Your most stressful Role

[theSASTA]

Why isn't Medic up there, I spend half my time yelling at my Squadies:

"DON'T LOOK ME! COVER ME INCASE THEY COME FROM BE- <Brraatt> <Brraatt> MEDIC!"

THIS IS SO TRUE .... why do u ppl watch us patchin them up ?

Right now im trying to get used to Transport helos and squadleading (not at once ) .. so the most stressful is the SL i think.
What I really hate about SLing... most people are way to impatient. When u warn them that you´re really new to SLing but are willing to learn it ppl start to leave in the next 2 seconds or they do what they want. So how on gods earth are you supposed to learn it?
on a training server ? lol.. everybody goes there for flying.

[victor_phx]

I myself play most of the time as a medic, but sometimes, when the server conditions ask for it, I have to lead. And I gotta say, there is nothing more stressful than being a SL in a squad full of unknown people wandering around the map as if they were playing Counter-Strike.

I get nearly voiceless in the end of round, since you have to take care of each one of them as babies.

[TheLean]

Transport chopper pilot, stresses me out. If you die people is gonna get pissed at you basically.

[UntenablePosition]

Commander.
It is not so much during the game, but after that I feel so drained I usually won't CO again for days.

[JohnTheRipper]

Squad member is a stressful role for me because most of the time when i join a squad i have some dumb *** that doesn't have any leadership ability in him.

Be squad lead is easy to me i enjoy having a leadership position and my squad always is near the top until my squad members start leaving me when we are doing so good.

[henriksive]

Squadleading!
Keeping 5 SM's organised is a hard job.

[503]

Squad Leader and Jet pilot.

Commander isn't stressful, but it just bores you to death. The Squad Leader is somewhat of a commander but has to dodge bullets and shoot too.

[UntenablePosition]

Armoured Driver (as SL)...

... when my gunner does not use VoIP, does not understand when I place "attack" icons on things I NEED him to shoot, (such as an incoming bombcar) and has no idea how to change weapons/pop smoke/etc. =)

- JM40.

LOL
How about this for a stressful role ?
Being that guy^ when you realize who your driver was last round.

[Doming0]

Ok, for me the most stressful and intense role is that of being the MG operator in a 3 man tank squad. Especially on an Insurgency map like Basrah. You have no zoom and you have to scan 360 degrees for those damn bomb cars... When we finally enter the relative safety of our main to undergo repairs I can physically feel the stress bleeding from my body.

Good times!

Last time I did this I was so wired,i saw a bomb car approaching us from the rear and the main gun was pointed in the opposite direction... I start hammering on coms.. "Bomb car ***degrees!" "Bomb car ***degrees!" Watching it get closer and closer till I remembered I could probably make use of the machine gun I'm manning... lol.. blew him up about 15m... so close.

[UntenablePosition]

Ok, for me the most stressful and intense role is that of being the MG operator in a 3 man tank squad. Especially on an Insurgency map like Basrah. You have no zoom and you have to scan 360 degrees for those damn bomb cars... When we finally enter the relative safety of our main to undergo repairs I can physically feel the stress bleeding from my body.

Good times!

Last time I did this I was so wired,i saw a bomb car approaching us from the rear and the main gun was pointed in the opposite direction... I start hammering on coms.. "Bomb car ***degrees!" "Bomb car ***degrees!" Watching it get closer and closer till I remembered I could probably make use of the machine gun I'm manning... lol.. blew him up about 15m... so close.

I change my vote.
I haven't done that often but enough to know what you are talking about, and worse, you know there is never going to be a medic nearby if you get hit.

[spybaz]

APC gunner is a nightmare. VOIP voice lag is a nightmare so telling your driver to "stop!" (so you can shoot at a target) is invariably a stressful time because he usually doesn't hear you until its too late!

[burghUK]

I think being a squad meber is very stressful as its annoying when your in a squad and your squad leaders a bit half hearted and the rest of the squads not listening. Ive given up on being a squad member because of this and just lead now.

[Smegburt_funkledink]

Medic... It's stressful enough, risking your life to try and save someone, dodging bullets, smoking the enemy, locating the wounded and then... They give up right at your feet.

FFS!!!?!!!*)*(&()&^()*&!"()*

[Qaiex]

Jet Pilot, mostly because I don't know how to fly the god damned things, so it would be stressful trying to make sure I don't crash it.
Otherwise I'd say heli pilot, you're a huge target, you have little to no cover, and an entire squad is depending on you to survive.
And if you fail, not only do you have 6 people pissed at you, but you loose a bunch of tickets and one of the most important assets.

[{UK}Suzeran]

-;583089'] everytime i hear the lock tone or get the message "there is a problem with your connection" i actually have shit my pants and had to change. :

words of wisdom on jet fightin

[Cheditor]

Heli pilot is quite stressful as you aren't just relying on your own skill but your net connection aswell. If you get a lag spike in middle of flying you can end up with DEAD looking at you when your out of it.

[UntenablePosition]

Heli pilot is quite stressful as you aren't just relying on your own skill but your net connection aswell. If you get a lag spike in middle of flying you can end up with DEAD looking at you when your out of it.

The reason I stopped flying until I had a better GPU and a solid connection but back then it was just a matter of time until I spiked or froze up and now it is a random event that happens so infrequently ( until this weekend ) that I don't worry about it.

[GoArmy117]

Definitely Squad Leader for me. When I am on a map that I know well, I will almost always do great as a squad leader, but when I hit a map I don't know very well, disaster strikes.

[The Crimson Major]

good squad leaders make the game go round, and so it's alot of pressure to succeed.

[Incognito84]

I'd say Transport Heli. It's the most rewarding but also the most pulse-pounding, and if you die your whole team gets pissed at you for wasting that resource.

I've practiced flying jets and helis a lot in offline mode and on training servers, but when I'm flying in a public server the anxiety of having people watch me takes hold and I do stupid stuff that I don't do in the training servers. I guess I simply need more practice flying in pubs.

By stupid mistakes, I mean listening to a squads orders a little too closely. Squads have ordered me to land on the side of a cliff before or fly directly into a hot LZ. The times that I actually listened to them didn't go well.

The fact that this game causes anxiety means it's truly a great game. If you crash a helicopter then you know it's going to take forever for another one to respawn and you also know it will deeply hurt your team's ability to function. So in order to fly a helicopter you have to be a responsible, good pilot.

Games like BF2 don't have that kind of pressure and aren't nearly as enjoyable because of it.