Ok so I just played an afternoon which was, once again, filled with quitters, and I decided to see if I was the only one utterly annoyed at this. Glad I ain't.
I'm a level 31 Lifeline main, but occasionally will go Bangalore/Mirage if I can't go Lifeline, it's alright. BR nor FPS are not necessarily my favorite kinds of games, so I suppose you could say I'm a newcomer to the whole genre, although I have played a shitload of LOL as well as mmos in the past, so teammate-based online games aren't new to me at all. I love co-op, it's fun, it's unpredictable. I don't play to win (well, I do enjoy a win though), I play to have fun, and y'know what? There are a lot of games that were memorable to me, on which I had a shitton of fun, despite not having won them.
I use pings all the goddamn time, I have a mic and speak way too much, I say "Hello guys" and introduce myself at the start of each single game while in the character lobby, I explain all of my choices and opinions ("no, dropping on the ship isn't a good idea" "guys there are a lot of squads going there maybe we should reposition elsewhere" "no don't engage, let them kill each other and come at the end" and so on, if I have to teach and babysit even though I still consider myself a noob, then I do so), I communicate all the damn time, when I see a teammate in red I immediately ping their location to tell them I'm coming to revive them, AND tell them so on the mic. When I see a teammate in green, again, I ping the location of their banner, letting them know I plan on picking them up, and I say it loud and clear on the mic, sometimes accompanied by a sweet plea of "please don't quit I will try my best to retrieve your banner please don't quitttt!".
I couldn't be more clearer about the way I communicate, and still, STILL, I get sh*t loads of quitters throughout my gaming sessions. It's ANNOYING as f*ck, and it messes the pleasure I have playing this game a whole lot. I had teams of averagely-skilled people I had to carry and I had LOTSA fun doing. I would joke with them on mic, and we would just have a blast, even though we ended up 2nd or 3rd. They had a good time, I had a good time. I also had a game where both my (more skilled than me) teammates were down somewhere, and I had to wait such a long time to be able to retrieve their banners but they didn't quit, and that made the whole thing absolutely exhilarating because I had to sneak all alone between a lot of enemies, and still, I managed to respawn them and guess fucking what? We won! They stuck with me and my positive energy, and they pushed through and that made the game all the more memorable, because of how hectic and WTF it was, but also fun and hilarious at the same time.
I once was in a team where one mate was obviously carrying both of my and the other teammate's asses, but they communicated nicely through pings, and we always followed them wherever they went and do whatever they said, trying our very best to help in whatever way necessary. They were the only one without a mic, while I was communicating with the other noob, and we were both speaking and commenting everything in an uplifting way, we ended up winning and I guess our good energy was communicative because that person ended up going out of their way to send a message on the PSN saying "good job guys 🙂" a sign they obviously enjoyed our time together despite being incredibly better skilled than my teammate and myself.
I now have also friended a dude I met randomly who just liked playing with me so much now when I'm online, he instantly invites me for games. They said "you're really friendly!" as if that was extraordinary, I honestly don't think it should motherfucking be. I also answered "I have to, I have mere seconds to make the random teammates I'm playing with realize that I'm not a bunch of pixels who would hinder their stats, but an actual human being who also has the ability to make a game more wholesome, funnier and more memorable than it usually could be. I have to do that in order to minimize the numbers of quitters, therefore, maximize my survival in every game I play." It's a bit calculated if you look at it, but it mostly naturally stems from the fact I actually genuinely like to connect with my teammates which each game no matter how short those games are, the survival thing is just a side-effect of my socializing tendencies.
Anyway, if you're not ready to play this game the way it's been intended to, meaning in a motherfucking TEAM, then this game is NOT for you. Like I said to that one teammate who didn't pick my banner nor my teammate's banner while they were literally standing 1m away from it, out of combat, looting "GO BACK ON MOTHERFUKING FORTNITE YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!". Literally was the only time I was genuinely angry at a teammate to the point of insulting them like that. And I stand by my words, this isn't a game for people who think they're such the greatest shit this Earth has ever seen. Cause fam, ya really ain't, yikes!
