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Ace42 wrote:Also, though, it seems the vast majority of "serious" PR players confuse role-playing army with making sound tactical decisions in game. The number of times you end up in a squad with some guy who is convinced he's leading a platoon through 'nam is embarrassing. They're so in love with the "reality" part of the project that they are totally oblivious to the fact that pissing around wasting time is a great way to lose a round. In real life, keeping you and your guys alive might win wars and be your best bet. In the game you can run halfway across the map, get shot, res, and be right on back to where people are camping in the time it takes your squad to cover HALF that distance while they're fannying about sniffing bushes and making formations, and junk. It's no wonder people lone-wolf when the squad leader's splitting the squad up into "fireteams" and telling people to advance to THIS ROCK HERE etc and getting the whole squad wiped out by distracting them from the important business of "Get here, keep eyes open, shoot anything that moves as there's no friendlies between us and the target."

And don't get me started on the cowardly medics... I don't even trust the ones in my squad, I'll just give up and run back to my corpse while they're hiding in a hole crying about bearings. At least I won't be sitting just where the enemy expect us while they're outflanking your little tea-party...

Ace42 wrote:Also, though, it seems the vast majority of "serious" PR players confuse role-playing army with making sound tactical decisions in game. The number of times you end up in a squad with some guy who is convinced he's leading a platoon through 'nam is embarrassing. They're so in love with the "reality" part of the project that they are totally oblivious to the fact that pissing around wasting time is a great way to lose a round. In real life, keeping you and your guys alive might win wars and be your best bet. In the game you can run halfway across the map, get shot, res, and be right on back to where people are camping in the time it takes your squad to cover HALF that distance while they're fannying about sniffing bushes and making formations, and junk. It's no wonder people lone-wolf when the squad leader's splitting the squad up into "fireteams" and telling people to advance to THIS ROCK HERE etc and getting the whole squad wiped out by distracting them from the important business of "Get here, keep eyes open, shoot anything that moves as there's no friendlies between us and the target."

Ace42 wrote:If you've played with pick-up groups in publics, you've prolly seen it. Squad number 1, full of people, one's a sniper, one's driving an APC, one's trying to take a chopper, the squad-leader's got a grenadier kit and no mic, there's six lone-wolfers in the squad, and even though some of them would prolly be happy to squad-up, go VOIP, and play tactically, it's not possible within that squad. Squad 2, exactly the same, full of 1-man armies just squaded up for the limited kits. Squad 3, empty - even though the squad leader's doing a decent enough job, he made the squad mid-round and no-one's going to join him; squad 4 or 5 is named "chopper" or "armor" but isn't actually in either of those because someone grabbed their asset, and they're camping the main. Then you're left with "Arapahoe VOIP" + "Cymraeg VOIP", each with two men a piece in them.

So, you form a squad "Eng VOIP", maybe even sweeten it with "Eng VOIP+teamwork", and then you find yourself going "hmmm, great, the three unassigned are prolly AFK, and everyone is already in a useless squad, so aren't going to join mine on the off-chance that I actually know what I am doing..."

It really sucks that the majority of players gravitate towards the top squads, only join 'big' squads (for the limited kits, for the rallies, etc), irrespective of their tactical position on the map or their effectiveness in combat, and are generally pretty complacent about teaming up; and most of it is down to selfish squad-leaders not disbanded a squad they have no interest in leading. If I have slackers in my squad, you can guarantee they'll get kicked so they can form a helicopter / APC / transport / whatever squad of their own.