So many idiots!

I think this is part of the new MM's "strategy" to frustrate players into buying gear, to give them very lousy teammates.

1) Yeah, that sucks. For what it's worth, taking beacons in Springfield is very difficult for folks with all-knife-fighter hangars.

2) Uh... I must confess that I often play Yama this way. Sorry! SickMyDuckster has been lecturing me on charging headlong into a bunch of Reds. I have a tendency to get overaggressive when we're down a beacon. Bad habit from when that always worked so well with a TT Boa back with my 4/6 hangar.

3) Yeah, I dunno. Morons.

You can try squadding with us more often, but... uh... I guess that won't help you too much on 2 if you squad with me.

1. Yes, crossing the river in Springfield can be hard, but when there's one red defending D and there are 3 blues standing on the other side shooting while the reds advance to reinforce is just stupid. Instead, they could have taken the beacon while there was only one red, then WE would have been defending the beacon.
2. Sorry, didn't mean it to be personal   fwiw, I wouldn't consider you an idiot.

Yeah, I sort of was thinking last night that I don't know if I can play this game solo anymore with the state of MM. Too frustrating.

Oh, I don't actually take things personally. I was trying to lighten the mood is all. Benefit of voice squadding with clan is that you can actually remind their teammates when I'm doing... er... they're doing something (or about to do something) idiotic.

Sorry that MM has been sucking so badly for you. I hope that newfangled leagues thing is all that they make it out to be.

Oh, okay. Those scratch n sniff stickers are pretty awesome.

Yeah, I love being able to play in playgrounds and climbing structures with my son and not have people stare at me like I'm some kind of creep (weirdo, I can take, as being weird is actually a point of pride here in Austin -- Keep Austin Weird" as they say).

Thanks! Been here 5 years or so. With the kids, we haven't had much time to check out the music scene much, alas. I usually try to catch a little bit of the free stuff going on during SXSW, though. I also play the keys and I'm also learning the drums and a little bass guitar, but this game has definitely put a big crimp on practice time, I must confess.

Haven't listened to the Butthole Surfers, but I've definitely heard of them. I tend to listen mostly to prog rock, country, psytrance, piano blues, folk pop... a pretty eclectic mix, I know.

Bhahahaah hey I'm from North Florida.. And I was just gonna ask for your work number so I could call an tell you how great everything is working and how wonderful your product/company is... Now, screw that! Whats the number to your complaint department?? Lol

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You can wait for your teammates to coordinate a charge together rather than charge single-handedly. It's kinda like Shenzen. Charging center by yourself is a recipe for a quick death. If you see someone else charging, you may want to join them.

And if there are reds positioned to attack blues going up the ramp, you can take those out first.

And let them share in my glory? Preposterous!

Just kidding - your counsel is sage indeed [AurN] perfectlyGoodInk and Trogon

That's the general idea, have a coordinated attack.  But what usually happens when playing solo is I watch our health bar continue to drop while red lounges at the center beacon.  In desperation and in an attempt to goad teammates out of our spawn, I charge.  We'll lose anyway if the beacon stays red, and sometimes...sometimes I actually get company--or watch my team of randoms finally get the nerve to charge together after my inglorious sacrifice.  All too often though, I die quickly without even the benefit of cover fire, watching in disbelief as my team blazes away continuously at red players at their spawn or other completely nonthreatening positions...sigh...

There are that many idiots.
Sometimes they frustrate you but in a case of Springfield I just finished not too long ago, I can't deny I love them, for they were the opponent team lol.

Both teams spawned on the 2 beacon side.
I was dancing around (yep moving left and right that made my rhino like he was tap dancing)
My team mate shot at me, obviously telling me to quit fooling or fark off lol.

Well, I was semi fooling but was actually figuring which direction to approach depending on the opponents spread.
Plus I hate Springfield, not having the enthusiasm to play that map hahahaha

Then I saw 11 out of 12 players are on the 2 beacon side with only 1 red stalker happily capping 3 beacon the other side.
I Strolled my rhino (not even charging) to the other side, because I really hate Springfield that much.

But the stalker had to come shoot at me. That made me charged at him. I advanced, he retreated until I captured a beacon.
I stayed there, the stalker stayed there both of us doing nothing, just waiting to take out each other.

Then after a few seconds, the stalker decided to ditch it and respawn...just like that.
Bad move, by doing that my rhino is now free to move around.
If he stayed there, I couldn't leave, they had 3 beacons, we had 2.

So I happily went on to cap another 2 beacons and by that time, it was certain my team will win.
My team mates noticed and went on to maintain our beacon lead, goes on to win the game.

The match was evenly distributed with 12/12 on both sides.
My damage? Only 70k hahahaha but did get the 5 au beacon reward.

The hero? Ain't me, it was my team mates and noob opponents.

Ofc, when too many idiots are on my side, I just do tap dancing with my bots to kill time.
And do some damage when the reds does come (usually just before game ends).
That's better than ditching the game, no?

Works even better when you're on LINE comms XD