So I just had a very enjoyable hour on the VKs server, where I teamed with Zatch and Signal near the Washington Beach police station (thanks Zatch and Signal). The ability to turn your radar off changes the experience a lot, it's fun. Every time I go to that server there's a good fight in that area actually.
Anyway, as we were fighting, I noticed that frequently I'd be close-combatting someone, and either Zatch of Signal would either just watch or would run away, not give me cover fire. I asked them why, and they said that some of the people I was fighting were clanmates, and some were friends.
This is a debate that's been had occasionally since I started VC:MP - is this okay? I said to Zatch and Signal that friends don't matter in DM - if they're not on your team, you should kill them. I stand by this opinion. In my view, if friends or clanmates don't want you to kill them, then they should join your team. To me, there's little point in even being in a clan if you play on separate teams.
However, I do understand Zatch and Signal's view, and I can see that their friends might be pissed off or upset if they killed them. Is that their friends' problem, or theirs?
If you are on a team, and you see someone is fighting one of your teammates, but then you see it's a friend of yours, do you shoot?