First off, I'd like to say that I am not saying all high rankers suck at teamwork, nor am I saying that all privates are insanely awesomely l33t. But this is a situation I have previously encountered many times:
At the start of the game, I create a squad, being the sneaky hiding ground-pounder I am. I click Manage Squad and invite 5 random people from our team. Two of them are privates glad to be invited to a squad, one is a Corporal, and I get a First Lieutenant and a Colonel as part of the deal as well. Then we spawn. Say the starting round is Karkand 64, I'm sure most of you are familiar with the layout of the map notwithstanding the flyboys. We are USMC. I give an order out to attack Factory, on the other side of the river. Then our squad spawns. I spawn on the right forward base, along with the entirety of my squad. However, as I'm climbing the hill, going nearly out-of-bounds and sticking to the wall, I look at my minimap and notice something. The two privates and corporal are all following me eagerly and following my orders, and the corporal has even spawned as spec-ops to take out the assets since he knows the layout of the Factory, but wait. Headcount: 4, including me. Where are the high-rankers? I see two green dots in the Hotel alleyway and some text from one of them calling someone on the opposite team a "noob". The three low-rankers and I proceed to cross the river and take Cement Factory and Factory, the corporal blows up the commander assets. Meanwhile, the two high-rankers in my squad and the rest of my team are slowly and painfully pushing their way through the city with a frontal assault, suffering massive casualties. Granted, we took away the source of the MEC's armor and captured the entire east bank of Karkand's river - but nobody spawned there. Just me and the three low-rankers, who ironically the veteran players on my team call "noobs". I give a warning to my squad to follow orders or be kicked from the squad - the two pointwhores keep on doing what they're doing. I kick them from my squad and they call me a "noob smurf wanker facdp fdajbbb", whatever the hell that means. We lose the round 80-0. Why? 28 members of the USMC were just pushing up against a wall of MEC defenders. Our squad doesn't even make "best squad" when I check while loading.
Five months later, being curious, I check back on the two privates and corporal, curious to see how they're doing. By some miracle, they're all on the same server, on the same map. However, when I get in, I see they have all been promoted to First Sergeant or higher...and they're in front of the Hotel pointwhoring. I think to myself "are these the same guys who helped me take Factory 5 months ago?!"
So I say to all the high-rankers out there who think low-rankers are "noobs" or "smurfs" - think twice.
Edit: Oh yeah. I'm impressed if you read all that.
At the start of the game, I create a squad, being the sneaky hiding ground-pounder I am. I click Manage Squad and invite 5 random people from our team. Two of them are privates glad to be invited to a squad, one is a Corporal, and I get a First Lieutenant and a Colonel as part of the deal as well. Then we spawn. Say the starting round is Karkand 64, I'm sure most of you are familiar with the layout of the map notwithstanding the flyboys. We are USMC. I give an order out to attack Factory, on the other side of the river. Then our squad spawns. I spawn on the right forward base, along with the entirety of my squad. However, as I'm climbing the hill, going nearly out-of-bounds and sticking to the wall, I look at my minimap and notice something. The two privates and corporal are all following me eagerly and following my orders, and the corporal has even spawned as spec-ops to take out the assets since he knows the layout of the Factory, but wait. Headcount: 4, including me. Where are the high-rankers? I see two green dots in the Hotel alleyway and some text from one of them calling someone on the opposite team a "noob". The three low-rankers and I proceed to cross the river and take Cement Factory and Factory, the corporal blows up the commander assets. Meanwhile, the two high-rankers in my squad and the rest of my team are slowly and painfully pushing their way through the city with a frontal assault, suffering massive casualties. Granted, we took away the source of the MEC's armor and captured the entire east bank of Karkand's river - but nobody spawned there. Just me and the three low-rankers, who ironically the veteran players on my team call "noobs". I give a warning to my squad to follow orders or be kicked from the squad - the two pointwhores keep on doing what they're doing. I kick them from my squad and they call me a "noob smurf wanker facdp fdajbbb", whatever the hell that means. We lose the round 80-0. Why? 28 members of the USMC were just pushing up against a wall of MEC defenders. Our squad doesn't even make "best squad" when I check while loading.
Five months later, being curious, I check back on the two privates and corporal, curious to see how they're doing. By some miracle, they're all on the same server, on the same map. However, when I get in, I see they have all been promoted to First Sergeant or higher...and they're in front of the Hotel pointwhoring. I think to myself "are these the same guys who helped me take Factory 5 months ago?!"
So I say to all the high-rankers out there who think low-rankers are "noobs" or "smurfs" - think twice.
Edit: Oh yeah. I'm impressed if you read all that.
Last edited by k30dxedle (2006-07-26 09:06:46)
