Friendly Teamwork Pros/Cons?

[AndyXc87]

Hello everyone reading the title you probably have an idea of what this is about but heres me just wondering anyway.
Playing alone is sometimes boring and frustrating when no one on your team communicates or shoots down airsupport or is watching your flank.
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But when my friends are online( the really good ones) it is fun seeing them drop Moabs being on my team (the other team rage quitting is lame tho) but sometimes I can't get any kills! My friends are great players and will flank and all be on Specialist bonus so it's hard for me to get many kills much less a killstreak! To try to let myself have more fun while playing with them I almost always use the Riot Shield so I can atleast get assists and work on my Support Killstreaks but I was wondering if anyone has/had the same problem?
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Sometimes me being the selfish one will see an enemy chase my friend around the corner and instead of warning over the mic I chase after to try to get the kill..

Also any good stories of having a full team and trolling the enemies? It could be hiding or all using 1 gun or anything!
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[SoNiC_HD_TriCkZ]

Sometimes I do get irritated running around the map and getting no kills while I'm looking at the killfeed and seeing my friends getting kills every 5 seconds or so, then I'm like, "Where the f*ck are they" and get to the jealous point.

But, if we're winning, I would just sit back and drink my soda and let my friends do the work. Besides, I'm already level 80, 10th Prestige (Not prestiging), so I don't really need any XP. I'll come to action when they really need it. It's really surprising that two of my friends are able to defend all three flags in Domination while getting Reapers and AC-130's.

[GhsCrysis]

I usually only play with 1 or 2 friends, and I'm much better then one of them so it isn't too bad.

But when I do get thrown in with clans of people that are absurdly good it can get a little frustrating. But I always care more about winning, kills don't mean anything to me to be honest.

[Beardnor]

I find its best to balance a team before jumping in.

I know what kind of players most of my friends are so I try to invite people who augment the team rather than play the same roles.

Example of a good 4-6 man unit:
- A positional defender/suppressor (aka patrolling camper) Makes for a good home base to always attack from.
- A floating defender. Covers the flanks are weak points of the first player.
- An objective/support player: Drops choppers, reenforces callouts for help, runs support streak as he will likely not live longer than a few kills if he's johnny on the spot for callouts.
- A rusher: Usually an smg aggro player. Tends to have the support/objective player near him often and flushes out campers.

That's a good start even if you have to pick up a couple strangers.

You can fill out the team with another rusher or shotgunner. Maybe a sniper if one of the first two isn't one already.

Tends to be what happens most often amongst myself and friends.
I float between the roles, but I have friends that almost always run the same style.

I totally understand where you're coming from with high scoring players. If you have 4 rushers... and two normal players... 3 or 4 of you are going to wonder where everyone is... and 2 of the better rushers are going to kill EVERYONE....
Which is a little boring.

I tend to avoid playing in overly stacked lobbies in terms of style of play.

[VABOYINDUVAL]

Sometimes I have that problem. When I'm alone I can easily get 20-25 kills but sometimes playing in a good party with friends, I barely get 10. Most of the time when that happens I try to stay in opposite parts of the map of my teamates, and pick off enemies who are spawning nearby. Other than that I just get kills when I can, and enjoy the winning streak! As long as we are winning I dont care about kills, just as long as I'm not going negative!

[pepsiman3000]

When friends of mine used to play we always had a full party and since we were in TDM I wouldn't consistently get a lot of kills(15+). It was very fun to use the Recon Drone to tag the enemies and know that your teammates would get the kills.

You got a very high amount of score from all of the assists. I remember one time I had twelve kills and I had a higher score than someone who had twenty-five kills. It was annoying to them, but still hilarious.