Nekojin
08-07-2008, 11:03 PM
Like in any game, teamwork can make or break you. In this game, it's severely amplified.
In my last game, I played a 3-on-3 game. One of my teammates QUIT on the very first turn, and the other played total kamikaze, sending single men out to PUNCH the enemy. I was screwed from the start, and there was no way to prevent this.
What makes this worse is losing all of my equipment. There was literally NOTHING I could have done to save my gear. I was a dead man walking, and nothing could be done to stop it.
Now, this, as well as starting with unbalanced teams (my first game was a 2-on-1, with me being the target dummy), makes the game really, really frustrating to play. It's almost not worth going into team games, since I could be saddled with a complete loser.
Something really needs to be done about team balancing, keeping people from STARTING unfairly uneven games. 2-on-1 isn't fun if you're the 1. It shouldn't even be POSSIBLE.
Likewise, people who quit early really need to have severe punishments put on them. Quitting when you're the last member of your team, and you're about to die anyway, isn't such a big deal, but someone quitting in the first few turns, before the enemy is even seen, completely screws over your team.
Lastly, PLEASE do something about losing all equipment when you lose a game. A few bad matches, like the ones mentioned above, can completely drain your stockpile, through no fault of your own. This alone will drive players away faster than anything else in the game.
In my last game, I played a 3-on-3 game. One of my teammates QUIT on the very first turn, and the other played total kamikaze, sending single men out to PUNCH the enemy. I was screwed from the start, and there was no way to prevent this.
What makes this worse is losing all of my equipment. There was literally NOTHING I could have done to save my gear. I was a dead man walking, and nothing could be done to stop it.
Now, this, as well as starting with unbalanced teams (my first game was a 2-on-1, with me being the target dummy), makes the game really, really frustrating to play. It's almost not worth going into team games, since I could be saddled with a complete loser.
Something really needs to be done about team balancing, keeping people from STARTING unfairly uneven games. 2-on-1 isn't fun if you're the 1. It shouldn't even be POSSIBLE.
Likewise, people who quit early really need to have severe punishments put on them. Quitting when you're the last member of your team, and you're about to die anyway, isn't such a big deal, but someone quitting in the first few turns, before the enemy is even seen, completely screws over your team.
Lastly, PLEASE do something about losing all equipment when you lose a game. A few bad matches, like the ones mentioned above, can completely drain your stockpile, through no fault of your own. This alone will drive players away faster than anything else in the game.