[QUOTE=SinDonor;367465]I come from the land of the early 90s where noob and newb meant the same thing: Someone who was new to a game and hadn’t quite figured it all out yet. They werent total idiots and horrible at games in general, just new to the current game we were playing.
Noob took on the “total bleeping idiot” moniker sometime during the last decade.
Anyways, there are definitely some CoDiots in Brink recently. They never try to complete Obj’s. They try to use the sniper rifle consistantly and fail miserably. They run right past you as a medic and never use their revives on you even though they just respawned and have pips. Etc etc. Oh well. Either they get better or theyll go back to CoD once they realize Brink is too different for their play style.[/QUOTE]
Many COD players on recently, not just their playing style but listening to them when they have mics, just nothing but stereotypical COD lingo and retardedness. Often hear them say to their friends they want to go back to COD after next match cause they keep getting their asses handed to them despite me trying to nicely give them basic advice as to why we are losing (no one is buffing each other, no one flanking just taking same routes over and over, NO MEDICS! but 5+ Soldiers every mission, too much lone wolfing trying to be the terminator, just overall lack of teamwork and moving in groups). Atleast I was able to get them to join the fireteam if that means anything…
But its also much more then that, even got peeved at a good friend yesterday. He got a friend of his to pick up the game, but he fails to tell him he should do like most of us did (day 1 people, especially PS3 guys). We watched all the tutorial videos, played all the challenges to unlock everything, played through the whole story (campaign mode) on both sides atleast once (many multiple times) and got somewhat leveled up BEFORE we went to Freeplay and hopped into the online versus grinder and we ALL were noobs back then. But yeah he pushes him right online for his first moving/shooting of any kind in the game, literally having to step by step explain every basic thing to him during the match and then every match afterwards as new things came up and he begins to level up.
Its like WTF learn to play the game before just hopping online and taking 1 of 8 valuable spots on a team and causing 1 other to not be fully focused as he explains the entire game and so everyone else with a mic doesnt have to hear it the whole game while trying to cooridinate things. This game gives you zero reason to hop online and not have a good overall understanding of the game, it holds your hand all you want it to and literally takes you step by step through all the skills you will need to be a respectable player. But alas I have a good feeling many of these COD players are doing much the same, they arent learning the game first. They just hop online and start playing Freeplay Versus (maybe atleast unlocking weapons/attachments as that kind of stuff is crack to them).
Sorry for the rant but it just boggles my mind and frustrates the crap out of me and as you can tell I have been in many matches of these sorts as of late… Overall though it really makes me appreciate all the friends I do have on Brink and have been playing with for weeks and months now. They are all competent and decent players and even the “worst” of them is better then almost any random noob. Dont know how I could play this game with out them. We crush randoms and with experianced players keep it fun as we know how to play the game and dont get face raped match after match.
