u/RevySevy

I'm not trying to be insulting or aggressive but I genuinely want to know why so many players in Operations refuse to follow - not the secondary - but the MAIN objective.

I was playing the Cherry Blossom Operation today and the end goal is to shoot the Aerodomes located on land. Literally all 6 of my teammates ignored them and kept shooting at the ships that infinitely spawn until the game ends.

I got 6 torpedo salvos dropped on me by planes in less than 10 seconds, I didn't know that was possible on this Operation so I'll keep it noted for next time - but that was the reason I wasn't able to shoot the domes at the end. I wrote to my team and they shot at another land structure that was already destroyed before going back to shooting ships. They can't even tell the difference between the land structures despite their names being written over each of them.

This has happened so many times before. I genuinely don't understand how people who play Operations don't know how to win at the mode. It feels like 90% of players only go "Shoot ship, brain happy, big damage number". What's the point of big damage numbers when you end up ignoring the main objective for 15 minutes and getting 2k XP and 100k credits at the end of the game for losing?

I've been playing Operations on and off for about a month now, mainly to grind XP, and 9/10 games it feels like I'm the only one trying to get objectives. I feel like within a month I managed to learn XP gains, benefits and strategies for operations faster than most players who only play Operations and nothing else. Most of the time I end up dying by trying to reach an objective in time because everyone only loves to focus on grouping together at the wrong side of the map and shooting at ships and nothing else, which ends up giving us less XP.

And for those saying that a lot of Ops players aren't good and are more focused on actually surviving the mode rather than making the most XP out of it, I really don't know how many games a person can play and still struggle to beat Ops. I mean at some point you automatically start learning patterns. I'm not gonna judge new players to the game or to the mode, but I refuse to believe that most of my games feature new players.

Just please look at the top left and follow the objectives. They are worth more than the 300k damage you got with Schlieffen. And losing immediately cripples your XP/Credit gains.