Your most stressful Role

onit · Post by **onit** » 2008-01-16 08:47

Anything having to do with any armor/apc role.

Last time I was ordered by my SL to grab a kit, and although I informed the SL that I was awful at it, I reluctantly got the crewman kit, and jumped in the apc gun position. The SL was already in the apc, doing well with it too.

Needless to say, another apc blew ours up in just a few seconds after I got in! I got kicked from the server.

I'm just a plain ole' medic/grunt.

Makee · Post by **Makee** » 2008-01-16 10:41

Nothing is more stressful and demanding then being a good and responsible squad leader in PR 0.7.

As SL you are supposed:
- to have your map and squad list turned on, for at least 50% of the time,
- binoculars (SOFLAM) some 20% of the time,
- to know anytime where is, and what is doing every single soldier in your squad,
- what all other squads are doing and how is it going to them, wherever they are,
- to plan and put into effect tactics and strategies for your squad based on all above,

In the same time, SL is supposed to act as a good and brave soldier in firefights, repairs, buildings, etc., and after all, to be an example of good teamwork and everything good your SM's should follow.

All that, in PR's 0.7 rounds which lasts for few hours, is completely exhaustive for good SL, and I didn't saw anything more demanding than that in PR.

My second one goes to nOOb.

Expendable Grunt · Post by **Expendable Grunt** » 2008-01-16 10:59

Commander.

I always get fucktard SLs.

I can kick squad members, but I can't really do anything about retarded SL's.

Post by **fuzzhead** » 2008-01-16 13:10

easily the commander. your actions directly affect the entire outcome of the team, so it carries alot of responsibility, plus when you have 4-5 squad leaders operating as per your instructions, you need constantly update them, repremend them, reward them, set them new assignments, check up on them....

so basicaly its like starcraft on crack with AI units with a life of their own hehe

Red Halibut · Post by **Red Halibut** » 2008-01-16 13:24

Commander.

I get frustrated as medic sometimes when I have a contact squarely in my sights but know that because of deviation I am unable to hit him, but that pales into insignificance beside the commanding role.

Watching your own men get the good news from an enemy airstrike and (the fifteenth revision of) your plan being shot to hell because of an SL who forgot to get his officer's kit and drop an RP - and knowing that right now there is bugger all you can do to help your men - is one of the most stressful things I have had in a game, ever.

I consistently (and this is my own fault) underestimate the length of time it takes for units to shift location, and watching a tank unit slowly crawl their way to provide support for a squad that is doing amazing work defending a cap point, listening to the SL screaming for support, while watching your attack choppers ignore your commands and play airy-bloody-fairy on the other side of the map, gets my left eye twitching and my blood pressure up into the red zone faster than you can say "Jack Robinson".

By contrast, playing as a rifleman, sitting in a lovely little dip in the hill that's a great makeshift sangar, lazily reporting troop movements while waiting for your SL to get permission from the rupe to give you the weapons-free is a walk in the park.

BabaGurGur · Post by **BabaGurGur** » 2008-01-16 13:30

Heli pilot.. the apache on kashan, where your gunner yells at you for standing still or tipping over or crashing into a hill... good times lol

Hotrod525 · Post by **Hotrod525** » 2008-01-16 15:40

Be Squad Leader is the most demanding, cause, just got a "functional squad" and not lonewolf every where around the map, or got 5 pilot in my squad !? ( Exclude Pilot/Transport/Air Squad )...

Now whit the 0.7 its a bit more complicated, got to think about supply the squad, got *Emergency Close Air Support for take out enemy, Got a experienced **commander for be able to build and request JDAM...

Anyway have a good squad is a thing, but if you're only 6 to do the Quarter Master Objective and you got 26 players waiting for F16 and A10 ( Mig / Su25 ) or some other using tank lonely*** But sometime, every one do he's job and we win whitin 30 min... lol!

*most of the time unavailable due to f***** newb using it and crash at take off or 2 min after...
**not a fresh vanilla player or a smacktard"
***Why dont create a Driver kit and a Gunner kit, i mean, whit Apache,Cobra and Mi28 they're no probleme every one have a guner, but for tank, even whit the 30 sec lock some continu to use it whitout guner, so if DEV create a Driver kit allowing to drive only and a Gunner kit allowing to Gun only that will force people to have gunnner in they're tank!

