U've Got A Waypoint, U're Ready To Go.. But Alone?

AposApos Join Date: 2003-06-14 Member: 17369Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">teamates not helping: what would you do?</div> This is probably the biggest problem I see with pub games: the commander wants you all to go somewhere, you're ready like a good player... and yet everyone else is still armory humping or even running off in the wrong direction.

Do you wait until you can get someone to come with you? Wait up for everyone to get a clue? Or do you just go to the waypoint as ordered, when ordered?

I've generally just been going, doing what the com tells me... but most of the time I just end up dead as a reward. A lone marine is easy to pick off in most cases, as the game is designed to demand concentrated fire against all but the most worthless of skulks.

But the dilemna nags me. Do I go? Do I stay and try to yell at the dweebs to follow me to the waypoint? How long do I waste trying to get them to follow, while the aliens are busy owning the map?

What do you usually do?

Comments

  • DrummerDrummer Join Date: 2004-02-18 Member: 26654Members
    im constantly playing with the bots on my sever, so im a little more deadly to the aliens <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • NiteowlNiteowl Join Date: 2002-09-04 Member: 1274Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin-Apos+Jan 22 2005, 10:28 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Apos @ Jan 22 2005, 10:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Do I stay and try to yell at the dweebs to follow me to the waypoint? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That option is usually the best. Or try to find one 'ally', a fellow marine who seems to be listening, communicating, and following orders and try and get him to move with you.
  • SkySky Join Date: 2004-04-23 Member: 28131Members
    Apos, was I just playing on a server with you? One game I commanded on caged, next game someone else commanded on veil? Could've sworn there was someone name Apos on the rine team....
  • Cj_the_DjCj_the_Dj Join Date: 2004-03-18 Member: 27398Members
    probably spamming "follow me to wp" is best but i usually go alone. i'm not a 1337 rine so i usually end up killing a skulk or two or die along the way.
  • AposApos Join Date: 2003-06-14 Member: 17369Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Sky+Jan 23 2005, 02:38 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sky @ Jan 23 2005, 02:38 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Apos, was I just playing on a server with you? One game I commanded on caged, next game someone else commanded on veil? Could've sworn there was someone name Apos on the rine team.... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's possible, I did play on veil tonight, though I can't remember if I played caged. On veil, we nearly lost marine start while everyone was in cargo, but got it back. I knifed the pipeline hive for teh win. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> The second veil game no alien but me dropped res, and we lost double to rines pretty quickly and were stuck in subspace the rest of the game.
  • SkySky Join Date: 2004-04-23 Member: 28131Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Apos+Jan 23 2005, 03:50 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Apos @ Jan 23 2005, 03:50 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Sky+Jan 23 2005, 02:38 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sky @ Jan 23 2005, 02:38 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Apos, was I just playing on a server with you? One game I commanded on caged, next game someone else commanded on veil? Could've sworn there was someone name Apos on the rine team.... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's possible, I did play on veil tonight, though I can't remember if I played caged. On veil, we nearly lost marine start while everyone was in cargo, but got it back. I knifed the pipeline hive for teh win. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    haha, yes! And I was yelling at the com to relocate to double (which he had already turreted up) because there was nothing left in ms besides the cc. But he didn't know how to drop a cc or something. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> Sad sad game, the only reason we won was because I think the aliens dropped a total of 2 rts throughout the game. <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • AlkillerAlkiller Join Date: 2004-05-23 Member: 28847Members
    Yell extremely loudly.
    Best case scenario - They get scared and go to the big blue circle thing
    Worst case scenario - They wet their pants.

    Win-Win.
  • gazOzzgazOzz Work&#39;s a ... Join Date: 2003-12-25 Member: 24747Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation
    Dont know why; but spamming flashlight like crazy helps a lot...

    Just go to the marine start exit; and start spamming flashlight until enough of them start following you... Humpers tend to follow flashing rines like flys around lights... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • A_Boojum_SnarkA_Boojum_Snark Join Date: 2003-09-07 Member: 20628Members
    hmm... how about we implement this then! When a comm gives a waypoint a blinking sprite appears in the air, and slowly traces the shortest path to the waypoint, then all the marines will follow! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • im_lostim_lost TWG Rule Guru Join Date: 2003-04-26 Member: 15861Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-A Boojum Snark+Jan 23 2005, 10:27 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (A Boojum Snark @ Jan 23 2005, 10:27 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> hmm... how about we implement this then! When a comm gives a waypoint a blinking sprite appears in the air, and slowly traces the shortest path to the waypoint, then all the marines will follow! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    What happens when there are two paths that are almost the same length, so half of the group gets sent one way and the other half gets sent a different way?
  • douchebagatrondouchebagatron Custom member title Join Date: 2003-12-20 Member: 24581Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    i was comming on hera when one skulk came in and ate our ips. i jumped out and got eaten by another skulk. i was yelling on the mic to get back to base, everyone just kept wandering around. finally someone went back and dripped an ip. i got back in and sent some people around to do things. one guy went up to a hive and i dropped him a pg and rt. he builds the rt and walks off. i say go back and build that, he walks back then says something over the mic that no one can understand. then walks off. i say i cant understand you, just go build it. he walks back looks at it then types "say plz" then he dies and we lose.
  • milk1milk1 Join Date: 2004-06-30 Member: 29635Members
    nobody listens to waypoints, they're there to be ignored <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    and besides, its a pub, its no big deal if your team loses, and those people who do listen, could just be wasting their time because the commander doesnt know what he's doing, and he's sending you into some pit of doom, and people probably would realize that unless they're a noob <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • Swift_IdiotSwift_Idiot Join Date: 2003-01-05 Member: 11883Members
    edited January 2005
    I know what I'm doing when I play NS. If the other people don't, that's their business, commander included. I go where the team needs me to go, do what needs doing, all ASAP. I never wait more than ten seconds for anything trivial like backup or commander support. I charge in a lot, and put faith in the rest of my team not to be stupid and to help cover me when they are within sight.

    Using the unmutable Move Out and Follow Me commands sometimes works.
  • Umbraed_MonkeyUmbraed_Monkey Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9922Members
    Using the "Move out" button on the right-click menu works for me.
  • SDJasonSDJason Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16841Members
    Alkiller knows his stuff


    Voice spam incessantly... you can get your marines to do anyhting...

    Including relocating to that corridor(map dependant) that i absolutely love relocating to...

    ~jason
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