How good is your situational awareness in PR?

[Pronck]

It depends, when I play as INF it is god-like compared to others, but when playing as an armored vehicle crew, I suck balls. Maybe it has something to do with the sound of the engine.

[L4gi]

Godlike 24/7.

[Wicca]

I usually run into an open field, while everyone else is lying down and shouting at me. Then i see the black screen, and eat the dirt.

I voted poor.

[Arc_Shielder]

above average/great awareness

i almost check the map just by some sort of reflex, dunno if it's a good or bad thing but i very see stuff that the other don't

^This. I usually like to stay focused even when I'm playing around. The only reason that it never reaches God-like in squad teamwork is because I spend a significant amount of time looking at the mini-map for enemy anticipation and stuff. But if you find me doing some forced and rare lonewolfing...then yeah, I become God-like.

[farna]

I have good situational awareness, but i forget to check the chat sometimes

[farna]

I usually run into an open field, while everyone else is lying down and shouting at me. Then i see the black screen, and eat the dirt.

I voted poor.

Ok, from now on i will avoid having you as my SL

[Spec]

I find it funny how the average in that poll is above average

I don't know tbh. Sometimes I notice things like footsteps, sometimes I probably wouldn't even notice a shot going off next to me.

[Punkbuster]

Mine is good...
I always pay attention to the timer, where are our friendlies, how many vehicles from each type have we lost already, how many vehicles we have up now, how many tickets we have, how many casualties the enemy team has had, where is each squad, what each squad is doing. I also check my map every few seconds and see if any squads have been pinned down somewhere (an indicator of enemy existence) .

[SoB-Rindee]

Since I am new I would say above average. I try to communicate as much as possible, in practical ways not "dude whats up" ways. I will call out where I see enemies, that I dropped an enemy or enemies, etc.

I think situational awareness is not just a individual concern, it is a squad concern. For example I have been in a squad where me and one other guy out of 6 had mics. He and I stuck together in a two man team, we were VERY aware on both of our sides, but if we were in a building we could only cover so much as two. Had the other squad members participate and communicated we would have easily held a building.

A squad leader can also affect this. For example I recently played a round of Muttrah, last night actually, on the USMC side. We were rolling over the enemy, we took EVERY flag and even were spawning on their suburb flag (which apparently the game lets you do... but say you are out of bounds when you do...?) The squad I was in was very organized for the most part. We built a two fobs and some defenses, and capped one flag.

We capped that flag because we held a building. We held it for a long time. Goes in the windows keeping their eyes on the roads and other buildings, and guys watching the stairs. However, over time people started to wander around the building too much. The guy covering the stairs left, and eventually one guy got in the building to kill us.

We still won, and as a squad did great, but that ONE slip in the squad leader keeping up on us got all of us killed.

I would rather have a squad with average situational awareness and one guy making sure everyone is talking and doing what they say; than a squad with the one or two guys with great situational awareness.

It's gotta be spread around evenly.

[Stealthgato]

Godlike awareness, usually hearing enemies way b4 I see them.. stopping to do "footstep-soundchecks" once a while when im alone.. But when im gunning some APC/tank and suddenly spot a TOW/HAT guy looking at me I fire away w/o thinkin and often TK

Then it's not god-like. That's pretty bad actually, if you don't know where friendly TOW emplacements are.

[=Romagnolo=]

I've been playing this mod since 0.2 version.


God-like

[Spush]

Mines pretty good, I tend to focus on skylining, sounds, movement, anything that really isn't supposed to be there. As for me I've been playing since .5, so I wouldn't say I'm "God-Like", just more above average.

[doop-de-doo]

Blind as a bat here, but my squad adds those extra eyes for me -- even better if they're good shots.

I often die because I was looking at the map.

[AnimalMother.]

it's good, i have good idea of where enemies are going to be, know friendly locations as i often check the map (perhaps too often). Know vehicle types for different factions so can normally easily distinguish them quickly, same for soldier kits and camos.

when flying trans for example i have similar awareness but different. Waiting for a supply run or dropoff i'll be looking at the map and checking where people are dieing etc, aswell as the chat for enemy positions. So when i do have to go in i'll know where to land with what cover etc.

when i'm drunk though i'm off the scale to the bottom

[splatters]

I find it funny how the average in that poll is above average

I don't know tbh. Sometimes I notice things like footsteps, sometimes I probably wouldn't even notice a shot going off next to me.

Yes, but consider this: Those that follow these forums are more likely to be more into PR than the average player.

Or maybe people just think too much of themselves.

Or both.

[Muffins]

Probably better than average. When sniping, its hard to tell if its a friendly or not from so far away, even with the map. Unless you mark him, then check the map, its hard to tell on maps like muttrah

[dtacs]

Mine is good, 99% of the time I know where everybody is at any given moment, only a handful of people I know have the ability to know where the enemy is all the time though, usually these people have huge KD's.

[illidur]

as infantry i rely heavily on sound + map. i can hear a single guy from any direction from quite far away. the map would help almost all public players as they need to focus on the objectives more.

i think situational awareness is the greatest skill aside from teamwork.

[Haji with a Handgun]

Unlike the majority that have 10 points in Perception, I'm more average on the awareness scale. Just point me in what direction to shoot.

[xambone]

in muttrah city i can detect fobs from 300+ m away. its like a 6th sense