AAR: Charity RealSim: Bastards @ Hell Survivors 20DEC2014
Dec 20, 2014 22:21:11 GMT -5
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Post by Stinger on Dec 20, 2014 22:21:11 GMT -5
Guess I'll start my first AAR thread:
This event was awesome. I definitely enjoyed having the full field all at once.
The Jeep again added an extra element to the game, and I was glad to have actual missions in addition to the regular land-grab stuff.
Having Mosin as our CO was great, because we never had issues with trying to get our objectives. It seemed like 1-2 and 1-3 occasionally had some communication issues. My squad, 1-1, never encountered any problems contacting Mosin.
I have no complaints about how The Bastards handled any aspects of the game. I think it all went very well.
While it's not really a variable that The Bastards can control, my gun (and other equipment) all worked flawlessly for once, so that improved my overall experience as well.
Many people, on both sides, were complaining about hit calling. What I have to say about this is: It's cold, and in the cold, things do not always perform the same. P*s, GBB, AEGs, and spring guns all have hop-up units which utilize rubber hop-up buckings. In the cold, rubber does weird things (anyone remember the Challenger explosion? Well that was because of cold rubber). Add to that the overcast weather (making it very hard to see BBs) and you have a combination that makes it hard to identify where you're hitting. There were plenty of times where I could have sworn that I was hitting a guy and he wasn't calling it. But once I moved to a better position and shot, he instantly called it. In these conditions, I give the benefit of the doubt. Now I'm sure that some people were cheating and that happens. It's a sport. People play dirty. But I experienced some very nasty feedback from Tan that was unwarranted. That leads to my second point, and only bad experience of the day:
Alpha was tasked with moving a bomb-maker from our uncapturable base to some point (I was never told). Mosin wanted us to move through the city. Alpha 1-1, my squad, was point in our attack. We got repelled pretty hard. Tan was dug in well. Some of us moved to the left side of the road (left from our perspective, geographically east). I traded fire with three Tan guys that I couldn't seem to hit. I got hit once, called it, and was revived by a medic pretty quick. I then shot at one Tan guy and he called it no problem. I got hit again, called it, put my dead rag on again, and began getting healed a second time. I got hit a few times here, which is understandable because I was sightly in the way. There were two Tan still in, about twenty meters ahead. A third Tan had a dead-rag on and was standing out of the way. The Tan were engaging units across the road, to our right (geographically west). The one that I could see started to reload just as my medic finished tying an armband on. I threw my dead-rag off and shot at him just as he was putting his magazine in. He then raised his gun and started shooting. I assumed I was missing him or he wasn't calling it, so I kept shooting. He kept shooting. He was hitting me, I was hitting him, and it was clear he was doing it to cause me duress. I stopped shooting, raised my arms in protest (which he then mockingly did the same), and put my dead-rag on (at this point I was totally out of play - cannot be healed).
I was at the front of our group of Green (two guys from Alpha 1-1, the rest were 1-3). I could not see if my allies behind me were being hit. I know many of them were calling hits. Tan claimed they were hitting them. I honestly can't tell you if they were or not, so I remain neutral on that point. The Jeep came by, lit us all up (during which I, wearing a dead-rag, got shot several times but did not complain because I was again in the way). Pretty much all of us but two or three guys had dead-rags on at this point. One of our remaining guys was a 1-3 machinegunner. As two Tan infantry came up, he shot them both (and one of them promptly raged). I did not notice the 1-3 guy get hit. He could have, but I did not see it.
This is where it gets bad though- The first Tan guy that I shot walks up, wearing his dead rag, and proceeds to shoot into our mass of (mostly) dead players. He hit me, he hit people that I know were out behind me, and he missed my medic who had been shielded by my body. The medic called a hit anyways, because he was 15-ish years old and this grown ass-man is running up wearing a dead rag firing into a mass of people who have already called their hits! Then the "grown-ass man" walks up to my medic, asks him his engagement distance (medic says "twenty, which is why I didn't want to shoot you"), and then starts lecturing the kid about why the kid can't shoot him at that distance, repeating the words, "You can't [shoot me] because we're within twenty feet." I don't know why he kept saying that; nobody shot him within their MED.
