Do you change tactics depending on the opponent?
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16 Oct 2008, 10:48
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Knowing what to do where and when can flip a match. lio doesn't, do you?
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attack is a different story, as the good teams have someone calling rushes, so theres lots of change.
teamplay -> dynamic ways of behavior, intuitive by the players (intelligence is good here) :)
Teamplay is how good the team responds to each others actions and how they co-operate the tactics together, fill in the gaps of each other etc.
Of course that ignores the interactions as well. Teams without good adaptive teamplay but with good tactics can actually play worse against an opponent without tactics than against one with solid tacs. It's basically the 'mix-effect': tactics are frequently based on the opponent doing predictable, coordinated things - if the opponent doesn't (because they're all ramboing around on their own, for example), then the tactics can break down.
I think aim is the most important because doesnt matter if you make tactics or the clan has teamplay without aim.
For example a good 1 week old aimer team can beat a half year old clan with a lot of teamplay.
Generally though, it just depends on how much you've seen the opponent play (either through playing against them or watching ettv). Unless you're blind you can't help but notice what works and what doesn't work against a team on a map and you'd be an idiot not to use that knowledge in game. Actively seeking it out and specific planning, though, I think is far less common.
I don't gib against some teams because I know they don't have teamplay to revive themselves when needed.
We own, or get owned (most of the time!)
you fucking morons
For instance you force a team to go main so you can focus them more in your crossfire. The tactic would be throwing down an artillery in the alternate route and either forcing the oppo main or delaying them. An alternate tactic would be to place mines there to force the oppo towards main. The strategy is still the same however.
if you mean general positioning, then never - just the rotation of positions will change - not specifically to the opponent, but specifically to what they are doing. Obviously some opponents do something more than others so it would just seem like a team is defending that route/side more but really they aren't.
this is assuming the team in question is adept at strategy and tactics, not just the noob push and kill mentality all the time. ;)
More rarely it can be true just for normal nades, or even trickjumps - if you're playing against Xpaz, Raveneye and Toxic you sure as hell make sure you're in position to watch for the east tower jump on supply, whereas against most other teams you wouldn't give it a second thought.
knowing that certain players do this jump wouldnt make a team change their tactics, they would just make whoever was on east aware that they do it often and to be more aware of it (in general I guess they would still have to cover it, just not a priority) you wouldnt for instance change the entire defence due to that specific trickjump.
Attack on the other hand has to be changeable, its just the way it is - if teams dont mix it up from time to time then things will not go well for them too long.
in the near 4 years Ive been with the same team, we still have fairly similar defence tactics now than what we did then on all maps except one where I think we've changed it a good 4 or 5 times - if this is down to the map or us who knows.
On most other maps we have 2-3 changeable ones depending on the spawn (RtCW defences are much more spawn based than ET, thats why most ET players cant adapt to RtCW) rather than the opponent dictating the defence, their spawn time differential does - this cant happen on attack too on certain maps.
works both ways in RtCW though, as generally the push and /kill method does not work at all on defence perhaps except for the panzer and a lt (fop) whereas in ET its a general strategy used throughout the game on pretty much every map.
People still use placed strats?