[List] General tales of PR idiocy

[=LK= A.H.]

The aim of this thread is to let people vent their anger about general idiocy, committed by humans, witnessed in game. Can be about your own idiocy as well.

I love PR, but lately, for the past 2-3 weeks, it has seemed like servers that used to be good are now full of people with no common sense (and it's really ruining the experience).

-Pelitutka.fi, Op Barracuda. Playing as US.

I survived 3 out of 5 chopper flights to the island (as a passenger), and the number would have been one lower had I not survived one crash intact. My squadmates weren't quite that lucky. Early on our entire squad actually managed to get on the island alive (we were immediately shot at by a friendly former chopper pilot), but when we got within 200 metres of the airstrip intending to sneak closer before opening fire, some lone wolf, not from our squad, opened fire next to us to get an easy kill. Our squad was spotted and slaughtered. After that our entire squad never made it to the island alive and we simply quit.

-Some French server, Muttrah City. Playing as US again.

Some squad took a LAV, used it as a taxi to get to North City, abandoned it, ignored repeated requests and commands to use it to eliminate two hostile armoured vehicles and infantry assaulting Docks, got killed to the last man. Our squad was then stuck in a building with a BRDM running circles around us, and the LAV was sitting unscathed yet abandoned at the enemy-controlled North City. The same squad then hunted a sniper for quite some time instead of actually advancing. We quit shortly afterwards.

Please rage all you want (within forum rules), I do hope there is a use for this kind of thread.

[Rudd]

"Gunner, enemy firebase spotted bearing 235, engage at will"

"Copy, engaging, enemy Firebase down"

"ah shite...that was ours..."

I felt so bad

[mistryx]

Yesterday, nwa, jabal.

I entered the server, joined squad and asked for a lift from us main.
some chopper pilot came, picked me up and flew directly to dam (very cool of course, flipping the chopper up side down...) he then had a lock on, deployed its flares only noticing he had just 4 of them, second AA hit me right in the kisser... chopper survived... I didnt
idiot

[Pantera]

EJOD desert...PR 0.6 (i think)

SL: grenade that roof!

Me: okay

*grenade*

then the next thing i saw was a list of servers and being banned from glorhoundz server for a day...i did find out i tk'd 8 people.....felt good in a strange way lol (we was losing! damn idiots couldnt defend a flag!)

[Saarna]

Nineteen rounds out of twenty since 0.9 (with the possible exception of Tactical Gamer):

Form a squad. Capture/set up on a flag. Team over extends - some might call this rushing. We get left alone on the defense. The enemy shows up on our flag with superior numbers. We call for help, receive none. Our squad gets steamrolled, flags get pushed to the bleeding point with little or no reaction from the rest of our team. And for the icing on top, OUR squad gets almost inevitably flamed for not defending the flag. Everyone GG's, I switch to ArmA.

[Coolio]

People putting grenade traps right next to caches.

I don't know what they're thinking. Maybe they imagine someone with a HAT kit and 50x optics and self replenishing ammo detonating it.

[Cassius]

The only idiocy is expecting profit playing a teamgame with random players. People need to find a server where they become regulars, so they learn to fight as a team with other regulars.

Somehow we need to get that aspect across to new players. On the plus side, people who see just another first person shooter in PR will get bored with it quick, because playing pr like a conventional first person shooter is, well, boooring.

[Gore]

Players who talk too much. You always end up looking like an *******.

[theiceman]

On Kashan in a bradley near south village back in 8.5

me "gunner, HAT 240, he doesnt see us yet, get him"

"where i didnt copy"

me "240!, he sees us, and hes getting his hat out, HURRY!!"

"Where???"

me '"TWO FOURTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"oh ok"

*still doesnt shoot

me "SHOOOOOOOOOOOOT HIMMMMMMMM!"

"wait im switching to TOW, i want to see him fly"

me " NO SHOOTING HIM WITH HEATT!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

*ssssssssssssssssSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHH BOOM!*

*DEAD*

i was SO pissed!!!!!!!!!!

[mangeface]

Yesterday on Kashan Desert 32 player version, I was gunning in an Apache. I was looking through my cannon, and we were over North Outpost.
Me-"Pilot, Havoc at 210"
Pilot-"......."
Me-"210, HAVOC!"
Pilot-"...what?"
Me-"THERE'S A FUCKING HAVOC AT 210 LOOKING AT US!"
"*Locking Tone*..............................................BOOM!"
*Dead*
Me-"WTF!?!?"
Pilot-"I deployed flares."

