I'm quite peeved currently. Now I say this knowing full well that I really should just expect this from mid-day xbox random game joining but the sheer level of incompetence on show on my last match in Brink was nothing short of astonding.

So I'm on the Reactor as Resistance, first objective hack the vents. Kind of tricky but I find this map the most balanced as no team as that large a handicap so no biggy. I'm playing my Operative who quite frankly has been on level 19 now for too long, doing my Operative thing. I started out by securing both command posts, Firewalling & Upgrading, health and supplies are in good shape, so I take some opposition down, comms hack and disguise, all is well.

The rest of my team however were aparently suffering from Agoraphobia since NOT ONE bloody member of my team was sticking together or even doing their class's job! After dying for what seemed like the 10th time of me clearing the room and setting up the hackbox then getting murdered by 5 of the opposing teams best. I decided to follow around a team member HOPING AND GOD-DAMN PRAYING that he'd see an Operative by his side and maybe get it into his head that I might need covering.

Nope!

No, the hapless Engineer (human player btw) I was following was setting mines in places that the other side would never tread, going out in the open outside the room and attempting to set up a turret whilst getting shot at by the Guns of friggin Navarone and getting filled with more holes than a Moth-ridden underwear drawer. All the while I'm facepalming so much that my face has gone Concave.

So, I say to another player on my side who decided to start up a game and leave the country, I'm not bothering with that person anymore, lets follow that Soldier who seems to understand the idea of keeping command posts on our side. I quickly gave up on this idea when he would take the longest route to wherever the hell he wanted to go, seeing ONE enemy with his back turned and instead of shooting up, trying to perform a side tackle from 50ft away, Missing and THEN TRYING AGAIN!

Not playing any games anymore, the clock is ticking and I would prefer to make the match last longer, so I team up with a medic, telling myself, even if the medic is a four thumbed monkey, I would take the lead, Kill everyone my god-damn-self and if I fell down, he would revive me.

NOPE! The Medic assumed he was a Soldier obviously because he charged into the vent room without even throwing a grenade and cerimoniously gets more metal in him than a scrap yard!!!

I just gave up at that point, I was getting angry, which in turn makes me a worse player and quite frankly, when your team is doing more against you than the opposing side you have to rethink your spare time.

I don't mind being beaten, it is part of the game, but I'd rather lose due to bad luck or skill rather than pure unbridled incompetence. Hell I'd rather take a beating on Container City than have another game like the one I just had.

Vent your frustrations, write it down, at what point in a game did you decide to just turn it off due to similar circumstances?

The common stupidity of some players is boundless... but don't give up hope... there are good players out there... you just need to find them...

I know people frustrate me sometimes but it just makes me better at my job for games down the road