Disruptive Frontline Gameplay

[OliviaLugria]

There is such a guide! Made by notorious shot-caller Olivia L. on Aether. Haven't read it for a while, but these are the salient features I recall.

How to win in FL:

1. Be a shot-caller. Various helpful macros are included.
2. Form a premade.
3. Various meta compositions are offered.
4. Tactics are suggested that inevitably involve fairly heavy casualties for those on your team not in the premade. Don't worry about that, they're not your friends anyway. The premade is so devastating they are simply collateral damage on the way to easy wins.

It's actually a really good guide, and I wish more FL players would read it because it corrects some common strategic misunderstandings. It's also deeply cynical IMO.

The problem is premades.

Thanks for name dropping me. I don't exactly agree with your 4th point there. Getting your team killed doesn't exactly seem point positive. Some premades can drop an entire alliance by themselves, but many need their team to also be building battle high and staying alive. I'm curious as to which tactics you were implying when writing the comment. I'd like to go back and edit my guide to ensure this is not the sentiment being spread.

I try my best to tell others to back up, fallback, don't get bursted by enemy darks, but sometimes I'm not or the team is not quick enough. People get left behind and have to be used as cover for an escape or be avenged in the counter burst.

[Mawlzy]

Thanks for name dropping me. I don't exactly agree with your 4th point there. Getting your team killed doesn't exactly seem point positive. Some premades can drop an entire alliance by themselves, but many need their team to also be building battle high and staying alive. I'm curious as to which tactics you were implying when writing the comment. I'd like to go back and edit my guide to ensure this is not the sentiment being spread.

I try my best to tell others to back up, fallback, don't get bursted by enemy darks, but sometimes I'm not or the team is not quick enough. People get left behind and have to be used as cover for an escape or be avenged in the counter burst.

Isn't there a bit where you address how to command the premade and mention the rapid retreats lead to collateral losses in the other 20 members of the team? Apologies if I misrepresented your position, I wrote the above from memory.

Let me add that both your strategic and tactical understanding of FL is exceptional and I genuinely admire your skill. That said, I'm not familiar with your recent call-outs since I blacklist anyone spamming the "KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM" macro, or similar issues like using the same macro three times in a row, particularly if it includes <se.4>. Having made this change, I found things went just as well following your "D" marker, but ultimately I am so opposed to queue mixing that you are a major reason I quit playing the mode. Not a personal thing, just that I dislike playing with you or against you, and we tend to be on at the same time.