after being abstinent for almost a year I thought to myself (after checking my Inquisition HQ, what challenges I could work on) ... ah, well, let's power DAIMP up (to at least finish these 4 nightmare dragons I need for the challenge ^^)
decided to start with a threatening to warm up: even found a lobby, yay
black screen and crash to desktop
now I remember one of the reasons why I stopped...
back zu ME3MP 
after being abstinent for almost a year I thought to myself (after checking my Inquisition HQ, what challenges I could work on) ... ah, well, let's power DAIMP up (to at least finish these 4 nightmare dragons I need for the challenge ^^)
decided to start with a threatening to warm up: even found a lobby, yay
black screen and crash to desktop
now I remember one of the reasons why I stopped...
back zu ME3MP
My god, it's been a year? Really?
Mostly good games this weekend but I have to host most of the time becasue success rate for joining a game is about 1 in 10 at best I find.
More new players and off course lots of vets still. A bit of a rash of people grabbing the torch and running ahead as if they are still playing a lower level only to die horribly 5 feet from the fire starter. (Especially vs the bolters....ugh)
On the upside, the Red Tramplers have been oh so chatty, more than normal it seems. "Flank them!" Just as our team is flanking them. "Where's your maker now!" Just after I have killed the last one. "Kill the Archer!" When we don't have an archer in our group. No wonder we beat up on those guys.
Mostly good games this weekend but I have to host most of the time becasue success rate for joining a game is about 1 in 10 at best I find.
More new players and off course lots of vets still. A bit of a rash of people grabbing the torch and running ahead as if they are still playing a lower level only to die horribly 5 feet from the fire starter. (Especially vs the bolters....ugh)
On the upside, the Red Tramplers have been oh so chatty, more than normal it seems. "Flank them!" Just as our team is flanking them. "Where's your maker now!" Just after I have killed the last one. "Kill the Archer!" When we don't have an archer in our group. No wonder we beat up on those guys.
I enjoy listening to the screams from my SILENT Saarebas when the Inferno Dragon spit-fireballs me into a walking torch.
Played a whole bunch of routine paired up with 1h weapons and greatsword to complete a bunch of challenges, but on to the other portion of the weekend, which was 95% drama free. Played a few rounds with Autumn and Kallen last night, had fun, Kallen proved to be the blue screen champion but it had no effect on the game as it was while games were starting and he was able to get back in for the mostpart.
But on to the 5% which left me aggravated and sort of just WTF(used here as an adjective to describe a mood). I will keep this nameless for the sake of not being a player bash, but here it goes:
Joined a pug perilous, two players in the lobby, one on a Saarebas, the other a Legionnaire. Lego is a friend of mine, and the Saarebas is, for the little I know of him/her, NOT a friend of mine. But something led me to stay and see what happens. Zone 1 lego starts plummeting health, and immediately the Saar makes some very rude comments about telling him to go back to threatening. He red skulls Lego. In between zones, lego skips recovery font, so what do we conclude? Belt of urgency, ok, got it. Also took a look at the lego and he's rocking the wintersbreath shield, so sounds like a fun time. I think we had qunari, so thats probably one of the harder factions to balance the health, and lego does drop once or twice by the end of zone 3. In zone 3, a LB person pops in and is immediately assaulted by this strange, singing, rude MF'er. They exchange some heated words, and the Saarebas leaves and migrates us at the end of zone 3. We then get to spend the remainder of the match saying how terrible of a person he/she is and I can make my conclusion that I never wish to be in another lobby with said Arsehole.
How some people can be so ignorant, arrogant, and downright crazy most of the time is beyond me. There is a definite power struggle, perhaps a personality disorder, and several other factors affecting his/her behavior I'm sure. But the childish belittling is something I wouldn't tolerate out of anyone. As a community, it is our job to seek these people out and defend each other- if not the innocent rookie thats in over his head once in a while- so that we can continue to enjoy the game in all it's broken splendor!
My god, it's been a year? Really?
indeed ^^
but maybe I'll give it another try... tomorrow...
Only ran across one other person that rude, did he have a color and month in their name by chance?
For the sake of anonymity, I won't give any specifics, but no, not him. Haven't seen that bugger in a while.
I thought about whether or not to name the person, and if it was yesterday, I'd blast his/her ass without hesitation. But the well rested side of me said that the more important aspect to this shared experience is that we don't enable such behavior. It is quite shameful.
