03-28-2014, 12:51 PM
(03-28-2014, 04:56 AM)Phantom link Wrote:Blue Line to Therisa
Sweeping the town went fine but after Varanon and Variable died, it seems a bit chaotic a bit. I thought you guys said the mission was restarting since something broke or something, or are we still going. Seems like all leaders die except me so I'll go on leading I guess but my head was already boiling a bit since about the whole time was dealing with radio problems and I got to be somewhere sooner or later (so I didn't see those mines and there I went). The approach of left right and attack middle was good I say, but I'll start to name pet peeves I have...
Task Force Arrowhead Radio: Too much of a hassle with people and radio problems I find it more counterproduct in terms of communications. I find more miscommunication than commnication from it. If someone paradrop instead, wouldn't they have no long range radio? Underwater = no long range radio either? By default I didn't start on the same radio channel for long range as anyone else either, but that's not the problem. The problem I'm saying would be some people in my squad didn't have a radio to start with so they can't hear anything. What if a mission isn't design around it. I found that about half of the time was setting radios or seeing if the radios are going. I guess I'm a bit more hotheaded about it since I had to be somewhere today, but other than that, I find it an issue bit.
Yeah, it was a bit chaotic with the radios but it's not usually like that and I think it's just a matter of people getting used to how to use them. I've mostly only used the SR before so I know how to set frequencies on that but in this mission after my team leader was killed, I took his LR and thought everyone was trying to help me set the frequency on that, whereas they all thought I was asking how to set the frequency on the SR, so that made things confusing.
In fact, I never did work out how to set the LR. I tried everything I could think of and was able to clear the existing frequency and type in a new one but whatever I clicked/pressed next, when I closed and re-opened the radio it was back on the previous frequency again.
I'm not sure what determines whether someone starts with a SR or not. Certainly missions don't have to be designed specifically for it, as if that was the case we wouldn't get radios in most missions but I do remember missions where only the team leaders have had LR and there's been no SR, so I don't know what causes that.