Aguia Vermelha - Whitelist Report: Viktor R. Kleiner, Spirit of the Whitelist
What’s your BYOND key?
Aguia Vermelha
Round ID:
24857
Your character name:
Gian Conventry
Accused BYOND key:
Axyinious
Accused character name:
Viktor R. Kleiner
What rule(s) were broken?:
Spirit of the Whitelist
Whitelist in question:
Commanding Officer
Description of the incident:
I come in here to open a report for malicious incompetence and overall spirit of the whitelist on character Viktor R. Kleiner. In round ID 24857, Chance’s Claim, Viktor’s first order was to block the security checkpoints and allow only Squad Corpsmen to go through, a behavior which I believe is looked down by the WL. Instead of blocking the hangar checkpoints, the ones right outside of Briefing (west of it) were locked down, which gave a headache to everyone that had to go to Medical early on to grab supplies. I myself, playing as SADAR, had to ask him on Squad channel to let me through, which wasn’t answered.
The Briefing ended around 00:22 (not entirely sure) and the plan followed as;
BRAVO - FOB
ALPHA - ASSIST BRAVO IN FOB AND COMMS
CHARLIE & DELTA - DEPLOY THROUGH LZ1 AND SAVE FORECON
FOB: LZ2
There were two major tactical issues with the plan, the most obvious one was that Forecon died at 00:12 and were already perma by the moment we’d reach LZ1 (which the CO commented in LRC that it wasn’t important because they’d be worth their intel anyways) and that more than half the entire fighting force (Charlie and Delta were bigger when compared to Bravo and Alpha that round) was sent to a point which had no great significance in the round, as it was not our LZ nor was the secondary comms useful at this point in the round.
When loaded on Alamo, still pre-drop, Alpha SL Calum McDonald (a plat medal SL) made a request to move Alpha to Casino, which is directly north of LZ2, and set a staging point there. Calum informed the CO in Command channel at which he received no answer, when reiterating that he wasn’t authorized to follow the plan on Alpha comms he received an O.K from the CO Kleiner to proceed with what Calum himself proposed.
When hitting ground, Alpha moved to Casino and split up between a team on comms and another right on the edge of Casino. My information about the Xenomorph side is limited but I’ve been told in LRC by BUT (Lurker player of the round) that xenos scouting LZ-2 confirmed FOB was being built there, knowing this they immediately relocated to Hospital (even with the turrets being deployed at LZ1 since Normandy was launched first, which was pretty dumb by itself).
Alpha found itself overwhelmed by the entire Xenomorph force and was quickly wiped, Bravo went north to help and managed to scavenge some marines that had been killed (me included) while taking losses of their own.
Upon personal conversations with the Alpha SL, we both agreed that regardless of the course of action taken it would’ve resulted in the wipe of Alpha. Even if Alpha had stayed at the FOB as originally planned, it’s important to remember that this occurred early on, and there was a shortage of skilled ComTechs in both squads, leaving the FOB without any defensible cades.
As the round progressed, the FOB was being hit by the full on hive and most of Alpha and Bravo were out of operation by the time Charlie and Delta redeployed (which took around 13 minutes to be done).
In about 40 minutes into the round, xenos were already attacking Alamo and at this moment I snapped a screenshot of the balance of Marines (26) vs Xenos (28), which was absurd.
Alamo was overrun, and surprisingly the Queen does not hijack the Alamo, which was automatically sent up with half the hive on it. Nevertheless, by 00:50 into the round Almayer was wiped, with few marines delaying.
I think the plan was sloppily made and displayed a lack of competency. You’d expect more of a role that directly influences the whole round and is inarguably the most important of them all. Actions taken by the CO were completely detrimental to the enjoyment of the game.
Kleiner was already suspended for two weeks by the CO council for doing plans that were nearing griefing. An action that he was mad at and went on to make a forum post about it. Turns out that people like me, that work a 9-5 and hardly get a spec roll/is able to play the game don’t like prepping for 20m to have their game ended in 10m because the CO makes half-cocked plans that result in 1h rounds.
Furthermore, I find it curious that XOs like Frost Whitelock and Wayne Durstine, both of which that have been consistently outputing better rounds than Kleiner still get their apps denied. I wonder if Kleiner would get his app accepted in current age.
It should be noted for anybody reading this report that I hold no personal issues with Kleiner and this is my first time in 7 years of playing this game that I open a whitelist report, I just feel that rounds with Kleiner have been consistently demoralizing to play and I’m reaching a point of not joining any of them.
Evidence:
Marine x Xeno balance during Alamo takeover:
Synth POV reaching FOB with Delta & Charlie after Forecon corpses extraction:
Kleiner answer to being questioned on why sending two full squads to take corpses:
Rest on logs.