jaydog: A few bad apples spoil the bunch, unfortunately. In general, though, this game isn't very newbie friendly. By that I mean there's a bit of a learning curve: learning how to strafe jump, manage equipment, and all that. A new player can also cost the team a lot of points by allowing the other team to capture the flag. General etiquette is to not cap on the newbie, but not everybody follows that, and it can be really frustrating to be eliminated watching as the other team makes flag capture after flag capture and there's nothing you can do about it. Now this isn't an excuse to have a bad attitude toward the newbie, but sometimes it's more than some people can handle.