Tried to play a few games with random squads... Every game they jump out at the military base..
Why is that a bad thing though? I play with about three different groups of people on this game. There's a chap in one of those groups that gets a right moan on whenever we do a military island drop. He'll sit in the plane asking people where we're going to drop, without ever suggesting a drop himself, and then have a little whinge when we go to the military base. We'll get down on the ground, and usually there's no
that many people there, but he'll land nowhere near the rest of us and get gunned down in no time, have another whinge over mic and disconnect.
This even happened a couple of nights ago, but a second player died too, right at the start of the game. Myself and the remaining chap decided to carry on as the zone was going to end up on our island, and we pulled the game around and won it, each netting 7 or 8 kills.
As has been discussed to death before, there are two early-game playstyles: deathmatch or survival. Land in a high-risk:high-reward area and either emerge fully kitted out, or you die and start a new game after a couple of minutes. Or land in a low-risk:low-reward area and spend the game trying to avoid fighting right up until the final circles.
I love survival games, and must admit I would see myself more as someone that would actively try to avoid engagements where they aren't necessary. But this game is much more rewarding, at least for me, when you land in a hot zone and fight your way out.