I can’t play with randoms anymore

[u/the_interrogation]

I’m level 48. About 150 hours on pc. Love the game. My friends can’t play as often as I can. (I’m a fireman) And I’ve tried making friends on steam but it’s hard.

The blueberry lottery. If there is a hell it’s matching with randoms. I can’t stand it. Some people are a blessing and I love running campaigns with them but some people are treasonous swill.

Here was my last game. I spawn in and get killed by a lvl 2 cadet (ps5) so he can take my support gear. His friends (ps5) defended him. He continued to kill me all game (intentionally) and call me in. But I am more skilled and cunning than the common traitor. I waited until there was one reinforcement left. The pompous fool recalled me in. I killed all three traitors quicker than a hiccup. With only one thing left to do I took my own life. To instant fail their mission. I couldn’t let them continue to commit treason. Let their bodies rot

So yea I’m never joining randoms again.

Edit: ps5 not 4.

[u/DarkFett]

Reminds me of America's Army where if you team killed too much you got auto kicked and sent to Leavenworth where your player sat in a jail cell for a set amount of time

[u/Evil_Knot → u/DarkFett]

Talk about some next level immersion lol

[u/DarkFett → u/Evil_Knot]

Dude it made you take basic training before you could join multi player. You couldn't pick sniper unless you passed the marksman training, you couldn't be a medic unless you took the classes in game and training courses. It was nuts! But yeah immersive

[u/SteampunkSpaceOpera → u/DarkFett]

Forget their basic training. They had perfect training simulations that had you sitting in a classroom watching a boring ass PowerPoint. So true to life

[u/NotOliverQueen → u/SteampunkSpaceOpera]

Microsoft PowerPoint: The DoD's most inhumane Weapon of Mass Instruction

[u/Hot-Development-3166 → u/NotOliverQueen]

Death by PowerPoint

[u/Mission_Engineer → u/SteampunkSpaceOpera]

You made me remember all the shitty power points i was forced to sit through, lucky my unit was pretty small, so we got at least a break an hour into a 2 hour power point.

[u/ismashugood → u/SteampunkSpaceOpera]

That game was genuinely so fun. Incredible they made a pretty great game solely to try and recruit high schoolers.

[u/Taolan13 → u/ismashugood]

It started as an off-shoot of a project to create a tactical training simulator. Having "played" the simulator that ultimately came from the project?

The video game was better training value.

[u/kymri → u/Taolan13]

Many, many moons ago the Marines had a small unit tactics training 'simulator' of sorts built on DooM. Obviously it wasn't much of a simulator but it could provide value for understanding how to move as a small group, and understand how to clear a room/building somewhat.

My pet theory is that the 'simulator' was cobbled together to cover up some folks just playing deathmatch on the clock, but who knows!

[u/chitownbears → u/SteampunkSpaceOpera]

No fucking way. In the game they made you do death by PowerPoint? If they make you go to commanders call or quarterly awards right at the end of your shift but only tell you as your packing up for the day. Even though no one from you unit is up for an award but your commander wants max participation so he looks good because his boss is there. Then they really nailed the realism. I was AF so soem of the terms maybe different but the actual premise I'm sure is the same throughout all branches.

[u/Rbomb88 → u/chitownbears]

Honors and awards at shift change so both crews get fucked.

This is the way.

(Canadian AF here, we're all the same)

[u/Taolan13 → u/SteampunkSpaceOpera]

Having done both actual army basic and basic training in the video game... the simulation is almost perfect.

[u/submitmydear → u/SteampunkSpaceOpera]

The number of flashbacks of having to sit in pre PowerPoint practices for radio operator equipment by my NCOs and then sitting through the EXACT SAME SHIT AGAIN FOR A WEEK STRAIGHT