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walshicus
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So I've just come from a disaster of a Battlezone match, and not a single person but me was bothering to hit the medics. How stupid can people be? I mean it's just basic sense that if you're not killing medics you're losing the game, isn't it?
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Regarding the topic, I've literally never seen a BZ fail. You tag, run to the next boss, tag, run to the last and start fighting. Unless everyone is in the same zone in the end, it should be impossible to lose this.
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Dino's, Voth, turrets...if it highlights red it's going bye bye.
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my order of attack, brute force approach, if its not working, identifying the problem and knock out the support pins, the rest will come crashing down. failing that cause enough chaos to drag threat that your teammates can gain the advantage and turn the fight around, you either push on to the target or your next attempt is coming around the back again and removing the threat at its source. i have been known not to follow conventional tactics. its a strength and weakness.
on sto is far more simpler then a shooter would be, you know what your threaten target is and how to deal with it. if people cant see the wood from the trees, well, thats upto them if they need their eyes examined.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
The reason why I sometimes say 'shoot the medics first or risk loosing the silo' in the zone chat there when it is time to secure the silo's. But even before the Risa event most people just took a pot shot at the Rex and then ran away. If the only they bothered to shoot the medics first instead.
theres currently an issue with the game play mechanics there that was ignored by the devs, shooting the dino means you took part in helping to take it down and qualify for a big dyson mark pay off for it, get all three dinos "tagged" by spraying them with weapons fire and a full mission secure, thats a lot of marks just for a few minutes of work. so these people wont help take down medics until they tagged all three dinos and find the most populated group to take down the dinos incase the dino reset, that way they pick it up again on the rewards.
for anyone else though, shooting medics on the omega harvest is a priority or its a potential mission fail. tbh people should know that already.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
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Taking out the medics 1st is pretty standard MMO-fare.
on other games medics are not the first priority, its respawn devices that lands enemy troops on your head or spawns more nearby, or a respawn point that refuses to go down in your territory unless another area is captured to remove that threat. othertimes its not even that which is the concern, a specific player could be causing so much trouble that they become the threat, like a problem gunship thats in just about the perfect position to gun down anything, once thats removed the rest falls apart quickly because the enemy was not expecting such an instant and lethal response. its been known to happen on other games.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
So the first time you entered the battle zone you just immediately knew that shooting the medics was the way to win? It's that obvious? (I wouldn't know; I don't go in there, so you'll have to enlighten me.)
There are pop-ups that tell you to do it.
Sadly those pop-ups say to target the Engineers, when those engineer mobs are marked as Medics. But to be fair, they are the only Voth troops there, everything else is a Raptor or T-Rex.
Depends on the game I suppose. Typically medics are first priority because they will heal all those baddies that are being dropped on your head.
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Yes, the popups spelling out "shoot the engineers before they get all the Omega particles" made it pretty [censored] obvious. The Engineer/Medic thing could be an issue, I suppose, to those too dense to realize it means "shoot the Voth and not their pet dinosaurs" but outside of that Ultra-Derp possiblity they tell you what to do in terms an average American third-grader (or "developmentally challenged" 4-year-old from anywhere else) could understand.
The only real issue here is the laughable assumption that most players read instead of just hammering "F" to "get that annoying text out of the way while imma firin' my lazorz!!1!!"
The Geneva convention does not apply to non earthlings.;)
I've seen plenty fail. If the medics take all the omega from a silo you automatically lose that silo.
Yeah, it's common sense. That's why you don't see some people doing it often.
I reckon the big, scary V-Rex just begs for all of the attention.
It doesn't matter the instance or the mission, priority elimination of the medic NPC is always a good idea. Not just where it's necessary to complete the mission successfully, like the Omega silo fights.
And they repeated it in the Undine zone. Destroying Undine rifts gives rewards. Keeping them from re-opening not. Yesterday I was in a zone where the Undine constantly reopened rifts (I guess most players had gathered together to close them, so when they finally hit the last ones the first ones' timers were all up. The result was that most players bunched up in the red zones the Undine managed to take back while a few did the thankless job of keeping them out of the others.
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I know the mechanics, but I have never seen that happening and in theory it should be impossible, assuming there are at least 15 players in the instance.
In theory every players runs around and tags. ~5 start in each zone and finish in another zone after their tagging run. Then they start fighting and once the boss is down move to the next. In theory that means that each zone should have 5 players at all times, having 20 players in the instance just adds more backup. A zone needs 1 or 2 players to avoid loss and at least this should be assured. And this works out quite well, at least in all the time I played the BZ.
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I could see in my head a vision of a player just now walking hunched over
dragging their nuckles on the ground.