There were some serious problems with the Sunday event that should be looked at that I feel reduced the fun.

COMMAND & SQUAD LEADS:

Originally Posted by Dredge

There was NOT a power struggle but there was a commo pow-wow with the leadership. After this issue was settled we picked up and moved out and cleared the map

This is something that should be addressed. Something clearly happened. No one needs to do their laundry in public, but it leaked out into the Side channel where everyone became aware of it.

I'm not encouraging that this become a public forum topic, but I hope the players involved are having some serious conversations about it with top admins. From the grunts' perspective, it DID NOT LOOK GOOD.

I have resolved myself to follow only orders from the CO that involve any controversy whatsoever. The CO according to the briefing document was Dredge, so his word was all that mattered. Dredge stepped in and took control and helped the game continue moving forward, which was absolutely the right call.

In the meantime, however, the grunts stood idle and wasted alot of time. The fact that there was not large scale disconnects speaks to the dedication that people have to the game and TG.

Other than this episode, command seemed to be working (from the eyes of a grunt). The briefing document was well done, briefing itself was minimal to the grunts but that's acceptable (even preferred) and everything seemed to be fairly smooth except for the major issue I mentioned above. But again, this one issue was fairly huge and took up quite alot of time.


MISSION:

The next topic was the mission itself. Something was wrong with the AI!

I'm not a mission maker, and I don't wish to critique in a field where I lack expertise, but the AI simply were not engaging correctly. Add we had overpowered weapons and vehicles and the term "turkey shoot" is very accurate. As a UK force grunt, I did not feel like I was in danger for a single moment of the mission.

The flat terrain didn't help with this at all. We could see enemy AI from far distance and nothing was a surprise. Those who are complaining about the weapons being too hard to hit at a distance... I don't know what to say, I felt they were overpowered if anything. Having optics on a billiard-table-terrain while engaging AI that don't react at over 500m... how much easier do you want? I felt sorry for the enemy and was bored at the massacre. It did kind of look cool, but I wish they had been shooting back.

The only deaths I witnessed were due to friendly fire or walking too close to destroyed enemy vehicles that were still giving off secondary explosions.

The final issue may relate to the mission as well: lag. I think when we have such a large group of players attacking multiple enemy sites at once, too many enemy are spawned and the server can barely keep up. Maybe mission optimization can assist with this?

So my summary:

1) whatever went wrong with SLs needs to be privately discussed with top admins and never happen again

2) AI didn't engage correctly which made the entire mission a turkey shoot