So I'm playing the other night and I hit a 64 player Karkand server. The round starts and I form a squad and hop in a APC to make my way to the back flag. No one gets in the vehicle or joins the squad. No big deal, this is normal as most players don't want to use teamwork so I am used to it. I manage to avoid AT rockets and other vehicles and get all the way to the Factory and request a UAV and some support. Nothing happens. Maybe the commander did not see the request so I do it again. Nothing. I get the flag grey and then I get artied and die.
I spawn at the US main again and notice the APC's and tank are sitting there. Now mind you that there are about 25 players on my team. I check the HUD and notice that all of them are at or near the hotel fighting. In the APC I go and off to take a flag. I make it to the train wreck and get the flag grey before I get a Vodnik strike on the roof of my APC and die.
I take a moment to watch when I spawn again and don’t see anything about it being a KP server or anything like that. I notice people are using weapons but I am the only one in a squad. I am the only one using the vehicles.
Off again I go to grab a flag. I finally get the suburb and being my one man attack on the rear flags. I managed to get two more flags before I realized that even though people were dying left and right on my team, not one of them has spawned at ANY of the flags I took.
The round ends in a loss of course and I leave. This is not an isolated incident as I see people all day long not trying to play the game for the objectives, but for kills. I have noticed even most of the top ranked players in the world can't touch my flag cap score and I am not the greatest player by any means. There are people who have played 1500 more hours than I and have 150k more GS, but have not taken any flags? What the hell? Isn't this game about flags to begin with? You take them, defend them right?
I am just amazed at how this fantastic War Game became Quake and how the mentality of the playing masses has gone from even remotely playing as a team to an all out war one on one with infantry. Did I not get the memo?
I spawn at the US main again and notice the APC's and tank are sitting there. Now mind you that there are about 25 players on my team. I check the HUD and notice that all of them are at or near the hotel fighting. In the APC I go and off to take a flag. I make it to the train wreck and get the flag grey before I get a Vodnik strike on the roof of my APC and die.
I take a moment to watch when I spawn again and don’t see anything about it being a KP server or anything like that. I notice people are using weapons but I am the only one in a squad. I am the only one using the vehicles.
Off again I go to grab a flag. I finally get the suburb and being my one man attack on the rear flags. I managed to get two more flags before I realized that even though people were dying left and right on my team, not one of them has spawned at ANY of the flags I took.
The round ends in a loss of course and I leave. This is not an isolated incident as I see people all day long not trying to play the game for the objectives, but for kills. I have noticed even most of the top ranked players in the world can't touch my flag cap score and I am not the greatest player by any means. There are people who have played 1500 more hours than I and have 150k more GS, but have not taken any flags? What the hell? Isn't this game about flags to begin with? You take them, defend them right?
I am just amazed at how this fantastic War Game became Quake and how the mentality of the playing masses has gone from even remotely playing as a team to an all out war one on one with infantry. Did I not get the memo?
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