I generally agree with this, but there are also times when you call people out (myself included) for not reading the map when we actually were. Sometimes, shit just happens. You see the mine last second, or you see the guy with the C4, but the tank is stuck, or you also see something else, or whatever... I'm pretty much glued to the minimap, so when shit goes sideways, it's not necessarily because I didn't see it coming. I do make mistakes.
Indeed, you still have the bad habbit of driving straight into mines at times. lol.
That's pretty smart play, and probably the way to go a lot of the time, but not always. You don't take out that tank, it's just going to move to the next flag (the one you went to instead of D) and cap it right behind you. Look, certain vehiucles are powerful. In the hands of the right pilots,, they are dominate. This should go without saying, but if you need real proof I encourage you to compare the stats of pilots/gunners vs infantry. It's heavily one sided.
Again, vehicles are powerful, but people need to think of a few things:
1) The map structure: If the tank was traveling from A to B or D to B on capsin, then I would agree it's more of a threat. Since the travel from A-B-D, D-B-A is much easier. However, the tank was moving in the D->C->A direction. C requires a tough climb up hill and A is a long treck. Spot the tank and the rest of the team/squad should be aware and prepare for the tank to move up to C. It's also a much easier affair to deal with the tank at C as oppose to D, since C has less room for a tank to play with.
2) Objective > Vehicle: I totally I understand why people love vehicles, and yeah people will dominate, have better stats, etc in games against average players. However, the fact of the matter is - vehicles are not the end all be all of games. People need to adjust their love/hate/values for vehicles accordingly to the map and the people they're playing against.
If you been losing m-coms left and right, do you really think driving out with a vehicle would save you? If you're wasting 10 minutes trying to clear off tank mines, do you really think your vehicle is doing any good? If your chopper is out of bound in the other side of omen, while I'm lone capping flags, do people honestly think I care?
Again, people say "tank/jet/whatever is op" and my response have always been "it doesn't exist to me." In my world, if it's not hurting me from getting to the objective, then I don't give a damn. Between nice and easy capping of D vs. waste 10 min to fight a tank and not even capping D. I rather chose the former.
I'm not saying that getting preoccupied with busting vehicles is the way to go... but neither do I think they should be altogether ignored. Especially when they are exerting their will on the map, unchallenged.
3 tanks in the middle of nowhere, unchallenged, is a good thing. Like I said, I single handed capped A, B, D while people were dealing with that -_-.
I disagree. A tank is much faster than infantrymen. Especially over a long distance in high gear. This isn't even debatable. And when I pilot, the tank is 90% of the time in high gear. I slow only to make a tight turn.
For Capsin, I have to disagree.
From A->B, infantry wins.
From C->B, infantry wins.
From D->B, tank wins.
From ABD to C, infantry wins.
From A->D, tank wins.
From B->D, tank might win.
From C->D, infantry wins.
Based on the terrain of Capsin, I am going to out run the tank to flags most of the time.
Couple things... 1) on Kharg I spawned on the tank, yes... because I can sometimes hold B and C by myself with a tank, even against other tanks. The only time I lose my tank on Kharg is if we're targeted by a significant number of enemies or a lucky C4. And guess what... if they're busy focusing on busting my tank in the middle of the map, they aren't at A or D, and it's less pressure on the rest of the team. Also, we'd probably get rolled over if we didn't have the tank, under that kind of assault.
We were going to roll them over in Kharg to begin with, since they started vehicle whoring after that. Kharg wasn't even a competition.
2) That was a weird situation with the chopper. Take into consideration that it was their chopper we stole. And also, yeah you did not see or have to worry about those tanks because we fucking blew them to shit on their way from A. That would have been armor we had to deal with (or run away from?) but they were neutralized in less than a min, because we wrecked their shit. Had our fucking retarded ass team used our own armor, and moved into the B/C range while we had their bird, and destroyed their armor, we might have turned the tide. Getting your hands on a powerful enemy vehicle like that is often the difference between a close game and a steamroll. Being a BC2 vet I shouldn't have to say this to you. Unfortunately, in BF3 there are cunty jet pilots who ram choppers, so it's not quite as dominant. But you take advantage of the opportunity, and get whatever mileage you can out of a situation like that. imo.
See here's my problem, and it's an opinion thing.
Who was lone capping the flags while you're doing that?
Now, this goes back to my blend of players thing.
Yeah, I appreciate that you kept the team safe and kept out field dominance, but someone somewhere needed to cap flags.
Remember that Kharg rush defense round I joined you guys on?
They armed A, no one was around there to disarm it at all. I jumped in and got the job done. They killed me and immediately armed again, and then you rushed back tried to disarm but got killed. A lost. Where was everyone else? not being near the m-com, being aggressive, being offensive on freaking D.
Then B. In that game I had 18 kills. Was I all over the place like everyone else? No.
I practically never left the radius of B. What does that mean? There was 18 chances that the enemy could have gotten in to arm a completely unguarded m-com. 2 times they did, and 2 time I lone defended and disarmed it (dave popped by like after 10 seconds of my disarm.) Where was everyone else? not being near the m-com, being aggressive, being offensive on freaking D.
Look, if I can get a perfect 50/50 blend of aggressive/defensive gaf, or have everyone well rounded like Olimpia you and Dawn then things would be perfect. I would have my buds in vehicles dominating the field, and still have enough people around to cap some flag and watch the objective with me. However, we all know that's not the case, and that's why I can't help but be biased. If I get rolled over, fine. I'm just tired of losing "close games" cause people can't play D right (this is a just a general comment.)
P.S. I really want to praise dawnoflife. It's always a joy watching him play. Picking the right class at the right times and knowing when he should and shouldn't be in a vehicle. He doesn't stand out as much as say Olimpia due to his more flanking style of play, but people really should give him more credit.
