I'm curious what sort of experience you all have in Battlefield 3 with regards to team work. Personally, I rarely am in a squad that works together beyond using each other as spawn points. And as far as vehicles go, you can forget about it most of the time.
I am guilty of not sticking with my squad, however, unless I'm playing Recon I do like to stick with groups of people as it's usually safer.
Vehicles are my favorite part about the game. I just got my service star for Main Battle Tanks (full unlocks), and I spent an entire game flying the Venom around - as pilot you have zero weapons, so my end score was like 0-7 with maybe 800 points, but it was a blast and I helped a lot of people cap flags by dropping them off.
Anyway in all this time, I find it pretty rare to get, for example, a tank gunner who's any good or who doesn't bail out after a random amount of time. I also am getting no help in the CITV station I unlocked, where someone can laser designate targets and then I have guided shells that can take out any air craft in 1 shot - and it works on ground vehicles too. And it doesn't miss from flares because it's not heat guided. In that level I was flying the Huey (Venom) around, more often than not I was on my own with maybe 1 gunner. Occasionally a couple people would spawn and then hop out right away.
I also find that many people aren't willing to communicate. For example just telling your team what's happening - Tank at B! or Chopper lasered! or Big rush at C! can be a huge help, yet all you see in chat is people bitching about someone sucking/cheating/sucking/being a dick. Or sucking.
That was a bit long winded, but anyway, just curious if everyone else is noticing the same thing? Maybe you play with a few dedicated friends and don't have that issue? I'd like to have a group of good players I can play with all the time but I generally can't use my mic nor can I usually know ahead of time what days I'll be able to game so it makes it hard.
I am guilty of not sticking with my squad, however, unless I'm playing Recon I do like to stick with groups of people as it's usually safer.
Vehicles are my favorite part about the game. I just got my service star for Main Battle Tanks (full unlocks), and I spent an entire game flying the Venom around - as pilot you have zero weapons, so my end score was like 0-7 with maybe 800 points, but it was a blast and I helped a lot of people cap flags by dropping them off.
Anyway in all this time, I find it pretty rare to get, for example, a tank gunner who's any good or who doesn't bail out after a random amount of time. I also am getting no help in the CITV station I unlocked, where someone can laser designate targets and then I have guided shells that can take out any air craft in 1 shot - and it works on ground vehicles too. And it doesn't miss from flares because it's not heat guided. In that level I was flying the Huey (Venom) around, more often than not I was on my own with maybe 1 gunner. Occasionally a couple people would spawn and then hop out right away.
I also find that many people aren't willing to communicate. For example just telling your team what's happening - Tank at B! or Chopper lasered! or Big rush at C! can be a huge help, yet all you see in chat is people bitching about someone sucking/cheating/sucking/being a dick. Or sucking.
That was a bit long winded, but anyway, just curious if everyone else is noticing the same thing? Maybe you play with a few dedicated friends and don't have that issue? I'd like to have a group of good players I can play with all the time but I generally can't use my mic nor can I usually know ahead of time what days I'll be able to game so it makes it hard.
