I play the game religiously and I have come across exactly one idiot who TKed on purpose. FF is 99.99% accidental.
Many cases they are somewhat justified as the team desperately tries to stay alive and drop stratagements (close air support) anywhere from “danger close” to “broken arrow” (“I pray this kills the towering insect trying to eat us”). Sometimes you also lose awareness and walk into a teammates stratagement, sometimes your call out falls short of where you intended (or bounces back straight to you). So hilarious accidents occur regularly.
Without this, the game wouldn’t be the same at all. There is an odd military realism in a somewhat cartoony Starship Troopers-esque game that really gel very well together.
Yeah pretty much calling airstrikes, or orbital artillery in on your current position cause you just got swarmed by like 5 huge armoured bugs or robots.
Yeah “broken arrow” has two meanings. In the Air Force (or at least during the Vietnam war), it was the code phrase to urgently call in all available air assets as a unit was in danger of being overrun. And that meant dropping whatever they had with little coordination and high risk of friendly fire (like during the Battle of Ia Drang).
I play the game religiously and I have come across exactly one idiot who TKed on purpose. FF is 99.99% accidental.
Many cases they are somewhat justified as the team desperately tries to stay alive and drop stratagements (close air support) anywhere from “danger close” to “broken arrow” (“I pray this kills the towering insect trying to eat us”). Sometimes you also lose awareness and walk into a teammates stratagement, sometimes your call out falls short of where you intended (or bounces back straight to you). So hilarious accidents occur regularly.
Without this, the game wouldn’t be the same at all. There is an odd military realism in a somewhat cartoony Starship Troopers-esque game that really gel very well together.
I understand “danger close.” I was in the USN. The term “Broken Arrow,” is generally used to describe a “lost, missing, or misplaced” nuclear weapon.
What does Broken Arrow mean in this context? Are you literally dropping a nuke on your own heads? If so I would use the term Tango Uniform
Yeah pretty much calling airstrikes, or orbital artillery in on your current position cause you just got swarmed by like 5 huge armoured bugs or robots.
Yeah “broken arrow” has two meanings. In the Air Force (or at least during the Vietnam war), it was the code phrase to urgently call in all available air assets as a unit was in danger of being overrun. And that meant dropping whatever they had with little coordination and high risk of friendly fire (like during the Battle of Ia Drang).
Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.