Omega-chan
Nov 10, 2007, 05:35 AM
Ohhhh...kay, rant ahead.
So, now that I've gotten a Platinum Perfect on my two highest-leveled characters, I've been taking my Fortetecher around to help out random parties. I usually luck out and get good parties, but tonight...oh man, I think that's the worst party I've been in for a long time. Let me lay out the basics...
- We were doing Moatoob on C-rank
- We were at the levels of 42, 32, 32 and 24
- Three of us, the 42 and the 32s (no, I'm not about to pull out an "omg low-level must be a nub"), knew the map like the backs of our hands
...Note the "three of us" there. That becomes important later, as at the beginning of the mission, us three who did know the map were under the impression that the fourth did as well.
The run started out well enough. The level 42 and I, both being Forces (I think she was a Fortetecher as well), were supporting and laying down a helping of severe asskick with Diga and Foie; the other level 32 was doing his part as a melee CAST, and the level 24 wasn't actually being all that moronic. We were doing really good, in fact, up until we got into the mines, and THAT is when it all went bad.
We discovered the level 24 did not know the map. He did not know what to do past the desert areas. Now, I could excuse this - would be more than willing to excuse it, in fact, I still get a bit lost on that map on occasion - if he had not proceeded to do his own thing, nearly get me and the other two killed several times, and cause us to miss the last 1Up chip and a couple of vital enemy spawns because we had to run off and bail his butt out of whatever he'd gotten himself into.
Wait, wait, I know. It's not that bad yet, right? Everyone messes up. Everyone has their off days. I know this well, I have plenty of bad days all by myself and try to be more forgiving of it than most other people would be. Well, here's where it gets to the part that really steamed me--
The level 24, just as we reached the area where an NPC may randomly join you (we had Tylor, which was the only redeeming factor from then on out) and were on our way to the first spawn in that area...
...called us all n00bs.
I can only guess that it's most likely because we weren't playing the game "his way", running all over the place to do god only knows what and get our asses beat.
Now, I admit to having a bit of a temper. So I told him "...YOU'RE the noob" (no one disagreed with me, so I'll admit I felt justified in calling him such) and we continued onward. That's about the time everything started to go to hell in a handbasket and everyone almost died several times. The CAST, our leader, brought this up just before we walked up to the laser fence before the friendship check, I agreed with some of the points he brought up, and then I was completely and totally blown out of the water at the response - "whut did i do", quoted exactly with the same bad spelling and lack of capitalization or punctuation as the original. The leader pointed out that he'd nearly gotten us all killed, I once again agreed (the other FO, probably quite wisely now that I think of it, was staying out of all this), and there came another response that just totally floored me - "how". Unless he was blind or something, how could he not have noticed we were always coming to his rescue and risking our own lives in the process? Well, we gave up at that point (smartest thing we'd done the whole time, I think) and went onward to finish the mission with a very, very dreary point total of 2 or 3 (I don't remember which offhand.)
All thanks to that one godsbedamned level 24 who didn't know what he was doing and made no effort to learn.
I suppose he got angry with us for not getting a full 10 points, because he once more called us n00bs and then left our party as soon as we got back to the club. I'm curious, now, as to how knowing the map, knowing what to do AND successfully bailing this moron's butt out several times constitutes us three being "n00bs", but I suppose I'm never going to understand idiot logic. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_confused.gif It's not so much the results that burn me, either, as the fact that he blatantly disregarded several orders to follow someone who knew the map (once we realized he didn't know, as he'd stated he did) and to stop getting himself into situations he couldn't handle. Why do people play if all they're going to do is get their team into trouble and then come out with a much less eloquent equivalent of "Well, it's all your fault because obviously I am the best player in this party."?
