Originally Posted by
CABAL
Yeah, right, survs metagame this one thing, I got it. But I look at bigger picture to know why this rule is violated in the first place.
It's common to handle situations in this way and I think it's the correct one. Until update comes, staff will handle such things manually. Just like with benos abusing healing off weeds on Alamayer without Queen. It takes time to patch anything, they can't stop the game for something like that and they can't twist, bend and add rules just like that.
Staff knows the issue, they will handle it somehow. Admeme's word is above server Rules, they can excuse certain breaks in reasonable way. Right now it's survivors being killed/captured every single time, because first minute after one of the benos evolves to T3 means end for survs and it happens pretty early. Survs are not created just to die 100% times. This problem never existed before, or maybe there was only few minor examples in last couple of years.
This "metagame" situation can be explained with good IC reasoning. Survs are desperate, they know that distress was send, they don't know who, or if is coming, but they know somebody might. There is no point in barricading yourself anywhere, because benos can access every part of the map that survs can. With glimpse of hope, they decided to make a run for it, to get headset and send their message. If they don't specifically ask for USCM/Marines then there is no meta.
It is "strange" that scientific colony, or prison contains headsets working on the same frequency as Almayer Command, but that can be easly changed I guess.