Given the amount of new players entering the game, and the unfortunate amount of people that just generally disregard their teammates, even though this is a game based on PVE and cooperation, I thought a general overview of "how not to annoy the crap out of your squadmates in a match" might be a nice thing for some folks to read up on.
(Please realize the is written from ONE veteran's standpoint on simple standard courtesies during gameplay that I believe will make everyone's experience more fun if applied.)
1.Wait for squadmates at the elevator
Aside from the occasional, oops I hit the button, this common courtesy is generally followed by most, given a reasonable amount of time. If a player is overly slow, keeps stopping for reasons unknown to his squadmates, and has fallen very far behind though, don't expect for your squadmates to wait forever.
It's pretty well accepted that it's a dooshy move to just rush to the elevator and hit it before anyone else can get there, however. So don't do that. If you want to rush, go play solo, or a private match with other invitees that know you are rushing, that's why those options are there.
2. Don't be a door/lane hero
This particularly applies to Defense, Mobile Defense, and Survival missions.
In these missions, enemies usually spawn and come from 2 or 3 directions following ai pathways which usually come from behind doorways or long lanes.
A door hero is one who, generally during one of the above stated missions, camps in front or outside of a door on a spawnpoint, and is shooting down that lane since that is where enemies are clustering/coming from the most. This is usually out of the Xp range of 50 in-game metres for his teammates who are protecting the objective or sitting on an air capsule. Therefore, by doing this, the door hero is robbing all his team members of A LOT of experience, and even more so because he is camping on a door/spawnpoint that a majority of enemies are coming from.
3. Stick together
This generally applies to every mission type. There is a 50m in-game cap on Team Xp for kills. If you're running off ahead and blowing up everything in sight and your teammates aren't within 50m of you, they are losing out on all that Xp that they could, and should, be getting.
This also goes in tandem with door heroes who go chasing down enemies outside of doorways during Def, MD, and Surv missions when your team is trying to camp on a point. Be a team player.
4. Cater to your fellow teammates abilities
Pretty simple. Certain abilites (Nyx's Absorb for example) work better when your teammates work with you.
Work with your team, not against them.
5. Stick to your channel
This doesn't directly apply to gameplay but it still warrants mentioning as a major part of the game.
Traders. No one wants you in Recruiting. Recruiters. No one wants you in trading. Price checkers. No one wants you (lol). End of story.
6. Stick around for what you were recruited for
This particularly applies to Survival, Defense, and Intercept mode missions.
If you go to recruiting channel to join any of the above and someone says "Hosting 'x' we go til 'y' amount of time/wave" or, "we go til we get item 'z'" then stick around for what the host wants, or until the host and squad agree otherwise in-game to leave.
Youchose to join the host's mission. If you leave, before everyone has obtained what was stated by the host in the recruitment, you are a dooshcanoe. Plain and simple.
There is no "oh that's too good to pass up" or "oh I really need that". No. You stick around for what you opted into. If the host doesn't specify, then the best course of action would be to confer with your squad when you all agree to leave. Leaving beforehand wastes the hosts and rest of the squads time, and possibly costs the host a key that he/she spent time farming for.
This should really be a non-issue now as defense rewards now stack, but still I see people jump out as soon as they get what they want and not help their teammates til the end.
That's all I could think of for now. If I see any other good ones posted in the comments I'll add them to this.
These are simple common courtesies that make the game better for everyone people, just be a good player and a good squadmate, then everybody's happy.
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Given the amount of new players entering the game, and the unfortunate amount of people that just generally disregard their teammates, even though this is a game based on PVE and cooperation, I thought a general overview of "how not to annoy the crap out of your squadmates in a match" might be a nice thing for some folks to read up on.
(Please realize the is written from ONE veteran's standpoint on simple standard courtesies during gameplay that I believe will make everyone's experience more fun if applied.)
1. Wait for squadmates at the elevator
Aside from the occasional, oops I hit the button, this common courtesy is generally followed by most, given a reasonable amount of time. If a player is overly slow, keeps stopping for reasons unknown to his squadmates, and has fallen very far behind though, don't expect for your squadmates to wait forever.
It's pretty well accepted that it's a dooshy move to just rush to the elevator and hit it before anyone else can get there, however. So don't do that. If you want to rush, go play solo, or a private match with other invitees that know you are rushing, that's why those options are there.
2. Don't be a door/lane hero
This particularly applies to Defense, Mobile Defense, and Survival missions.
In these missions, enemies usually spawn and come from 2 or 3 directions following ai pathways which usually come from behind doorways or long lanes.
A door hero is one who, generally during one of the above stated missions, camps in front or outside of a door on a spawnpoint, and is shooting down that lane since that is where enemies are clustering/coming from the most. This is usually out of the Xp range of 50 in-game metres for his teammates who are protecting the objective or sitting on an air capsule. Therefore, by doing this, the door hero is robbing all his team members of A LOT of experience, and even more so because he is camping on a door/spawnpoint that a majority of enemies are coming from.
3. Stick together
This generally applies to every mission type. There is a 50m in-game cap on Team Xp for kills. If you're running off ahead and blowing up everything in sight and your teammates aren't within 50m of you, they are losing out on all that Xp that they could, and should, be getting.
This also goes in tandem with door heroes who go chasing down enemies outside of doorways during Def, MD, and Surv missions when your team is trying to camp on a point.
Be a team player.
4. Cater to your fellow teammates abilities
Pretty simple. Certain abilites (Nyx's Absorb for example) work better when your teammates work with you.
Work with your team, not against them.
5. Stick to your channel
This doesn't directly apply to gameplay but it still warrants mentioning as a major part of the game.
Traders. No one wants you in Recruiting. Recruiters. No one wants you in trading. Price checkers. No one wants you (lol). End of story.
6. Stick around for what you were recruited for
This particularly applies to Survival, Defense, and Intercept mode missions.
If you go to recruiting channel to join any of the above and someone says "Hosting 'x' we go til 'y' amount of time/wave" or, "we go til we get item 'z'" then stick around for what the host wants, or until the host and squad agree otherwise in-game to leave.
You chose to join the host's mission. If you leave, before everyone has obtained what was stated by the host in the recruitment, you are a dooshcanoe. Plain and simple.
There is no "oh that's too good to pass up" or "oh I really need that".
No. You stick around for what you opted into. If the host doesn't specify, then the best course of action would be to confer with your squad when you all agree to leave. Leaving beforehand wastes the hosts and rest of the squads time, and possibly costs the host a key that he/she spent time farming for.
This should really be a non-issue now as defense rewards now stack, but still I see people jump out as soon as they get what they want and not help their teammates til the end.
That's all I could think of for now. If I see any other good ones posted in the comments I'll add them to this.
These are simple common courtesies that make the game better for everyone people, just be a good player and a good squadmate, then everybody's happy.
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