I know it’s always been lacking, but lately, like these past two passes, it’s reached an all time new low. Let alone the usual ramming, pushing and random builds deciding to ram past you and into an enemy you are fighting without any need for help, letting said enemy get away or make you unable to strip his weapons or get the kill, there’s been a real lack of general teamwork.
Like example usually if you see an enemy player in stealth moving through the ranks, people usually try to get said player out of invisibility, but not these days. Same with taking advantage of enemies or their guns being heated, for multiple matches I have seen / heated up myself one of those gets 5 kills per battle brick builds and the entire team pretty much ignores said build and goes for things like bots etc, and then once again said build steamrolls the entire match. Same with meelee/fire/other facehug builds, usually when that kind of a build is focusing on a single player, that’s free shots for the entire team and a good opportunity to take out the problematic build that’s going to cost the entire match, but your team just pretty much ignores said build, lets it kill a build, move onto the next one, keep ignoring it, move onto the next one and so on and before you know it half your entire team is dead because nobody was shooting at the facehug build that was 3-4 times standing still while chewing through some random player.
There’s a lot more examples but typing all of them out would just make the post super long, basically it just goes beyond not having good driving or general gameplay skills and into deliberate ignoring, and not even in the midst of a busy battle, but your entire team trying to take across map lucky shots while there’s a facehug build taking out the players one by one with the rest of the enemy team on the opposite end of the map, and people just let it happen, even if a player right next to them was getting facehugged for 10+ seconds straight. Or ignoring a fully heated up metabuild for 5 incinerator shots in a row and focusing on shooting something way less problematic like for example a pyre hover or something, or fuze drones halfway across the map
Like I am not asking for any extreme group play coordination, but things that you expect to be more or less common sense are completely thrown out of the window, like shoot at the heated guns they fall off faster / shoot at the heated cabin you deal more damage, you see someone getting wedged or pushed shoot the enemy, see a drone shoot a drone, see an invisible enemy pop him out of invisibility, do not ram the teammate for no good reason and make him miss his shots and so on stuff
You ain’t seen nothing if you haven’t been in a levi invasion battle with 3 walkers.
I run a tracked build with incinerators, so I pretty much have to point my build at the levi to aim. Meanwhile, one or more mech walkers jump in front of me, dancing left and right, just as I launch the incins. Without surprise, I hit the back of the walker and waste the shots.
Alternatively, I often need to back up quickly so the incins don’t fly over the levi’s head, and guess what I run into? Another walker using me as a shield. I’m now a sitting target for Mr. Levi.
As a support build, softening up the levi for them to do increased damage, you’d think they’d give me a litle clearance. More than a few invasions were lost when I couldn’t hit the levi at the right time.
its honestly gotten so much worse. in raids i had people on these wide block hovers blocking me on top of team mates on BWL running in front of me and blocking my shots. not just that but id take a shot at an enemy and a team mate with an ungodly amount of brain damage rams the enemy out of my line of fire forcing me to miss the shot. this isnt just with commits, spikes or cannon shots, its also with jotun and incinerator fire.
i felt the improvement on the bots ai, aka them moving out of fire / ice puddles, was unnecessary because of the ungodly amount of braindeadness from your own team mates getting in the way constantly. you got BWL ramming into enemies pushing them all over the damn place like a dog to excited to go on a walk so hes running all over like a hyperactive kid who drank to much redbull.
i just dont get what the hell is wrong with people. why is ramming still a big damn thing? its gotten far worse with the BWL and im rather sick of it.
im trying to shoot enemies and half the time i have to really fight to get past peoples mcdonalds obese builds.
its far worse in raids because they will deliberately and purposefully get in your way to steal kills and point hog. raids have become a competition rather then a team based mode. i think that raids need to change and point accumulation is based on other factors, and get rid if the damn damage leader thing! its so dumb!
these builds are nothing, i see people ramming builds without melee using range guns like cannons, FRICKEN CANNONS!! they run up, ram the build and fire the cannons point blank. or they use retchers as they are face hugging the enemy. or they use any gun practically to facehug fire at the enemy. its absurd!
