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Where's the "Team" In Team Deathmatch??


On 01/09/2012 at 04:57 PM by daRth_kiLL

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So, this past Friday night, after playing about 45 mins or an hour of Persona 4, I switched on the PS3 and got busy with what's easily become my favorite shooter on the PS3: Modern Combat Domination. 

Yeah, it's a blatant grab at the big money shooters of past years, but it handles so nicely that I could care less.  Plus, I picked it up when it was only 3 bucks.  I've easily had more fun with Modern Combat than any other military shooter I've played on current gen consoles. 

I hit a milestone in my gaming "career" last Friday....I went for 39 kills and 4 deaths during my first 15 minute Team Deathmatch session.  I've never dominated like that EVER in a shooter....I can easily hold my own, always....but to get WICKED the way I did Friday....my God.  It'll probably never happen like that for me again.  Modern Combat feels so much like CounterStrike 1.6....

I can't take all the credit here though.  I'm the type of gamer that will ALWAYS find a teammate and follow them around, checking the corners they won't check, always having their back, as well as sides.  I'm no juggernaut, but in the same token - I'm DEFINITELY that dude you want on your squad.  Quite a few of those 30 kills were racked up as myself and (at times) a teammate would roll up on another team member, FAR AWAY FROM THE REST OF THE PACK, getting his ass peppered in an unbalanced firefight. 

Can't let those idiots hold the floor alone.

It's always baffled me how disorganized a "team" is in a team deathmatch session, across the entire board of shooters available for enjoyment.  It's far more effective to run with a couple/few teammates, and to play in a somewhat "real-life" manner:  if you're getting hit hard in an attempt to rush the enemy head-on, for fucks sake, learn to FLANK.  Lay down some cover fire, and send your people around the sides.  Tactics like this, simple and effective, are largely ignored in the world of shooters....at least, in most games that I've played.  Battlefield 3 is an exception, as I've seen some TRUE OPERATORS get busy as a team in-game. On the flipside, BF3 is a campers paradise, as its a legitimate means of dispatching foes in reality, too. 

Doesn't mean I have to like it though....camping is pretty chickenshit, most of the time.  That's just my opinion though....I'm more comfortable being "in the fight" than posting on the outskirts, eating bon bons and waiting for some hapless gamer to fall into my crosshairs.  Criticize that last piece there til your heart is content...but remember, its just opinion. 

I hope everyone's new year is going well.  Mine's been awash with tragedy since January 1st....my Uncle Skip died, unexpectedly...spent this last weekend doing car washes with my family, to raise the rest of his funeral expenses.  Poor guy had no life insurance....

Use your time wisely.  Play your games effectively.  Be positive, and illuminate the lives you touch...YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOUR NUMBER IS UP.

much love and respect - Darth Kill


 

Comments

Michael117

01/09/2012 at 05:59 PM

Sorry to hear about your uncle, it's great you guys are working hard to raise the rest of the money for a proper funeral. I hope the rest of the grieving process goes well for everybody and everything goes well for you guys despite the loss.

I don't own a PS3 so I hadn't heard of Modern Combat Domination till today. I'm on IGN right now (ended up there only because of screenshots) looking at some screen shots and it looks really cool, I bet it's a ton of fun. The fact you went 39-4 in 15 minutes is pretty sweet. I don't play competitive multiplayer much but when I do it's been Halo, CoD, and most of all Team Fortress 2. In Halo I get a lot of kills but I also die a lot, I'm like canon fodder and a killing machine all at once lol. I like to switch tactics all the time. I'll spend a life (anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes for me) being a camping sniper, then I'll die, get bored of it, and also because I don't want to be known as a camper, I'll spend the next life in close quarters scrambling around and beating people to death.

Like you I'm also surprised how few team players there are out there at times. It's one of the reasons I don't like competitive multiplayer much. When it goes bad, it really goes terribly. However when it goes well, it goes incredibly and beautifully well. It feels so good to work as a team and succeed, and I had the best experiences doing that in Team Fortress 2. Like Halo, my lives in TF2 never last for too long, but I switch classes each time and try to use skills the team needs right at that very moment. Maybe at the moment I died, our team was playing a capture the flag match and at that very moment we desperately needed a spy to camoflauge himself, wander in, and get a jump on the enemy for at least a few seconds and our strategy would somehow work out. So I'd do it, it would work, and we would all feel like a million bucks. There's nothing like winning.

