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4/27/2016 1:32:57 AM
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The Etiquette of the Heavy Ammo Crate (Refresher Course)

It's Iron Banner again, which means that once again, people who don't normally play PvP are trying to remember how. This also means- yes, you guessed it- someone is on the forum telling them that they're opening the heavy ammo crates too soon. There's a certain etiquette involved in opening the crate when you're on a team. If you're the only one at the crate, and there's no red on your radar, DON'T OPEN THE DAMN CRATE. I can't put it more clearly than that. Wait for the rest of your team so they get some heavy ammo as well. Obviously, it's a judgement call sometimes. There may be a red line at the edge of your screen... in that case, is your team closer than the enemy? Can you wait for them? Or do you have an enemy bearing down on you, lusting for your chitlins, so that you have to pop the crate or risk losing it to the other team? But other times, there's no judgement to be made. It's a clear case of seeing that half of your team is still converging on the crate, knowing that the enemy is nowhere in sight, and just [i]not caring[/i]. Yes, there's an announcement when heavy ammo is inbound. But on many maps, that's still not a lot of time to get to the crate from wherever one happens to be, especially since there's actual fighting taking place. Not everyone arranges their game around the drop timer. Sometimes it's just bad luck. Whatever the case, delaying a second or two is not going to cost you the game, and having a few more players with heavy ammo might actually affect the outcome. Many a loss has turned into a win, and vice-versa, based on some heavy kills at the right time. Think about it next time you're tempted to open that crate all by yourself.

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  • Well, common sense must rule on this one. Yes, everyone needs to wait for most of their teammates to get to the crate before opening it. However, there are times where I'm waiting and most of my team is there and I can tell they're also waiting for that one last teammate to come in and open the crate. And he's really close and all and yay we're all gonna get heavy. Then a member from the opposite team noticed were camping at our crate, loads his rocket launcher from like 10 miles away and wipes us all. And now they can get the second crate too. You won't even see them in your radar. Heck, I usually do that if I get the chance. So as a personal rule, I wait about 5 seconds after the other team opened their heavy crate, just for safe measure. After that, I'll try my best to wait longer than that but it's also fair game.

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