map, bad. Major point of interest anywhere other than late and off the line, bad. People like center because they think they'll save themselves a long, hard rotation. What they save themselves is the ability to loot effectively. If the size of King's has any upside, it's that a knowledgeable player can traverse the map around the edges and still make a corner-to-corner rotation. That's much harder on Storm or Moon.
And I get wanting to drop where at least one or two other squads drop. It's a shooter and people do seem to want to shoot. But the longer you put off the fight then the better off you'll be. Statistically. And in terms of loot. Food for thought.
Artillery may be an edge drop, but even an edge drop is bad if it's the first available POI on the drop line. I don't know if you've ever delayed your drop and turned around while still in the drop ship to watch where and how other people jump, but it's instructive. In my experience being first out of the ship is bad, edge or no. Being last out is usually good. Center of map, bad. Major point of interest anywhere other than late and off the line, bad. People like center because they think they'll save themselves a long, hard rotation. What they save themselves is the ability to loot effectively. If the size of King's has any upside, it's that a knowledgeable player can traverse the map around the edges and still make a corner-to-corner rotation. That's much harder on Storm or Moon.
And I get wanting to drop where at least one or two other squads drop. It's a shooter and people do seem to want to shoot. But the longer you put off the fight then the better off you'll be. Statistically. And in terms of loot. Food for thought.
@reconzero"And I get wanting to drop where at least one or two other squads drop. It's a shooter and people do seem to want to shoot. But the longer you put off the fight then the better off you'll be. Statistically. And in terms of loot. Food for thought. "
I agree with your thinking, but at the same time this is true if damage and kill counts are not what you want, but rather to be one of the last 2 or 3 squads standing.
Some people on my team want to engage immediately so that they can rack up damage. I have only broke 1000 once, but I have seen others break 2k and they are very aggressive. I love playing with them when they work as a team with me, because they help me relax and I can do some real damage with them.
But here is the kicker. I won't know if the jump master is someone that is really good and will break 2k before the end of the match or someone who just wants to end his squad early as they drop us in hot.I kid you not, once a teammate rebuked another teammate of mine for finishing off an enemy. His comment was, "Let them heal!" He found them to be noobs and wanted to rack up as much damage as he could.
So funny.
- @MrGreenWithAGun
"But here is the kicker. I won't know if the jump master is someone that is really good and will break 2k before the end of the match or someone who just wants to end his squad early as they drop us in hot."
I know. They are almost always the hack on a suicide mission. I have to assume that in every match. In the rare instances where it's a "superior" player, they're still playing their own personal meta without regard for the skills or strategies of their squadmates. The only thing more dangerous to me than an inexperienced squadmate is an experienced squadmate. Wow, that's pretty nihilist even for me!
"this is true if damage and kill counts are not what you want, but rather to be one of the last 2 or 3 squads standing."
Most of the people in this game don't even believe that winning is an option so they play strictly for damage and kills. The irony. They don't even realize that the harder they push those stats the farther away they push the win. Unless you're Timmy or Aceu, and then you can pretty much do whatever it is you want.
I will never understand the "damage and kills" mindset. I understand it exists and I understand how it works and the behaviors it produces. But to me that's like entering a marathon in order to see how fast you can run the first hundred yards. Utterly and completely pointless, imo. Don't people ever get tired of losing?- @reconzero I see your point. I have to admit, my focus is on damage and kills, more on damage these days. Why? Because it is a stat that I see in those that play well. It is the best indicator of your abilities. And I have only broke 1k once. I want to do that often, then I will think about the long game.
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