Do you think you were instrumental in changing the tide of a battle?

[Imok-Urok 67]

Let me be more specific. 

 

Did you join a battle on a losing team, did something that change the tide (course) of the battle to bring your team to a win?

 

I believe I did, twice. 

 

1st time: Map-Barda. I joined red team at the beginning of the battle. Our team looked dazed. Some were just sitting there, others milling around, not really participating, the rest making somewhat of an effort. I said out loud, "Come on team, get off your thumbs!!" (As if they could really hear me). Blue made 3 flags right away. 

 

I managed to sneak into blue territory, stole the flag and made the capture. That seemed to wake up a few. I went back and grabbed it again. This time, I crossed over a bridge with it. Not the best course of action, I know, but I wanted my team to see the flag. I was killed (I expected that). One of my team mates grabbed the flag and captured it. That woke up the rest of the team. We won 8-5.  

 

2nd time: Map-Noise. I joined blue team shortly after the battle started. Score 0-0. Blue team wasn't doing much, just kinda sitting there, waiting. Red came down, took out nearly the whole team and captured our flag. Then red came down again, using the same tactic. Made another capture. Blue seemed to be defending something they didn't have...points. 

 

I went up into red territory by myself and died right away. I went up 3 more times using a little more stealth. All 3 times, I grabbed the flag, all 3 times I died just as I was making the leap of faith. I said in team chat (this was before the servers merged), "I went up there by myself 4 times and grabbed the flag 3 times." "If I had some help, we could have made 3 flags." "I'm going to keep trying." One of my team mates said, "Good luck." 

 

I went up again, this time 2 other players followed. We fought our way up to the flag area. One grabbed the flag, the other player and I stayed behind keeping red team busy. He made the leap of faith for our first flag. After that, our team went on the offensive and red defensive. We used practically the same tactic as they did on us. 

 

Game tied 3-3. The end of the battle was near. During the 30 second countdown, we made a flag with just a couple seconds to spare. End score 4-3. Blue won. 

 

Do you have a story to tell about when you feel you were the catalyst or instrumental in turning the battle around for the win?  Or even helped tie a tough one? 

 

[Cyborg 3,189]

Do you have a story to tell about when you feel you were the catalyst or instrumental in turning the battle around for the win?  Or even helped tie a tough one? 

Too many stories, probably because its always the same situation for me, and I have to carry the team.  :wacko:

[robbie56 2,403]

It often looks like a team has no motivation, and needs someone to wake em up

[Misery 1,415]

Yes. Always.

 

:D

[Ninja 10,468]

Sometimes happens, though I usually like to find a supportive competitive team that I don't have to carry. 

[dilsharox 2,395]

sometimes i try and nothing changes so i give up 

[Maf 32,300]

Done this plenty of times. Whenever I feel that we're winning too easily, I switch teams, especially if the other team already has one or two player less. This is particularly effective when I'm by far the most powerful player on my team, since it means that they won't be able to resist me that effectively once I switch.

 

But changing the tide of a game doesn't require you to switch sides. Once I was playing Highways CTF and the score was 0-0, but with 3 minutes until the end I attacked, grabbed the flag and executed the most complex and difficult capture ever, by going to the back of the enemy base, jumping down the side, rolling twice, landing on one of those little ledges and driving away along the side. It was crazy. Would surely win the V-log video of the week if I recorded :D

[Benefactor 6,888]

Yes. I always enter the winning side when there is more than 60% time left. Then for some reason they start leaving one by one or they just stop fighting altogether as if a 3-flag lead is enough to with while sitting and doing nothing. Next thing I know the game is tied with about 2-3 minutes left. More often than not, the early winning side loses.

[Skills.n.Girls 767]

I try my best.

[splitterpoint 10,986]

Not that much. I always join the winning side and leave most of the times as soon as the druggers start to overtake.

Some might call me a coward. I however find the grinding unnecesary and stupid when someone is free to leave whenever they want.

