Kanil, on 10 November 2021 - 12:20 PM, said:
I guess my point is when you bring a wrecking ball to a fight, and the enemy's wall is made of cardboard, you don't stop yourself mid-swing to make sure the people behind you get a kill assist. When you can W+M1 autowin, slowing down for 4 seconds gives the enemy 4 more seconds to react to your presence -- just break on through and keep going.
Of course, if you brought a hammer or whatever instead of a wrecking ball, then yeah you're gonna want to make sure someone else can help.
Breaking through an enemy's formation is a different thing entirely. If I had a nickel for every time I've seen an assault 'Mech start a spearhead charge only to get cold feet and reverse throttle away to lick their may-as-well-be-self-inflicted wounds while leaving the lighter units who tried to pounce with them and take advantage of/support their charge to flap in the wind (i.e. me, of course), I could buy friggin' Hawaii. And throw it at those stupid bumsucker assault jocks' heads until they agree to pilot nothing but UrbanMooks forever in punishment for their unbecoming cowardice.
And yet I still do the stupid thing and follow the damn Fatlas or Fatnir or whatever-it-is that's looking like it's thinking of growing a pair. Because every once in a while the Fatness in question
does follow through on its spearhead charge, me and someone else follows it in closely, and we absolutely hornswogglin' murder-f@#$ the enemy in a landslide get-rekt orgy of devastation that puts a smile on my face for the next hour. Those occasional delightful games are almost worth getting scuttled every time the Fatness decides it'd rather just expose, take a bunch of damage it didn't need to if it wasn't gonna commit, and then back off to pretend like he "shared armor" instead of just throwing the game.
Almost.