Cut Scene Bombing

I let people know, politely, not to cutscene dance in Lambda each time I lead one. I ask both teams to help the other team with their temp powers if their team finishes first, unless the other team only has one left.

For any violators, I immediately 1-star, ignore, and kick them. Zero tolerance.

The possibility of failure if Marauder exits and the reduced speed of getting the objectives done in an instance where there is limited time are two major reasons I do this. But the real reason is that the person in question has demonstrated an unwillingness to follow my directions and a disregard for me and the rest of the league, and, therefore, is someone I do not want in my leagues from then on. Both BAF and Lambda still require some degree of coordination, Keyes requires quite a bit of it, and future trials will continue to require more and more coordination and listening. Weeding out the ignorant or purposefully obstructive players will only help me and my leagues out in the long run.

The best way to avoid getting kicked is not to dance/emote throughout the cut scenes.

This has the added benefit of making you look less like a tool.

I see that a lot of the haters here, including some of the most vociferous, have said things along the line of 'it was funny the first few times I saw it, now it's lame'.

This looks like another aspect of 'i was first' leetism, a bit. 'the first few times' might be this week for sb who's only got a 50 recently, or who's resubbed.

My own view is that cutscene bombing is perfectly acceptable as long as the trial isn't failed. I've never considered doing it myself because I've never died in the underground bit of the LAM.

Eco

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

Actually my favorite cutscene bombing was an unintentional one and everybody has done it, wether you realised it or not.

Was in the ITF, nobody had flown ahead to trigger the cutscene so it goes off whilst we're in the midst of fighting Nazis.

Now if you look closely during the cutscene you can see yourself mid-fight in the background, you're quite in the distance but it looks awesome. There was a 5th Column all ragdolled into the air from my Knockout Blow, the Martial Arts Scrapper was paused in time just at the point that Eagle's Claw had connected and was in mid-flip.

Really wish I'd screenshotted it.

Don't really care if people cut scene bomb in general, afaik there are only two instances where it's properly possible, Honoree cinematic on LGTF and the marauder cinematic on LAM.
You can sort of bomb the Romulus cutscene. Personally I just Alt-Tab when the cinematic starts.

I have bombed the LGTF cutscene many times, because I need to take Honorees agro after I destroy the generators anyway.

But I've never done it on LAM and never will. If a person decides to do it, then there's a big chance he/she will be forced to leave the instance without seeing the drop table.
It is not all SRS business though, we will laugh at the tells afterwards.

The Lambda trial is ridiculously easy.

Collecting acids/grenades is not "hard work".

Leaders do not need to moderate player behavior.

All leaders need to do is explain the trial to newbies.

I had no idea there was an actual TERM for the whole "positioning yourself in a cutscene so you can do something wonky."

The things one learns on the forums...

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite