Rant: Standard battle mode 101: Caps

[MrKilmister]

As far as objectives are concerned in standard battle mode, base cap defense is the top priority, if you wish to likely win. Trying to take the red base cap will be futile, as long as the reds can continue to successfully land damaging shots on you or your fellow greens inside the red base cap - the cap thus resets. 

 

The rant:  FAR TOO OFTEN, over and over again, I see four or more teammates neglect to defend their own base cap. Instead, they greedily rush off, usually platooned together over on one flank, into the red base cap too soon, stubbornly derp around inside, clustered together. One by one they get wrecked. The result is the reds run up the score as they kill them off and the red base cap keeps resetting. Unless fortunately there are a couple of strong carry-hards on your team, the security of the base and likelihood of victory are heavily jeopardized. I can't fathom why there are so many players who fail to understand this most basic aspects of the game.

 

Rant over. 

[TheKrimzonDemon]

I feel your pain, brotatochip. I feel your pain.

[pmgaudio]

As far as objectives are concerned in standard battle mode, base cap defense is the top priority, if you wish to likely win. Trying to take the red base cap will be futile as long as the reds can continue to successfully land damaging shots on you or your fellow greens inside the red base cap - the cap thus resets. 

 

The rant:  FAR TOO OFTEN, over and over again, I see four or more teammates neglect to defend of their own base cap. Instead, they greedily rush off, usually together over on one flank, into the red base cap too soon then stubbornly derp around inside, clustered together. One by one they get wrecked. The result is the reds run up the score as they kill them off and the red base cap keeps resetting. Unless fortunately there are a couple of strong carry-hards on your team, the security of the base and likelihood of victory are heavily jeopardized. I can't fathom why there are so many players who fail to understand this most basic aspects of the game.

 

Rant over. 

 

[Midnight_Fog]

The sad part is when it comes to posts giving advice on the forums is 90% of the players who need this advice never read the forums or even visit the main website to find out about patches and so on. On the flip side not every player in game who makes a mistake is a bad player. They may be just having a bad match. The best players and teams can make mistakes. This happens to even the best teams/players in esports. Just look at what happened to cloud-9 at the 18 million dollar prize money esport event for DOTA. Best team/players in the world for DOTA outed by a new team in the first round. 

 

 

[atPrick__]

Play to accomplish the objective.

 

Play to accomplish the objective.

 

Play to accomplish the objective.

 

Play to accomplish the objective.

 

Play to accomplish the objective.

[Admiral_Franz_von_Hipper]

Yes, and people, mostly at the lower tiers, call me "dumb" and "not know how to play" when I declare at the beginning of the match to defend cap.