User blog comment:Lancer1289/Are People in Multiplayer Lacking in Intelligence?/@comment-3062992-20120728094900

I am guilty of ignoring objectives in games (i.e. Capture the Flag) unless a very open opportunity presents itself. The reason I ignore objectives in most games (with the exception of ME3, as objectives = $$$) is because my teammates are rarely reliable and they take expensive vehicles and throw themselves against the enemy when they're at their strongest, resulting in them being cut down, again and again.

Sometimes, I'm in the passenger seat of their vehicle when that happens. I don't like that. So, I'm one of those guys who would focus more on kills than anything else. If I don't have the best team and it's obvious I'm going to be on the losing side (again) I go into berserk mode and take as many of my rivals with me as humanly possible. So I keep my head down, keep my eyes open and sometimes try to take objectives at opportunistic times.

Counting coup and a final, defiant steal when vastly outnumbered is almost as sweet as winning...

As for your last point, yes, the Store System is very flawed, in my opinion. I never seem to get aesthetic customization options for the classes I actually play, just for the ones I NEVER play. And even after I unlock all the armor options (female Engineer is my most complete class, despite having played her once), I keep getting more XP and training for the maxed-out classes, but never any tattoos or skin colors for my Turians or Asari.

Go fig.

As far as ME3 is concerned, I'm just grateful that friendly fire is off; sometimes (I stress, thankfully, SOMETIMES, but at the same time, far too often) when I get the sniper in Halo:Reach, some troll will come around and keep shooting me in the face, messing with my aim, taking down my energy and stopping just before I start taking real damage because they're too... how shall I put this? Chicken? To finish the job.

Only the craziest ones without a care in the world (beside the sniper) do not fear the boot hammer.

More than once, I've been killed with the intentional help of my teammates. It can get very infuriating. Especially when their steely defiance is rewarded and I cannot swing the holy power of the boot hammer on their treacherous backsides. (Two outstanding instances of blatant betrayal happened during my years of gaming, and in those instances, I couldn't boot any of them.) That's one thing I appreciate about ME3's multiplayer, no friendly-fire.

When all's said and done, the trolls, noobs and... doits (?) are everywhere. Some (doits and noobs) are harmless enough and mean no harm, others are downright malicious and nasty. They cannot be bought, bullied reasoned or negotiated with. They just want to watch the world burn...

...unless they have the sniper.

I think I rattled on a bit too much, but notice I'm not deleting anything to make all this shorter... XD