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[Flying Dice]

Sometimes, but not always. I've seen zergs composed entirely of individuals and half-squads that all move along the same logical paths from base to base. People have a tendency to cluster in games like this, especially if they aren't actively avoiding large battles.

[Teneb]

So I decided to give this another shot after the horribly laggy experience I had with the beta. Is there any server/faction/outfit people here are on? (I probably will be limited to USEast servers since they are probably the least laggy for me)

[Flying Dice]

Mattherson is the most populated (both generally and with B12ers) of US East servers.

[DJ]

Last night auto-join put me in a squad of Germans, and damn was it amazing. They all fought in coordination, and they used voice chat in just the right amount and for the right purposes (shame my German is kinda rusty). Anyway, it was a totally different game experience, and I want more of that. How would I go about finding a decent outfit on Woodman that's hardcore enough that there's always enough people on to have a squad going, and casual enough that they don't ride my ass over my erratic playing schedule?

[Toaster]

Trial and error, probably.

[palsch]

Most major outfits have at least some presence on the official forums. After that there are listings on reddit, although I don't know how many outfits bother with those.

Some groups recruit through the squad menus. These should be labelled. That might be the best idea if you want to get to know people rather than going through some over-the-top application process.

[miauw62]

Yeah, just look for a squad that has a prefix that seems to indicate it's from a specific outfit and hop in, see what it's like.

[Knight of Fools]

Last night auto-join put me in a squad of Germans, and damn was it amazing. They all fought in coordination, and they used voice chat in just the right amount and for the right purposes (shame my German is kinda rusty). Anyway, it was a totally different game experience, and I want more of that. How would I go about finding a decent outfit on Woodman that's hardcore enough that there's always enough people on to have a squad going, and casual enough that they don't ride my ass over my erratic playing schedule?

I've always wanted a squad like that - A good balance between banter, tactics, and casualness. Unfortunately, our servers appear to live 1/3 of the way around the world from each other.

It seems like every single squad I join on my server has some power-tripping teenager screaming at everyone for not following his vague orders, and then raging at everyone when something goes wrong. The only way these guys do anything remotely useful is through zerging with infantry.

[darkrider2]

Last night auto-join put me in a squad of Germans, and damn was it amazing. They all fought in coordination, and they used voice chat in just the right amount and for the right purposes (shame my German is kinda rusty). Anyway, it was a totally different game experience, and I want more of that. How would I go about finding a decent outfit on Woodman that's hardcore enough that there's always enough people on to have a squad going, and casual enough that they don't ride my ass over my erratic playing schedule?

I've always wanted a squad like that - A good balance between banter, tactics, and casualness. Unfortunately, our servers appear to live 1/3 of the way around the world from each other.

It seems like every single squad I join on my server has some power-tripping teenager screaming at everyone for not following his vague orders, and then raging at everyone when something goes wrong. The only way these guys do anything remotely useful is through zerging with infantry.

The opposite end of the spectrum can be just as bad, I quit from the TAS outfit because while it was very casual and there were lots of us, there was a weak sense of command and we zerged a lot.

I'm officially a member of AACE now, and boy do I fly my reaver all the damn time now. Its really casual as there's like maybe a squad of us on at a time.

That said, WMD is my favorite outfit to roll with, good number of players with some good command.

[Tylui]

On Helios, SNVS is quite like that. Wonderful outfit.

[DJ]

I'm thinking about 151st Freedom Fighters, any of you guys have an opinion on them?

[Knight of Fools]

I see the fun and entertainment value as more important than having a good command structure, but they're not exclusive. It'd just require a group of personalities that are relatively rare in FPS's, and a personality at their head that's even less common.

[TolyK]

I have an outfit of exactly 3 people (), but I like to hang out with other outfit platoons. Usually it's DIG on Miller.

[Toaster]

When DORFers aren't on, I often hang with TENC.  They BS a lot on teamspeak, but they have solid tactics and play serious when they want to. Of course, sometimes they just do Phoenix squads and Skyguard columns.

[Spaghetti7]

The guys I hang with on Ceres are pretty good middle ground. We always have an objective, reports of where the enemies are and often tactically retreat to regroup, and the strictest it gets is being told off for not following waypoints.
Oh, and in the few times I've rolled with them we've done a mass gal-crash and a flash race (that was especially fun, since we had to go through an NC armour Zerg).