How YOU can fix skill stacking:

Discussion in 'General' started by flounder, Jun 4, 2008.

  1. flounder

    flounder Member

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    1. Get more skill.

    That's pretty much the gist of it. And you don't have to go out of your way. Just continue playing in the rooms with the stackers. If you play on the losing team, then you're playing against better players. And playing against better players ALWAYS makes you a better player. Anyone who's played competitively knows this.

    Most of the people that complain about skill stacks complain because all the skilled players are on the other team. But if YOU are one of the skilled players, then the other skilled players will want to be on your team too. It's f*in magic.

    Life ain't fair. A lot of us are attracted to computer games because it gives us that thrill of winning that we don't get in real life. But ONLINE gaming isn't like that. And you can't win every game anymore. Unfortunately, if you're not in a competitive clan nowadays, you won't win most games. Them's the breaks.
     
  2. Demented

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    This is where your hypothesis is both blindingly brilliant and deeply flawed.

    Skilled players are like magnets to skilled players. So which team will a skilled player join when they see that one team has one skilled player and the other team has two skilled players? The team with two skilled players, of course! Eventually, the team with a few more skilled players will have far more skilled players than the other. Stacked teams thus ensue.

    It's human physics.
     
  3. Opie

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    Sticky.















    LMAO
     
  4. Beerdude26

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    Skill only gets you half the way, teamwork is also a gigantic requirement. Before I joined BSID, I tried to work together with the people around me as much as possible instead of wander off on my own. A lot of people don't seem to realize that with some basic tactics such as covering and healing each other, you can go a long, long way.
     
  5. Jephir

    Jephir ALL GLORY TO THE JEPHIR

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    2. If the commander says that "somebody" should get "something" done, you be that "somebody" that gets the "thing" done.

    3. Build turrets. Get refineries.
     
  6. Ikalx

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    I was surprised to find this worked in strange ways, if you don't actually rely on your teammates and go back from what you were doing to defend your base and protect your comm it can have an adverse affect on the game. I did it one time where we were holding our own, turns out it was unneeded and next thing I know we've lost our foothold and on the slippery road to failure...it really is a fine line to tread.
     
  7. Beerdude26

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    14 being the pubbers and 6 being the BSID, with 14 being the losing team :o
     
  8. Binboy

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    Skills vs Teamwork who will win?
     
  9. Empty

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    1) Pull your head out of your ass and join the losing team once in a while. I've turned many a game around by joining the losing team. Just because you can't get a winning feeling in life doesn't mean you should be an asshole online, and I know the OP is a skillstacker.
    2) Listen to the commanders screams, generally they're important.
    3) Show some initiative, figure it out without needing retards to make stupid threads that tell us the obvious.
    4) Don't ever go scout, don't go rifleman early game and don't go nadier at the start either. I played a game today, 10v10 8Engies 1 comm 1 rifleman, vs a mix and match of classes, guess what, the team with 8 engies won the round, and I didn't see a massive skill difference there!
     
  10. Binboy

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    Who's OP?
     
  11. -Mayama-

    -Mayama- MANLY MAN BITCH

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    I think a mixed team at start can kick more ass than a engi only. The riflemans
    can easily kill the enemy engis and a single gren is enough to defend against an
    apc rush :)
     
  12. Deiform

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    I don't see the point in going scout on any map apart from duststorm either. In fact, unless you're sticky stunning the enemy comm, the scout is a useless class for my team.

    If it were my server, scouts on escort get perma banned.
     
  13. Dragoon

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    That's right, I called it the "Harvest".
     
  14. Dragoon

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    Funny, because I think Escort is the only map where scouts are a valid choice for both teams. For BE clearly to reduce NF tickets, take down Rev-Engineers, counter-sniping and big skill stealth Flag capture.
    For NF team also a valid choice not only to counter-sniper but I had great fun with a scout buddy from the 3rd flag on. He stuns, I sticky. :)
     
  15. Metalhead

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    Thats only true if you play in a clan and have a good tactic. In public games the commander needs the fexibility to choose someone on the map and tell him to build something. It's terrible if you are commander and you have to click five people searching for an engineer until you find somebody on the other side of the map.
     
  16. Empty

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    I dunno about you but I've never seen an apc roll up within 20 seconds.
     
  17. arklansman

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    I haven't seen many people die within the first 20 seconds either so they can change class in time to stop an APC rush. ;p
     
  18. Deiform

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    I still think that riflemen are a more valid choice. Scouts don't gain ground, and they don't stop people from gaining ground. Grens and riflemen do.
     
  19. Dragoon

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    No, that's exactly what they do. The bane of the Scout class is the Sniper Rifle.
    From all classes you can play the scout take the most skill, tactics and situation awareness to be played right. Its because of sniper rifle and its attraction to noobs and newbies that bring the scout a bring into bad repute.
    The next Release will change that finally.
    I'm not saying this because I'm playing scout, I enjoy shooting people, alot of them :D. I'm an infantryman. Nevertheless I have respect for the few people that have the skill and the mind of an tactician to play the scout right.

    Actually recently I had a couple of escort game where scouts and his hide ability including the squad skill where able to break a stalemate in BE favor.
     
  20. Emp_Recruit

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    Scout SL + speed upgrade = zomg rush
     

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