How good is your situational awareness in PR?

[chrisweb89]

God-like.
One reason- My squadleader told me to get inside the truck he was driving with the rest of the squad. I said no, since I knew we'd all die. Laughing, he drives off, getting killed within 20 seconds.

Another reason- I'm sitting next to my squad leader (in front of him) with a HAT kit. I sense someone was aiming at me and took a shot at me. I prone dive with my HAT still loading and hear the squad leader die. He rages while I laugh.

Why not tell the SL why you think you're going to die? If I'm SL and my SL just randomly decides he is the boss of the squad and decides when to take risk, without explaining why he gets a kick from my squad.

[Souls Of Mischief]

So that ODS guys can remind us of how much better they are?

They do rage-quite a lot, though. Pfff... WEAKLINGS!

[=]H[=TangFiend]

Perfectly Average.


I got a great test of this last night. Finally tried PR:Falklands for the first time. Being dropped into mid battle on a map that was totally new to me. Had no idea what the Argentinian forces actually look like, didn't always recognize the inbound aircraft. No binoculars or even a scope.


Played as a basic rifle, went 3-1 on the round. Burned a truck, burned a FOB. Finished with a decent score. I kept up with what my squad was doing no problem, certainly didn't do any heroic spotting.

I think a lot of people's inflated awareness egos stem from playing the same AAS/INS maps a zillion times. Sure, it's easy to know what is going on all over the map and have a sense of what the enemy is doing going after the same objectives and building FOBs in the same place over and over. Many of the maps really have a rhythm to them for instance Jabal or Muttrah.

In a real battle the terrain would be completely new to a soldier and the objectives would have been passed down via maps or a basic briefing in hours or even minutes leading up to a battle.

[Gracler]

H[=TangFiend;1892028']

I think a lot of people's inflated awareness egos stem from playing the same AAS/INS maps a zillion times. Sure, it's easy to know what is going on all over the map and have a sense of what the enemy is doing going after the same objectives and building FOBs in the same place over and over. Many of the maps really have a rhythm to them for instance Jabal or Muttrah.

In a real battle the terrain would be completely new to a soldier and the objectives would have been passed down via maps or a basic briefing in hours or even minutes leading up to a battle.

This is why i prefer playing "new" maps instead of repeating muttrah and kashan for the gazillions time.... You don't know where the enemy stronghold is exactly and you don't know what gear they have, or how difficult it is to get there. Every player won't be in there "perfect" position and they will have to think on there feet as the situation progresses..... everything can happen.
When i think about it, then it's good that some maps gets repeated often and others rarely. This means that when those "rare" maps get's played more people will be "first timers" and the fights get's more interesting and improvised. Very good way to improve your situational awareness.

[camo]

ha its funny how many said they had good situational awareness but in game i've seen so many people get a strong case of tunnel vision.

[IWI-GALIL.556FA]

ha its funny how many said they had good situational awareness but in game i've seen so many people get a strong case of tunnel vision.

lol, ya, im probably one of those

[iSmall]

I guess i'm pretty good at it, mostly because surround sound

[Blackburn92xBHD]

In german army we learn the basic soldier skills and i always try to use them in the game also... im always looking for my next cover and if there is nothing to do right now i kneel down and try to cover as good as i can. but i think the averange pr player has not an eye for that.. in firefights they move without covering fire and die or they stand in the open and get sniped like yesterday or I also saw entire squad all looking in the same direction without 360? cover.

maybe we need some kind of tutorials where following topics are eplained:

-walking in formation (line and column should be enough)
-finding cover (like differences between soft and hard cover and that the effect of your weapon is more important then your cover)
-firing and moving (no movements without fire!)

and one very important thing: when to retreat (SL's): if you have a officer, rifleman, medic and breacher you CANNOT engage an MG you will at least have 1 casuality if you are lucky and stuff like that... i saw inf squads running towards tanks since they had a hat.. really they tried to hunt it instead of waiting for it

[Wheeter]

Even if you're looking and listening in all directions there is always one comically dopey player covering your blind spot who will let a rusher in.

It seems the bulk of players have no awareness at all. You see a lone-wolf nobhead rushing the FOB running out of sight and you can warn those on local for a whole ten minutes and they won't pay attention till they're dead. Part of this may be strict squad leaders talking over squad feedback as if it doesn't matter though.

[BleiWolf]

I get most of my combat awareness from the squad. It makes it much easier to put the puzzle together when everyone is talking together and not bunching up to see what the others are seeing.

It also helps to have a SL that stays back and tells his squad what is going on in the world around them.

[Bringerof_D]

i find i'm all over the map with this. at times i'm tactical SA god and can out flank and eliminate an enemy force significantly larger than my lone squad or escape such a similar fate, even on brand new maps. While at times i catch my self running to my death repeatedly like a lemming...the fictional portrayal of a lemming.

[Mellanbror]

(You write) Situational awareness: god-like..... (I read) self awareness: below poor hehe.

[Kurt117]

I'm new to Project Reality so obviously i suck at it
specially the first few rounds that i played were a complete disaster
i didn't know anything about weapon crates,logi trucks,etc but i'm getting better

sorry for the bad English