Doesn’t feel to good, to be honest. =/
Basically, it was an ICBM mission, we had 20 minutes left on the mission and everyone was at extraction (Which peeved me a bit, as we didn’t do any POIs).
I see a radar station literally right next to extraction, and say in chat i’m going for it.
Well, in the middle of raising the radar station disc, extraction lands and they all immediately get in, remember, the radar station is RIGHT NEXT to extraction, and we still have 20 minutes left. I barely finish the radar station objective before the pelican takes off.
Suffice it to say, I went from a bit peeved, to pretty peeved and just kicked them all.
I’m starting to wonder if some people just don’t have chat enabled or something.
This might be an unpopular take but I think you were in the wrong there. If one guy jumps the gun when the rest of the team is doing objectives, that sure is kick material. However, If 3/4th of the team want to extract, you should follow along, not stay behind and do more stuff… Actual democracy happening right there.
I was originally fine with the beeline to extract, if a bit peeved. What made me go “Get the fuck outta here” was the fact they extracted without me despite being RIGHT next to extract at the radar station. It’s not like I was across the map. They could’ve easily have waited 1 more minute, and they weren’t even being overwhelmed.
That kind of lack of cooperation is just unacceptable in my opinion.
You might not be aware, but completing side objectives is significantly harder after completing the main objective. Completing the main objective increases the enemy spawn rate by more than 4x.
For this reason, I always ping side objectives, as well as enemy spawns I want to kill, prior to the last main objective. Once the main objective is done, I almost always bee-line straight to extract.
With that being said, I also always make it a point to communicate what I’m doing. Ignoring comms is kind of a dick move, in my opinion, but I try not to judge in case English isn’t someone’s primary language or if there are other circumstances I’m not aware of.
But yeah, if you want to do side objectives or look for samples, I highly recommend doing it before you do the main objective. And use map pings as much as possible.
I mean, as host if you kick people between deployments then no harm no foul.
Some international players can’t read English, the text chat is easy to ignore and some have voice chat or all sound disabled/muted. So it can be difficult to co-ordinate with randoms but you can get lucky or just play on a low difficulty to relax and have fun with casual bouts of teamwork.
I just use pings and the comms wheel to indicate where I’m going and what I’m doing.
Also keep in mind that some players have interpreted the “meta” of side objectives being significantly harder to complete after the primary objective to mean “beeline for the extract after the primary objective is done”.
I played with 3 random Japanese players (i think) I didn’t understand a word they said none of them could speak English but we communicated perfectly using the wheel and way points.
Then again I’ve played with English speakers who are the exact opposite
I got kicked at extraction but we completed 100%, and that peeved me
