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9/10/2015 12:57:26 PM
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i want to make a point about crucible and us

I know that everyone (including me) gets tired of my complaining about our lack of strategy in crucible, but i want to offer some experience to back up my sour grapes. About a month ago i was playing crucible with the clan one night, and we started off winning a few matches, maybe even owning a few so we were feeling pretty good. Then the tide turned, now maybe the group we were owning backed out and we got a new group of good players, but we started losing and I mean losing hard! At least 5 grand a match. I started insisting that we needed to hold one zone, it didnt happen, everyone just keeps fighting for b, (and dying). We get brutalized for about five matches each time im encouraging the team to hold one zone for a few minutes and make them come to us to even up the score because once the opposing team gets ahead by about two thousand points chances are you wont recover. Every time the argument I hear is " if we control two zones we get more points for our kills". But we arent controlling two zones are we? We rush B and get massacred and add to the opposing teams score. I finally have had enough and leave the fireteam, I immediately jump back in with randoms, and join a match in progress on the anomaly, and BTW I swear im not making this up. Im on the losing team and we are getting rocked, well i spawn on A and decide to stay there, a few seconds later two more teammates spawn, see that im not moving, and stay with me, at some point four of the six members are sitting on A. There are only three ways into A, and im praying they come through the chute right onto the flag, and they do. It was a massacre! I mean these guys were idiots granted but they just poured through that tube, and we just picked them off, it literally was like shooting fish in a barrell. We controlled one zone, and started making up our score quickly. Flash forward to the last Iron Banner. The performance was off and on, and lets be honest when its just crucible you dont mind it so much but when you are trying to get rank for weapons and etherics, it becomes a little more important to you. The last day I played with the clan we got trounced hard. I had reached the cap for mercy medallions i could carry, and i quit, again urging the team the whole time that we needed to work some strategy not just rush into their bullets, but no it didnt happen. The next day I joined with randoms, the first match was close, and we only lost by about 700 points, we owned the next two, then lost one pretty hard, then came back and owned the next two, i got my two etherics, and two fellwinters. We never discuss strategy prior to a match, we never find out who our strong snipers are, we never hold a zone leave two on it, and send the other four to the next one, we always try to control B which has almost no cover on any map, and yes I know the distance between a and c is greater but if your getting slaughtered try something different, i never understood why we didnt hold A and C on shores of time. Heavy spawns on A there is great cover, its a short jont to C, and you have cover getting to it, why would you willingly enter the fray only to get mowed down? To hell with B! We never regroup when we start to lose and camp on one zone for a bit before trying for another. The point I was trying to make is I do better with randoms, and it shouldnt be that way, we should be able to communicate, and hold our own, but we dont, and its very frustrating, I know its just a game but I dont like losing at anything, and if we lose five matches in a row and cant get it together, then I gotta split. I hope you see my points when you read this im honestly not trying to be a dick or condescend to anyone I just know we can do better, so why dont we?

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  • I agree communication is key. Whenever i do iron banner i bark orders around, get mad at people who dont listen etc. Also calling out supers is also good, if you hear blade dancer at B! It means dont go there to feed them kills. I reach rank 5 in IB just playing solo so i know im that good. But trials is another story.. dem cheaters..

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