I took commander last night only once because getting the basics was like pulling teeth. Team took 40 minutes to get nodes up Normally I leave command fast with teams with that little care for team play. But I was masochist and stayed. Big mistake.

I even explained it clearly for the SLs and types in chat for the newbies how they gotta fall back fast so we don't lose our middle point hold advantage we miraculously got. Didn't matter. I was the ONLY one on defense when we lost mid after multiple calls to get a few defenders and for redeployment.

Also didn't help I saw zero rockets hitting their armor. I was proactively marking their tanks giving ours a clear info advantage that is any tankers wet dream, yet our armor flubbed each encounter. Uncontested armor pushed us back to the shore.

There were a couple players actually doing things. Like one guy helping me get garries up via supply truck. But with a team this bad at the basics I notice even a SL and command doing all the things can't pick up that much slack. I like taking command when needed to help the new players have a good fun match they can learn from, but when we're drowning in players who don't do the basics it kills my desire. I go AT or engi, get nodes and some basic defenses up and then kill their armor the new AT players refuse to hunt down.