...is appauling.
I find myself and a select few running for objectives and generally trying to win.
It's a bit less frustrating when you realise you're getting twice as much kills and points as the guys hanging back.
I check my map, 90% of the blue dots are located at our spawn, even those armed with PPShs'.
But that's realistic!! You're supposed to stop and think and camp and snipe and all that other stuff that is nothing at all like real combat. The RO1 vets keep telling us that, so it must be true. RO1 was flawless.
Overall I feel that players dont seem to be quite as clever as they really should be, is anyone else finding this to be a problem?
Actually, I think the problem is the players think they are smarter than they are, at least tactically speaking. They think they are doing the right thing, but they are doing the wrong thing for the right reason. They WANT to be as realistic as possible, it's just that they only have a thumbnail picture of what a soldier does. Even a documentary is not realistic because it compresses time and distance to tell a story. Even when every word is true, it's out of context. So their understanding of their role is flawed, which makes everything they do in game flawed, even if it is successful at times.
Previous games have allowed them to be flawed and still dominant, RO2 doesn't. You have to be good at everything, or the people who are, will dominate you. It's like being a boxer against an MMA fighter. You have good tools, maybe even the best for the given task, but you only have a few. Mine might be less successful at a specific task, but they are more successful at ALL tasks. In close, far away, fast, slow, with warning and without, I have a tool for the job. That is why I beat most players. If they are beating me at a distance, I'll go close. If they are beating me in close, I'll keep my distance. I fight to take advantage of your weaknesses, rather than my strengths.
The players you are talking about have no idea they even have weaknesses. That is why they die so easily, and why they end up camping far from the battle.