ARΣS -=EnM Squad=- Sunday 4th March

[Paul]

Aaaaaah the Mary Jane, haven't had that in ages!

[Snakestyles]

I need to set the record straight quick.

I am currently going through a pretty rough patch at work and IRL. Its been ongoing and has recently boiled over to a complete catastrophe just recently. Its not an excuse, but it is affecting my ability at the moment. I cannot make every practice I want to and am in a shit mood 90% of my week-day evenings. I shouldn't let it affect my gameplay, but the less i play, the worse i get, the more fucked off i get.

I love this game, I really do. Forget my mumblings Tyger, they rage fuelled loads of BS.

I knew BF3 would be a monstrous success and thus invested a bit of money to making my rig capable this time round (not like in BC2). To a great success for the greater part. Alas, my curse followed me and I still have the occasional system issue. I am working on fixing these as much as possible without spending more money, but I am slowly realising that i need to in order to get a crisp experience.

Coupling these issues together and adding that I am too hard on myself and HATE not giving to the team as much as the team gives to me, makes me act, feel and play like a fucking douche. What MAGNIFIES this issue is that the team is gelling so well, i can't stand that my groove is being difficult to find...

I am working on fixing all my issues and will be back to my old self on and off the field soon i hope.

Phatso you are a cool guy and a very skilled player. It's easy to tell just via your voice chat you are taking strain. Games should be fun and as soon as they are not you are wasting precious time. You are an adult and know what to do, just take it easy put the team on the backburner and commit to only what you are comfortable with. There are reserves and they can be used. Don't get to worked up about this, sounds like you have more important stuff to deal with.

[SlipperyDuck]

I want to bring this up here, we are basically a new team, we are finding our ropes and are definately improving.

Whist the timing - mid league - is arguably not the best time to find our feet, I'd argue that taking significant losses in Leg 1 is actually to our benefit as we start building our cohesion. Inevitably this will result in us being dropped well down the ladder for leg 2. The result will be a massive confidence boost as our efforts are rewarded with strong wins....but only if we remain commited and do our best to become the best.

I know we lost this map as we had no clue about positioning and line of sight, we must remember this and actually do the ground work on EVERY map, then drill Four Maps too pieces, youtooob classroom the crap out of those four and put our best efforts forward.

I am quite disheartened that we lost to ARZes as I know we are the better team, just that we had a vietnam moment, sent into enemy territory where they knew what to do (it was clear that they got the map they wanted) and we didnt know the lay of the land.

Anyway - I keep waiting for the wakeup smell the roses moment. If we want to do well, we have to try harder, everyone else is.