Why Just Run Away?

[Mortarch Of Blood]

Im seeing a crap load of teams who just run away from enemies, not even bothering to fight them. Usually leaving people behind to fight and die on their own.

Why the hell play the game if you're not going to even bother? Might as well buy walking simulator

READ THE FIRST COMMENT FROM ME BEFORE COMMENTING. I'm bored now, I'll just block.

[Driverben]

Because disengaging can save you a ton of time and ammo. You don't always have to fight. If you're going to waste 10-15mins fighting in the same spot, I'm leaving you behind.

It's easy to get caught up fighting and lose a ton of time. Several missions I've been playing with friends and we try and kill off everything we're engaged with, next thing I know we have 10mins left in the mission and have only just finished the main objectives and side objectives.

[Corey Greyfox]

On harder difficulties you will run out of time and reinforcements if you stop to fight every enemy.

[XOLiD]

It's incredibly annoying when there's 4-5 medium enemies and a bunch of little ones that you and another guy could easily take together, but you realize once you've burned through your first mag he's already run away with no intent to help you, so you get overrun.

[12InchParadise]

Not every patrol needs to be faught.

[Driverben]

Originally posted by XOLiD:

It's incredibly annoying when there's 4-5 medium enemies and a bunch of little ones that you and another guy could easily take together, but you realize once you've burned through your first mag he's already run away with no intent to help you, so you get overrun.

You can sometimes just break line of sight and disengage all together. I've accidentally run into patrols because I wasn't watching my map, broke line of sight, and kept going. Obviously in some cases it's easier said than done.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Sometimes people see their team taking a fight they really didn't have to or shouldn't have taken and decide they would accomplish more for their team elsewhere. Like doing the objective.

If a bot drop or bug breach opens in a direction you weren't even going, it's often better to just take off and let them fester. Why are you fighting them all if there is a chance of dying or running out of resources? You get less XP/reward for wasting time doing nothing as well.

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

Originally posted by Mortarch Of Blood:

Im seeing a crap load of teams who just run away from enemies, not even bothering to fight them. Usually leaving people behind to fight and die on their own.

Why the hell play the game if you're not going to even bother? Might as well buy walking simulator

I generally kite large groups of enemies because other wise you get overrun when they out number you. You can't kill them that quickly, and sticking around is just going to get you killed.

I do not engage in random patrols that can easily be avoided. This helps get things done quicker and safer and is over all just significantly more efficiently with both time and supplies ( ammo, stims, grenades, strats, ect. ).

If things get way too crowded, I consider disengaging, doing something else when things cool off and come back eventually to see if things there have become more manageable. This doesn't thankfully happen too often. Usually against the bots when they start getting dropship crazy and dropping a lot of big crap.

[Mortarch Of Blood]

BTW guys, Im not talking about avoiding groups - Im talking about running past your team mate and not helping out, pulling mobs and then running away while your team mate has to fight them off.

This is nothing about time or pointless fighting

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

Originally posted by Mortarch Of Blood:

BTW guys, Im not talking about avoiding groups - Im talking about running past your team mate and not helping out, pulling mobs and then running away while your team mate has to fight them off.

This is nothing about time or pointless fighting

If I'm pulling the enemies after me, then my teammates can choose to ignore them can they not and they won't bother him. Although picking off a few here and there could make it easier for me perhaps.

[Driverben]

Originally posted by Mortarch Of Blood:

BTW guys, Im not talking about avoiding groups - Im talking about running past your team mate and not helping out, pulling mobs and then running away while your team mate has to fight them off.

This is nothing about time or pointless fighting

Well if it's a fight that spawns enemies on an objective is one thing. But even then, if you're low on resources sometimes it's better off not continuing and try and break contact. I've personally never left until everything was dead, or there was a couple smaller enemies I know the others can deal with.

[Kane]

lol, this has to be a troll.

[Silverlight]

The enemies have infinite lives and no ammo concerns.

You have finite lives, ammo concerns as well as a ticking clock

Why not run?

[Crunchy[Daz]]

How the game plays varies depending on the difficulty. Watch this.

Casual mode: Not much of a challenge, wander the map having fun and killing stuff.
Tryhard mode: Stealth and avoid fights if you can.

Since a solo player is dieing on their own I"m guessing you're leaning more towards the tryhard side of the game. It may be a case where the fight wasn't winnable or worth fighting and everyone but the one person did what they were supposed too.

[Vinegaroon]

It's situational. I play more stealthy so I only engage enemies if I need to and am ready to flatten them quickly. Otherwise Most of the time you don't need to engage every enemy if you can go undetected. I tend to break off from those who want to shoot at everything that moves. Seen it where in formation with the boys and the rookie shoots at something and then we get swarmed.

[Pepper]

Ahh yes. Seeing steam users feeding trolls as usual on my friday morning.