I've noticed there are some people who purposely break away from their team - my guess is that they are trying to improve their kill count or k/d ratio. They let all their team take the flak while they hang back and take long distance shots.
When I'm playing team games, I'm usually the one who gets killed first - I run in all guns blazing trying to catch them unawares. It never works...I really ought to have learned that by now.
I often find myself away from my "team mates" but also find that I locate the enemy before they do and win games with 20+ killrates while my teammates run around as a pack chasing the enemy and rarely closing on them. I dispair when I'm stuck with teammates for whom "flanking" is an alien concept. It drives me crazy. I was playing TDM on Crossfire yesterday and the enemy had taken up positions at the "Iraqi" end and, instead of moving up tactically down left and right with a couple of people engaging at long range from our end of the street, my entire team just sat in the houses facing down the street. I flanked down the left and started scoring kills and eventually my "team" started to move. I guess they realised that they weren't actually scoring anything but it was all too little too late. I think I had 28 kills but we lost the game because my team were in single digits.
Other times I judge where I think the enemy will be heading and make my way there and am 9 out of 10 times correct but lose the firefight because 1 Vs 3 or 4 just doesn't go. If I'm facing 4 enemy then my 5 teammates are engaging 2.
I don't blame them though
(well, I do but with my mic off) it's just that they obviously don't play the way I do or know enough about the players they're with to know how
they play. If you played with the same team on a regular basis then you'd know how each of you played and would compliment each other. I like to play at the sharp end and on my feet
(not for me the long range belly crawling) so do well in games when someone else plays just off me. With the right weapon in hand and no lag I usually do a good job of putting people away but I'm not much of a shot and have a habit of finding the enemy in numbers. Someone playing off me often nicks my kills
(the swines) but also keep me alive when my shots are a bit off target.
If you want to camp and snipe and use martyrdom or last stand then fair play to you. If you want to randomly sling nads around and litter the field with claymores then you go right ahead. You want to charge about firing an RPG or fire grenades off your rifle then full steam ahead. But I'll think less of you as a player than the guy who slots me with a well placed headshot from open play or stabs me with a well timed lunge. I may even suggest to my teammates that you're obviously attempting to earn your scouts badge for camping or that we may very well have not lost the war but lost the jamboree instead.
... and if you lie on your belly during Wetwork or charge about with a shotgun or an M60 I may suggest you lack skill and your game is lame. In fact, I may sing "How lame is your game." to the tune of "How deep is your love." but only with the mic off.
