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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I think their approach to team killing is part of why the user base is so forgiving of team killing.

It is included in the training and baked into the game play by having generous respawn limits. There are jokes about it baked into the promotional materials. Everyone expects to be team killed on accident, so people tend to assume any team killing is accidental. People who might otherwise team kill on purpose will either get their fill through accidents or will not get immediate reactions that feed their trolling.

So by keeping the team killing in the game they have also defused a lot of possible trolling while also having people just accept it as part of the game, especially when non-player initiated features like turrets and backpacks are the worst offenders for team killing.

Finding it funny is a great approach, kudos to the devs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If I accidentally carpetbomb my squad I am always quick to reinforce out of guilt ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The person who hasn't done this is a damn liar.

I say sorry for my blunder and reinforce my buds ASAP.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I 100% will team kill my friends if its funny in the situation and expect it in return.

The randos just can't avoid walking into my mines and I feel bad about that one, but they do glow red.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't like to team kill on purpose, but I do think it's very funny to drop an orbital J U S T outside the range of my friends occasionally to keep them on their toes.

Sometimes their toes are the only thing left of them.

(It helps that I only play with IRL friends and only with VC so I can warn them. But you know how it goes, you don't always hear the warning even over VC.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

All my homies hate me picking up the 380 barrage.