I'm sorry, I needed that. And I really don't think I'm going to be helping random teams out again. That moron should be proud of himself for making teams in need lose the opportunity to have a damn good support fT in their party - oh wait...that's a bad thing, isn't it? http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif
(Edited to fix a small error, a missing " and a wrongly-used word. I'm pedantic tonight. <3)
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So, now that I've gotten a Platinum Perfect on my two highest-leveled characters, I've been taking my Fortetecher around to help out random parties. I usually luck out and get good parties, but tonight...oh man, I think that's the worst party I've been in for a long time. Let me lay out the basics...
- We were doing Moatoob on C-rank
- We were at the levels of 42, 32, 32 and 24
- Three of us, the 42 and the 32s (no, I'm not about to pull out an "omg low-level must be a nub"), knew the map like the backs of our hands
...Note the "three of us" there. That becomes important later, as at the beginning of the mission, us three who did know the map were under the impression that the fourth did as well.
The run started out well enough. The level 42 and I, both being Forces (I think she was a Fortetecher as well), were supporting and laying down a helping of severe asskick with Diga and Foie; the other level 32 was doing his part as a melee CAST, and the level 24 wasn't actually being all that moronic. We were doing really good, in fact, up until we got into the mines, and THAT is when it all went bad.
We discovered the level 24 did not know the map. He did not know what to do past the desert areas. Now, I could excuse this - would be more than willing to excuse it, in fact, I still get a bit lost on that map on occasion - if he had not proceeded to do his own thing, nearly get me and the other two killed several times, and cause us to miss the last 1Up chip and a couple of vital enemy spawns because we had to run off and bail his butt out of whatever he'd gotten himself into.
Wait, wait, I know. It's not that bad yet, right? Everyone messes up. Everyone has their off days. I know this well, I have plenty of bad days all by myself and try to be more forgiving of it than most other people would be. Well, here's where it gets to the part that really steamed me--
The level 24, just as we reached the area where an NPC may randomly join you (we had Tylor, which was the only redeeming factor from then on out) and were on our way to the first spawn in that area...
...called us all n00bs.
I can only guess that it's most likely because we weren't playing the game "his way", running all over the place to do god only knows what and get our asses beat.
Now, I admit to having a bit of a temper. So I told him "...YOU'RE the noob" (no one disagreed with me, so I'll admit I felt justified in calling him such) and we continued onward. That's about the time everything started to go to hell in a handbasket and everyone almost died several times. The CAST, our leader, brought this up just before we walked up to the laser fence before the friendship check, I agreed with some of the points he brought up, and then I was completely and totally blown out of the water at the response - "whut did i do", quoted exactly with the same bad spelling and lack of capitalization or punctuation as the original. The leader pointed out that he'd nearly gotten us all killed, I once again agreed (the other FO, probably quite wisely now that I think of it, was staying out of all this), and there came another response that just totally floored me - "how". Unless he was blind or something, how could he not have noticed we were always coming to his rescue and risking our own lives in the process? Well, we gave up at that point (smartest thing we'd done the whole time, I think) and went onward to finish the mission with a very, very dreary point total of 2 or 3 (I don't remember which offhand.)
All thanks to that one godsbedamned level 24 who didn't know what he was doing and made no effort to learn.
I suppose he got angry with us for not getting a full 10 points, because he once more called us n00bs and then left our party as soon as we got back to the club. I'm curious, now, as to how knowing the map, knowing what to do AND successfully bailing this moron's butt out several times constitutes us three being "n00bs", but I suppose I'm never going to understand idiot logic. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_confused.gif It's not so much the results that burn me, either, as the fact that he blatantly disregarded several orders to follow someone who knew the map (once we realized he didn't know, as he'd stated he did) and to stop getting himself into situations he couldn't handle. Why do people play if all they're going to do is get their team into trouble and then come out with a much less eloquent equivalent of "Well, it's all your fault because obviously I am the best player in this party."?
I'm sorry, I needed that. And I really don't think I'm going to be helping random teams out again. That moron should be proud of himself for making teams in need lose the opportunity to have a damn good support fT in their party - oh wait...that's a bad thing, isn't it? http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif
(Edited to fix a small error, a missing " and a wrongly-used word. I'm pedantic tonight. <3)
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