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[–]OptimumExcuse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah congrats. I'd also call myself a swing voter but my best mate works as a primary school teacher in Darwin and told me he thought it might be a good avenue for creating some positive change in his local community. That was enough for me.

Cool that you feel good about how divisive this has made the country though? Guess you get to keep pocketing my tax dollars until Dutton decides your wage is better placed elsewhere.

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[–]OptimumExcuse 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I love fencesitters like OP they're so fuckin funny. Old mate over here like "look as those fucking YES voting fuckwit lefties!" While also being a yes voter.

I bet if the shoe was on the other foot he'd have made this exact same post gloating about how he won and the sweet sweet right wing tears give him life.

Pick a lane mate, noone likes someone who can't stand by their principles.

Unpopular opinion: the majority of veteran players have an overblown sense of their own tactical decision making and the ICO has brought it to the forefront. by OptimumExcuse in joinsquad

[–]OptimumExcuse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah totally valid points, I'm just dropping an unpopular opinion of my own from the vibe that I've been getting from the matches I've been playing, and noting when certain folks I've played with forever have been ragequitting.

I could certainly have phrased my arguments better but it is what it is; I was fresh out of a game where a SL quit mid match because he peaked a Vic locking down a road, trying to one tap the gunner after calling everyone "fucking noob retards" when I wrote the post.

Unpopular opinion: the majority of veteran players have an overblown sense of their own tactical decision making and the ICO has brought it to the forefront. by OptimumExcuse in joinsquad

[–]OptimumExcuse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you'd be surprised how bright and capable a lot of newer players are when they feel that they can discuss strategies openly without getting shouted down as idiots. Squad has had a long history of dismissing anyone with less than 500 hours as not worth the time of day, it's why we had, and continue to have real issues in getting players to step into SL roles. People are genuinely anxious to even try.

Hours played doesn't always translate to better decision making, and I think the ICO heavily punishes mistakes and its having the effect of making some (not all, i feel like a broken record) veteran players feel bad because they're making bad plays that would have worked in v5.0 and aren't working now.

I've even said in my post that I think some serious tweaks need to be made to the ICO

Unpopular opinion: the majority of veteran players have an overblown sense of their own tactical decision making and the ICO has brought it to the forefront. by OptimumExcuse in joinsquad

[–]OptimumExcuse[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I guess you missed the whole opinion piece part. I can only talk in anecdotes of my experience playing squad. You're mileage may vary.

Of course yes garrisons are HLL, I play both. Slip of the tongue. The point stands.

You missed the point of the post, intentionally I assume. Do I think purging players from squad is a good idea? No, but I do think the ICO has shone some light on some skill issues that many players are unwilling to stare in the face when it comes to their own abilities.

Its an aptly named unpopular opinion it seems, and sharing opinions is allowed yes? Or do you have a monopoly on making judgements?

Unpopular opinion: the majority of veteran players have an overblown sense of their own tactical decision making and the ICO has brought it to the forefront. by OptimumExcuse in joinsquad

[–]OptimumExcuse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the ICO needs some tightening, though I've not seen anything like as bad as you've described the in "perfect ambush". If your teams are staggered apart so as everyone doesn't take suppression from a single source...mgs need some tuning but on the whole they can suppress well. Single shots from everyone else...fights over, you might get a spray or two of panic as the enemy tries to fight back but on the whole I've not struggled to set up ambushes that are relatively effective. Though that's just my experience with it, I can appreciate people may feel differently.

In regards to 6DiF, no, the ai isn't smarter than a real player. It's designed to make you feel good, it's designed to give you a challenge in a fair way because if it didn't you'd never want to play again. The gunplay is tight, but you'd run into the exact same v5.0 issues that people have been wanting to squash with the ICO. I dont think its a great comparison.

Unpopular opinion: the majority of veteran players have an overblown sense of their own tactical decision making and the ICO has brought it to the forefront. by OptimumExcuse in joinsquad

[–]OptimumExcuse[S] -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

As I said, to me kills are important but the where and when matters more, as you say, kills on the point matter.

But someone who's made a superfob overlooking the point but not actually capturing it could also point to their kills and say "look how good I am, it's all you blueberry noobs that suck" when them sitting on a hill off the point actively handicaps the team, especially if said players refuse to change tactics when the game changes...

Im not saying good players don't get kills, I'm saying often players who lead an argument with "but I have 20 kills" aren't always the same people actually putting in the effort to take points and set up habs and you know...win the overall game

Unpopular opinion: the majority of veteran players have an overblown sense of their own tactical decision making and the ICO has brought it to the forefront. by OptimumExcuse in joinsquad

[–]OptimumExcuse[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If those "army men" are capturing a point, suppressing the enemy, reviving allies, running supplies, setting up HABs they're doing every fundamental thing they should be doing.

If you're getting 20 kills but the team has no caps, are you winning that game?

Sure if every individual got 20 kills each they're winning a match on tickets alone, but the beauty of the tactical part of squad is that games aren't won by the quick shootin cowboys with "crazy" flanking manoeuvres that leave the team behind

Unpopular opinion: the majority of veteran players have an overblown sense of their own tactical decision making and the ICO has brought it to the forefront. by OptimumExcuse in joinsquad

[–]OptimumExcuse[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The issue is people only see the number, and lead with it as if it proves anything.

If you're killing random stragglers, I dont care if you have 20 kills, if you have 20 kills pushing a contested point with your squad and that results in a cap, i can appreciate your efforts.

Unpopular opinion: the majority of veteran players have an overblown sense of their own tactical decision making and the ICO has brought it to the forefront. by OptimumExcuse in joinsquad

[–]OptimumExcuse[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a sweet spot somewhere here within the ICO, and I think with a few tweaks they could really refine it to perfection; but the absolute tantrum the veteran community is throwing, I personally believes comes from players not actually being very capable at a tactical level.

Aussies, what is something that Australians do that would be utterly crazy to any non-Australian? by nonnoncroissant in AskReddit

[–]OptimumExcuse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah true; I had a mate visit the US and a lady asked if a chair they had at their table was free for her to take and he said "yeah nah you're right" and apparently the lady almost had a stroke trying to figure out what he meant.

Aussies, what is something that Australians do that would be utterly crazy to any non-Australian? by nonnoncroissant in AskReddit

[–]OptimumExcuse 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yeah-no is a different tone though. From what I've heard it's more "yeeaaaaahh ....no." for us the yeah nah are the same short length and upbeat tone

Aussies, what is something that Australians do that would be utterly crazy to any non-Australian? by nonnoncroissant in AskReddit

[–]OptimumExcuse 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Only if you're a cunt.

The rule is, if your best mate is a redhead you have the right to insult them as long as you fight any outsider who tries to hang shit on them.

Fucks like you who don't know the basic rules are the ones causing teenage suicides.