first playthrough ever on master, feels like im getting bent over backwards by larry the cable guy.
10/10 i hate this

Where to start....

Every time you play squad will feel like a different experience, until it isn't. Your first 100 or so hours are spent learning the game, and the next 100 are spent learning how to react to the game. After that, your next 100 should go towards learning to squad lead. Because that is the crutch of the game.

This game, with all of its glory, does an absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥ job at expecting squad leads to know how to SL. There is a chance that you join a server with solid SL's who are talking just enough of command chat to organize a very solid game. SL's who understand how to commit resources and their squad members to just the right place, with just the right movement order, and who know how to coordinate it all under an ever-changing environment dependent on how the enemy team is responding.

Unfortunately this is seldom. For eery good server there is, there will be another that will typically consist of: No armor players, at least 1 heli pilot who will certainly crash then rage-quit within 10 minutes, 2 squads who are led by a rifleman because either the SL created it then immediately handed it off, OR just up and left and didn't bother asking if anyone else would take it, 1 SuperFOB squad who sits on the very 1st point when your team is 3 points ahead, NO actual defense squad, and 1 command squad who is so fed up with the team's lack of cohesion that all he can do is yell into his mic with frustration, further widening the gap of any chance of teamwork.

If you find a server that looks like this, go to a different one immediately to save your sanity. Thankfully you can sit in a queue for a populated server while playing in the current one.

It all comes down to this. Squad Leading is crucial for this game to work, but it feels like community service, which pushes people away from the stress. This game is fantastic for the individual experiences you get during each match. It is in DIRE NEED of people who are willing to work together in command chat, for the common player below.

As people less and less take up the responsibility of SL'ing, this game will die.

It's an entire game of Kenny Blankenship's Most Painful Eliminations Of The Day.

Man I miss MXC on Spike.

Flew a rocket into space and killed 3 kerbalnauts.

10/10 will genocide again, for science.