Hey, I’ve opened a threat to discuss when you helped a new player, or were that new player, being helped, I hope it’ll be a nice resource for people to look fondly on the arguably best times to play, and maybe in the future a new player arriving on the forums can pick up some latent wisdom.
This being said: no deliberate misinfo, undeserved shitting on newbies, or vice versa
I’ll start first: during ssethtide I quit my role as squad marine to be a dedicated assistance officer to help funnel the new cattle get to the feed lot easier. I had a ton of fun and I think I have a medal screencap somewhere on my computer I can dig up
Good thread idea. I have helped many a new MT as CE or as a fellow MT.
One of my first rounds a Mentor who’s name I sadly forgot, I think he had the nickname Paradox, really helped me out. The best teacher was Mira “Nine Lives” Vane, she told a scrub how to use a magharness.
As xeno when I notice the one I’m fighting is a PVT I just try to give him a cool protag-like combat in which I have to fall back due to being severely injured. In case I manage to drag him I just eat and drop him near FOB. Admins can cry a river and Queen can banish every part of me, I have standards and capping/killing a PVT is the equivalent of killing a child.
One time as Charlie SL, I met a PVT Charlie that an SEA was training. She stuck him on to me and whilst I never FTs, I also made him an FT TL so I can track him at all times and told him to stick to me in a Solaris round.
Gave him tips and tricks the whole time, rescued him from warriors, he rescued me. Eventually we got seperated and he died. After we won the round I found his body, and all of Charlie wept as I fireman carried him to the FOB. Now hes a Charlie main too and a decent FTL/Squad leader.
I first started playing CM in late 2017. I was clueless about a lot of stuff, and joined very sporadically, with no resources or help or want to learn virtually until 2020-2021, when I started playing regularly. Then one day, while discussing drip and equipment in dchat, Joe Dafoe tells me about his and his reasoning behind it. I was still new and clueless.
This leads to us talking on discord and him taking me under his wing as a mentee just because he saw some potential. One lesson or battle buddy round led to the next, and then I just started picking up stuff and frags exponentially. A lot of it was “fighting this is bullshit, but get good and you’ll do fine” - granted, I was very willing to listen and learn as humbly as I could. Not something you see nowadays anymore, with the terminal complaining. Sad!
I owe Ugnip55 for taking the time to make me get good at this dogshit game despite owing me nothing. Ever since, I’ve been trying to teach every PVT I see and help (some) people who ask how to do well. Always satisfying to see a new player learn quickly. Ability to learn is definitely what separates a good player from a bad one.
I tried to befriend a new PVT a few months back. Diving into the deep reservoir of time-honoured tradition, I presented my hand and declared that as BFFs, it was our duty to cement that bond by mixing our lifeblood in a handshake. Unfortunately, I pulled out a machete instead of a knife, so I ended up breaking my hand instantly, spilling blood everywhere on the Alamo. A lurker then promptly dismembered that same hand about 2 minutes later, forcing me to evac back shipside, where I decided to grab a PDT bracelet to further cement our incredible battle buddy bond by allowing me to track them anywhere, anytime for all eternity. Fearing that the PVT’s time was probably almost up (average PVT lifespan is approx 0045), I decided to paradrop my way into the FOB, only to realise too late that everyone had already evacuated onto the Alamo, and I died instantly.
They ended up living to the end, and I can’t help but feel some form of karmic justice was delivered that day.