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5 years ago

Great day of “smart” teammates

Another day where my squad mates land in a spot where one or more squads have already landed and begun looting already. Leaving me then to try and run and normally I’m the first one dead.

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Lord_Scorpion34

Legend

5 years ago

@KelRiever Playing alone has been very annoying for me so far this season. I really don't understand what's so had for people to play as a team in a TEAM GAME! Especially in ranked. If you want to do that silly separating from the team & dying in pubs fine but it annoys me when people do it in ranked.

Had a LL tonight push a squad solo get downed then yell it was their controller lol. Yeah sure. Or maybe don't push into a 3 squad fight by yourself?

AcidicSoda44031

Seasoned Ace

5 years ago

@Lord_Scorpion34 yesterday I had an Octane who rushed into a squad. And guess? Yeah he died.

I also had a Crypto teammate. You know that location on Olympus between the Turbine and Hammond Labs? Yeah that one. We were on the ground floor or whatever, we fought a squad, and it was a miracle we even survived. My teammates were downed and I was left in a 2v1 situation. And all I could shoot with was the Triple Take in close-quarters. I managed to kill them both but oh boi, I was left with literally like a pixel of health.

Anyway, I rez my teammates, and... guess what the Octane does? He ziplines up the building alone, and surprise, he found another squad. He did not even bother to wait for Crypto to scan the area, he just went there. And we couldn't do much either because we were not able to fully heal and/or recharge the shields after the previous battle.

If that Octane player had any sense, he would have waited for Crypto to scan the area first, and after realizing another squad was above us, he would have proposed to run back to the Turbine, or you know, anywhere but up there.

But no, he HAD to go up there. He went there so fast that I legit did not realize it until he was downed.

You know, it feels amazing when you are the one who carries the squad and saves the day... but sometimes I just regret it. This is sad because I LOVE Octane, and I hate it when people think they can just solo rush a squad and stim away that easily if things get bad.

CCbathwater
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@AcidicSoda44031 Faster! Faster! Faster!
Vdstrk
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@AcidicSoda44031

I think part of the fault comes from watching streamers. They do it for content, they do it because they have skills -at least some of them do.

Then there is the all time wrong advice, "drop hot" and rambo everything. Priceless piece of wrong advice... yet still going strong 2 years after skull town has been removed, and i mean DELETED from the map --literally. Go figure. It's a gamble for loot, good team mates, bad opponents etc.... yet I cannot count how many times that happens...
I'm at the point that when I drop and there are like 5 teams going for the same area, and I have no comms with my team mates I quit the match.
Pubs.

I do not play ranked because I'm not too good, and I do not have a team for it, and because it would only be pubs with a leaving penalty for me.
- AcidicSoda44031
  Seasoned Ace
  5 years ago
  @Vdstrk yes dropping hot is a bad advice, especially for new players.
  
  I'll tell you this, when I was new, I noticed that like half the lobby dropped immediately. And by the time I was level 3, I realized that maybe hot dropping where 3 other squads are already going isn't a bright idea.
  
  You'd expect the same from high level people who play idk, Octane, Loba (and let's face it, if you unlocked just one of these legends, you are at least level 23) but no, they just keep hot dropping where they shouldn't and die instantly, and then blame the teammates for breaking off and going to a safer place.
  
  Now, I do not mind if someone wants to hot drop, as long as he/she does it carefully and with a bit of criteria. This is not something I do myself either, so it helps me spice things up. Sometimes we survive, sometimes we don't, that's how it goes.
  
  However it becomes utterly ridiculous when the JM is hellbent on dropping where 3 other squads are already going. That is simply asking for death, really. And sometimes I feel guilty about it, because I was the one who was assigned the JM role from the game, but decided to concede it once we were put in the dropship. Really, these people make me want to just keep the JM role to myself, otherwise I am going to lose my brain cells.
  
  I just cannot believe that people do this. I can forgive them if they are new players and still need to learn the game, but otherwise, its completely unacceptable. As far as I am concerned, these people are just griefing, I really do not know how else to put it.
  @CCbathwater I remember that in another thread, I said that Octane is the teammate I play worse with. My reasoning: I just can't keep up. Go figure.
  - CCbathwater
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    Literally had a Crypto landing at the charge tower in the huuuge open area next to Capacitor and Cage. Never had a jm land me there before. On the bright side though, there weren't any teams landing with us. 🤔 They probably landed at places where there's actually loot and stuff.