[CONTRAVERSIAL] What makes a good PVE player in sandstorm - in my hunble opinion

PVE Player, Level 2000

Please don't hate me - this is just my opinion.

Good or Bad has nothing to do with level - i've seen level 50's legit play better than level 2000's on this game (lol)

RIGHT......

TRAITS OF GOOD PLAYERS
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TEAM-MATE SAVERS

No1 sign of a good team-mate is the guy who saves other teammates. This to me is the second most important thing in the game after "closing" or "clutching" or whatever people want to call it. When the suicide bomber's phone goes just behind you and this guy 1 shots him in the head before you even know what happened, that's a real quality player

CLOSERS

Closing time isn't for everyone, it requires the "three A's" - AIM - AWARENESS and ANGLES. It's what seperate the "top of the leaderboard" "let me stand where the bots are coming out with an RPK" "let me jump in front of you to steal a shot" scrub bot-bullies - and REAL PLAYERS with actual skill.

PS. When closing time comes at least be close to the objective - unlike these BUMS that are busy halfway across the map bot farming for points "oh sorry - I didnt know" - scrubs

GOOD ANGLES

I can see a good player within the first 30 seconds of any game just by seeing their movement around me and other players in CQB situations. If he's not jumping in my line of fire to steal a kill, or chucking flash bangs in front of my head just before a breach, or he understands that SMOKE DOESNT WORK IN PVE on serious servers - those are GOOD signs.

If I move to the doorway and he takes the other side or watches my six or covers off angles I can't see - GOOD PLAYER

DOESN'T TALK (ALOT)

The shittest players I have ever seen all have one thing in common. They start talking on the mic, usually before they've even got one kill. "Can everyone hear me!" - No I can't because i've muted you.

Last thing I need to hear before I go through the door is your voice - especially if your a random spewing fake tactical nonsense.

Good players just need to look at me and "nod" to let me know its safe to go in, see a target I can't see? shoot a tracer in that direction and i'll pick it up - don't believe me - watch the teams in action - a lot of hand signals and gestures because it's far simpler and less invasive - absoutely life or death? - get on the mic but make it short.

ISN'T A COMMANDER

AKA - Isn't a high maintenance player who needs another player to baby him around the map whilst killing more teammates then enemies with his useless air strikes whilst he shouts some fake tactical BS over the mic - we don't need a commander, we are all level 1000-3000 players if we can't complete without a commander we all need to uninstall the game and go play my little pony or some shit.

DOESNT PICK BAD OPTICS

I know it's a game and we just want to have a laugh, i'm just saying, the amount of players that pic the wrong optic for the job and wonder why they get smoked in CQB is unreal.

If you are interested in staying alive long for any period of time or even closing, probably best not to use a 66x optic which allows you to see through the earth's core - that way you can actually get some periphial vision. Dude trying to close on Tell with a 4x optic and wonders why he's walking into bullets.

DOESN'T TRY TO BE A SNIPER

Insurgency Sandstorm is a CQB game - most the of the action is happening 10-50 feet away from you. There's a handful of us and anywhere between 30/40 bots - we need SHOOTERS, ASSAULTERS, KILLERS, whatever you wanna call them. We don't need some dude halfway across the map pretending to be overwatch. If you sre gonna play that role, stay close to the team at least and maybe call out or do some recon - you know help the team, but really the best way to help is not to be a sniper in the first place because you understand them long guns are USELESS for what is needed to take an objective alone.