Recognizing “speed runners” on a leaderboard for the Halloween event has created the following side effects:
You’re at the radio objective sending the 3 required messages. A round has just finished and you need to reload your weapon and get more medical bandages. You’re obviously not ready for the next round. Oh well, too bad for you! Your speed runner teammate doesn’t care and starts the next radio message before the rest of his team is ready to go. End result: Sometimes, the whole team gets killed off, nobody has any syringes, and you lose the game (and wasted your time).
A round has ended and you need to reload your weapon and get more medical bandages. Oh well, too bad for you! While you’re reloading, your speed runner teammates are half way to the next objective, you get overrun by a horde, and go down to the ground. You ask for help, and it falls on deaf ears. They won’t come back for you because they don’t have the time. They’re going to become famous by getting their name on a leaderboard.
You’re trying to level up the battle pass for the event, thus the best way to do this is to collect as many tokens from the boxes on the maps. Once again, oh well, too bad for you! Your speed runner teammates have other plans: it’s much more important to set a new land speed record. So what happens? You get left behind to fend for yourself once again!
You’re nearing the APC, it’s in sight, then suddenly a horde attacks your team—assuming you’re all together or at least somewhat close to one another. You’re forced to stop and fight the horde. However, your speed runner teammates think it’s much better to just run to the APC and get in as quickly as possible. I can’t believe I have to say this yet once again: Oh well, too bad for you! Now that your genius speed running teammate has prematurely jumped into the APC, he not only started the 30 second timer leaving little time for the rest of the team to make their way to the APC… he also set off the final horde—which is much bigger than previous hordes. Now you’re in a situation with little to no ammunition, possibly low on med packs, and blocked from getting on the APC. End result: The APC leaves without you and any other abandoned teammates. YAY, your speed runner teammates just won the game for you; unfortunately, the entire team loses all the tokens that were being carried by the teammates left behind. Summation of this experience: Oh well, too bad for you!
I’m tired of dealing with this nonsense, so when I spot a speed runner early on I politely ask them to “slow down.” If they ignore my request, I simply leave the game. Oh well, too bad for you!
Keep up to what? Some idiot who doesn’t realize that he’s playing with a team and not alone. Just because he’s ready he assumes everybody else is ready as well, or simply doesn’t care—even though his success relies on the team’s success—not just his own actions. Why would I want to play with a narcissist like this? If he does it once, he will do it again—thus, putting the entire teams success in jeopardy. Sorry, not wasting my time!
1: you in most case have enought time to refill ammo and bandages between the end and start of the radio + you can always go refillat any time.
2: ppl that do 1 round after the other one ended arent even speedrunning xd is most efficiant to just activate the totem multiple times so u can just nade the wave and kill the horde whiout needed to refill so often
3:welp we are leaving more loot for u guys + atleast in my case i speedrun boxes (till 120 tickets + good weapon tho i like opening the beeping boxes cuz i can too ) and mark the weapons if theyre usefull
4:people that just enter into the apc instaly on pubs are ass no matter what
I don’t believe runners have anything to do with radio idiots
The latter is just a spy from another dimension
You know zombies can’t catch you, right?
You can definitely push forward while replenishing on the side of the road
Instead of being like a bee who stays on a flower for a long time and then gets eaten by a lizard and then complains about other bees giving up on you.
as said above
You are perfectly capable of ignoring them and keeping them away from the car and then run up
But there are always idiots who choose to fight and die and then cry when their teammates give up because of their stupid behavior.
You know that monsters will spawn regularly in hard mode, right?
Isn’t it foolish to choose to waste time constantly fighting the enemy in this environment?
When you have some experience and have endured teammates engaging in stupid behavior including but not limited to the above for at least 30 minutes
It’s not without reason that some people want to escape early
But I agree there are more idiots out there who just don’t have the cognitive skills
I think the Halloween event is a good example of the obvious shortcomings of the proliferation of idiots and the punishment of deserters.
Just like the idiots you encounter in normal mode
During the event you have to put up with 1 to 3 idiots who don’t think about their teammates or how to fight or stay alive.
But you can only choose to follow them until the game ends with a terrible experience or fails, otherwise you have to accept the punishment.
Then meet the next group of idiots and repeat the game experience just now
so me and the 2 other guys can continue casually.
) and mark the weapons if theyre usefull