Citadel TF with extra added ARGGGH
By
Clebstein,
Posted on: 2009-06-02 07:17 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Yep, just goes to show, more isn't always merrier. The Positron TF I was on this weekend didn't start running smoothly until half the team quit.
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I've seen that. Lose some dead-weight, spawn sizes decrease, less bosses, can make smooth sailing.
Any attempt to get the PB/tank to calm down and keep it to one group at a time?
EDIT: I don't always agree with you, P_T, but like Don Cherry or Yatzee, you are entertaining. Please continue to relate your stories of ineptitude.
(I just hope I'm never the subject.)
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I had a similar experience on a citadel last weekend. We started with a pretty decent team. My level 26 emp/rad and my wife's level 26 fire/ice blaster, plus another level 50 arch/mm blaster, a level 30 spines/dark scrapper, a level 29 tank, and a level 40-something grav/TA controller. Before we even start the first mission, the tank just up and quit, no explanation or anything. Literally, he quit between the time we started the tf and the time it took us to get to the first mission in IP. We kept going, and our spines/dark scrapper was doing a great job tanking for us. Things were still going pretty smooth at that point. Then, about halfway through the tf, we lost our scrapper, not sure what happened. We decided to keep going, and were actually doing okay. I was kind of worried about the AV at the end, but it turned out I was worried for no reason. I kept fortitude on both blasters, had both RAs going, and kept the heals up, and we powered through the AV in no time. Finished the whole thing in 2:01. We were quite proud of ourselves.
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Each mission, I tell the team 'use my Ouroborus teleport to exit mission, and each time, one guy refuses, he'll exit mission, then cast his own Ouro outside; what a wierdo.
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Did he actually refuse, like in text? It might have just been that he kept clicking "Exit" out of habit. I know I do that a lot on TFs. Right when I click Exit I realize I would have been better off just going straight to Ouroboros.
He said "I am ignoring your demand because I feel like it", and kept on taking the exit instead of the ouro portal, and THEN casting his own portal outside, so an extra 'zoning' operation for him. < shrug > It didn't slow us down much.
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Ah, another reliably entertaining P_T post. Well done, even though I have to admit I was sort of anticipating another "total train wreck" story and was a little let down when it didn't turn out that way! 
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I so wanted to grouse about another P_T post, but there is a definite grain of wisdom in this one. Something I learned very early in my career: blasters are squishy and should not take point.
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Just before my technicolour yawn I'd put together a Citadel team with Daphne O'Gothic, my Gravity/Empathy controller on Freedom. Outside the first mission I had time to slam BRB on the kjeyboard, then RACE to the bathroom -- I didn't get back until 20 minutes later. I apologised for the unexpected loss of lunch, and we triumphed through Citadel in 2hours and 8 minutes.
That done, I decided its time to level up my Electric/Ice powerhouse blaster, Tachyon Squeeze. That involved doing yet another Citadel TF for the best xp/hour, so I cast around for team members. Found a PB that was happy to tank, two scrappers, another blaster, and a somewhat insane Storm defender.
We start off Citadel, hit IP, and at the end of the mission I tell them all to stay there, because the next mission is (99.9% of the time) in the same location. Two of the six follow me to Ouroborus, and then have to swim all the way to the far north of IP when the mission pops up. Sheesh.
We're having a hell of a time in the mission, because people are going every-which-way. The PB is all over the place, only partially clearly rooms in 'defeat all' missions, racing forward, aggroing a new group, then going back to the room he just left, leaving the rest of the team dealing with the new aggro, whilst he 'cleans up' the old room. A few deaths ensue.
The other blaster is screaming that the Blasters should pull, and one of the scrappers who started off at L32 and was exemplared to 30, starts complaining of no XP. Well duh!
Next mission, the Scrapper quits team, we're down to five.
Each mission, I tell the team 'use my Ouroborus teleport to exit mission, and each time, one guy refuses, he'll exit mission, then cast his own Ouro outside; what a wierdo.
The team is still really uncoordinated. The PB tank rushes around, leaving huge swathes of room unexplored, aggroes groups and then runs back to aggro new groups. The Storm defender excels at blowing critters around the map, and the other blaster is always in trouble.
Blaster: "THE TANK AGGROS TOO MUCH, LET THE BLASTER AGGRO!"
Team ignores blaster. Blaster wanders off, aggros something, runs back pulling them, almost a team wipe.
Me: "Please Mr 6month badge, don't run off, let the tank lead, stick to the plan"
Blaster "You really calling me names because of the veteran badges?"
me "No, because you're stating that blasters should lead!"
The blaster runs off down a corridor, 180degrees from the team, and aggroes more stuff and dies, then quits the team.
We're down to four.
Scrapper: "Getting to be a small team
Me: "Just stick with the plan, let the PB/Tank lead, and we'll be fine"
After the loss of the other blaster, things went SO much better.
We caned the rest of the TF, and even made it within the 2 hour challenge (1 hour 56 minutes). So it ended up being successful, but it was a -really- shaky start.
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