While in fact im being a team player, protecting teammates from gorefasts, scrakes and husks, covering doorways and absorbing some melee damage for the team. so i dont know why you dont like berserker, could you please explain?
P.S. you'll have to forgive me, I've had an operation on my left hand, so I'm typing this with 1 hand. It's amazing how much work things become with just one hand...
Anyway, it's a pleasure to meet you, because you certainly are the rarest butterfly of them all. Seriously, thats not me being patronising, thats being 100% honest. I'm a Medic/Firebug player myself, so it's partially my fault really. My whole stiche is supporting my teammates, and filling my role in the team. I am fully aware as these classes that I rely on my teammates to support me at certain times. Thats what I love about KF, the whole everyone filling a role for the team.
However waiting till everyone is dead then going on a kiting run to "save" the round, is not a role IMO, it's called being a dick. Most Berserkers however do exactlt that, and generally feel its much easier to just leave me for dead and save their own arse, thereby giving themselves more lower health specimens to kill on their own. Why? Because killing so many is fun.
Aze hit the nail on the head, the fact is any class in theory can survive on his own on HoE, but every other class is at the mercy of spawns. Crawlers, Gorefasts, Stalkers, they are all as fast or faster than you, so you have deal with them, and you can't stop still for a moment to kill that mob ahead of you because clots are rolling in bloody quickly behind you and all. No matter how good you are there is going to be something that causes you a problem.
Zerkers don't have this problem, so the whole teamwork concept flies out the window. It ruins the game, cause although it might be fun to kill 200 specimens on your own... it is ****ing boring for everyone else.