Frustrated/Stressful Situations

[Forst]

Frustrating: As a PFC you stand on the remaining half destroyed barricades and everyone walks in front of you when you fire instead of behind.

Stressful: Hiding in a locker because you're injured and your squad left you.

[ThesoldierLLJK]

Frustrating: Starting a round and your wife forces you to make her lunch and you have to go into cyro and can't play again for two hours.

[Jeser]

Second time ever playing medic on CM. Ended up with results of a bad marine push into South Research on Big Red: ~8 wounded/dying/deceased. And then realizez that second medic have disappeared somewhere. Panic is a mild word for that. And then marines started to bring more wounded from the building. Before 2 medics arrived, I've ended up with ~15 marines. Lost 5, I think.
On a bright side, that situation instantly taught me about priorities and handling the pressure as squad medic. All other rounds felt much easier.

[FearTheBlackout]

Frustrating: Warriors.
Stressful: Trying not to get grabbed by Warriors.

[gjuro_andrija]

Frustrating: Getting told to "just follow the pointer" when trying to find my squad that's somewhere across the map.

Stressfull: When lead keeps taking us in wrong direction, so we never get where we're supposed to be at best/get wiped at worst.

[Reuben Owen]

Frustrating: Anyone in hive telling other Xenos to "not die" after a xeno just died.

Stressful: Being a Queen during a where previous Queen deovi'd early, hive got overrun, and you're just trying to find a spot to ovi to get larva out, and you keep running into groups of marines in the caves, which are nearly empty of weeds and half filled with plasteel barricades blocking off areas.

[Bulaven]

Frustrating? Trying to order Marines as a Staff Officer to go to a breach in the FOB perimeter, but only the Squad Leader responds, leaving you with a dead Squad Leader, no Marines who give two fucks, and a mess of xenos running amok 'A La Benny Hill' on the LZ.

Stressful? Trying to handle a pile of wounded as a lone Medic. Seriously. Nothing else needs to be said for that one.

Frustrating AND stressful? Trying to pull a facehugger off of a Marine, and someone keeps dragging them away.

Bonus? Being inside a xeno without your knife out.

[Bulaven]

Second time ever playing medic on CM. Ended up with results of a bad marine push into South Research on Big Red: ~8 wounded/dying/deceased. And then realizez that second medic have disappeared somewhere. Panic is a mild word for that. And then marines started to bring more wounded from the building. Before 2 medics arrived, I've ended up with ~15 marines. Lost 5, I think.
On a bright side, that situation instantly taught me about priorities and handling the pressure as squad medic. All other rounds felt much easier.

Y'know. I was taught by a Fire Captain out of Plainville, Massachusetts how to triage a large group of people: Ask them who needs help. If someone walks up to you, and they aren't bleeding? Tell them to shut the Hell up and go stand in the corner.

[Jeser]

Y'know. I was taught by a Fire Captain out of Plainville, Massachusetts how to triage a large group of people: Ask them who needs help. If someone walks up to you, and they aren't bleeding? Tell them to shut the Hell up and go stand in the corner.

By that I meant ~15 lying bodies, most of them in crit, few in orange and rest dead, but revivable. All those who could stand were either covering entrances (It was in that inner yard of south research, not in buildings.) or were CPRing those lying.

Never was so glad that I take two defibs with me every time I play medic. One is not nearly enough for medium intense round.

[Royal Griffon]

Nothing is more stressful than having that asshole Jack Knight give orders of BE'ing anyone who uses the Normandy to evac, and then getting ordered by the CMO to use the Normandy to evac the doctors.
Then getting fucked over cause Jack Knight found you before the CMO and the docs could get aboard.
Then having to shoot at Jack Knight (warning shot mind you, which I shouldn't have given) and having him spray and pray tase you (cause seriously he'll hit everyone else besides the person he's shooting at with that, he's a Bravo when it comes to shooting straight) and of course you had orders from the CMO and from him but you got your orders from the CMO.
And then have him Ahelp report you for insub as an MP cause you didn't follow HIS orders, but again you were following the CMO's orders, and have the queen come and kill everyone but yourself, cause you're handcuffed

[TheMaskedMan2]

That moment when you get insta gibbed by barrel charger buckshot as an Elite Rav because you couldn't click their sprite 1 tile north of you because YOUR MASSIVE SPRITE IS IN THE WAY.

Ahem.

[roushguy]

Dealing with MP's. Ever.

[Nantei]

Dealing with MP's. Ever.

[Nickvr628]

Getting brigged for 300 minutes as the only PO because two marines went splat under the dropship as it landed, and then being told by admins it is valid.

[VoltageHero]

Y'know. I was taught by a Fire Captain out of Plainville, Massachusetts how to triage a large group of people: Ask them who needs help. If someone walks up to you, and they aren't bleeding? Tell them to shut the Hell up and go stand in the corner.

Haha, when I was going through some first-aid training, we told the same thing although in better terms. Basically, if someone can scream then they're probably better off than the guy silently laying/sitting down while he's bleeding.

Although that doesn't really translate too well to CM.

[Bulaven]

Haha, when I was going through some first-aid training, we told the same thing although in better terms. Basically, if someone can scream then they're probably better off than the guy silently laying/sitting down while he's bleeding.

Although that doesn't really translate too well to CM.

Sometimes you need to worry about the quiet ones more than the loud ones. That's absolutely true. And, sometimes, it translates well into CM. If they're bleeding from a minor cut, yet screaming for attention, just patch it and tell them they're good to go. On the other hand? The guy with a gaping wound in his leg who's not responding? Yeeeah..

