But it feels like I’m just absolutely fucked unless I’m metafriends with all the right people who’ll watch my back, and I’m a member of the super duper secret MTxenofucktardcord. This server means a lot to me, and I just want to improve people’s rounds. But it’s just beginning to feel like all these groups are looking out for each other, but unless I’m one of them I’ll just be left behind to get fucked over. I know it’s not that deep, it’s some silly space game or whatever. But it’s just so frustrating to deal with these people who completely fuck you unless they already know you.
It feels like staff never take action over anything but the most obvious rule breaches, and that if I make a player report I’ll just be condemned to the cringe mines or whatever. It seems like there’s nothing I can do but accept that I’m not going to get anywhere without making a little gang or whatever. I don’t fucking want to do that.
Lmao I’m usually pretty social, I just play a lot of different characters. The issue is that I shouldn’t have to make metabuddies with people to have to be able to play without getting fucked over. I’m friends with a fair few people but it’s spread over different marines
I have no metafriends and I have no issues having fun or playing a silly little army spacemen game. Generally people will go along with what I want or roleplay around when the chance permits since I talk a lot when I can.
That can be a bit of an issue if you want to make metafriends, since the reality if it is that you’re going to be memorized more for a single character, rather than multiple, and since CM can have such long rounds, you’re realistically only going to be able to play so many at a time, further making having multiple characters problematic.
Don’t get me wrong, multiple characters is fine, and I myself have 5. But if you do want to make meta friends (which as Steelpoint said, is completely unnecessary save for maybe WL applications), then you’ll have to settle for a single character, maybe two. I know it may look odd for your scrawny and weak doctor character to suddenly pick up a 60-pound smartgun like it’s nothing, but this is kind of the suspension of disbelief that’s needed to soldify your reputation if you’re going for that.
Honestly playing on different characters is such a bad way to play IMO. People get to know you and your character and if they like/don’t like interacting with you. I’m not meta buddies with people like Levine, but I know his character enough that I can trust him with higher effort or higher RP stuff I’d like to do during a round
No matter what online community you join OOC relationships will develop overtime as you see the same person a bunch of times and enjoy their attitude and personality. That being said it’s not like everyone is in their own private discord playing with one another every round. People just happen to recognize others if they play often, I’m sure you recognize certain names and treat them slightly differently compared to “Joe Blow” new PVT that uses a smiley face in IC chat.
I don’t understand how you’re “just absolutely fucked” though? You provide like zero context or examples of what you mean by this. People aren’t going to go out of their way to screw with you or try and ruin your round unless you do something to piss them off first.
What do you mean by “fucked over”? Do you mean like… getting woyer grabbed, lurker lunged, runner pounced?
If so, solo is fine. that’s often just skill issue. Failing is part of the game, and the game is very punishing. You can just be averse to risk… Best way to avoid this fate is using motion detectors.
But if you mean like, a front getting destroyed by a woyer stack? Getting FF’d by marines on the front? You can only do so much as a solo… Anyone can often lose at any moment, for any reason. That’s SS13, and permadeath games in general.
It’s a game where random individuals come together to form teams… All you can do is do your best. So if you play solo, imo you should focus mostly on your personal responsibility in a fight.
It is what it is tho. Most people make friends with other people ingame, since that’s just part of the game. All you need to do really is play a character, it’s a fairly small community even if a lot of players fluctuate in and out of the game. Everyone just plays the game individually anyway.
Staticnaming is fun, yeah. But imo, playing the same character over and over again is pretty tiring. I think random naming is a fine way to play if you just want to focus on the game.
Yeah, I played basically the same before I got to know anyone well enough to meta buddy with them. Meta buddies are only really good for saving your ass slightly more often, otherwise the best way to stay alive as a marine is simply to not be retarded and develop good game sense. Don’t wanna get lurked? Don’t go alone. Be a coward and run when you know something bad’s going to happen e.g. queen push, impending flank. Don’t go near doors, PERIOD unless there are no enemies. They are almost always woyer traps.
Thats true, but I think unless you cultivate the skill to do it, and put in the time to get each of the characters known, it doesn’t work. Most people can’t do that IMO
