I've been playing online since the day this game came out and I've noticed a few things about the state of this game's team play and I just have to bitch. I'm coming from a background like Starsiege: Tribes, so I have a firm understand of role and tactics. With this in mind, I have noticed the following about the average Medal of Honor player:

most people online DO NOT KNOW THE MEANING OF TEAM PLAY!!

I swear to god! Most people online see no difference between Objective Match and Free For All! When you join an Objective Match map, understand that there are certain conditions for a team to win. Try and complete the objectives sometime, the result is great!

Grenade spam... can we cool it with the random tossing of grenades? If I had a dollar for every time a team mate started chucking grenades over a high wall at what it most likely an empty room, I could pay off my student loans! You have a gun, try it out sometime. You'll find that they too kill people.

Snipers and rocket boys - believe it or not, guys... there are OTHER weapons in the game! Yeah! boggles the mind, don't it? Give them a try sometime... they work wonders!

People bitching in spectator mode about camping. Shut your mouths and wait your turn... when you're on the D, there's no such thing as camping so relax.

People bitching about cheaters... Guess what, kids? The last patch stopped that, so stfd stfu!

I just needed to get the above off my chest. General moronic behavior on the servers has me nearly throwing my mouse across the room. It's not good when I have to take a few minutes away from the game for deep breaths and to regain my composure.

Team???? What's that?.. and there's guns in MOHAA??? since when?

I too often kill my mouse!! it makes the rest work better!!!! DIE STUPID RODENT!!!!

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I kiss you!

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Amen Brother! I come from a Counter Strike background. It's the same thing there. If you don't play as a team, you are gonna be in for a rough ride.

Some valid points, but sadly they have been heavilly discussed here already.

Not complaining, as you have as much right to talk about this as any other, but I'd be surprised if too many people comment on this.

Teamplay: Ultra rare on public servers. Wait until clan matches start up.

Grenades: They're there so get used to them. If someone wants to throw lots of grenades into random areas then they should be allowed to. It's a part of the game.

Objective: Same as Teamplay above, except in every objective game the objective is also to eliminate the enemy. So going out to kill as many as you can before you die, in my eyes, is just fine (the only exception to this so far is Omaha... When Allies refuse to plant the bombs, or Axis refuse to disarm them, it may as well be a deathmatch game).

Camping: Is fine if it is designed to reach the objective. If it's being used to just stay alive until the time runs out, it's crap.

As this is a game for the public it cannot possibly cater for everyone's personal tastes upon shipping.

Lan games, clan matches and mods will enable you to play in an environment you prefer, so patience is the key.

Until then, all I can suggest is to either stop playing on public servers altogether, or get used to how they are.

I've had some terrific team games on public servers, and I've had some crap ones. I expect nothing more, to be honest.





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[This message has been edited by Ydiss (edited February 07, 2002).]

nothing wrong with camping. last time i checked snipers dont run across the field sniping guys in the head as they hop over a body. agreed that people need to learn how to play in a team. the allies didnt send one man onto omaha beach to run at the bunkers guns blazing.

YDISS WHAT A PISSER OF A SIG
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Rocket, I totally agree about the team-playing thing! It seems that there’s practically no difference at all (in many player’s minds at least) between an objective match and a death match game. I was just telling my wife about this frustrating aspect of the game the other night. I find that in the Omaha Beach level, if the Axis are the least bit organized, then the Allies haven’t got a chance of winning if the Allies don’t get very organized, quickly. It seems the map is kinda set-up to the Axis advantage, in my opinion anyway. And that’s cool, but the Allies player’s need to pool their recourses. It gets damned frustrating running all the way from the beach, down through the bunkers, and then up the stairs with your team-mates, only to have everyone split-up above ground (death-match syndrome), while you get picked off by the Axis trying to set a bomb! OK, I can’t set the bomb AND kill Axis players too, come on. Of course when everyone works together to set the bomb and then protect the site from the enemy until it explodes is the greatest sense of accomplishment in team game-play! It just doesn’t happen enough.

I’m starting to look for a team (clan?) to join and play with. Hopefully then everyone will have the same goals in mind. Until then it’s kinda like rush hour traffic. Everyone is going down the same road, but they aren’t really working together to accomplish anything.

Still, a bad day at gaming is better than a good day at work! (Smile)

Steve . . .

EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF!!!!!

get a life

Many times I see players grenade-spamming chokepoints where they KNOW the other team will get there first and set up a defense. In this case the grenades are only discouraging opponents from using that area and thus forcing them to change their tactics. Valid gameplay if you ask me, but IMHO that would apply best on servers using a realism mod because you only have 3 grenades instead of 6, and you have to use them sparingly.

chucking grenades into an empty space can be read as good team play...

ie if ur trying to hold 1 flank back by chucking nades into an area where the enemy walk through then why the f3k, it will slow em down and allow ur team m8s to flank em.

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i never get chance to play as a team as usually my teams dead with in first 20 seconds and im normally left on my own to kill the whole axis team http://www.alliedassault.com/ubb/wink.gif

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All you children are a bunch of grenade tosser's into areas that you don't even know people are in. It is one thing to see me, and toss one, but another just to toss'em randomly where you think people are.

Tossers and panzyshrekers are lame. If you want to toss, go to a porn site. You get a better feeling.