Guess we all get horrible team mates sometime...
By
Acyl,
Posted on: 2009-06-15 04:28 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Bad Team Bingo
We could use some better square material 
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Is it wrong that I want to actually go find bad PUGs just so I can play this?
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Originally Posted by eltonio
This is over the top mental slavery.
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I find myself running into less and less of those 'n00b' players. If it means I have to wait a lil' bit longer to find a team that is non-AE; I'll GLADLY wait.
My last bad 'incident' was actually sort of surprising. There certainly was no bad teammate in my opinion, just a bad team structure I suppose...we lacked communication and thought.
An ITF was broadcasted through the VU chat channel and I wanted to bring along my blaster. I meet up and a few minutes within getting there, we begin the TF. We start off the first mission with no words spoken as we all pull up to the first mob. All of a sudden, a few of the brutes zoom past and the leader announces that we're gonna just free the sybils by stealthing.
Uh-oh...I'm not a fan of the 'Speed ITF'. Well, things go underway...badly. Half the team is working there way through the mobs and the other half is trying to stealth and free the sybils. I was...confused. After a few failed attempts to stealth, we all meet up again and start working our way through the mobs. We free all of them and head out towards the altar; we all fly up and free the last sybil: End mission 1.
Mission 2: Wow...just 'phail' written over every one of our foreheads. The leader announces again that we will be stealthing this one by destroying the cysts and moving to the next. I was in no mood to argue and was a little intoxicated behind the keyboard; so I just followed the dieing path of the brutes. A few attempts of 'phail' and we all meet up again at the beggining of the map and decide the better decision is to work our way through the 'normal' way. Good lawd...end mission 2.
We arrive to mission 3. Smooth sailing. We decide to pull the gens to the bridge to avoid lag that the whole team wishes to avoid. A controller pulls for us/tp's us to the comp/AV's...etc etc, complete. Not alot of problems. End mission 3.
Mission 4: Disaster/Hate/Success. Well, seeing how we were trying to speed our way through this whole thing in failure, I decided to open my big stupid mouth and suggest "Roof pull?". Now, in every attempt that I've ever seen/been a part of, this tactic always seemed to work for me in great success. Seems to have always made sense of me since the two halves of the roof are always a great way to break LoS for the healing Nictus and the stupid stun when he rezzes. So we decide to have one of the brutes hold off the healing Nicti while everyone attacks Romi. Failure. 2 other brutes fall fast and our tank also falls as well. On top of that, seems like one of the controllers had a hard understanding that the roof splits LoS between players as well, so our /emp had a hard time trying to keep the team alive. Attempt#2: Same thing, and I MEAN, the SAME THING. Except this time around, some words were exchanged between players that shouldn't really...well, be repeated. Attempt#3: I open my big mouth again. I offer that I will pull and hold the healing Nicti's attention since it seemed that the other brute was needed. I pull and keep the nicti from healing but it seems the AoE and pet summoning Nicti was too much for our group...and once again, the controller gave no heals or rez when asked for...well, he rezzed one teammate but the wrong one...more words were exchanged and alot more insults/expletives. Myself and two other of the teammates tryed to tell people to cool down. To make matters worse, the brutes entangle in an arguement and doesn't stop until about 2 attempts later...at this point, its a nightmare for us all. We all really push and FINALLY get a break and defeat Romi 3 times, but since the healing Nicti was out of LoS from Romi, it still remained...we then start attacking the Nicti. Those that can attack from a distance continue to do so. The brutes are so flustered with eachother at this point and are argueing over everything. We then defeat the Nicti and then defeat the traitors; while the two brutes continue to exchange words.
It was terrible. I've never had a team so out of sync...EVER. Really, I just had the foundation of the idea 'Speed ITF'. Seems like a Freedumb thing to do. Not a big fan.
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It was terrible. I've never had a team so out of sync...EVER. Really, I just had the foundation of the idea 'Speed ITF'. Seems like a Freedumb thing to do. Not a big fan.
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Whenever I end up on a TF/SF that wants to stealth everything "because otherwise it takes too long" ends up with everyone dying and the whole thing taking longer than if we just ran it normally. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
I won't stealth TFs/SFs anymore, ever. If I start a SF team, I say "no stealthing". If invited, I ask if we will be stealthing. If they answer in the affirmative, I leave.
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Originally Posted by eltonio
This is over the top mental slavery.
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This thread should get stickied. Why you ask?
1) It's a popular topic that's always being restarted when the previous thread gets dropped
2) It's always a hoot to read
3) There's always more to add
4) Everyone can contribute.
Great idea. Allow me to be the first to second the sticky.
If you like this take a look at the this for more bad PuG fun.
//Jack
The Kickers base.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
-Groucho Marx
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mousedroid wrote:
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Heh, MA really is getting blamed for everything these days isn't it?
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And not without reason. I'm generally not willing to see if the offender is an outlier case, because those are, by definition, rare.
--NT
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I have noticed neither an uptick nor a decrease in the number of n00bs since i14.
What I can tell you is that there were lots and lots before i14. Given those realities, it seems unlikely that the MA system is truly repsonsible for virtually ALL the n00bs we run into. They would have been n00bs with or without AE.
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The difference is, we now have high level n00bs, instead of just single digit to mid-20s n00bs. It used to be that if you breached 30 or so, most people had a pretty good idea of how to play and the odds of them being laughably bad dropped off considerably, but now not so... you can have n00bs with multiple level 50s and not a single vet award.