=X= eXcellence

[=X= Bruce]

Covert Ops is the most useless class on Public Servers there is!

How often stupid coverts (SCO) just sit and snipe - and don't hit shit - while the rest of the team tries to get to the objectives? Always! During all my time playing on public servers (especially on enemy-territory.com) I haven't seen one useful covert. SCOs don't even spot mines, but just sit and whore for the next uniform. Most SCO players of course do not agree with my ranting, but tell how useful the class is, but do not do anything of what they think is useful. No, no, it's always sniping from the far end of the map (mostly in packs of three SCOs...).

SCO the "James Bond" class of ET? Ha-Ha! If James Bond had to, he always killed the enemy. Only pure coincidence will help a SCO to kill an enemy.

"But Bruce, I'm such a good CO, I kill enemies all the time". Again, Ha-Ha! First of all, most SCOs forget that you can't kill an enemy with just one hit (only if he was wounded before) and most enemies are smarter than SCOs and will wait for medic or put FFE on the SCO's position.

Lots of occasions on public servers where SCOs were even working against the team. If Dynamite is planted on the Fuel Dump and Axis are having a hard time to get to it, because it is defended, why o why help them and destroy EAST defenses?

In my opinion there are only limited possibilites for CO on public servers:
Goldrush - none
Radar - destroying CP and maybe helping through door
Battery - destroying CP, Doorcontrols, Ramp
Fueldump - opening door to Axis base, destroying defenses, Footbridge
Railgun - none
Oasis - none
Venice - destroying wall in library

and maybe spotting mines, although meanwhile everybody should know where most of the public playing engineers plant mines...
for all those task above, you only need one (1, uno, un) CO per team and not five!

ARGH! stay tuned for more SCO action rants.

[=X= kropa]

Whine
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[=X= Bruce]

[Sonic]

[tangram]

Bruce with too much time on his hands....
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God doesn't sleep. He just drinks loads of coffee.

[=X= Bruce]

How not win a map:

62.4.74.241:27960 buh-clan 40 slot server, fuel dump, allies:
with nine SCOs on team it is possible to move the tank to and over bridge, but with "cover" from those 9 idiots it is not possible for the 2 engineers and 3 medics to do anything (especially if 2 medics stand next to coverts to "aid" them) else. I switched from engineer to medic to cover the other engineer, but he thought running to footbridge and planting mines there would be cool...
ok, half of the team sniping (not even spotting mines), one mortar with 2 fieldops providing ammo against 15-20 players that know how to defend.


same server, allies, goldrush:
"oh, now i'm on the bridge, i better stay there or fall back even more if they start shooting at me!" 2 SCOs "guarding" our spawn and making sure that nobody destroys our commandpost...

[=X= Bruce]

I admit, I play covert ops. But only in Venice-map. Since all the other coverts are busy sniping and whoring uniforms, none of them opens the side wall or blows the wall inside the library. I'd do it as engineer, but satchel is faster. After both are destroyed, I switch back to another class (yes, i /kill myself) and try to help the teams.

Btw: Covert weapons just suck against average and above players. of course it is possible to kill afk players with them in enemy spawn...

[Legacy]

Bruce on Pub's!

Why do you even go to 40 players servers anyway? garanteed 10 snipers on your team there..

[=X= Bruce]

40 slot server is fun, because you'll see lots of people to shoot at! (Plus I manage to be highest fragger, best medic, best fieldop, highest lightweapon and when playing fieldop i got no friends...)

The sad thing about the server is, that I know that those SCOs are regulars that by now should know how to accomplish the objective. Even reminding them (I don't think they can see the other 8-9 SCOs in their team) to switch classes does not help.

The first 10 minutes I still try to get to the tank, repair it or cover the engineers doing it, but of course I die and have to spectate the surviving SCOs until next spawn and see that they do not hit anything and are just useless idiots make me very angry. Plus them getting shot once and at once yelling for medics...

ARGH

[typhoon]

Seeing how the covert class should be played by Bruce late last night on et.com's server was a breath of fresh air. The level of play wasn't too bad on at the time, yet Bruce simple switched to covert once on Venice as allied, and within under 2 minutes he had slipped behind all axis defences, blown the library wall, and come back to engineer, as I think he mentioned is the gameplan in an above post.

Now was this because Bruce:
a) Makes a good covert?
b) Was actually going for the objective and not caring about uniforms?

Well probably both, as team players + objective players tend to be the smarter ones of pubs, and being smarter you think more about the needs of each class. It wasn't until battery that we actually saw some half decent teamplay between Legacy, Bruce, and I hasten to add me (who has to play the support role as I can't hit a thing after my holiday )

So if you play the covert just for one objective (like the library wall), then if it is done relatively enough I think its fair to say your team has a CO, not SCO.

However, I see a sniper, I laugh

[iX selfie]

I remember when I first played on et.com Necuz & Legacy would covop all the time and everyone was in awe of their skills. Those days were hilarious...

[unblind]

stfu j00 necuz is leet

i know exactly where bruce is coming from, it is one of the main reasons i dont play on many servers except for telenet, at least the 90% of your team who are selfhealing medics know roughly where the objective is. (its near all the light weapons xp for those who dont )

[=X= Bruce]

no rant from me today (yet), but I also want to say that playing on e-t.com last night was definately the best public experience in months.

[=X= Cash]

lol then u have to thank me and orkrist for it....

[=X= Bruce]

no cash, you and orkrist were on the other team.