Boring teammates = Boring game
Boring teammates love to loot.
Boring teammates doesn't push.
Boring teammates are scared to play the game and cope by looting and postponing fights.
Boring teammates have no incentive to play the game other than looting to pacify themselves.
Boring teammates separate on an exotic journey around the world to loot their backpacks, gets insta downed by a full team holding hands.
Boring teammates doesn't learn.
Write GG in chat.
Blocking players.
Next round.
Same.
Boring.
Just waiting for this game to get flamed as much as Battlefield 2042.
Its just as boring.
Well, you pretty much just described me and I have no doubt I've bored a lot of teammates over the last few seasons. I know this won't make you feel any better or stop you from being bored, but I'll go ahead and try to explain what's actually going on, at least with me.
I'm a day one player with a lot of matches under my belt and who solo queues. What this means to this discussion is that I seldom have any idea about the qualities, characteristics, or play styles of my randomly matched team. Nobody seems to put anything of any value on their banner because they think banners are for bragging (and presumably they have nothing they think is worth bragging about???) But they're wrong on this point, as on so many others. You're banner is for your squad to make some kind of assessment as to what you're capable of (and what not).
So I often find myself in matches with people I know nothing about. My first glimpse into their soul is the LZs they ping. Most are kids who saw a youtube video that said real men jump into the hottest, most contested place on the map. And that's what they do. Because they don't know any better? Because they think they're diamond when they're maybe really silver? Because they think they'll never get to diamond if they don't act like a diamond? Because they believe they'll never win anyway so why bother trying? I don't know. I don't know what they're thinking because most of them don't know either. They're just doing stuff without a conscious motivation or a game plan. Because they saw a video of some one percenter and that's what he did.
So me, as a more experienced player who solo queues, is just supposed to keep making all these dumb mistakes and taking all these unnecessary risks because my squad hasn't yet learned any better? I worked that crap out of my system thousands of matches ago. Now I know enough about this game to know that it's largely luck-based, whatever you may want to believe to the contrary, and that my win rate goes through the roof by avoiding conflict rather than seeking it out. Let me say that again: gun fights in this game may be exciting for those with short attention spans, but the more of them you get into then the lower your odds of winning. That's the mainspring of battle royale game design. The devs would rather you didn't believe it because people who realize it play more like me and less like you, and that bores people. Like you, for example.
So I'm not saying there's anything wrong with a guns-ablazing play style. And it doesn't matter whether that leads to wins or not, as long as you're enjoying it. But if you happened to get matched with me - someone who won't jump with you, won't take a lot of risks, won't hold your hand around the map - that doesn't mean I'm a bad player or that I don't know what I'm doing. It just means we're not really playing the same game. And that's not my fault any more than it is yours or even Respawn's. It's just a bad match where I play it quiet until your impatience gets you and our third squadmate killed and then I have to quit. Then you're pissed that I wasted your match, but guess what? I'm pissed that you wasted mine too.
Food for thought.
