02-16-2014, 04:09 PM
(02-16-2014, 01:27 PM)Alwarren link Wrote:About the radios, I agree, it was a bad call. I do also think that unless we lost a radio because of game-mechanical , we shouldn't go back to using team chat. We introduced TFA to add an extra layer of realism. Losing the LRR is part of it, although I still find it shite that the radio is a backpack.
Was it the lack of LRR, rather than not distributing what SRR we had properly, that was the problem?
I agree we shouldn't get in the habit of using team chat. When I say I felt it was OK in that particular situation to use it, I was thinking a) it wasn't the mission designer's intention that we shouldn't have SRR to communicate with and b) if we hadn't used team chat, we probably would have had to abort/restart the mission as there was no other way for the leader to tell the Ifrit squad what to do. I guess if the first squad was coming back towards the Ifrit we could have just waited till then for instructions, or the leader could have sent one person back to give us orders (not sure there were any spare seats in the Ifrit but I guess he could have driven the truck back with us).
So that's something to think about for the future, if we find ourselves in a similar situation, do we think we should use team chat or rely on finding some way to get someone back to pass on orders? Or perhaps we should have pre-arranged something like "After 5 minutes, proceed along this route to this RP and wait for us there". Might have been a long wait if you'd all got killed before you got there though
Obviously, if too many people have died and the mission's no longer viable, communicating that via TS or text before ending the mission is fine but it's nice if there's a chance for the remaining squad to complete the mission to give them the opportunity to try, so perhaps the orders would need to be along the lines of "After 5 minutes, proceed along this route to this RP and wait for us there. If we're not there by 18:25, proceed with the mission on your own".
I'm probably overthinking it though, as I can't think of any other missions where we've been unable to communicate like that