Do you ever feel like youre not allowed to play other classes?

(Ballto) #1

This is partially ranting

Do you ever just feel like you cant play other squad compositions?

I really, really just want to play thunder and phantom, also practice sparks a bit but it really feels like i just cant.

I mean yeah i could just say fuck the objectives and i would (and do on teams with decent squad comps) but in 90% of games it really feels like i just cant do that without getting completely steamrolled and not getting to practice/enjoy these other mercs at all.

If my squad rotation is not Proxy/Aura/Stoker ourteam either has no engineer who knows how to engineer, or just none at all, no medic who can heal or defib (or live long enough to do so), or no ammo giving classes or someone who can do large damage to EVs.

I mean yeah, i know, other people dont want to play these classes or need to get better but someone has to fucking do it, and it just feels like in 90% of servers im in im the one that has to do at least one of these things or we will just get face stomped one way or another

the last 12 games ive been in nobody on my team (including me) had an engineer or medic on their rotation (well i technically had sparks but im so bad at her i dont really count it even though i was trying)

yeah yeah iknow min level 10 servers but theyre all either empty or full, or more often than noti get votekicked for being a bad sparks or thunder or whatever

sometimes i think that i should just sleep with a few nexon higherups for a complete credit refund on all my mercs except proxy and stoker, at least i could buy cases for shiny loadouts for the only classes DBs matchmaking wants me to play

(LifeupOmega) #2

This is why, when I pub, I solely play Sawbonez, Skyhammer, or Fletcher. Never anything else. Because I’m a very competitive person, and while I’m generally chill with carrying, it does get a bit old after a while when I have a drive to win games, and then see my other 5 teammates have a squad composed of , , . Most of the time they won’t even have the engineer to be fair, it’ll be another assault merc or Skyhammer.

And god does it get annoying, when you have to be the player who keeps everyone alive, repairs everything, and hell, maybe you’re just so good you can give out all the ammo at the same time too.

I’m glad I can do my missions in 2 games or less now. I really am. I’m just waiting for populated matchmaking.

(Ballto) #3

[quote=“LifeupOmega;131861”]This is why, when I pub, I solely play Sawbonez, Skyhammer, or Fletcher. Never anything else. Because I’m a very competitive person, and while I’m generally chill with carrying, it does get a bit old after a while when I have a drive to win games, and then see my other 5 teammates have a squad composed of , , . Most of the time they won’t even have the engineer to be fair, it’ll be another assault merc or Skyhammer.

And god does it get annoying, when you have to be the player who keeps everyone alive, repairs everything, and hell, maybe you’re just so good you can give out all the ammo at the same time too.

I’m glad I can do my missions in 2 games or less now. I really am. I’m just waiting for populated matchmaking.[/quote]

if you want i can join you in comp matchmaking whenever im online if im not with some other mates in pubs, my hours are weird though. my steam name is the same as here, different icon though i think its a red drake or something

(Jostabeere) #4

Fuck the objective?

Unless I have certain missions, I play what whatever I want.

(watsyurdeal) #5

I generally only play certain mercs for missions, otherwise I pretty much play only Skyhammer, Nader/Fragger/Thunder/Phantom, or Sawbonez/Phoneix/Bushwacka.

(LifeupOmega) #6

[quote=“Ballto;131864”][quote=“LifeupOmega;131861”]This is why, when I pub, I solely play Sawbonez, Skyhammer, or Fletcher. Never anything else. Because I’m a very competitive person, and while I’m generally chill with carrying, it does get a bit old after a while when I have a drive to win games, and then see my other 5 teammates have a squad composed of , , . Most of the time they won’t even have the engineer to be fair, it’ll be another assault merc or Skyhammer.

And god does it get annoying, when you have to be the player who keeps everyone alive, repairs everything, and hell, maybe you’re just so good you can give out all the ammo at the same time too.

I’m glad I can do my missions in 2 games or less now. I really am. I’m just waiting for populated matchmaking.[/quote]

if you want i can join you in comp matchmaking whenever im online if im not with some other mates in pubs, my hours are weird though. my steam name is the same as here, different icon though i think its a red drake or something[/quote]

It’s not lack of teammates that stops me playing MM, it’s the 30 minute queues because we’re all in cobalt-elite range and no one plays who matches against us. :frowning:

(Ballto) #7

[quote=“LifeupOmega;131868”][quote=“Ballto;131864”][quote=“LifeupOmega;131861”]This is why, when I pub, I solely play Sawbonez, Skyhammer, or Fletcher. Never anything else. Because I’m a very competitive person, and while I’m generally chill with carrying, it does get a bit old after a while when I have a drive to win games, and then see my other 5 teammates have a squad composed of , , . Most of the time they won’t even have the engineer to be fair, it’ll be another assault merc or Skyhammer.

