in the MA, thursday night, a little back n forth between bases. i died, and reupped to meet my wingman. i get there to the fight, he has to rtb right then. i cover him out, then turn back in. i see the winged pair we'd been fighting. and just then a 110 comes flying through, i angle for him and i hear a rook tell me not to latch on to the 110 bc the winged guys are professional pickers. so i make a fast pass on the 110, miss, and then realize the 110 is afk. so im off to fight the winged pair. the voice that told me not to latch on, is engaging the winged pair. hes on the 6 of one red and already turning, but the other red is making an angle for him. so i tell the very well known, very well versed rook team mate , "ok hes in, get ready" bc the red guy was at 1.5k out and movin in very fast to a turning fight. so, hes basically a few seconds out. im about D800 from the 2nd red and have a good angle, but no shot yet. im focused on him, ive told my guy to get ready, bc "hes in", now its just matter of a good 2v2. a split second later, poof, my guy gets hammered and in tower.
so, about 2-3 mins later, im still trying to pin these winged red guys down and keep my E bank too. i hear that same rook voice from before. he starts ripping me a new one, bc he said that i didnt tell him the red guy was on his 6. in my mind, i gave him ample warning. i told him, "ok, hes in, get ready", and for the simple fact, that this rook is the same guy, who 2 mins before was telling me that the red guys are professional pickers. so, he frkn knows what theyre up to! yet hes pissed at me. dude, you just frkn told me that theyre professional pickers! i expect you to know when to break off, i expect you to know what kind of fight we are in. when i say "hes in", i expect you to know, that means hes trying to frkn kill you! make a move and lets adjust! i tell him that i did say something. of course, he says i didnt say a damn thing. so i tell him, "my mistake then" and that i wouldnt purposely say nothing and just watch him get blasted. he says, "pfft, yeah". i didnt feel like messing around with it anymore, so i left the fight and they can do whatever the hell theyre goin to do.
for me, there must be a gray area, as far as, what do i have to tell my team mate during the fight? im wondering if i shouldve been telling him each and every distance change. but, hes so well versed, that he knows this damn fight. i feel like its panic comms if i have to chatter, 800, 600, 400, break! break! break! especially with experienced players, bc they already know this fight well. i know everyone has heard someone say, "yeah i know", after you told them someones on his 6 or making angles on him. some guys, you know they know hes there, but you tell em anyway. in this fight, with my very experienced teammate, i felt like i kept it simple on comms and did exactly what i was supposed to do. i told him "ok, hes in, get ready". anything after that is unnecessary. he did not feel that way. he wanted me to update him on every little thing, i guess. what? so now i have to do the constant chatter comms and fly? on top of that i have to try to shoot those red guys down? which means i need to have some sort of marksmanship? what tha? huh? thats an awful lot to ask from me. flying and aiming take a big hit when i have to divert my mental resources to constant chatter comms. so basically, if youre around me, pick your poison. you want constant chatter comms and mostly flopping, spraying and tower or simple comms and my best ACM and maybe not frkn gettin the crap kicked out of us? i dont have a lot, but what i do have is not worth a shirt, so you better use it wisely.