The Tan forces walked off, and we just sat there in shock and bled out. I should have told a mod, but I didn't. I just got back to the game and forgot about it. Until I watched the video and saw that this is absolutely ridiculous. I have it all on video. I will upload it tomorrow.
This event was awesome. I definitely enjoyed having the full field all at once.
The Jeep again added an extra element to the game, and I was glad to have actual missions in addition to the regular land-grab stuff.
Having Mosin as our CO was great, because we never had issues with trying to get our objectives. It seemed like 1-2 and 1-3 occasionally had some communication issues. My squad, 1-1, never encountered any problems contacting Mosin.
I have no complaints about how The Bastards handled any aspects of the game. I think it all went very well.
While it's not really a variable that The Bastards can control, my gun (and other equipment) all worked flawlessly for once, so that improved my overall experience as well.
Many people, on both sides, were complaining about hit calling. What I have to say about this is: It's cold, and in the cold, things do not always perform the same. P*s, GBB, AEGs, and spring guns all have hop-up units which utilize rubber hop-up buckings. In the cold, rubber does weird things (anyone remember the Challenger explosion? Well that was because of cold rubber). Add to that the overcast weather (making it very hard to see BBs) and you have a combination that makes it hard to identify where you're hitting. There were plenty of times where I could have sworn that I was hitting a guy and he wasn't calling it. But once I moved to a better position and shot, he instantly called it. In these conditions, I give the benefit of the doubt. Now I'm sure that some people were cheating and that happens. It's a sport. People play dirty. But I experienced some very nasty feedback from Tan that was unwarranted. That leads to my second point, and only bad experience of the day:
Alpha was tasked with moving a bomb-maker from our uncapturable base to some point (I was never told). Mosin wanted us to move through the city. Alpha 1-1, my squad, was point in our attack. We got repelled pretty hard. Tan was dug in well. Some of us moved to the left side of the road (left from our perspective, geographically east). I traded fire with three Tan guys that I couldn't seem to hit. I got hit once, called it, and was revived by a medic pretty quick. I then shot at one Tan guy and he called it no problem. I got hit again, called it, put my dead rag on again, and began getting healed a second time. I got hit a few times here, which is understandable because I was sightly in the way. There were two Tan still in, about twenty meters ahead. A third Tan had a dead-rag on and was standing out of the way. The Tan were engaging units across the road, to our right (geographically west). The one that I could see started to reload just as my medic finished tying an armband on. I threw my dead-rag off and shot at him just as he was putting his magazine in. He then raised his gun and started shooting. I assumed I was missing him or he wasn't calling it, so I kept shooting. He kept shooting. He was hitting me, I was hitting him, and it was clear he was doing it to cause me duress. I stopped shooting, raised my arms in protest (which he then mockingly did the same), and put my dead-rag on (at this point I was totally out of play - cannot be healed).
I was at the front of our group of Green (two guys from Alpha 1-1, the rest were 1-3). I could not see if my allies behind me were being hit. I know many of them were calling hits. Tan claimed they were hitting them. I honestly can't tell you if they were or not, so I remain neutral on that point. The Jeep came by, lit us all up (during which I, wearing a dead-rag, got shot several times but did not complain because I was again in the way). Pretty much all of us but two or three guys had dead-rags on at this point. One of our remaining guys was a 1-3 machinegunner. As two Tan infantry came up, he shot them both (and one of them promptly raged). I did not notice the 1-3 guy get hit. He could have, but I did not see it.
This is where it gets bad though- The first Tan guy that I shot walks up, wearing his dead rag, and proceeds to shoot into our mass of (mostly) dead players. He hit me, he hit people that I know were out behind me, and he missed my medic who had been shielded by my body. The medic called a hit anyways, because he was 15-ish years old and this grown ass-man is running up wearing a dead rag firing into a mass of people who have already called their hits! Then the "grown-ass man" walks up to my medic, asks him his engagement distance (medic says "twenty, which is why I didn't want to shoot you"), and then starts lecturing the kid about why the kid can't shoot him at that distance, repeating the words, "You can't [shoot me] because we're within twenty feet." I don't know why he kept saying that; nobody shot him within their MED.
The Tan forces walked off, and we just sat there in shock and bled out. I should have told a mod, but I didn't. I just got back to the game and forgot about it. Until I watched the video and saw that this is absolutely ridiculous. I have it all on video. I will upload it tomorrow.