Oh my god, Was Cmode always this much of a bitch? Options

[Ether]

I think my FOmarl is cursed :( Despite my not being new to c-mode (8 dc sranks, 4 gc) I am going insane simply trying to get her through the 9 stages. Here are my horror stories so far...

C1: This one was a few months ago, before I went on a couple month pso break, so I dont remember it at all

C2: This one was a doozy. After having a really hard time finding a game, I finally got one (dont remember the team) and we beat it pretty easily. 35 minute time. I left the game for the lobby, fsod. Well crap, there goes that time. I come back online, find another c2 game, join it, and fsod again. Awesome! Amazing I didnt corrupt all 4 of my characters, I'm guessing the fsod was nicely timed between the two saves, because I did lose all my unequipped items.

C3: A few days later, I found another C2 game, and it was pretty painless, 30 minute time. Pulled out the cord to save, went back and saw the HUcaseal from the previous game had made a C3 one, I joined, we were going along great, and I lag out in the middle. Later that night I found another game and beat it, 30 minute time.

C4: The horror. The horror. I see a game with a japanese HUmar, so I join. Half an hour later, a JP RAmar joins. Fine enough, we're pretty desperate at this point. Then a JP RAcaseal joins. Now think about this. Two rangers and a force, on possibly the most important stage to have hunters on, because they're the only ones that can do good damage to De Rol.
We start anyways. I soon find another thing that helped, both the rangers dont know the map. This stage could've been a ton worse, but I found resta 3 pretty early and just stayed back to heal, and shoot at stuff with a handgun. The real fun was in the last area before De Rol. You know that Y shaped room, 2 people go left, 2 go right? Well for some reason, the HUmar and RAmar got there first, HUmar went left, then opened the path for the RAmar and they both went on. A few seconds later me and the RAcaseal get there, I open the left path for the RAcaseal.
And she keeps running, right past the switch to let me into the right path. So now I'm trying to say stuff in the word select to get her or the HUmar to come back, but theres nothing really good in there.
I am in a critical situation! > Everybody
About 5 minutes later when all 3 are about to go to the last room, they realize I'm gone and the HUmar comes to get me.
Then we got to fight De Rol. Now explain this to me, if no ones died before the boss, WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE DROPPING SCAPES. *breathe* Two ended up on the raft, for what reason i dont know. The fight took forever, since we had 2 damn rangers and all. De Rol finally died after the fourth jump on the raft, after killing the rangers 3 times combined. Total time: 57 minutes *gag*

C5: Was easy. Played it with the HUmar from the game before, and a HUcast and HUcaseal. Pretty easy, 28 minute time

C6: The one that made me go "I dont deserve shitty teams like this" and decided to post my bitching here for all of you to see :3 The team, in join order...
HUnewearl
FOmarl (me)
HUcast. Now at this point the team still looks ok
FOnewearl. Oh crap. Two forces = BAD IDEA. Not to mention that the english player without a keyboard is possibly the most annoying player on earth. Not because they dont have a keyboard, but because it gives them a reason to set shortcuts like "lol =)" and "lmao" and use them every other second. Pretty early on, we're getting beat up horribly, the HUnewearl is lagging, the HUcast sucks and likes to take garanz head on, and the FOnewearl has died twice. Then she finds a resta 3 disk, and uses it. This reeeeeeeeally pisses me off, even though I dont say anything. I mean, we're already stuck with 2 forces, I'm already having to conserve my TP like mad because of her, her simple techs are already doing 30 more damage than mine (70 to 100) and NOW SHE'S GIVING HERSELF HEALING DUTY TOO? At this point I'm pretty much dead weight. And of course, she hardly ever uses resta, even though the HUnewearl stopped healing after she got it, probably cuz she was out of mates. This leads to my accidentally dying twice, since I was ya know, injured and standing right next to her. You know someones a bad force if you have to say "resta" while everyone is low on hp, and have her say "gather" while there are still enemies in the room. This was in a small room too, and we were easily all close enough for her too heal. But I guess some people dont know what the cursors around other players are. Towards the end, the HUcast decided to start going for item rooms we missed, leading to 2 forces running head first into rooms, while he got items (nothing good of course) and the HUnewearl lagged 10 seconds behind us. I'm tired of typing, so yadda yadda we got to vol opt, i gave the FOnewearl 3 difluids and begged her to use resta as much as she could, she did, we actually won. Total time 58 minutes. If another force joins my game in C7, I may just murder them.

My total time right now is about 3 hours and 55 minutes. I dont think I should be allowed to do this badly and still make S-Rank easily

PS: This is my longest post on any forum ever. Heres a cookie for reading it ^_^/

[Henge]

sheesh, im glad you overcame such diversity and conqured challenge mode, but yeah i'd highly recommend cmode with the AT Cmode crew in the future. im working on GC srank #6