[caleeb101]

>charged by rav
>get up to being slugged back down and dragged by xenos
>escape xenos only to get slugged back into the horde by the same person

this is real frustration

[Maxim Inc]

Frustrating: Being an SL and your squad telling you to "suck a dick and die" when command were the ones that sent you there ill prepared and thought you would be able to handle the entire xeno force at half strength and almost all of you end up dead.

Stressful: Screaming at the SO to fire the OB because the Queen is literally right on it, and when the Queen leaves the area and the SO goes. "Oh, fire it?" "Ok then." With you screaming to not fire it and instead of hitting the Queen dead-on they gibb the entire marine counter attack force.

[Royal Griffon]

Both frustrating AND stressful situation and the most of both in a situation I can recall in all my time on CM
I rolled CMP, in fact one of the last times I rolled CMP and a major reason I stopped playing it in all honesty.
So a doctor goes and smokes drug injected cigarettes and of course tries to drug me with them, I knew cause they were giggling and moaning so it obviously was drugged. So I go for an arrest, however they ran off to prevent me from saying you're under arrest, so I made them wanted, simple as that, found them hiding near engineering, (hallway farthest back by lower engineering to be specific) in a canteen, I say hiding cause as the MP who found him described it, "He was running away from me and hid in the Northern Canteen's far Eastern corner." So simple drug bust. I told the MP good job bring him back here I'd read them their charges which I usually do to make sure they don't ahelp saying they were never told their charges. Preventing the entire MP force from getting admin inquisitioned, however this certain case was different, and I'm not really sure WHY I didn't make a admin report here (cause this admin has been threatening me with bans and basically making it feel like they were targeting me a LOT) but the prisoner was sitting in his cell, I told him he could ask for an appeal if he wanted to, he remained silent so I watched the cell and began to help a MP out in LOOC on how to not be a dickwad as an MP and how to be good at the job.
Next thing you know Solarmare is banging down my DM's by PM'ing me saying, "I'm denying the prisoner his right to an appeal." I calmly shrug it off and tell him that the prisoner had not even ASKED for an appeal yet, to this and I'm not lying or joking after about 20 seconds, which was enough time for him to tell the prisoner in PMs to ask for an appeal, the prisoner asks for an appeal. To which he PMs me again saying, "He literally just asked for it out loud."
Now I'm doing 3 things at once here, I'm helping a bald MP out
I'm watching a prisoner and telling him why he was arrested
And last but not least having Solarmare breathing down my neck in PM's which is a bannable offense if I can't answer back in time for him basically
And then had to call the CO who I felt may have been Solarmare or had been told in PMs by Solarmare to accept the appeal anyways
And in the end, Solarmare threatened me with a jobban and a warning, which I'm surprised isn't on my record saying he was targeting me for a few weeks. The prisoner got out, I had to LOOC teach an MP how to MP AND got arrested via CO's orders for, "lack of evidence." Due to the cigarettes not being able to be found and apparently seeing a crime with your own eyes is not good enough

This event here ruined CMP for me and made me really uncomfortable with CM for a while

[Royal Griffon]

Dealing with MP's. Ever.

my story is why a good MP known as Snatch is no longer an MP boi

[Celestial_Moon]

Frustrating: When the prison podlocks drop at 12:35 and marines come in from central and south bridge and have caded the north bridge.

[Sulaboy]

Frustrating: When the prison podlocks drop at 13:00 because they were glitched and the admins had to delete them.

[Nantei]

Frustrating: When the prison podlocks drop at 12:35 and marines come in from central and south bridge and have caded the north bridge.

That was my gorgeous cade. Xenos honestly played that pretty poorly from what I saw.

[CaptainYankee]

Stressful: being the only medic at the front lines and medevac isn't running.

[adrenalinetooth]

Being a CO is both frustrating and stressful.

The Frustration comes from trying to lead your men the way you want them to, only for them to go completely against orders because it was outside their comfort zone or they didn't wanna stand around knowing there are xenos to kill. At times, you feel like no one is listening to you and acknowledging your tactics, which sucks because trying new ideas can be hard if not everyone is willing to listen to you, let alone if those people refusing to listen to you are your staff officers.

The Stressful part comes from the fact that as CO, everyone expects a lot out of you, and are quick to blame you for ANY failures, be it your fault or not. When shit happens that is beyond your control and people decide that you are a shit commander because of it, it sucks. And trust me, a LOT of shit will happen that is beyond your control, from SOs going SSD to blackouts, assassinations to rouge squads, and all kinds of shit in between... Being a CO can be hell on the nerves sometimes...

Sometimes I wish there was a rule where you had to follow your superior's orders. That way, playing commander is fun because you can do what you want for once instead of bending down to what the marines want. If feel like a competency rule should go along with it just to scare off baldies, at least until they play other roles more and get a better understanding of the game

I play on milsim servers for arma 3 and various other games where you get banned if you go against orders and commanding is a blast. No bickering, just everyone trying their best to do what you ordered, you truly feel responsible for your mens lives. Because you legitimately can kill everyone by making them follow bad orders, only the experienced and brave take up the role. At the end, there is no salt, only growth and learning. The team talks for a few minutes about why the mission failed or succeeded, what plan would have worked, etc. so the commander can learn what he did wrong or right.
Most servers have a basic training session that takes an our or two to run through that teaches you how to lead, etc. Before you can play CO, you have to take it. I have seen poor COs a rare few times this way but never a hands on head pants retarded one. If they do bad, everyone tells them to learn and watch a bit more before taking up the gauntlet