Stonebiter, on 06 January 2017 - 06:56 AM, said:
But what do the most "experienced" players ? Right, they do their own thing and complain when they lose.Example. We dropped wit 5 man from 228. Rest PUG. They did not even say hi or something else... nothing, not 1 word. Pulled out 2k+ damage each, died, left, lost. Positive was that they weren't complaining at all.
I dropped so often with some units but they have just refused the lead. That isn't how it should be. When you are experienced or the biggest unit in the drop you MUST LEAD. Take your mic and tell the people what they have to do. Your unexperienced PUGers often die just because they are at the wrong spots and don't know where they should go. If i'm in the right spot i can also do a shitload of damage even with trial mechs. But if i run straight into the enemie team i can't do even 50 damage.
Every "experienced" player can complain. But the most of them are not aware that they also have a responsibility for the new players. Remember the new players are the future for that game.
We do need more responsibility taken in that department, trying to leverage the puggies through leadership is very important. But quite a lot of the good players are actually terrible drop callers or simply not very communicative people. A lot of the time when you see these smaller groups of good players they actually don't talk to each other either, their coordination is just having played together a lot. There are usually only a few people stepping up to drop call, even in the strongest units, and when those few people aren't online there will be no one to lead anything.
As a shameless plug, we welcome all new players to the FRR hub and will help you find groups to drop in and help you git gud, this is a much better bet that dropping solo and hoping that someone will spontaneously call the match.
Honestly, it is new players that needs units and grouping up the most, it takes a lot more skill to drop solo and it's a really bad idea to do it if you're new. The faction hubs are very welcoming and you don't need to join a unit just get in there and find a nice open group and abracadabra your faction play experience will be 10 times more fun just because you spent those 5 minutes to download teamspeak and log on to the hub.