Post by **Outlawz7** » 2008-01-16 15:59

[R-MOD]Wasteland wrote:Tank driver/gunner, because even when they're on VOIP, your partner is usually an idiot. I'd say gunning is the hardest, because your driver has so many ways to screw up. Not stopping to let you scan the area. Not stopping to let you shoot. Not moving on to the downhill portion of the ridge/hill/bump so that you can't get any shots. And my personal favorite: running scared at every lock on tone or RPG that hits you. IT'S AN MBT! YOU CAN TAKE A COUPLE HITS TO FIND OUT WHERE THE GUY IS! Especially when you have engineers close by.

Add me to Xfire babez, I know my driving.

*photocopies his butt and writes on*
outlawz7

No really, I've been there when the tank turret didn't go low enough, when my gunner kept looking the wrong way etc.

I'm not even scared of taking 2-3 Sabot hits, I only start to get nervous when the beep beep announces engine meltdown. And of course finding an engineer in the flood of scoped riflemen, medics, spec ops and snipers is also stressful.

Personally the most demanding roles are SL and CO, but I voted for SL.

LtSoucy · Post by **LtSoucy** » 2008-01-16 16:14

SL and here is the reason why.

You may be doing a great job but everyone has a different idea at what you should o. But with 5 guys following your lead and everything its alot harder.

Heskey · Post by **Heskey** » 2008-01-16 16:25

Being a squad member in general can be quite annoying. You're doing your hardest with your squad, to open your map and find THIS:

GO GO BLUE MOB!

I swear, watching the blue army play PR is like watching kids play football; even the goalies are chasing after the god damn ball.

arjan · Post by **arjan** » 2008-01-16 17:36

Heskey wrote:By popular neccessity; I would say Squadleading and For me, being a Transport Heli Pilot is the most stressful job:

you have to tell people to stop firing the guns, And most of that has to be done via typing, whilst trying not to crash.

God save all you fellow pilots

just tell them when you take off, to not ring the guns, and let them know youre the only one with chute, if they doit again, you just bail, and let them see how a chute works that they dont have,, do it almost all the time (A) (kidding afcoure)

Heskey · Post by **Heskey** » 2008-01-16 17:39

arjan wrote:just tell them when you take off, to not ring the guns, and let them know youre the only one with chute, if they doit again, you just bail, and let them see how a chute works that they dont have,, do it almost all the time (A) (kidding afcoure)

Fraid that causes me to lose my chopper for 10 mins; and on our [T&T] servers that'd come under wasting assets

Alex6714 · Post by **Alex6714** » 2008-01-16 17:47

Heskey wrote:Fraid that causes me to lose my chopper for 10 mins; and on our [T&T] servers that'd come under wasting assets

If transport, it is 5 iirc.

AnRK · Post by **AnRK** » 2008-01-16 17:49

Heskey wrote:Being a squad member in general can be quite annoying. You're doing your hardest with your squad, to open your map and find THIS:

GO GO BLUE MOB!

I swear, watching the blue army play PR is like watching kids play football; even the goalies are chasing after the god damn ball.

Hahahah, yeah it happens alot, noones ever seems to flank, and if you even think about going to a flag you can't capture yet to secure it for when it's ready in a bout 60 seconds you'll get some guy telling you to "Gt bk n00b U cnt cap thatz yet!". Then if you do do something dramatic and it works then the blue army follows you and renders your being there useless.

Squad leader/Squad member for me squad leader has the edge though, while it's awesome when you get a good squad, when I don't it's mostly cos I created one cos all the others weren't any good. As a squad member you can leave at any point and find other squads else.

gazzthompson · Post by **gazzthompson** » 2008-01-16 17:52

squad leader, and heli pilot.

for both i really dont want to let my/every one elses squad down.

Alex6714 · Post by **Alex6714** » 2008-01-16 18:03

gazzthompson wrote:squad leader, and heli pilot.

for both i really dont want to let my/every one elses squad down.

I agree with this, and would add commander. Also tank driving/gunning. Heli pilot a bit less so, as I enjoy it most and am getting more confident.

Poi_Medic · Post by **Poi_Medic** » 2008-01-16 18:14

Being a Medic is hard role now. Not only does it take a while to heal someone, but when you have wounded players that require the shock paddel, its really hard to find them even when they are close. The heading map should show where they last fell to make it much easier.

Bowskill · Post by **Bowskill** » 2008-01-16 19:10

Driver of any kind for me, no one else seems to want to drive transport vehicles/APCs when I'm around so I always end up having to, that would be fine if I remembered to look for AT mines!

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