And god does it get annoying, when you have to be the player who keeps everyone alive, repairs everything, and hell, maybe you’re just so good you can give out all the ammo at the same time too.

I’m glad I can do my missions in 2 games or less now. I really am. I’m just waiting for populated matchmaking.[/quote]

if you want i can join you in comp matchmaking whenever im online if im not with some other mates in pubs, my hours are weird though. my steam name is the same as here, different icon though i think its a red drake or something[/quote]

It’s not lack of teammates that stops me playing MM, it’s the 30 minute queues because we’re all in cobalt-elite range and no one plays who matches against us. :([/quote]

ah

well i might start doing MM and try to bludgeon you with a bat some day

(Samniss_Arandeen) #8

Pubs are for cheap target practice with your choice of favorite support Mercs.

Seriously, I just wish there were private servers that clans and individuals could set up to run scrims, pugs, or even just normal game environments where players are open to experimentation. Or even just a shooting range where we can load up with any Merc and get our hand in.

(N8o) #9

Have to say I never have ran across this issue.

(Captain_Forward) #10

Know that feel. Like, I wanna play Redeye, but always finish match as a Kira/Sawbonez, because shooting faces without bullets and health is hard.

(srswizard) #11

I have a fairly constant squad of 3 mercs.

  1. Sawbonez - playing objective
  2. Stoker/Skyhammer (or whatever merc the missions require)- for when the team already has a healer or two
  3. Vassili - for when my team is trying to fuck doorknobs, instead of playing a FPS game

Sadly you rarely see healers, that aren’t low level Auras who’d rather bat generators than heal and revive.

So I just end up playing Sawbonez or Vassili most of the time.

(Amerika) #12

Nope. I play what I feel like playing and do my best to help with whatever that merc allows me to do.

(blufflord) #13

That’s because ur good with all the mercs :stuck_out_tongue:

(Black) #14

In my opinion there is just certain merc’s you should not play in competitive.

As of right now I think that red eye, thunder, and rhino are all mercs that as of right now aren’t strong enough and have other mercs that can perform a better job.

(LifeupOmega) #15

[quote=“BlackFro;132029”]In my opinion there is just certain merc’s you should not play in competitive.

As of right now I think that red eye, thunder, and rhino are all mercs that as of right now aren’t strong enough and have other mercs that can perform a better job.[/quote]

Red Eye is the best recon we have right now. The others I can understand but PDP and Smoke is still a broken combo.

(gg2ez) #16

Not at all. I’m a strong, independent, black woman who don’t need no squad.

(Disclaimer: Not actually a strong, independent, black woman.)

(SereneFlight) #17

Usually first few days of the new rotation is good if I don’t feel like playing Proxy or Bush since lately my usual squad has been Nader, Stoker and Phoenix.

(ImSploosh) #18

I get into a lot of games where people have medics/engineers in their squads, yet don’t use them, ever. I’ve spammed consistently asking people politely to switch, especially the bottom scoring Vassili/Phantom/whatever class that needs to be used correctly to be effective.

They generally don’t respond. I’m always forced to play Aura or Bushwacker. Don’t get me wrong, I love playing both of those because I can absolutely wreck a team with a well-placed health station or hard to shoot turret, but I don’t want to play them ALL the time. I do pretty damn well with Vassili or Skyhammer. I’ll consistently hold objectives as a lone wolf with both of those. The people that do speak however, always yell at me to switch to medic or engi (which is normally have at least 1 in my squad). Even if I’m top-scoring/wrecking the other team. I’m always forced to switch.

I like variety, so I tend to play all of the mercs that I have because it keeps the game interesting. The one good thing is that I have a good Skyhammer loadout with that Engi augment, looter, and the increased AoE, so I can essentially play as an engi and heal myself by picking off medics. :smiley:

(Black) #19

[quote=“LifeupOmega;132033”][quote=“BlackFro;132029”]In my opinion there is just certain merc’s you should not play in competitive.

As of right now I think that red eye, thunder, and rhino are all mercs that as of right now aren’t strong enough and have other mercs that can perform a better job.[/quote]

Red Eye is the best recon we have right now. The others I can understand but PDP and Smoke is still a broken combo.[/quote]

Red eye really is a legit recon that can turn the game around by revealing the enemy positions in every second however his smoke ability just kills it.

(XavienX) #20

Well, that’s the nature of a team-based game.