Maybe I prevent that one drugging enemy from capturing a flag sometimes but I don't actively try to make my team win on my own.

 

I seak support in other valuable team mates usually as Isida and start to work together. Healing mostly.. I don't like to do the dirty work.

But when the enemy team is starting to win I either leave or start using Isida to farm XP at the base. Since the team mates are taking heavy damage, I found out that it's quite simple to get first on a losing team with this strategy.

[Crimson_Tank 285]

I joined the winning team. As soon as I joined they took our flag and that 1-0 turned into a 5-1 for the enemy. 

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

I join the low ranked battles, drug like mad and dominate B)

[GuidoFawkes 2,361]

sometimes i get maybe 10 kills without dying out of pure luck and the enemy gets afraid because of my clan tag and start leaving. but most of the time i distract the top player on the enemy side by talking nonsense about him, sometimes he gets too busy with arguing sometimes he gets too angry to play properly or he just leaves.

[Zomblistic 74]

I did last night on CTF. Our team acted as if they were afraid of the other team, they certainly were the aggressors. While the enemy was at our base playing TDM, I waltzed into their base, grabbed the flag and waltzed out, easily capturing the flag. Then, I turned around and did it again. That's when our team realized this was not TDM. We fought our way into their base and played TDM over there while their flag was being stolen. Final score: 6-0 our favor. Turns out, they weren't so tough after all. After we swarmed their base, they panicked and lost cohesiveness.  

[Skills.n.Girls 767]

Today I had a very similar scenario as you mentioned under "2nd time" section. It was also a Noise CTF - blue team, non-drugs, good equipment at both sides and me as a Striker-Viking. All of my team-mates seemed to be all just camping and defending, and only I was the one attacking. After talking a bit with my team, and telling my plans, after about 3 minutes I could be re-spawning in the empty base, due to the fact I settled all my team on the offense. Since; "offense is the best defense". :)

 

We won by the great 12-0 score.

[Hate 5,582]

 

That is just what I normally do but thing is that the chances of it being working isn't really that high depending on the team you playing with. Sometimes it works well and after couple minutes of attacking alone, getting killed, going up and keeping it that way, some of the team members will eventually snap and help you but also there are those who never will and will keep watching you till the enemy gets in your own base. :/ I always tell them to keep attacking no matter what, make them go defence by attacking them, not us defending since we will have 2 advantages. Attacking and having a chance to steal the flag as well as defending out flag in the middle field since they won't even pass there because team mates are in there which means that our defence has been strengthened a lot and moved from the small place near the flag to the enemy's base. 

[fordmustang12345 3,910]

With the amount of good equipment and drugs i have i do it all the time . Join a losing team ,wake up the mah multish team and we end up winning . Sure i get called a drugger but hey, who hasn't been called ine before?

[GuidoFawkes 2,361]

With the amount of good equipment and drugs i have i do it all the time . Join a losing team ,wake up the mah multish team and we end up winning . Sure i get called a drugger but hey, who hasn't been called ine before?

i get called a druger all the time by crybabies even though i never ever drug. everyone of us who beats the crap out of someone else gets called a druger, but there's a difference between getting called one by crybabies and getting called one because you literally had to drug to win and couldn't have done so without.

[I-Hate-Druggers 192]

I was on a losing CP game where everyone thought it was TDM. I started capturing points and my team followed suit while enemies kept on going for the kills.

[Skills.n.Girls 767]

but hey

-_-

[colindestroyer77 45]

Several times I've joined a Sandbox XP/BP that goes up to seven flags and my team was down four or six flags. Went on to capture every single flag, without our opponents getting any. How? Because I'm a boss!  B)

[Zomblistic 74]

Several times I've joined a Sandbox XP/BP that goes up to seven flags and my team was down four or six flags. Went on to capture every single flag, without our opponents getting any. How? Because I'm a boss!  B)

 

Perhaps a Speed Ninja Boss? You have to have speed and stealth in order to make that many flags by yourself. If you carry the team, then you are certainly Boss.