This this true but I really don’t think playing more than one character dooms you to obscurity or means that you won’t make friends. I’ve had a fair few people be surprised to see that I play my MP character in OOC or the discord if it comes up and I’ve made a few metafriends there.
Just gotta be fun about it.
But I don’t want to do that. I enjoy playing different characters in different roles. My issue is that I shouldn’t have to feel like I need to make meta friends just to not be punished. Especially for certain WLs.
It’s not an issue when I’m marining, cus Joe Marine and Mike Marine will still help each other even if they don’t know each other, but it certainly can be frustrating in command roles.
The game is like 1000x more fun with friends, even just boring shit like making a checkpoint on hydro with Brad and afking in it playing cards. But it’s like this with every game basically, friends make stuff more fun.
interacting and making freinds in this community is baked into its core.
Meta freinds dont get you WLs, my history of applying for them should be sufficient evidence of that.
If you don’t interact much in the community or learn to get your name out there in good ways
you get nothing out of this game.
start seeing the game as community first.
stick to one squad like i did wirh bravo, then charlie. you learn thst this game is less so about the roles and what you are doing, and more about the smaller moments and storylines that develop
I play this game for more than five years and have 0 metafriends except HE-HE and RIN and still have a lot of fun. Just be communicative, don’t expect people to love and recognize your immediately, have reasonable attitude and you’ll be good.
Why you lone?
Did you get denied a whitelist or something?
I think metabuddies kind of incentivise saving people even when you’d otherwise decide it’s too risky, and thus make you do ballsy moves that often lead to you joining your buddy in the grave. Unless you’re rolling with ultra-robust metabuddies, the actual gameplay “buff” is basically not noticeably different from rolling with the frontline considering you’ll be risking your ass just as much as theirs to save one another.
When there’s 30 marines on the front… do you really think one metabuddy and 29 marines is that different from 30 marines? Competent marines will drag your ass back if it’s safe enough, anyways. And well, if your corpse is in a risky spot, chances are that even if you had a metabuddy, you probably would’ve just gotten them killed as they get woyered trying to get your ass back.
It’s more to do with enjoyment rather than gameplay, imo. I never noticed a significant change in me dying less from when I ran solo relative to with a buddy (unless your buddy is a robust GL who nades you back or a scunt), so honestly I think you’ve elevated this “meta buddy requirement” for not-dying to an exaggerated level in your head.
No.
I don’t mean to be rude, but I don’t believe any of us really understand how exactly you feel disadvantaged by not having metafriends. Could you please elaborate on what you mean?
he failed to see the bait
Oh lol. I am really bad when it comes to sarcasm, sorry.
i’m just being weird and obtuse man. don’t worry about it.
i just try to save everyone if i can, and i think that increases the chances of me being saved from a fucked up situation, ofcourse if i am playing spec i won’t do high risk plays, but as a PFC i will try to save some marine even with a high chance of dying