How often do forward camps actually work out for you?

Nightfall12 · February 2018

Just wondering for me it seems like its less than 50% of the time, I know there are times when you just know it will be overrun so why bother, but other times its out of the way of the fight so you click on it only to get one of the Load screen specials…several minute wait only to finally zone in already dead with no one in sight and an insulting death recap that involves nothing light attacks

davey1107 · February 2018

I think if my team is placing them smartly, then they work out maybe 90% of the time. There are times where lag causes a crash, but it’s been super rare for me this year. Then most of the 10% of the time they don’t workmis when I land in a horde of enemies.

I can’t complain. I spend lotsa time passing a keep capture by hunting and destroying these. I should get AP for wasting someone else’s, lol.

Ghettokid · February 2018

Never. I never die.

Kartalin · February 2018

It feels like so often we’ll be fighting outnumbered and score a big win wiping a group double our size only to have them spawn nearby at a camp with full resources and come back and overwhelm us while we’re still recovering.

Not a fan really. They save us at times but overall they unnecessarily seem to favor factions simply throwing bodies at opponents.

Marginis · February 2018

They can be useful, possibly the difference between winning and losing a fight, but can be overcome with a competent zerg.

leeux · February 2018

Forward camps are the ones causing me the most of infinite loading screens I get while playing. I'd say 1 of 3 times I use one, I end in an inf loading screen.

Thogard · February 2018

In a group, if one person survives, they can throw down an FC and everyone respawns without having to play horse simulator.

If you want to put an FC down before anyone dies, you’re gonna have a bad time

SugaComa · February 2018

90%

Usually we know the fight is taking a turn for the worse so it's a call made to peel off and set up one to receive the fallen

Marginis · February 2018

leeux wrote: »

Forward camps are the ones causing me the most of infinite loading screens I get while playing. I'd say 1 of 3 times I use one, I end in an inf loading screen.

I don't even PVP much and I get infinite loading screens all the time just in PVE.

Beardimus · February 2018

These puppies helped me get Emp Friday so I'm a fan

Agreed on loading screens tho

leeux · February 2018

Marginis wrote: »

leeux wrote: »

Forward camps are the ones causing me the most of infinite loading screens I get while playing. I'd say 1 of 3 times I use one, I end in an inf loading screen.

I don't even PVP much and I get infinite loading screens all the time just in PVE.

Yeah, I'm convinced that infinite loading screens are just a client side engine bug, made worse by the fact that the server-client communication have been the spottiest that I can remember since the start.

Said that, I cannot say that I have the same experience with PvE on PC/NA... but I see you're XBOX... so yeah, totally understand you.

DeadlyRecluse · February 2018

Pulled a scroll out of a gatekeep with a group of around 6--had scrollrunner keep going around a bend and drop a camp while 5 of us turned to fight and slow down pursuers...

After we wiped and took the camp, all 5 of us got hit with long/perma loadscreens. RIP. Hardest I've ever been ZOSed.

Timeraider · February 2018

Approx 60-70% of the time of it turning out good/great, 30% of it turning bad. When it turns out bad however.. it is BAD

pzschrek · February 2018

*/y when overrunning a camp*

"No! Stop! Don't burn the AP dispenser!"

Really though they're useful in a few specific cases:

1. A close fight where your side barely comes out in the worse or else is still fighting hard. It can turn the tide completely, especially if the other side is at the end of their tether and barely beat/is barely beating your side.
2. Players who are your friends and/or good enough to make a difference died.
3. You are in an organized group on the wrong side of the map and even if you aren't intending on going back into a fight where you got zerged, you don't want the whole group to have to ride back up.

TBH if it's not one of those cases I never put down camps on my own, esp in the lower lvl campaigns. I'm not wasting 20k AP on people who are just going to charge into the breach and wipe to oils 30s later.