2nd go around
Me-"I have a laze in front of us, dive at it so I can lock and shoot it."
Pilot-"You can see it here?"
Me-"No *****, you have to dive at the laze's so I can shoot them."
Pilot-"Well, I'll hover a little closer so you can see it."
Me-"No *** to mouth, you can't just hover, we'll get shot by a TOW or AA."
"..............................................BOOM!"
*Dead*
Pilot-"What was that?"
Me-"Me switching to the tank squad."

[>para<]

im readin and readin and i see how many noobs ppl we have in that game ,but lets think about it whos fault the SM ,or major guilty have SL who is so afraid to use kick button ,some old forum member long time ago said : the best friend of the SL is not the members in battle,its the kick button.
(the second think was said: dont trust to ppl who carrying numbers in theyr nicks, but this is not important )

my story:.... too short
kashan,center of the map ,apache ALT 400,some idio* flying i gunn
question from pilot : how to drop flares
2 seconds late : ding ding ding boooooooooooom
after his kick from the squad he have the arrogance to ask why he got kick'd

[Bigglestheman]

Some random guy Tks me and goes around tking everyone else.

[anglomanii]

jabal, half way through game,

SL: pilot, take us to west beach.
pilot: roger.
me: i bet he takes us to dam instead.
SL: no ones that stupid.
other squad member,:better than that i bet he drops us off in the middle of the wall.
whole squad: LOLZ

WTF do you think happened.

2min later we respawn back at carrier pissed.

[=LK= A.H.]

The only idiocy is expecting profit playing a teamgame with random players. People need to find a server where they become regulars, so they learn to fight as a team with other regulars.

I feel I must disagree with your position. This thread would not exist without the mostly excellent teamplay I have encountered during the year or so that I have been playing PR, and I do not consider myself to be a regular on any server. PR at its very core is based on teamplay, and the non-teamplayers would, in my opinion, be better off playing some other game.

To continue with the tales of idiocy and shamelessly continue my own thread in the process, my regular squadmates have committed acts of extreme stupidity as well (mostly as insurgents), like putting an IED next to a cache hoping to blow up attacking Americans with it or attempting to blow up a truck with an IED and not getting far away enough from the bomb... I think building a FOB partially inside a wall counts as idiocy as well (in Gaza, as Israel).

[Rudd]

The only idiocy is expecting profit playing a teamgame with random players. People need to find a server where they become regulars, so they learn to fight as a team with other regulars.

I've played with plenty of people I've never played with before, and enjoyed it alot!

I have great faith in the PR playerbase, they might not all be perfect players but if I try and get some teamwork going, I'm not usually disappointed!

[Psyrus]

Sigh... I don't even wanna start on this thread or I'll never stop

[Sgt.MADHat]

I had a fantastic squad the other day, and a fantastic squad leader, but this was more of a WOOPS.

We were taking fire in a small open room, an insurgent shot through a small hole in the wall, I turned and shot him on his second pass by. I said yeah im pretty sure hes down on the other side of the wall.

Squad leader: Frag out!

squad leader: *delay* sh......w.....RUN!!

*squad scrambles to the one door*

*Laughter erupts*

[PLODDITHANLEY]

Join a decent squad on Muttrah as MEC, I notice we have a guy with a HAT who has taken a Logy truck dropped the two crates and was waiting by the docks fence for any APC's.
We eventually move up near him and he dies, I was medic so I go to get the guy up but he's in the corner in a lampost and after three epipens it's a no go, so he starts insulting me, calling me useless etc etc.

Incredible really as he:

1. Lone Wolfing with HAT
2. Wasting Logy truck (still with him if he want to return it OK).
3. Gets very nasty when he proved impossible to revive.
4. SL kicks the guy, apparently he often does that on Muttrah.

I've met alot of quality guys here, but alas not everyone. If I really really wanted to do that I'd go SL and build a FOB with a TOW thus helping the team at the same time.

[JohnnyTheIED]

Last night on Dragon Fly,

Running thru the forest on my way to a marker we're we got attacked by Brits.

Carrying my trusty Ak74 /gp25.

Squad leader suddenly sets an Attack marker about 200m down the forest and rambles something on his mic.

I knee down, prepare and aim my grenade, pop it down range right on the marker.

Next thing you know, SL's eating lead for dinner. lol.

[Dude388]

Performing Helo transport runs on Muttrah

Doing alright for the most part, I return to the carrier to pickup a squad that spawned there. I made a bit of a rough landing and decided to spin around to face the right way.....

I accidentally killed THE WHOLE 6 MAN SQUAD with my tail-rotor when I spun.

God that was embarrasing.