My experience with Cobalt live play during and outside of alerts:

Faction A attacks base B by sneaking on the control point when no one watches, then sets up a point defense by sitting around the control point (not entrances, the point itself) in tight clusters to make explosives more effective against them. Once Faction B shows up to defend, they rush towards the doors or any suitable choke point, preferably the strongest enemy position, then they sit around and shoot at the people on the point while those shoot back - VS on either side usually with a lot of Lashers - and both sides constantly get revived without anyone even making an attempt at rushing in to take the point. Eventually the base falls, at which point Faction B rushes in and takes the point. I've seen bases fall to 30% where it wasn't due to the point holders skills, it was purely because the people that "tried" to take the point were sitting on their arses watching the base tick down while sniping people with LMGs and Carbines from outside the doors until the base was lost.

I also mostly get killed on Cobalt because I think having 50 people behind me looking in my direction means that my back is safe... and then I get killed by HAs, medics or engineers walking around in the middle of them shooting me in the back. I also get shot thinking the area that a full platoon just marched through is safe, only to find out that there are still half a dozen enemy non-infiltrators sitting in corners, nooks and various holes just waiting for me to walk by to shoot my while I think I'm safe - after all there were 50 friendlies, they surely must have cleared the area...

Cobalt live play is making me lose the little faith in humanity that I had. If I had FRMD there, I could dominate the server easily. It's not that the players can't shoot straight, a lot of them most certainly can, it's that they neither have the balls to actually breach positions nor the brains to actually properly hold positions. Especially seeing Tech Plant point holds on Cobalt is making me physically uncomfortable. Usually it's me and some random BR5 lightning watching the tunnel exit while everyone else is in the small control point box.

Cobalt does have some good players, but it's visible that none of their normal players went through the school of Zukhov.