
Originally Posted by
Scintilla
Not saying it's impossible: it happens on occasions, but it's very unlikely.
First it requires almost the entire team to commit to this new 'goal' - a goal which often means putting objectives to one side and channeling focus instead on PvP to camp out in the premade team base. Given the number of casual players in Frontlines who are there primarily for the daily, I don't think I need to elaborate too much on how low chances of persuading a team do this can be. Even in the event that you do get your team to focus on the premade, it only takes an A or S rank node to spawn and you lose half your team to that, leaving the remainder to feed the premade. Try to call for focus on the premade, and you'll regularly get conflict calls to focus on objectives instead or to try to avoid the premade team. And that's not counting the number of teams who just take the defeatist attitude of "we can't do anything. Lets just end it quickly". It's particularly difficult to get this support early in the game while the premade are likely to be trailing slightly on points, as it goes against normal practice of 'focus on the winning team'. By the time they've built a notable point lead, they've also farmed very high BH and have begun to take easy control of the game. The two random teams wake up to the reality too late to stop them.
Secondly, it usually requires an unspoken alliance with the other random team, having both teams working together continuously to focus down the premade. Even in the event that your own team are willing to commit to this new goal, there is no guarantee that the same could be said of the other random team.
Common decisions include:
- They instead decide that the best course of action is to leave the other random alliance to 'fight' (die to) the premade alone, while they try to take unguarded nodes in the meantime. Obviously this doesn't work as the other random alliance tend to get flattened very quickly, the premade continue to get the BH, and the fight comes to the 'objective-driven' team anyway.
- They decide to try to leech from the premade and together farm the other random team, basically handing the win to the premade just to secure second-place for themselves.