I would also enjoy spending time being a medic. I made a friend on XBL one time because we kept ending up in the same matches and he would be a heavy and I would be his medic. He would walk around blasting people with his mini-gun and I would constantly be healing him, and occasionally we would use our temporary invincibility ability and plow through the enemy base or through a barrage of engineer turrets. It was so much fun. Sometimes you don't actually have to kill anything or engage in much combat to contribute to a team and objective. TF2 rocks, it's definitely my favorite.

daRth_kiLL

01/09/2012 at 07:24 PM

I love TF 2.  Hands down, the greatest class-based shooter ever created.  I appreciate your sympathy dude....it's been hard on my family, especially my aunt. 

It was really, really fun to go 39 kills 4 deaths the other night...i consider myself average to above average at shooters, so it was beautiful to be able to get a taste of what it feels like to be a Beast. 

Support classes are kickass, and go grossly underappreciated.  Like you, I'm also content to keep my people alive.  Medics are the heart and soul of tf2....they keep us alive, able to move the cart a little bit further before we get snuffed.

Thanks for such a lengthy response dude....rarely am I ever engaged to this length here at PixlBit, by anyone.  It's nice to see someone else out in the community who'll throw down in a comment....

daRth_kiLL

01/09/2012 at 07:27 PM

almost forgot...

its also refreshing to see another person who enjoys working, moving, and killing as a group in shooters.  Even if the dumbass I'm following around is woefully ignorant that I'm tailing him, checking his corners....I'm still going to follow him around.  Meat shield!!!!!

Michael117

01/10/2012 at 12:45 PM

No problem dude. I'm glad you appreciate the longer comment, I do that a lot. I started getting into gaming communities on 1UP and still have a profile and blog there, and when I first started I use to leave people wall of text comments that rambled and sometimes didn't even have paragraphs lol. My friends let me know about it and I learned to write like a real person before long.

I agree, TF2 is the best class-based shooter ever made. It's so easy to kill hours of time with just two or three matches. I've had some go on for a while and it's a lot of fun especially when the competition is intense and the teams are matched up pretty well. It sucks when people don't play as a team and things turn into the wild west. You see people running around without any cohesion and nobody is pairing up, using the variety of classes, or combining skills.

All the classes are awesome in different situations and I've never played a game that was as much fun to play on both defense and offense as TF2 is. The defense is every bit as satisfying and I love being the engineer and setting up turrets, upgrading them, and protecting the base every bit as much as I like joining the offensive pack and being a part of the medic/heavy pair or a sniper, spy, demo guy, and whatever else. I love tower defense games and the strategy and resource management that goes into them so when I got into my first TF2 match and realized there was a class that could build turrets and defend things, I was like, "Hell yeah that's who I want to be!" Lol.

If you're following somebody and watching each other's backs, it's good all around because you can help them out but at the same time if you start getting attacked, since there's two of you there's only a 50% chance a given enemy will target you, so there's a good chance you could use your buddy as a meat shield and find the enemy before they start attacking you next lol.

Esteban Cuevas Staff Alumnus

01/10/2012 at 01:15 AM

I'm probably the dude who doesn't help out in team matches but that's mostly because I don't know what the hell I'm doing most of the time in shooters. I'm not great at them. My condolences about your uncle too.

daRth_kiLL

01/11/2012 at 08:20 PM

thanks Big Cuevas, I appreciate your condolences.  When in doubt in a fps Team Deathmatch game mode, pick someone and follow them around.  Check the corners they don't check.  If your teammate starts camping, find another teammate. 

Takes a long, long time to get good at Team Fortress 2....I've dumped a bunch of hours into it, and still suck.  Except when I'm a Heavy and am followed by a Medic.  That shit's POWERFUL. 

daRth_kiLL

01/11/2012 at 08:21 PM

what's your handle @ 1Up?  Mine's Metal_Gere_Richard

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