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Originally Posted by Ronin0ni
Sorry, failing to give you a medpac is NOT grounds for a TK... If I see you do it, I will TK you... why? cause it just ain't cool...
...you have no right to enforce a way of playing. Don't like it? just leave then.... trust me, you wont be missed
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Well, it also "just ain't cool..." to leave your team mates stranded with low health just because you don't know how to utilize your kit properly. If you choose the support class for it's mortar/machine gun, then good for you, but are you seriously implying that if one of your wounded team-mates came and danced about in front of you, you wouldn't give a medic-pack because you didn't choose support to be a medic? That's a bit of a lame perspective to have. What does is take to chuck a med pack out? Mmm... a couple of pushes of buttons... taking, what, 2 seconds?
I stand by the belief that it's better to TK for a medic-pack, and in theory, it works for the greater good of the team. Here's why: if I'm wounded and I need health, I go find a support guy... If that guy doesn't know that with a couple of flicks on his joy-pad he can heal me, then chances are he's not a very experienced player, in which case, as I am an experienced player it's better for the team that I live... And he gets a TK to make me live. Simple.
One thing that seems to be misintpreted on this thread is 'TK intention'. Personally, I HATE TK's, I loath people that do it for fun, I loath people that do it for arty, vehicles etc, but in the case of acquiring a medic-pack it comes down to simple necessity, not greed, not aggression, not grieving.
In theory part of the blame could be placed upon Dice for not implementing a rose-wheel comms system on the D-pad. It would have been SO easy to have a button that makes it clear that you're asking for health... but with no effective way of communicating your needs, we resort to alternative methods. Just a harsh fact.
TKing for medic-packs is NOT malicious. I don't like doing it, but I will do it to prolong my survival and help the team win... thus contributing to ALL team-members' win/loss ratio.
I remember when I first started playing BfBc and the same thing would happen to me... I'd play support, doing my thing, calling mortar strikes, shooting enemies, then some guy would come and do the medic-pack-dance in front of me... I'd think 'what the heck does this dude want???' and try to get away, thinking he was harrasing me, then I'd be TK'd... It took a while for me to realize what the medic-pack-dance meant... But I learned... the hard way. And I'm still here, loving it more than ever.
And no, I don't expect I will be missed if I quit playing BfBc... Not a problem.