Overconfidence In Marines...
MrKNifey
Join Date: 2003-06-25 Member: 17668Members
Join Date: 2003-06-25 Member: 17668Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Good or a bad thing?</div> I see the feeling of overconfidence come over many marines quite often. They aren't that great when playing as a marine, but just because they HAPPEN to get the finishing shot on enemies, so they end up having most of the kills on the team, or some other confidence boosting thingamabob that causes them to lose sight of the game. They sit there and whine for guns because they think they own the team. They then proceed to go out and die 5 seconds later, losing a 25 res HMG.
Not only that, they also make lots of annoying comments, saying how the entire team sucks except themselves(and maybe the comm, if s/he keeps giving them weapons), or how they'll say they go out and own lots of skulks, but ends up dying to only one of them. Then comes the accusations of hacking and BS and stuff.
Bah, overconfidence sucks. Unless used properly, it results in a very talkative and annoying+useless teammate that does nothing except die, while the rest of the team runs around and builds lots of stuff, ultimately winning the game.
So.....any thoughts?
P.S. not meant of be offensive to anyone, just posting my thoughts.
Not only that, they also make lots of annoying comments, saying how the entire team sucks except themselves(and maybe the comm, if s/he keeps giving them weapons), or how they'll say they go out and own lots of skulks, but ends up dying to only one of them. Then comes the accusations of hacking and BS and stuff.
Bah, overconfidence sucks. Unless used properly, it results in a very talkative and annoying+useless teammate that does nothing except die, while the rest of the team runs around and builds lots of stuff, ultimately winning the game.
So.....any thoughts?
P.S. not meant of be offensive to anyone, just posting my thoughts.
Comments
Of course, the inverse is sometimes true... I do hate it when I am doing well, ask for a shotgun (which I love vs. hive1 and add a JP for hive2!) and the comm won't give it to me, even though we clearly have the res. Why? Well, I don't mind if we are saving up for a quick siege or something, but when he just gives hmgs, or just gives equipment to his friends, or would rather build a redundant TF in main (I got this... once... wow) then it's a bit annoying.
Anyways, message to comms: If you're capper is also getting kills, for the love of god throw him a bone or he'll stop capping for you. That's my situation far too often, I'm capping, killing, setting up hive lockdowns, and I can't even get a medpack half the time.
edit: hahaha, you can't put elite in leet speak? It auto got rid of my 1 3 3 7 and put in "elite" hahahah
~ArmedSoldier522
But still.. there is one thing that strikes me : why care about the stats when you still can't see them on the scoreboard *grin* <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> I mean... haha... If you ask me I find it quite good that you CAN'T see your stats as a marine, since they are the team who's supposed to be playing AS a team.. Well... I can just say that I depsise those nutheads out there (no offense) who only look after themselves and whine all the time..
As for the commander abusing his position... well... there isn't much you can do except voting for an eject and pray to god the rest of the team follows suit :/
I think the marine scoreboard SHOULD have scores on them, but only visible to the commander! I mean, the comm still needs to know who is proficient at combat, etc. Even in real life the military probably keeps statistics on each soldier on how well he/she does! The comm needs to know so he can better divide his team up into different taskforces. Like the squad that can't shoot as well will be the distraction while the godly FPS peeps can sneak in and kill the hive or whatever.
The only big problem is when the commander has TOO MUCH overconfidence. I mean, they might start saying that everyone is a n00b, that his stratagy is flawless, and that the marines are only lossing because everyone else is doing everything wrong. That way, nor the marines will have confidence in the comm, and the comm in the marines.
oh well..... that's what the ejecting comm order exists!!! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->