Apok-Prime
07-12-2008, 01:28 PM
I love this game, but factor is ruining it for me with increasing regularity, bad team mates.
I run into this all the time, my teammate (even if we are fortunate enough to speak the same language) refuses to communicate with me, and also refuse to engage in combat with our opponents. Either the comb the map, snagging every crate they can, or they stay 5-9 steps behind my team only occasionally taking a single shot with a sniper rifle and forcing me to do all the work. Even when I'm fighting on a double front they refuse to to provide assistance and often retreat further, usually into a structure and just wait. I'm sorry but I'm really tired of loosing a lot of equipment just so that someone else can get some free experience.
A lot of the time when this happens my whole team gets killed, and I wait and watch while my opponents knock out my cowardly ally, usually with little retaliation of any kind, indicating to me that the majority of players that do this aren't very good, and they know it.
I understand being aware of your shortcomings and not trying to maximize them, but you're not gonna get better if you don't get in the fight. You get two types of experience playing this game and only one of them is counted in points. You learn from your the mistakes you've made. You learn just how far away most people can see you, when to shut a door and when to leave it open, you learn not to underestimate a pistol, and not to stand your guys close to one another just in case your opponent has a grenade. These are mistakes that I see Level 7 and higher make all the time, because they never have, and still won't get in a fight, they stay back and watch their opponent do all the work, and they don't learn anything.
I only play team games, because I enjoy the extra strategy, but I am very rapidly becoming wary of many players on this game, so much so that the only very soon the only people I'm going to play with are those on my friends list
And its a short list.
I run into this all the time, my teammate (even if we are fortunate enough to speak the same language) refuses to communicate with me, and also refuse to engage in combat with our opponents. Either the comb the map, snagging every crate they can, or they stay 5-9 steps behind my team only occasionally taking a single shot with a sniper rifle and forcing me to do all the work. Even when I'm fighting on a double front they refuse to to provide assistance and often retreat further, usually into a structure and just wait. I'm sorry but I'm really tired of loosing a lot of equipment just so that someone else can get some free experience.
A lot of the time when this happens my whole team gets killed, and I wait and watch while my opponents knock out my cowardly ally, usually with little retaliation of any kind, indicating to me that the majority of players that do this aren't very good, and they know it.
I understand being aware of your shortcomings and not trying to maximize them, but you're not gonna get better if you don't get in the fight. You get two types of experience playing this game and only one of them is counted in points. You learn from your the mistakes you've made. You learn just how far away most people can see you, when to shut a door and when to leave it open, you learn not to underestimate a pistol, and not to stand your guys close to one another just in case your opponent has a grenade. These are mistakes that I see Level 7 and higher make all the time, because they never have, and still won't get in a fight, they stay back and watch their opponent do all the work, and they don't learn anything.
I only play team games, because I enjoy the extra strategy, but I am very rapidly becoming wary of many players on this game, so much so that the only very soon the only people I'm going to play with are those on my friends list
And its a short list.