Originally posted by Erehk.
- Stay Together. The emote/voice comm isnt just there for your listening pleasure, generally people will do this to try and communicate quickly that the team should work as one unit. There is little room for heroics in TDM, simply due to the fact that if your opponents are sticking as a group - you WILL die if you are caught on your own.
- The healer is your friend. Stay near your healer, if its me, I will move with the main group and heal everyone as well as I can. The healers ability to heal is very much so dependant on how well his team can keep him safe.
- Watch your 6! A lot of times, I will find that a enemy Mech has tried to come up behind me (since I am usually towards the back of the battle) and try to pummel me. Sometimes it works, but most of the time - I have a skill waiting to be used and I will change my weapons and lay it on them... sometimes it is enough to kill, however most of the time it isnt. If I am left to fend for myself because no one is paying attention, I will either likely die, or a lot of the team will die due to the fact that all heals have stopped Just because there are 6 enemies in front does not mean there is no danger from any other direction.
- Don't chase your enemy halfway across the map. I loved to chase when I was doing damage too, but there is little gain to chasing one enemy across the map into a potential ambush.
Sure, you might kill him, but if you seperate yourself from the group you have a much larger chance of dying.
I have noticed a lot of people do this, and follow their enemy right into their main group, and get slaughtered. Sometimes I see this happen time and time again, and all I can think of is the phrase: Like lambs to the slaughter.
Oh, and please, if you do this - dont spam for heals, or spam for backup.
- If you are dying, fall back towards the back. Yes, even if the Mech you are shooting is below half health - let someone else who is firing take it out, you cant kill anything else if you die and its just points to the enemy.
If you fall back towards the back you will get healed a lot quicker, and safer and will return to battle a lot faster.
