Auxiliary Suffering Officer

General Acid Goop
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Do you know what insanity is? No, I’m not going down that reference hole. All I want to say is that playing ASO is hard. Start the round on lowpop? No req present, go man the line, pepare the FOB crate. Spend the entiretly of the round being a glorified QM. Another round. No command staff? Get the insane SO to be aCO and go man the line again cause there are no req.

Next round, there is a CT, but you need to manage the second line anyway. Oh, the marines are beating the shit out of each other again? What, no MPs? Time to make a trip to the sec checkpoing (if you aren’t did that already) and get your ass full of pepper sprays, flashes and zipties (ASO doesn’t fucking have policing skills, but for some reason has brig access), detain a marine, hold him prisoner in req while you are managing the line. Once it’s over, grab the marine and threaten to throw him into the ASRS pit, and then let him go.

Hey, there’s intel again! I hope you didn’t forget to set intel aSL? Time to sort out intel! Oh, what? Gunship Pilot went asleep right in the middle of the op? Bruh, time to pilot normandy, even through you never played GP and it’s been ages since you played DCC or DP. By sheer fucking luck and brain power figure out how to do medevac and pick up fultons. By the way, did you load the OB?

Another day, another round. What? There is no req nor MP again? Time to start the grind. What do you say? Dead CLF synth groundside? Command say to deal with it? Okay! Alamo comes, aaaand there is no synth! Ask Bravo. Bravo says some moron decided to revive the fucking CLF synth… Okay, okay. At least it’s not loose. Wait for alamo to come, and here it is! Alone. Trying to untie itself and barely failing it as you step in. Get the synth to brig, get it legcuffed. Think what to do. Xo awakens, goes to look at the CLF synth. CO awakens, goes to look at CLF synth while you are trying to hold it in brig. End up putting the synth into a straight jacket + zipties + legcuffs. Thank the heavens round ended. Hey, is the OB loaded?

Hey, another operation again. What’s that? No req? Say “:g No requisitions? I hate my life! I hate my life! I hate my life!” Proceed with manning the line anyway. At least the CMP is awake. Wait. The CMP is fucking getting his ass kicked by some rando marine he is trying to arrest near the line. Welp, leave the line, flash a passerby marine, then flash the marine the CMP is battling, and go back inside! Continue with the l- Someone fucking shot a slug at a guy on catwalks middeck… Right over the ASRS pit… Welp… Time to load the OB!

A new operation, a new round. QM is present. Help manage the line. QM is livid because you gave SG the TWO FUCKING SG DRUMS which QM didn’t want to give marines! Marines now hate QM. QM decides to convert to Islam and walk the path of jihadism, blowing half of the lower deck as soon as the round ends. Oh, did you spend a shit ton of time processing intel? Sorry! Command decided to evac! Want to help out IOs? You are forced to watch them dying to to an army of backliners somewhere in the far corner of the map… Oh well, OB loading time.

Hey, it’s your boy the intel officer calling! What? He found a W-Y headset on the surface and discovered that Corporate Liaison bugged CiC? They also got the other IO addicted to ultrazine? Well, fuck. Time to time go and hunt down an armed addict with just a pistol while CO is questioning CL.

In conclusion, all I can say is that ASO is hard. It makes you a god of multitasking, and you are like the third person in command (the other two are basicly shut-ins living inside CiC), a cargo tech, a budget MP, a pilot, an intel guy, a loader. You are also usually the only voice of reason in this madhouse. All of this not even counting the times you must run CiC.

I will tell you truth, a terrible truth. One which you won’t admit to. ASO is worse than MP. Everyone dunks on MPs for a being shit, but at least they have a lot of downtime with nothing happening, waiting for the “rare high moments” to come. With ASO, it’s pure, infiltered suffering. All the time.

Anyway, that ends the stream of conciseness I subjected you to. I’m one of these people who just likes to write for the sake of writing. And no, I will not be formatting it anymore. Nor fixing mistakes.

Hmmm, It feels like I’ve forgot something looks into playtime records oh yes, It looks like need to play another 48.5 hours of this shit for my job unlock! Inhales AHAHA-


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My position on ASO is well know.

