Drax wrote:
4_Phucsache wrote:
**presses rant button**
I had a few mates (noobs as you guys would like to call them) over the other night. We all LAN'ed on my cable connection and decided to buy 4 pizzas (2 copies of BF2 for only $70 total thank you very much). My mates then registered, patched made accounts and joined in the fun.
I dont know that I would call them asshats rather than more targets.
Remember we was all noobs when we started and prolly pissed a lot of guys of. In the case of my mates I directed them here to have a good read up on the game to hopefully help them avoid a few of the more common mistakes of new players to a ranked server where all the "regular, old skool" guys think anyone new is a threat to thier gaming and should just fuck off and play elsewhere.
I think the key here is to help new players by teaching them to be fair, honest teamworking players rather than just getting on our soapboxes and screaming "n00b" whilst turning our backs and hoping these guys will either magically play the way we want or fuck off our server.
Also many of us (n00bs) happen to have wives, jobs and sometimes children meaning we cannot dedicate as much time as many others to playing online. Whilst we would love to play more often its just not feasible and means that many players in this category may continue to display n00bish qualities for a bit longer than normal.
rant over.
yes but there a multiple types of "noobs". Theres nothing wrong with being the newbie type, its the actual "n00b" type that annoy the hell outta everyone.
the type that will tk u out of the plane, to take it and ram it into a tree
the type that will run infront of your plane if they dont have any real means to remove u from it
its only the pizzahut n00bs doing it, and theyre the 1s who cant fly. although pizza hut introduced alot of free kills on the enemy team, its the noobs on your ow team u have to look out for. i agree with sgt_bob about the drop of maturity and skill on the node wake servers especially.
.... I'm glad someone said it, pointing out that there is a difference between a "n00b" and a good ol fashioned "newbie"
I was one of the poor fools who paid full price for the game only a matter of days before the pizza hut deal popped up and have been put in the same class as "pizza hut noobs" purely based on my rank and not playstyle.
While I'm the first to admit that I suck at the game I have found that even with a lack of skill it isn't hard to avoid flak from fellow players;
- Don't touch aircraft...unless no team-mates are even in the same postcode or I am somehow behind enemy lines. I figure even if I put it into a tree after 1.5 minutes of uselessness, it is still 1.5mins that the opposition didnt have it and stood around tkilling each other waiting for it to respawn.
- Stay out of squads unless invited, and if invited, stick close to them and do what you can.
- Don't lay claymores, ever. Murphy and his damn laws say that no matter where you drop it some teammate is gonna wind up on the wrongside of it, punish, then go on about you being a deliberate tk'er
- Don't play engineer. No matter how many armored vehicles you knock out or flags you defend all it takes is someone thinking it is a powerup drivin a transport over it and you're gonna get banned.
I guess my point is that there are always gonna be those of us out there who just simply aren't any good at the game, sometimes we might frustrate you "oldskool hardkore" guys when we fail to cap a flag or miss a shot but we're just trying to enjoy the game and if we can do that without it being at the expense of others' fun then good luck to us.