How some people can be so ignorant, arrogant, and downright crazy most of the time is beyond me.
Some people are just all-around miserable and/or unstable. Thankfully, I've only encountered one person like this, and that was back when the Demon Commander could one-shot people and stealth damage was a thing. Got a mouthful from him when it happened to me immediately after planting the flag, and more after the game. Dude was reprehensible.
Just don't do what I did and forget the name. 
I thought about whether or not to name the person, and if it was yesterday, I'd blast his/her ass without hesitation. But the well rested side of me said that the more important aspect to this shared experience is that we don't enable such behavior. It is quite shameful.
I laughed so hard looking at your post and your portrait! Priceless and if you truly were Deadpool, it would be even funnier
"Kill the Archer!" When we don't have an archer in our group.
Silent Sister's War Cry.
Was the guy a barrier bot or did he try dps? The way I was yesterday I would have just started to rip him a new one for talking smack, when he wasn't keeping barrier up or wasn't killing stuff fast enough. But luckily lost power so didn't have to deal with much of that.
Was running wild with a Saarebas, stomping and stuff and killing packs, not sticking with group, that part of it I don't care if he runs to the end and kills everything or fights with us. Me and my bud fought at a normal pace and tried to play the game together
The only big spat I have had in this game came in about the 1st week of play, it was over the guy running ahead and not collecting loot. The guy I had words with was a screaming hyena.
) and me and the other guy killed off the dragon. The Saarebas said I was now on his list of players to make miserable whenever he sees me. It sounded super passive aggressive. So I actively avoided this person for a pretty long time since I'm not into aggravating drama. However, now, he either forgot about this or realized it was an accident after awhile. We have played games since and it was never brought up again and he actually greets me when I'm in game with him. So, sometimes there are misunderstandings in this game. But hopefully people can forgive and forget (or maybe just forget in my case 
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How some people can be so ignorant, arrogant, and downright crazy most of the time is beyond me. There is a definite power struggle, perhaps a personality disorder, and several other factors affecting his/her behavior I'm sure. But the childish belittling is something I wouldn't tolerate out of anyone. As a community, it is our job to seek these people out and defend each other- if not the innocent rookie thats in over his head once in a while- so that we can continue to enjoy the game in all it's broken splendor!
And this is why I like the mute/block option! Thank the Maker for that!
That being said I have ran into jerks like this and when I go to text them for what ever reason, ALL their info on their profile is set to private which leads be to believe they are a real troll or have had issues in the past with people calling them out.
Luckily the real bad ones don't seem to stick around long or at least I don't see them again.
I will keep this nameless for the sake of not being a player bash, but here it goes:
Joined a pug perilous, two players in the lobby, one on a Saarebas, the other a Legionnaire. Lego is a friend of mine, and the Saarebas is, for the little I know of him/her, NOT a friend of mine. But something led me to stay and see what happens. Zone 1 lego starts plummeting health, and immediately the Saar makes some very rude comments about telling him to go back to threatening. He red skulls Lego. In between zones, lego skips recovery font, so what do we conclude? Belt of urgency, ok, got it. Also took a look at the lego and he's rocking the wintersbreath shield, so sounds like a fun time. I think we had qunari, so thats probably one of the harder factions to balance the health, and lego does drop once or twice by the end of zone 3. In zone 3, a LB person pops in and is immediately assaulted by this strange, singing, rude MF'er. They exchange some heated words, and the Saarebas leaves and migrates us at the end of zone 3. We then get to spend the remainder of the match saying how terrible of a person he/she is and I can make my conclusion that I never wish to be in another lobby with said Arsehole.
How some people can be so ignorant, arrogant, and downright crazy most of the time is beyond me. There is a definite power struggle, perhaps a personality disorder, and several other factors affecting his/her behavior I'm sure. But the childish belittling is something I wouldn't tolerate out of anyone. As a community, it is our job to seek these people out and defend each other- if not the innocent rookie thats in over his head once in a while- so that we can continue to enjoy the game in all it's broken splendor!
Tip of the iceberg.
My biggest altercation came from my first ever NM dragon run near the beginning of my time with this game.
Mine was when I first started joining perilous PUG. Back then about 30% of the perilous PUG was ran by the same person. I was yelled at a few times for not doing things the "right" way and told to not revive people because they were not doing things the "right" way. So I kind of avoided his PUG.
