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Gaming Ettiquette for ORION

By Tenjen

There are certain universal codes of Etiquette that exist in multiplayers, some seem to forget these somehow when switching to a new or different game but there are certain genre's out there with gameplay elements which make things ambigious for new players.

Wave-based CO-OP FPS shooters, especially one as easily open to public access as ORION, is one such genre.

Feel free to make your own suggestions based on your own experiences.

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Category: Co-op, Gameplay Basics, Multiplayer

Languages: English

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5 Aug, 2016 @ 4:23pm

5 Aug, 2016 @ 4:30pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Section 1: Communication

Section 2: Behavior

Section 3: Vehicles

Comments

Section 1: Communication

This is the key to any game, especially when you enter higher difficulties. Speak to your team mates. If someone is communicating, contribute as well. Discussion often inspires others to contribute as well.

Provide strategic information - Inform them of Boss dino locations, ask for help, offer help and tell them about the generator going down. There are times when people are blowing away the wave and suddenly the mission is failed because either no one realized the gen was down or the one guy who did said nothing and got killed trying to repair it.
Communication makes for a good atmosphere - games with friendly chit chat, congratulations and amusing banter make for a better match than one where everyone is just doing their own thing.
Team based discussions - Sometimes decisions need to be made. In conquest, which base will you go to next? Which dino do you need in pvp? Even people who are silent will follow you (or the majority will, forcing others to follow) if you suggest heading to base B. It's a Co-op, so cooperate.
Dont be distracting: That being said. Don't over do it, don't fill the chat up with nonsense and be an annoyance. Especially not in the middle of desperate battles where you and others should be focused on that T Rex trying to eat the support attempting to repair the Gen.
Dont go on tirades. The best thing you can do is ignore someone if they're being a jerk. Excluding people who steal guns and vehicles. Call them out for that but dont explode. Even if they were unaware, the response makes them realize what they did wrong. For people going out of their way to act like jerks, ignoring them and focusing on your tasks is the best way to go about it.

Section 2: Behavior

Co-op requires you to interact with your teammates with more than just words. Your actions affect others and whether you will win.

Don't steal the weapons of the dead. There is nothing more annoying than having the stuff you earned for your specific build taken by others. If its just lying there, communicate and ask if its alright to take it.
Stick together. Don't solo in a co-op. Shoot off dino's swarming them from behind IF they are losing health fast or in a bad situation (killing dino's they are targeting is stealing money right out of their hands). Help each other take out a swarm on the generator. Use a vehicle together to take out bosses. Focus-fire that boss dinosaur down.

Otherwise, not only will you will be too far to help them or get help but if you are alone, the moment you go down dino's will speed off at the speed of light for another target before you have time to pull your pistol out. Good luck getting that 2nd wind without any enemies around.
Don't stick TOO close together. Keep some distance between each other, while remaining in the general area. This way you can comfortably avoid kill stealing and not turn into a buffee line for a T-rex or stomp-spamming boss monster. Especially don't stand ontop of the person trying to repair the generator, they will not appreciate the acid and attention you will garner on your collective asses
Save your team mates. This goes without saying. Pay attention to your team mates pleading for help or going down. In higher difficulties or later waves, team mates going down can lead to a domino effect of death. It is to your own advantage to have a full team. Having a full team means the horde is spread thinner between you all, it means more guns to take them down, more people watching your back and more focus fire on boss monsters. Fewer means more mobs than your guns can handle and a major hinderance when repairing the generator.
Watch each others back. Repeating myself as this has been mentioned many times above but really. Keep an eye on your team mates and take care of them. All classes have the ability or load outs to do so. They need not have to be revived (putting yourself at risk as well) if you had saved them from getting swarmed in the first place.
Share resources. Fresh player enter the server during later waves? Someone unable to retrieve their weapons after dieing? Share your glut of credits. You are far more enabled to earn them back than they are and empowering them means you have someone more armed and capable of watching your back and handling the horde together.
Supports. Please heal/rescue players and repair vehicles. Having a utility gun is amazing because it restores ammo to you and your team mates, use it! Inform others that it can! Save your team money!

Section 3: Vehicles

Vehicles, this powerful resource against the horde is also the source of some of the most obnoxious, self sabotaging and wasteful behaviour in the game. Taking care of your vehicles across multiple waves can mean the difference between success/survival or defeat.

Don't steal other people's vehicles - If someone bought or is actively using a vehicle, especially tanks, birds, bikes and Mecha, please dont steal it from them when they stop to repair the gen, upgrade equipment and especially not when they came to save your ass (seriously wth man?). This is very rude.
If you drive, dont be a jerk. Don't drive your passengers to their death, dont yank half the team away from battle to some odd corner to loot kills away from the generator or places your firepower is needed. Don't ram the damn Triceratops and get you and your team mates blown to kingdom come. Which brings me to...
Don't be reckless with vehicles. Vehicles are an expensive or limited resource that are of great use against the horde. Don't ram that T-rex and blow up your jeep. Don't leave your bird in the middle of the battlefield, it WILL get focused on or stomped. Pay attention to the damage taken and ask someone with a utility gun or a support with the augment to repair it.
If you are in a slower moving vehicle like a tank and APC, keep moving. you are not invulnerable. Boss dino's can still send you flying and wreck your ♥♥♥♥.
Supports. Please repair vehicles at any given oppurtunity, ask people to bring their vehicles in for repairs and repair smoking vehicles abandoned by idiot players. Don't rely on other classes to buy utility guns.
If you are the driver, don't risk driving close to bosses. Nothing is to be gained from this foolishness. Circle around, drive around rocks and buildings, keep an eye on dino locations (if you cant turn to see them, use the minimap) and create clear lines of sight for your gunners. Drive over a few smaller mobs if it wont risk your position.
If you are in a bird, provide fire support for your ground troops and vehicles. Dont go off on your own. Also don't be an idiot and try to ram enemies on the ground, you are damaging your vehicle and it is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ embaressing to watch a bird blow up because it was within stomping/biting range. It has machine guns and missiles. USE THEM.
Don't drive into players or other vehicles and drag them around. Pay attention.
Offer and ask players to join you in your multi-seat vehicles. Especially for objectives where extra vehicles are about to spawn. Someone needs to drive those back! At the same time, please drive back vehicles from objectives. Dont use tanks and mechs for this unless you need the firepower and the obj is real close.
If you are walking weapons platform of death and destruction, don't use high firepower vehicles just to get around. The hover bike and penguin is IDEAL transport for people who prefer to run and gun or for quick trips to the shops and back. You are putting these vehicles at risk and handicaping your team by driving around in a mech, apc or tank you dont intend to actually use.

2 Comments

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Admiral Fleischherbst[ger] 17 Jan, 2018 @ 9:02am

Don't steal other people's vehicles : This rule is still widely disregarded by many.

volette1 7 Jan, 2018 @ 4:32pm

is good

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