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Pennyy9

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When you play a game with team-based combat, what role do you play, and why? Each team needs strength in all areas, so what do you contribute to the team your on?


Personally I help with the cover-fire mechanism. Sniping is key, and fun.
 

Calobi

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Charge forward and open a hole*. My death will let my team move forward easily.

*I know what you're thinking. Get your minds out of the gutter.
 

wasalp

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I like to take out key target with spy...in tf2...the best team based game eva
 

JRCB

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If there are vehicles, I'm usually ground support. If not, defense.
 

Summerstorm

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Berserker... I am experienced and know who will be where at any given time (well i have a good intuition about that) but i have horrible reflexes. (i got old *g*)

So normaly i try to surprise and take 1-2 or more people with me... I normaly die the first in my team *g*

But i am not a one-trick pony... i can be a good supporter or even indirect fire platform (in TF2 for example i am a great demoman)
 

Ashbax

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well, depends on the game. In Call of duty im a bit of a krazy beetch, the idiot who assaults the enemy MG nest with a fucking bolt action rifle. Thing about being good a at the game, though, Is I dont try fire at the guy, I just chuck in a freaking grenade. if hes smart he will un-deploy his gun and leg it, but this is about as good as killing him - it allows our team to advance and hopefully fill his back with enough holes for you to mistake him for a red type of swiss cheese. One of my favourite tactics in CoD5 is to run right up to a tank, so It cant shoot me, then I chuck grenades all round it til it blows up, or the driver gets out so I can fill him with lead.

In, say, TF2, again, id be the guy to try take out key positions even at the loss of my life. Ergo: I like teh spy. For example the enemy have a crackshot sniper who can take out everything he sees in a second? Well, Id sneak in and stuff a knife in the back of his head, see how he likes that. Or maybe my, what id call a signature move, as ive never seen it pulled off by anyone but me as you need to be REALLY fast. Go up right behind the engineer, knife him, then Instantly change to your sapper and sap the sentry right infront of him before it can even lock on to you. Result - Sentry down, engineer down, my team gets to move up. And then I pull out my revolver and help them with the attack. In many capture the flag games, as well as being a crazy beeyatch who does crazy, risky stuff like the two scenarios mentioned above,

I often just grab an engineer, build as sentry at a key position and watch the fireworks as scout after scout are mowed down.

In COD, I just do the quicker and simpler version - plant two fucking mines beside the flag...and watch the fireworks once again.

In battlefield games I provide medic support and get into the bomber planes to, once again, take out key positions.

But all in all I rely on brains more than brawn during team based games. Charging the enemy head on with an assault rifle isnt always my thing. Sometimes do it, but not often.
 

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My favorite class in TF2 is Sniper, especially when the enemy is really pouring on the offense. But I am absolutely phenomenal at Scout, it's like I am faster then bullets or my enemies brains to even register I was there. I have ran past four enemies with the Intelligence and not a single one even took a shot at me.
 

NeutralDrow

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Usually either cannon fodder or rear support. And that's only when I know what I'm doing.
 

Daveman

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Whatever my team needs, so long as it's not scout or heavy, I like to go sniper when there are already like 4 snipers on my team and then put them all to shame and then tell them to actually contribute to the team.
 

IceStar100

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If there something with wheels I'm the driver. If it a flag hill I'm the guard. If it a frag fest I'm the cover man.
 

Nmil-ek

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Im always the sniper giving cover fire to a flag carrier or as close to that as i can get.
 

Lazzi

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In shooter I prefer the moe technical classes, or sniper.

In an MMO I prefer a debuffering oriented hybrid.
 

TheFacelessOne

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If there's vehicles, I'm a driver. I'm an excellent driving.

If not, defense. I'm pretty good at those two.

(And if there's flying vehicles, I'm air support)
 

Trivun

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I mix it up too, just a little. However, I specialise mainly in stealth and sniping. Overall I usually try to formulate tactics, which would actually work, but sadly I don't have L4D that actually works, or Team Fortress 2. My online gaming is limited to Dawn of War and Halo (only the first game) on PC until I can get XBL over the summer. Hence my tactics are usually ignored. For example, I've developed the perfect strategy for certain maps on Dawn of War. Most common being on the map Kasyr Lutien, where I go as Eldar and have my teammates cover me with their armies while I develop an army and teleport behind the enemy lines. Then a flank attack does the trick. Works every time I use it when I have decent teammates who are willing to go along with the tactic. However, half the time I'm stuck with idiots who lumber in and attack long before I'm ready, get annihilated, then leave me stuck against three enemy armies on my own.

Also, Halo. I usually formulate great tactics there too. What happens? No-one listens. I know that people would listen on L4D, TF2, and the like, because there the whole point is to form tactics and work as a team. In Halo? Take, for example, the user made map Coldsnap. For those who don't know, there's basically a huge plain about 6km across (in game measurements). One side is a sheer cliff down where you die if you fall (of course). Other three sides are huge mountain ranges, and a crevasse runs straight through the middle with a single bridge (taking the bridge is pretty useful to stop ground attacks). Bases spawn aircraft, Jets and Longswords. My plan usually is simple. Have four groups of two. Two to guard the flag, armed with rocket launchers and shotguns (plenty of open territory to the flag). Two to sneak up on enemy flag by going around the map through the mountains or through the crevasse in the middle in Jets, as a sneak attck. Two to distract enemy forces by a ground assault in a Warthog. And two to cover us with a Longsword, which can drop nukes, and a Jet, in the air. Sometimes I replace one Jet with a sniper covering the flag.

So what do people do? Team kill to get the Longsword (only one in the map) then nuke everyone and everything thinking they'll win like that. Idiots. Honestly, I despair sometimes.

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fastlearner

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Pennyy9 said:
When you play a game with team-based combat, what role do you play, and why? Each team needs strength in all areas, so what do you contribute to the team your on?


Personally I help with the cover-fire mechanism. Sniping is key, and fun.
i prefer sniping over anything else. if i cant do that then i run straight in and kill what i can before getting my arm ripped of by a zombie coconut. (random killing floor kamakaziing is what i'm good for when surrounded)
 
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back-stabber (i always play this), pyromaniac(always this, too), drunk taxi driver with insane luck, stalker, gets scared and shoots at a butterfly (kinda), out of place warrior (e.g. Berserker [from Gears of War] owning the corner flower shop.) or assassin (sometimes, with all of the just named character traits.)