A Team Can Be More Than the Sum of Its Parts
Some survival games see interested individuals surviving on their own. In contrast, others see entire teams competing with one another. Winning the latter isn’t reliant on consulting the zodiac to see what will be lucky. Instead, it is all about the players’ ability to work together on a shared goal.
What Are 5 Tips For Being the Best Team in a Survival Game?
Here are five tips that might prove useful:
Communicate
It is possible for a team to work well with either no or next-to-no communication. However, that tends to be the product of veteran players who have hours and hours of experience working together, which has provided each of them with considerable insight into their team-mates’ thinking. For the rest of us, communication using either the in-game system, Discord, or some other method is critical for ensuring smooth teamwork because it tells the team what is happening as well as how various team-mates will react to it. Generally speaking, interested individuals should communicate everything of relevance unless they are sure that their team-mates can see it as well. For example, if someone spots a potential threat while their team is scattered, they should communicate that information to make sure that no one is surprised. In contrast, if the entire team has been moving about in a single block facing a single direction, there is no point to communicating that information because everyone else should have seen it as well. Other topics of importance that should be communicated include but are not limited to movement plans, points of interest, and helpful resources.
Synergize
There are some survival games in which everyone is working with the same base when it comes to their player-character. However, there are plenty of others in which interested individuals can choose different player-characters with different capabilities. When that happens to be the case, the players should choose player-characters based on a couple of criteria. One, they should make sure that their characters can serve separate roles, thus enabling them to play to their strengths while covering for their weaknesses. Two, they should try to choose characters that synergize well with one another for even better results than otherwise possible. Under ideal circumstances, interested individuals will discuss their plans in advance using either Discord or some other suitable platform. However, if they can’t, they might want to see what their team-mates pick before making their own pick.
Don’t Be Selfish
Limited resources are part and parcel of the survival game experience. Sometimes, this means limited healing for a team that is on the verge of being wiped out. Other times, this means limited building materials with which to make useful items. Whatever the case, interested individuals shouldn’t be selfish when it comes to the use of these limited resources. Instead, they should focus on what would be most helpful for their team as a whole. For instance, if they still have a lot of health while one of their team-mates is running very low, it makes sense for the latter to receive top priority for healing. Having said that, interested individuals should be careful of causing issues because they are being too yielding in this regard. One example would be letting a rival team secure the resource while waiting for a team-mate to approach, while another example would be letting a team-mate get first pick of resources even though they have proven themselves to be bad at their use.
Don’t Wander Off
Generally speaking, a team should move in close coordination with one another. This is because they are much stronger as a group than on their own, meaning that if they wander off from one another, they have a much higher chance of being picked off one by one. Interested individuals don’t necessarily have to move as a single block. However, everyone should be close enough for the team to come to their rescue if they get attacked by something.
Don’t Hold Grudges
People of every zodiac sign can get upset when they see their team-mates mess up. Unfortunately, grudges are corrosive for the kind of teamwork needed to ensure success in team-based survival games, which is why interested individuals should do their best to avoid holding grudges as well as avoid creating grudges. Sometimes, people make mistakes, so there is no point to getting too worked up about it. As for people who continue making the same mistake again and again without listening to their team-mates’ advice, well, suffice to say that interested individuals can just avoid playing with them in the future.
