Quitting Before The End Of The Match
Wraithman
Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8600Members
Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8600Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Where did all the men go?</div> I was playing today a couple of games, one as mairne and one as alien. In the marine game, we were not doing too bad and had even secured one of the aliens hives, then all of a sudden they get a 2nd hive and get fades and this guy who thinks he's some kind of superstar say "the have fades, we cant win now." and convinces a majority of the team to go to the ready room so the game will end. we werent even in that bad of a position. So they do and it ends up being me and 4 other marines trying to hold off 11 alien players. We refused to give up, unlike some people. So we actually manage to hold the aliens at bay from our main base, Without using turret spamming, for about 10 more minutes, and the whole time this guy who convinced half our team to quit is joining our team, swearing at us and telling us to quit wasting time, and then going back to the ready room, ect. we got wasted, of course. What were we supposed to do with those teams, but at least we tried.
I know that not all players are like this, but enough of them were on that server to ruin some good games. Why do people feel the need to give up when things start to go wrong for them. Anybody else have this happen? cause it seems like it happens to me alot. just venting though but This is not exactly a thing i'd like to see turn into a trend.
I know that not all players are like this, but enough of them were on that server to ruin some good games. Why do people feel the need to give up when things start to go wrong for them. Anybody else have this happen? cause it seems like it happens to me alot. just venting though but This is not exactly a thing i'd like to see turn into a trend.
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On a side note: Why not try to search some servers with good and fair players? Public sucks anyway IMHO. In most cases not the game is bad but the peeps who play it. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
It's not the winning team's fault that people are sore losers.
But its kind of a bad thing to do...but it works <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
but i go to ready room all the time if i know its hopeless and i dont feel like spawning so some onos' can rape me.
1. Whole team of standard marines, resources at single-digit, while the Aliens are all Onos, all that's left is them charging in wave after wave to slowly destroy your buildings.
2. Whole team of skulks/gorges, with 1 hive and single digit resource, while the marines all have GLs and HMGs and all that's left is them building those 6 sieges outside ur hive.
"random" actually got me marines (its about a 4:1 ratio, i ususally get aliens).
We were sort of screwed when I joined, fades and onos attacking the base.
But... only a few people were actually attacking.
Just enough to stall the marines into actually doing anything else other than trying to rebuild turrets, get killed, and spawn back in.
Curious, I went down to... maintenence access I believe, hid under the flooring, and took out their third hive.
So demoralized were the marines at the constant attacks they'd been holding off, I couldn't get anyone to come with me to secure the MA hive location. Were only a few groups of chambers, we could have taken them out easy. But no, they were all about the "just recycle everything, Comm, and lets quit."
I think we could have turned it around. From the looks of it, they never defended anything, but just pushed forward too fast.
I dunno... would you people have given up at that point or pushed onward?
We did eventually get killed once the MA was rebuilt and they got onos again <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
-Brew
-Atropos
Anyways, the only time i will leave a game when my team is losing is when that is the last round i was going to play. If there is no way to win then i just go ahead and leave. Usually, i stick it out to the bitter end.
I guess people are sore losers.
Really? Interesting hypothosis, this is your topic for your Phd in Sociology i assume?
I don't mind so much if we're losing (as in, fade/onos/lerk & umbra in marine spawn) and someone just quits. I do mind when you get Glory Hunters switching sides because the other team looks like it's gonna win.
This tends to happen a lot towards the end of a match and can get really annoying. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
Really, two Hives is good enough to win. (Hell, I've come back from one by slipping quietly into the Marine base and eating their Inf Portals.) But it really does irk me when people all leave when they're "sure" they're going to lose...we lost people when we hit 1 Hive, we lost people when the third in-progress Hive got ganked, the Marines lost people I swear every time they died.
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...All game long...sigh. I guess when you're in Heavy Armour they must be cheating or something if a Lerk kills you.
Anyway...point is, you CAN come back from one Hive. Though I've never seen a zero-Hive comeback (and doubt I'll ever participate in one, I suck as Skulk).
As for Marine comebacks...well, generally when the Marines are screwed, they're screwed because they overspent and have nothing to rebuild with, so Marine Commanders should think about saving that little bit for a rainy day...building those outposts of a TF and 6 Turrets isn't cheap, ya know? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> Especially when one Lerk eats it.
I don't think this is accurate.
I think it's because they're a bunch of spoiled babies used to getting everything they want. They don't have "**obscenity**" parents that will tell them to be quiet and do this or that. They have parents that want to be friends. So, kids are never forced to do anything they don't want to do, and being fodder for aliens to eat isn't usually fun.
Or they are all intelligent enough to realize when they've lost, and active enough in their lives that they dont' have an extra 30 minutes to spend being beaten around by a superior team.
One of those two.