VonPottypoop, on 22 October 2017 - 12:00 PM, said:
All my clan and a few other friends on here are complaining about WR slide and just how bad the game play is. I told the clan that if they have a tier 9 just use ranked battles to grind it until the event is over.
I got asked to do a tier 3 toon yesterday so I broke protocol but this is how it went.
We were at Mines and our spawn was at the Cap end Near the houses. We were the only two tier 3 and the rest were tier 4. We went right as a toon and got right down so we could put fire into them climbing the hill..all good so far. We got there and started to hit them but this is where it went from normal to insane. We quickly found that we were facing the whole team firing down on us and kind of got caught behind rocks just been able to peek a boom. We held them for three minutes! I asked my toon mate on Discord “Where is the team?” But a bit more colourful. We got surrounded and both got killed. I flicked over to the team and my toon mate was already laughing. I didn’t see the funny bit. All five were sat up on the hill camping and hadn’t moved for 3 minuets, Seriously in all my 9000 battles have I ever seen anything like it. Tier 1 you might understand it but tier 4 OMG!
Ah yes, those low tier maps all seem to have "camping sites" that attract so many players. It's not like they are even good spots, something you learn over time.
I'll admit I used those same spots for far too long in the first few months. They are bad (for the team) though they can allow high damage for one of the occupiers on occasion, it is very reliant on the enemy sitting in the line of fire. More often you get spotted and then cannot get out of the line of fire yourself. I avoid them like the plague now, better to find a good hull-down spot and remain flexible.
I seem to recall one game on Mines where I was on the other side of the map and was the only one to go halfway up the facing slope before realising my team was camped behind me, peaking over the top 5 of the reds had done the same on the other side, the other two crested the hill one at a time and went to the mine entrance where they got picked off.. Their team mates also followed one at a time. The most amusing thing was no one firing at me as I was halfway between and not an obvious target.