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sakhmet
04-15-2009, 02:07 AM
If you start a map with an unbalanced team on defense, you are likely to lose an objective. On offense it is not such a big deal. All you lose is a little time, you can call it out and your team can readjust and continue.

It’s a lot tougher recovering from a lost objective on defense, especially when your team starts rage quitting. I know that the ones that rage quit are generally the worst players, but bad players absorb bullets and the enemies’ attention, so as long as they are not TK’ing everyone, it’s better to have them than not.

If you see that half of your team is playing in the Op’s classes, then there is a good chance that they are deploying to the outskirts of the battlefield and will not be in a position to defend the objective in a pinch. Make sure you have a few decent engineers for disarming on Area 22, Outskirts, Quarry, Ark, and to some extent on Volcano (its pretty much hopeless on Salvage, but you should make the Stroggies work for it). Also, having a few decent medics and at least one covert ops for radar is critical.

Don Zardeone
04-17-2009, 05:15 AM
Never press F3.
I'm not kidding.

If either team presses F3 then no shuffles or anything should happen later on. You pressed F3, you deal with the consequences.
People who say "press F3 or be a noob" are trying to trick people into doing stupid things, just like saying "press alt+F4".

If teams are 13v6 and the team of 6 presses F3 and then they get destroyed, that's their own fault.

Now, while you're not pressing F3, keep an eye on team class balance.
On canyon with a build objective at the start, that benefits from having as many engineers as possible.

- 3 eng, 0 med, 5 covops NOT READY: pick soldier and spam that we need engineers, see who switches

- 4 eng, 0 med, 2 cov, 2 fops READY: acceptable, stay soldier until last second, swap to eng to make it 5 eng at start or med or whatever

- 4 eng, 5 cov and READY: go spec, join other team or find new server. Your team seriously doesn't care.