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#1 frpeebles

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 03:31 PM

...And they shoot you back just take your damn lumps and go play the game.

People like to shoot at snow right as the game starts. fine, cool. I do it too. But if you hit a friendly mech and you get some return damage man up and leave it alone. I just had a match were I took some damage from someone screwing around. I tagged him back, no big deal and went back to walking towards the point. He keeps after me so I let him have it. Next thing it's HURR DURR TK TK TK. Yeah no **** he was preventing me from playing by being an ***.

Clearly it's a small issue but once they start talking screenshots and getting people banned it becomes non-trivial. I've never played a game where such a large percentage of the player base is so sensitive.

What do you do?

Also hi, first post :P

Edited by frpeebles, 01 March 2013 - 03:33 PM.


#2 Kobold

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 03:32 PM

Deep breaths.

#3 Homeless Bill

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 03:36 PM

Seriously, people need to chill. I've met some great guys through accidental friendly fire. If I ever TK or if I cause team damage that isn't in the heat of combat, I always try to apologize.

#4 frpeebles

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 03:37 PM

I'm as cool as a cucumber man. I particularly don't care about the damage, the TK, if I had been TK'ed or the lost cbills. I don't know how PGI handles these things but if the results are bans I'm not cool with that.

#5 Chavette

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 03:38 PM

If you shoot me, you dont shoot my armor, or mech, you shoot my pride. For that, you're going down. No exceptions.

#6 frpeebles

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 03:39 PM

...ok.

#7 Lady Oscar Francois De Jarjayes

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 03:40 PM

View PostChavette, on 01 March 2013 - 03:38 PM, said:

If you shoot me, you dont shoot my armor, or mech, you shoot my pride. For that, you're going down. No exceptions.

So if I plink you with a machine gun you'll kill me? Alrighty then fine.

#8 Oppresor

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 03:43 PM

If its true 'accidental' friendly fire, no problem, at the end of the day I'm an Atlas. If it's deliberate that's a different matter; remember I'm an Atlas and can cause a lot of damage.

#9 Agent 0 Fortune

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 03:47 PM

I discovered the hard way that full zoom disabled team recognition. So I am zoomed in on alpine and start unloading on a stalker with no team flag. I figure it must be an enemy with a nearby ECM because if he were an ally I would see the blue indicator. I light him up and he never returns fire, just turns left and right and tries to get out of my firing arc. After I turn off zoom to pursue I realize he was a blue and IFF is disabled at the closest zoom.

I applaud that pilot for his restraint in not leveling me for my stupidity.

#10 Haegir

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:14 PM

If you shoot me in the back I am returning fire and killing you. I don't have enough rear armor to deal with idiots firing blindly as the round starts.

#11 RG Notch

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:18 PM

They don't ban anyone anyways. :(

#12 Crockdaddy

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:19 PM

View PostChavette, on 01 March 2013 - 03:38 PM, said:

If you shoot me, you dont shoot my armor, or mech, you shoot my pride. For that, you're going down. No exceptions.


Such a hard one you.

View PostHaegir, on 01 March 2013 - 04:14 PM, said:

If you shoot me in the back I am returning fire and killing you. I don't have enough rear armor to deal with idiots firing blindly as the round starts.



Often it isn't on purpose. If your alt tabed out and click back you, you very often fire. If they apologize, let it go .. if not, have at it.

#13 Terror Teddy

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:22 PM

View PostHaegir, on 01 March 2013 - 04:14 PM, said:

If you shoot me in the back I am returning fire and killing you. I don't have enough rear armor to deal with idiots firing blindly as the round starts.


Well, as long as you dont do it after I vaporize your armor after you step into my line of fire I'm fine with it because I dont like to take the blame for when you make the mistake.

Edited by Terror Teddy, 01 March 2013 - 04:22 PM.


#14 Maliconus

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:24 PM

Cause after all its not a GAME it real...so very important, someone might really die or loose something of real Value.

#15 UnseenFury

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:25 PM

View PostKobold, on 01 March 2013 - 03:32 PM, said:

Deep breaths.

<3

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:27 PM

View Postfrpeebles, on 01 March 2013 - 03:31 PM, said:

...And they shoot you back just take your damn lumps and go play the game.

People like to shoot at snow right as the game starts. fine, cool. I do it too. But if you hit a friendly mech and you get some return damage man up and leave it alone. I just had a match were I took some damage from someone screwing around. I tagged him back, no big deal and went back to walking towards the point. He keeps after me so I let him have it. Next thing it's HURR DURR TK TK TK. Yeah no **** he was preventing me from playing by being an ***.

Clearly it's a small issue but once they start talking screenshots and getting people banned it becomes non-trivial. I've never played a game where such a large percentage of the player base is so sensitive.

What do you do?

Also hi, first post :(


If friendly fire happens in the middle of the brawl, it just comes with the territory - maybe I moved in the wrong direction, maybe my teammate pulled the trigger at the wrong time...who knows.
People who "like to shoot at snow" (when they are not licking their cockpit windows) are a completely different story - that sort of friendly fire can easily result in one of us not making it out of the spawn alive.

#17 0X2A

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:27 PM

Lot my hud on alpine last night, and toggling the scoreboard helps... well if I hit my secondary alpha key... it unleashes hell. Hit a friendly TBT in the back and tried to apologize, but the chat wasn't working. He killed me right as a friendly AC/20 round blew his cockpit apart. :( Karma.

#18 Wiggen

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:28 PM

View PostAgent 0 Fortune, on 01 March 2013 - 03:47 PM, said:

I discovered the hard way that full zoom disabled team recognition.


<-----mind blown. This bit of knowledge had eluded me. I just chalked it up to "beta bugs" when I sometimes did not get identifier tags. Pays to read the forums I guess.

#19 BlackBeltJones

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:29 PM

I give a wide latitude for friendlies with ballistics - you never know exactly when they will fire or what trajectory they will follow. I seriously do not understand why so many people love to blast the second the match starts.

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:42 PM

View PostChavette, on 01 March 2013 - 03:38 PM, said:

If you shoot me, you dont shoot my armor, or mech, you shoot my pride. For that, you're going down. No exceptions.


I can't help but look at this post and then look at your sig. Man that tournament really went to your head didn't it? "PGI certified top 10 pilot" - I mean really? Congrats, you can play this game entirely too much. If you kill someone just for accidentally tagging you, then you're taking the game entirely too seriously.





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