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rename it to assistant staff officer

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Ah, yes, ASO. The job pitch:

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Can’t wait to start playing it and see what all the fuss is about. I am working through all the subclasses first before I prestige into this monstrosity.

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ASO sucks Remove it make CE third incommand again

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I HATE THE WAY YOU THAT YOU WALK, THE WAY THAT YOU TALK, I HATE THE WAY THAT YOU DRESS.

SURPRISED YOU WANTED THAT FEATURE REQUEST.

YOU KNOW THAT WE GOT SOME SHIT TO ADDRESS.

I EVEN HATE WHEN YOU SAY THE WORD “NO REQ”, BUT THAT’S JUST ME I GUESS.

SOME SHIT JUST CRINGEWORTHY IT AIN’T EVEN GOTTA BE DEEP I GUESS.

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Whoa whoa whoa, let’s get it right. CMP got his ass kicked by a delta rifleman in heavy armor.

Every single one of these rounds was certified crazy. In the words of a very wise ASO:

“No req? I hate my life! I hate my life! I hate my life!”

Other tips: if it’s CC, don’t even bother

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Correct take!

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It’s actually not THAT bad. The problems mostly come from me playing on low-to-mid pop and playing ONLY ASO for a prolonged period of time.

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I don’t quite like ASO, but thats pretty biased since i liked sorting intel without having any higher responsibilites. Just being able to go down planet, fight for your life against backliners, and then have a rest topside sorting intel. Now its missing half of the things that made it good and its only because ASOs always wants to min-max intel by doing it themselves (they also have nothing else to do).

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ASO can be boring at times, but it can be REALLY busy, especially at lowpop if intel is working decently and there’s no req. It’s basically a mix of a lot of roles but that’s what makes it fun (sometimes)(when everything is well staffed and intel is dead you have nothing to do)

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That is true and will give you that. I think most of the issues come with high pop.

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Send xenoops to assassinate any researchers or IOs that try to be “helpful” in sorting intel for you because you seem busy

Conscript the nearest SO to work in req, forever. If they ask to leave, throw them into the ASRS from the second story. They will never be heard complaining again.

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DUNK them into the ASRS pit

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ASO truly is the jack of all trades, the role made to fill out roles that are not present within the almayer,i got 96 hours as ASO and i don’t even play nowdays because 70% of the time there is no QM and i would rather grind my QM to 70 hours rather than spend more hours as ASO just doing QM work.

Now when all the roles are filled ASO job becames much easier and you can take care of the intel team by helping them with OW, guiding marines to get dead IOs, doing appeals , processing intel and handling some extra RP stuff that can happen.

Lowpop has made ASO a much more difficult job than it was initially made for and specially since some ASOs have no clue how to do some jobs like handling req or handling enginnner jobs, helping the solo XO at CIC or command the operation if the XO wants to deploy or go cryo. I don’t blame them, it just that it requires more hours to understand each part that you oversee and work as substitutive there than the hours needed to unlock the job.

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Seems like the issue could be resolved by upping the hours.

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People tried that before but it ended up as the XO issue, people kept saying the req was too low and it needed more hours to unlock but then other people complained saying they don’t want to grind XX hours to unlock XO and etc.
Until we had multiple situations with new people being clueless , playing XO and fucking up (i don’t blame them), THEN maints woke up and realized XO needed a higher time unlock. I doubt it will happen to ASO since even tho people can barely know what they are doing the impact won’t be as huge as a clueless XO.

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ASO is also one of these slots you call roll on high 90% of time. It’s that unpopular as a go-to main job.

I’ve been playing ASO non-stop for almost two weeks now and I only had like two or three times when I didn’t manage roll ASO on high priority.

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Ye it is not very popular but it got better, back in the day when it released rounds would go dozens of minutes without any ASO, i would usually play alot in these rounds, i think out of my 96 hours i rolled like 6 times on medium and a single time in high , the others were from the join menu.

Around 30-40% of marines roll Spec on High and other things like SG or perhaps XO, ASO still got the same problem as QM, it is very repeatable and specially when you need to fill in the lack of roles, you ended up just playing old RO, SO, GP with a higher rank.

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