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Mine? RAT playstyle is perfectly acceptable.

This game is not solely for fast paced run and gun play style. Sniping, stealth and trickery are a deep and intricate part of the game. Players who get frustrated by "rats" are within their rights to be frustrated. BUT don't tell me how to have fun or win matches.

"Rat" play is about so much more than "that is the only way you can win" or any of the other hundred comments I have heard. It takes patience, skill, innovation and wits. Pre trapping a boss lair, and pre trapping the path you know you will run, just to shoot a hunter and have their teammates lay chase and hit every trap you set - is amazing. I feel like Kevin McCallister in Home Alone! Playing a solo sniper and pinning down a team of 3, forcing them to retreat and extract with no health bars, then moving on to solo kill a boss and extract is REWARDING. And frankly, just as much fun as playing with friends or randoms and storming a trapped boss lair for a hardcore shootout or running people down with melee and shotguns.

Being shot from 200 meters through a window in a boss lair, is frustrating. Being insta killed with a shotgun as you round a corner ready for a fight, is also frustrating. Fanning - frustrating. Levering - frustrating. Running into a teammates trapped barrel - frustrating. However, all are key parts of the game. And I would not change a thing.

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4 months ago - /u/NylesBlack - Direct link

No-one owes you a playstyle! Happy New Year! :)