I'm terrible having never played FPS games before in my life beyond a bit of Half-Life 2 and the FEAR games. I almost literally can't hit anything for want of trying! (and I do try...have spent time at the range, and even downloaded Aimtastic from Steam). Obviously this is my first BR given no FPS experience....started playing on Sunday (couple of days ago) and I absolutely love it. Don't have a mic and am getting yelled at for being bad, and I'm also feeling bad that I'm a weak link, but I do my best to tag along and not do anything too stupid...although I do have a tendency to revive people in battle (stupidly) because I have no confidence in my combat ability. I also have no idea how the attachment system works, getting a feel for the guns (although my memory for this stuff is like a sieve and apart from a couple of standouts they blur into shoot shoot bang bangs).
The most fun I've had so far was a drop into a shanty town area with two more experienced players and a whole load of other teams. Couldn't find a weapon and was running scared from multiple baddies, sliding, jumping through windows and double backing....both team mates got killed whilst I was doing this...one disconnected immediately. In a sense I don't blame him because I was playing Lifeline and with 2 people hunting me and with no weapons I was pretty doomed...the other just sat there watching. And who'd thunk it, managed to hop, slide, vault and weave my way, weaponless, to recover a banner and raise my team mate who stuck with me. Felt like a hero for that...we made it to about 6th from the end, but it was the sweetest victory for me. Also loved being teamed with a hero who gave me a Kraber and just let me have fun....he carried the two of us to victory whilst I missed a lot.
Would love to have some people who are also terrible to play with rather than just soloing in the hope that people don't see my name and disconnect....how would one go about getting on board with that?