Oscar Outlaws

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Lemon-Lime Leisure Time

Oscar-Mike to save your sorry ass!

Oscar is clearly the… Less preferred squad by the game because we’re pop locked to when 120 people are online…

…So to make up for that we’re the cooler squad of the bunch!!!

KILL ALL KILOS WITH HAMMERS!!!
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But uhh, Kilo and Oscar are pretty much the new Alpha/Delta banter and I appreciate it, I really do.

The new A.S.S. System gives CIC a brand new toolset but needs to expand on how to make CIC use this toolset because it got a lot more overwhelming to overwatch support. Personally? It’s my style of SOing, because I get to call flanks, co-ordinate pushes, get people to get sensors up.

I DO feel a little bit bad about charlie losing so much turf, but I would hardly say that Kilo-Oscar are competitive in any measure to charlie, they actually occupy a pretty different niche.

Kilo and Oscar seem to actually have cohesion for the time being and developing the banter is pretty cool arguably, plus getting to talk to people on a smaller squad is arguably more time to roleplay with them. Realistically we all get clumped together with charlie and made to do flanks, which is cool and makes a lot of sense.

If a squad from support gets wiped it’s ((usually)) not that big of a deal but people will still go recover and revive them, which can be used strategically by both marines and xenos.

Now you didn’t hear this from me but you could try to bait the xenos out using one of the support squads while the other two squads set up an ambush.

If they die it ain’t such a huge massive big deal.

Plus Kilo and Oscar tend to be the more suicidal more experienced, and will likely be the ones that do a risky OB or try to get coords.

Charlie couldn’t do that before because… they were a significant amount of the playerbase and playing it risky with them would mean 1/4 of the server would die off and the OP would likely go sideways horribly.

I love the new A.S.S. system and only had fun experiences with it so far, even the wipes were not usually because of it.

Plus I do enjoy flanking gameplay with CIC telling us what to do and where to go next, but it can be considerably more stressful for them.

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Excellent post. However, we need a tag line for Oscar. Kilo Killers is great. Oscar Outlaws is the best I have. Maybe it will stick.

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10/10 would do mouth to mouth CPR again.

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I stood up and applauded. Oscar Outlaws stay impressing me

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FUCK OSCAR KILO ON TOP

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Gotta be the speed/mobile squad lol

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I wish I had the time to play CM during the recent tests

@thwompa how long will it stay TMd?

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It’s so fucking good having fixed size squads that don’t replenish with late wakers, it makes the RP following bad losses so so much better

Yesterday I was the last survivor of Kilo with Aalto, watched our SL just get dragged out of the DS as we are evacuating (CINEMA) then we proceeded to frag during hijack before escaping to groundside with pods. There’s no way to get anything similar with the large squads

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Also im happy to note that the banter between Kilo and Oscar is already better than the one between charlie and delta in the last few years.

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I thought they just had a lower pop cap but could still accept latejoiners? Or is it that the squads are full from the get-go anyway or something?

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The squads have limited sizes and cannot be filled up with additional late waking players, it makes losses way more dramatic and actually stay permanent unless CIC maybe transfer players over.

I always found it lame when you were the last survivors in your squad after a dramatic fight, only to have 10 players you didn’t interact with before wake up later in the round.

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No they accept latejoins, just don’t get replaced when people die. This will be on TM for about a month.

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Really does add to the uniqueness of those squads, setting them apart from Alpha/Delta. I wasn’t aware until the other day it acted like this. It’s interesting, but I wonder if toggling late joiners aids in auto consolidating remaining forces as the round goes on. Either way though its cool

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What the fuck!? That’s me!??!?

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