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usually when im the last man alive i become a squad leader and have people spawn on me

ill often be in the zone sniping and then look up and there is a heaps "go get a flag you tosser" messages typed by my dead team, i always do my best to get one but it never once has paid off.

fungus020 wrote:

usually when im the last man alive i become a squad leader and have people spawn on me

even if you are a sqaud leader your team cant spawn on yo if you have no flags.

Yeah had a game like that couple of nights ago on Kubra Dam.

Everything was quite even ticket drain was slow so all making nice points then for what ever reason the Americans had started to turn the map around to the point where we (MEC's) where left with only one flag left on the dam at the power station. We then proceeded to defend the flag for a few minutes with not much success (couple helicopter kills with the tank) as the Americans where bleeding the tickets fast so when I died I changed to a sniper for its ability to run quickly and camo and made a run for the lower dam flag, I had got there in say 15 seconds, doing a base jump from the top of the dam and running, by which time the American onslaught had proven to be too strong at the power station for the MEC army and they capped the flag.

I was situated under the dam with claymores either side of me waiting for the yanks to finish the job off (quite nervous, getting quite twitchy) when the flag changed neutral then went MEC, I thought great here we come the MEC come back and loads of blue dots started to fill my HUD map, the silence had been filled with chatter.

With this I then decide to run off and cap another flag the one nearest the American base (Bridge Base) as it was the easiest to keep hidden.

I had reached the refuel station flag at the top of hill dodging a few stray bullets from an American on the way and grabbed one of those dune buggies (fantastic cars by the way). With the dune buggy I had made in no time to the flag (in hindsight I wish I stayed at the refuel station with its capable building). But as soon as I jumped out of the buggy I noticed the enemy had put UAV on me, which seemed a bit odd just being a single person (felt honoured) flicked the map on only to find that the rest of my team had already gone and lost the other flag. As soon as I took the map off and proceeded to go down the ladder, I saw two attack helicopters coming in hot firing missiles and guns. Did I survive did I heck not a chance with those quick machines.

Felt cool to be of help for my side keeping the game going and giving us a fighting chance but to have an army that can not then get on with job and cap a few more flags pissed me off. Seemed a wasted effort for a couple of points, but at the same time quite rewarding!

i so didnt know this, i remember repeatidly screaming across to this guy to make a squad etc, im so sorry whoever i did it too , woops

happened to me on wake once - fact was I was so pissed that my team had thrown away my hard work that i said to hell with it and i'm not suiciding for them so I walked around the edge of the island where the US infantry and armour couldnt get me

I had an experiance like that. Wasn't really the last person alive but I was lonewolfing and no friendlys were nearby.

Karkand pre 1.2 patch. I was on the MEC Most the round I was getting irritated by people and their grenade launchers. I had spent most my time as a special forces guy, but that wasn't panning out so I switched to assault. The suburb was just taken so I was heading that way from the south. I see a squad full of baddies in the area. It was the same group that has been killing me from the get-go. They were heading out on foot toward the train wreck down the road. My commander thoughtfully placed a UAV over the area. I was gaining on them. I noticed two dots stop and start heading toward me, but it was too late. Armed with my trusty AK-101 I turned the corner and the two were running my way. I jumped and fired a nade at their feet to put them at the recieving end of my retribution. They both die. The others become aware of my precesnce. The first one I see I fire a short burst and take em down. The medics frantically running toward his fallen comrades a squeeze of the trigger takes him down. I pop two more guys who were a little farther away. I begin to reload my Ak, but an engineer comes out of nowhere, I pull out my pistol and eventually kill him. I was heavily wounded. So I grabbed the medics kit and self-mediacated then switched back to my AK.

After this I went and hid behind the Suburb as I reloaded my weapons and recollected myself. The went after me one at a time it seemed like. In the end I had exausted my AK and the Gl completely of rounds and I was rather low on pistol rounds. I eventually died, but not before I went on a 11 + kill streak by myself on Karkand.