This sounds very familiar.... Yes, you always have to play specifically and deliberately when this person is hosting if it's who I think it is. This person did get me through a lot of NM dragons in the beginning so I won't complain too much. But yes, I was nearly never revived by him to my knowledge which must mean I was always playing wrongMine was when I first started joining perilous PUG. Back then about 30% of the perilous PUG was ran by the same person. I was yelled at a few times for not doing things the "right" way and told to not revive people because they were not doing things the "right" way. So I kind of avoided his PUG.
I still remember my first scolding, it was hilarious. Three warriors and a mage pugging a threatening match. We skipped a rogue door for obvious reason. Yet we see the mage spamming "Over here!", mind you mage is lobby leader. So here are 3 warriors that stopped dead in our tracks, and then at the same time we three started for the next zone. Mage keeps spamming and spamming, even see him jumping to get our attention. Well we zoned.
Next thing I hear is some squeaky voice yelling at us for skipping the treasure room and how we all need gold, blah blah blah swear at us the usual. He finally finishes his tirade and I get on my mic and calmly said, "no rogue, quit your damn complaining". He stayed quiet after that.
I did that this morning but with friends haha. I couldn't see "Reaver" under a very light banner on the one player's name, thought it said Keeper. He came over and I said "oh my keeper, you've been working out!" Then we played onward. I've been known to have some blonde moments
I will sometimes call people to the door (who can actually open them) and they will stand right by the door running around and trying to figure out what the hell I wanted by calling them over... then you see this pause in their movement when they realise only they can open the door and they get all sheepish after that,
I will sometimes call people to the door (who can actually open them) and they will stand right by the door running around and trying to figure out what the hell I wanted by calling them over... then you see this pause in their movement when they realise only they can open the door and they get all sheepish after that,
I don't know how many times I would be like, "Mage door, we don't have a mage... oh wait.. I guess I'm a mage now actually"
At least DAIMP has a mute. I played a LOT of ME3MP (which i love) but you cannot mute players and I've had to listen to a wide range of mild to very annoying things and people try to dictate how others play. I love learning how to improve, tips from friends are welcome, bullying from complete strangers though...
I avoid certain players who just ramble stupid nonsense into their mics.. I'll land in a lobby, see the person(s) and jump out. If that's rude, so be it. I really don't feel like i should HAVE to mute someone as then it's sort of on me for not being friendly. I guess it's the same rudeness on my part either way...
Often I'll get random Friend Requests in DAIMP when i help out in PUG Routine or threatening (and the occasional lobby invite spam) where when i first started playing i kept getting berated and kicked. I know it's a social game, but if i haven't run at least 3 or 4 matches on different occasions I'm probably not going to let the person on my list let alone start a voice chat with... I've a few people from other games, and it's cool to see what they are playing, but they aren't regular partners nor would i voice chat them randomly.
I like helping new players, but I'm not anyone's ****** either. I find that, and understand the reasons, many casual players want to zerg everything without playing the damn RPG. These casuals then cling to those who have put in the time to try to leverage their position. This happens in real life as well. I wont put up with it ('it' being taking credit off someone else's effort, helping out is always a good thing with friends, but being taken advantage of.. entitled to... there is a line) with real life friends so i certainly wont with virtual people (which is what they are until we talk a little one on one, often enough). I want to embrace everyone, but the anonymous thing is a reality barrier and I've been through lots in the past where things/people aren't what/who they claim they are. I'm a skeptical arse...
If you think Scooby Doo is the pinnacle of entertainment on TV, that's great, but i really don't want to hear about it and certainly means I have little in common with you. Better i never heard you in the first place. Now I'm a judgemental arse... If the person used their mic to call out a missed door, or needs help, that's great! I think many feel having a mic gives them a right to orchestrate the game session and that's not so great. I like to hear about people's experiences and what they are exploring. If it's two friends talking amongst themselves, they might be better served with a PS4 party chat room, i often don't mind muting those ones as I'm not in on the conversation or involved in any way.
Unfortunately most of the noise from game mics is: -Deep Breathing-, kids in background, tacky music (usually there to troll, I assume), or explaining the game to everyone in the lobby while being off on 90% of the points, I loved the lady in ME3MP who had the cockatoo chattering in the background.. amusing. but that rarely ever happens.
C'mon, just flip up the mic until you have something to say game related. PLEASE. I do wish certain people had mics plugged in 
TL;DR, mute is wonderful, but mic discretion would be better.
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