Angel of Annihilation, on 14 January 2019 - 09:35 AM, said:
Yep, you pegged it 100%. Everyone sees that your getting overwhelmed or sees that your rotating out of the best position to defeat your enemy but continues the rotation as fast as they can despite knowing (or at least should be knowing) they are rotating out of the best positions and/r if they continue rotating, half the team is going to die which will still result in a loss.
The bad part is that even if you know this is going to happen, if you stop rotating with the herd in order to try to support those lagging behind, your just going to be one of the unfortunate mechs lagging behind to die so you just keep right on rotating knowing the entire time it is futile, cursing those fast lights/medium mechs on the vanguard driving the rotation.
You'll always hear the pack leaders saying, "They're just right around the corner!" Well of course they are. They'll always be "right around the corner", but if you just turn around then they aren't just around the corner. They're right in your face and you don't need to keep running in circles. But enemies facing you shoot back, and enemies that aren't facing you don't, so you'll never get those people to change.
Gilgamecc, on 14 January 2019 - 08:12 PM, said:
Turtling is even stupider than 'nascaring', and pilots who turtle and then accuse the team of nascaring are starting to pop up in damn near every solo drop.
Turtling has always been a losing tactic, and results more from indecision than anything else. Turtles can't decide what to do, and nascar drivers have already decided what to do before they've even dropped or know what the enemy is doing or what their own team is doing. They're just two opposite ends of the spectrum, but extremes are almost always bad.
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