Playing anti-tank, I took on five infantry, one vodnik, and two tanks (they stole ours) on the Cement Factory at Karkand while the rest of my team and commander was only interested in the Hotel. I couldn't get anyone to join my squad, couldn't get UAV, couldn't get a box to resupply my ammo, and once I had the flag, I couldn't get a single teammate to spawn on the new flag and help me defend it. 3 bars of health and no AT rockets left...yeah I died pretty fast trying to defend that flag. But I used every resouce availablle, the TOW, MG and the empty vodnik.

Now you know why clanmates tend to stick together on pub servers. It's not to stack sides and rape the other players but rather to play with some really nice teamwork that you don't get from the average, self-interested pub players. When I'm playing with my clanmates wheter it's 6-8 of them or just 2-3 of them on a ranked server, my team never loses all of its flags like in the stories above.

M1-Lightning wrote:

Playing anti-tank, I took on five infantry, one vodnik, and two tanks (they stole ours) on the Cement Factory at Karkand while the rest of my team and commander was only interested in the Hotel. I couldn't get anyone to join my squad, couldn't get UAV, couldn't get a box to resupply my ammo, and once I had the flag, I couldn't get a single teammate to spawn on the new flag and help me defend it. 3 bars of health and no AT rockets left...yeah I died pretty fast trying to defend that flag. But I used every resouce availablle, the TOW, MG and the empty vodnik.

Now you know why clanmates tend to stick together on pub servers. It's not to stack sides and rape the other players but rather to play with some really nice teamwork that you don't get from the average, self-interested pub players. When I'm playing with my clanmates wheter it's 6-8 of them or just 2-3 of them on a ranked server, my team never loses all of its flags like in the stories above.

Yeah.  Karkand 64, as USMC, capturing main MEC base.  Captured flag.  Only one teammate spawns on me.  Entire enemy armor convoy comes back and reclaims the base.  Capturing and holding that base 99% guarantees a USMC victory, but everyone was too busy at he hotel.

yeh i just realised i was wrong. it happened today and it turns out you have to have a flag. hmm i never knew that til now..

M1-Lightning wrote:

bob_baur wrote:

Spot on! its a team work game and the only way it seems to achieve this at times is to form a clan. Must be sweet playing in a clan. I have had teams at some games, but usually its only one maybe two people.

You don't even have to be in a clan. Just find some players that you enjoy playing with and stick with them. Get in on the Xfire ring. Anyone here is always welcome to join whatever team and squad I'm in. I don't like playing the Army of One routine.

Know what you mean I know a couple of people locally but there just looking for points and not a good game. So far only found one guy/girl online who was up for playing teams and was quite firendly. Seemed to gel and played the maps well together. But it is so hard to find people make up your squad and then retain there names to track them down again. Will have to look at this x-fire thing, heard a lot about it!

the_heart_attack wrote:

ill often be in the zone sniping and then look up and there is a heaps "go get a flag you tosser" messages typed by my dead team, i always do my best to get one but it never once has paid off.

Im almost always a sniper and make it a point to always be aware, i bet i watch my HUD as often as anything else on the screen, alotta times if you see a control point under atttack its easy sniper kills because you knwo they will all be within distance of the flag usually hiding( or think they are) andyou get aloot of flag defense points etc. I get in the zone but im never unaware of the battle.

I play on a server called the Meatgrinder. It's the only server I play on 98% of the time since November because the admins are great and the punish feature is disabled so the admins always watch for TKs. It's run by Zero Point Games which is not a clan but just a group of friends from BF'42 that started a server a while back. Start playing with these guys and I guarantee you will have a good time and see real teamwork. No one should ever have to be the last guy trying to get a flag for his team. The teams are balanced well and it's always a good fight for either side. I'll never get the war college ribbon because it seems to go back and forth with the wins and losses there. You can get their server info on their site forum: http://www.zeropointgames.com/forum/index.php