Death Storm, on 21 March 2015 - 11:06 AM, said:
see this is main problem in PUG world no one know each other in the team so they tend look out for Number 1, and they seem forget that if you lose team members to enemy attacks you lower chances your team winning.
Of course they look out for number one; that's pretty much instinctive behavior. It doesn't mean they forget the rest, or don't care if friendlies die. Pretty much everyone understands that winning the match is a lot easier with living teammates.
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Then that will be Major problem because everyone need to be thinking on the same wave lenght when working together or it all falls apart.
And this is why we have VOIP. If people choose not to use it, they choose not to use it. But that's the reality of PUG play.
One thing I've learned is that if someone steps up with even very basic organization - meet in E5, focus dire wolf bravo - we win almost all those games. Way more than 50:50. Any organization at all (even if some don't play along) is a huge force multiplier.
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You are correct !!! however not everyone will work together sometimes you get 2 - 4 mech going of on there own in some random direction this does not help
Before they went off on their own, did anyone suggest a (ideally non-stupid) course of action? I'm willing to bet not. particularly with slower mechs, you need to start moving
immediately on match start or you'll never get anywhere in time. On the other hand, fast mechs will tend to make assumptions about where everyone is going (conquest games aside); but if what they assume is the Default Plan isn't what everyone else assumes is the Default Plan, they very quickly can end up very far away.
What I'm saying here is that rather than assuming those people are bad, or going all rambo because they refuse to work together, consider that maybe they'd like to work together, but have made an incorrect assumption as to what the plan is? This is particularly noticable when
there is no plan.
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Not always case ive been there and other team member have seen what ive seen done nothing!! even when i engage help team members out, it all comes down what said above everyone in your team is important if 1 - 3 team mates die you are going lose.
That's kind of the thing: You don't KNOW they've seen the same thing you've seen. Maybe they've missed something, or maybe they've seen more. They may assume their teammate can handle himself (not knowing the full situation) or maybe know they can't save him and moving to assist will be two dead teammates instead of one (because there absolutely are situations where you can't save someone).
Everyone knows the importance of bodies on the field. Nobody wants to sacrifice someone else, because every fighting mech means more friendlies to shoot at other than you if nothing else.
The long and short of this is: Those pug mates are just as good at this game as you are. They win just as often as you do. As such, assuming what they choose to do is because of different information inputs is a much more likely to be correct than just assuming they're morons.
In the VAST majority of cases, they
want to work together, but someone needs to provide the communication (and do it in a way that doesn't make them want to do the opposite of what you say - being an ******* drill sergeant may work in some units, but it objectively does not work in PUG matches).
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