Boosting

[omega 616]

With my renewed enjoyment in CoD, I am wanting to get all of the titles and icons but there are some that are impossible, such as 30 gun kills, hit an RC-XD with a combat axe, get 20 kills free for all.

I say impossible 'cos it's the lag that is killing me.

So I am considering boosting, which brings me to a moral cross roads. Do I boost and know I never legitimately earned them or satisfy the completionist in me and try to boost?

Like I said I'm not in it for the glory of having an impressive title, I just want everything unlocked.

So, what do you think? Or what do you think of boosters?

 

[tippy2k2]

I think it's incredibly stupid and pointless. I have absolutely no idea why anyone would want to boost (especially in a game like CoD where it doesn't get you anything). However, if you are going to boost, do it outside public matches.

If I see someone on my team boosting, I will specifically go out of my way to ruin it. If you want to waste your time boosting, go for it but don't waste my time.

 

[omega 616]

I think it's incredibly stupid and pointless. I have absolutely no idea why anyone would want to boost (especially in a game like CoD where it doesn't get you anything). However, if you are going to boost, do it outside public matches.

If I see someone on my team boosting, I will specifically go out of my way to ruin it. If you want to waste your time boosting, go for it but don't waste my time.

How would it waste your time? The only way it would effect you is if you did involve yourself in it or happened in a free for all and I got the 30 kill title and even then all you lost is 1 game.
Like I said, I hate looking at my title and icons list and seeing locked ones. It's a completionist thing

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

If you do, then hope the Booster Busters [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9FLLEcRCQI] don't find you so they'll put it up on YouTube for everyone to see.

 

[tippy2k2]

How would it waste your time? The only way it would effect you is if you did involve yourself in it or happened in a free for all and I got the 30 kill title and even then all you lost is 1 game.
Like I said, I hate looking at my title and icons list and seeing locked ones. It's a completionist thing

Example I
Black Ops I: For whatever reason, team-mates shooting your shield gave you experience points, allowing you to boost your level really quickly. People would choose Search and Destroy to do this in so that they don't get bothered very quickly (or at all if you're playing a patient team). This is now a 6 on 4 match in a game-type that requires team-work.

Example II
Shadowrun: Achievements were given for getting stupid large amount of kills with specific guns. People would focus on using just that one weapon, no matter if it cost the team the win because it's not an appropriate weapon for the situation.

Yes, you're correct that it's just one game but that's twenty minutes of my time that you are pissing away by either being a liability on my team or being a liability on the opponents team. I'm not a kid/teenager who can spend all their free time playing games; that one game might be all I get to do for gaming that day.

 

[omega 616]

If you do, then hope the Booster Busters [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9FLLEcRCQI] don't find you so they'll put it up on YouTube for everyone to see.

Thanks haha

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I know it's a dick thing to do but we are just talking about games here, of course the same critique can be leveled at me.

Sorry, you only have 20 minutes to game and that is 1 game? What match takes 20 Mins? 2) would 20 mins even be worth starting the game? If I don't have 2 hours spare then I don't even consider it.

Anyway, say I ruined your game and you lost, you're all mad at me and even send me hate mail.... Are you going to remember me even an hour later?

 

[tippy2k2]

I know it's a dick thing to do but we are just talking about games here, of course the same critique can be leveled at me.

Sorry, you only have 20 minutes to game and that is 1 game? What match takes 20 Mins? 2) would 20 mins even be worth starting the game? If I don't have 2 hours spare then I don't even consider it.

Anyway, say I ruined your game and you lost, you're all mad at me and even send me hate mail.... Are you going to remember me even an hour later?

Plenty of games can take that long. Call of Duty Search & Destroy can do that. Shadowrun matches can easily break 20 minutes. Battlefield 3 games can easily break 20 minutes. Even if the match is only five minutes long, if I see someone boosting in a public match, I will do what I can to ruin it since they don't care that they are ruining my game.

Anyway, it's obvious that I see it my way and you see it your way and we're not changing our minds. I see it as an epic dick move to do in a public match and you...well...you said you see it as a dick move too but you're evidently alright with that. We're just going to have to leave it at that.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Boosting only proves that you're actually bored with the game. You don't care about playing. You only care about earning some extra unlockables that aren't even worth the effort. And you know they aren't worth the effort. Otherwise you wouldn't be boosting.

 

[omega 616]

I am just playing Devils advocate, I am still undecided on the issue.

There are plenty of dicks in CoD, from people not playing the objective to people abusing glitches, is boosting really going to break the game?

Boosting only proves that you're actually bored with the game. You don't care about playing. You only care about earning some extra unlockables that aren't even worth the effort. And you know they aren't worth the effort. Otherwise you wouldn't be boosting.

I'm not bored with the game, I just want to complete it. Claiming I am bored cos I am considering boosting is a faulty assertion, I would just like to have everything and not to say I have but just to see it all unlocked.

It annoys me to see if have 495 things unlocked but 5 locked ' os my Internet isn't as good as other peoples

 

[SlaveNumber23]

Not a single one is 'impossible' as you say, it will be infinitely more satisfying to just play the game as intended, get better at it and end up earning the challenges yourself. They are called 'challenges' for a reason, there is little satisfaction to getting them by cheating. Ultimately it is up to you, do whatever you want but my advice is to just play the game as intended, and focus on having fun rather than giving way too many shits about some silly 'challenges'.

 

[omega 616]

Not a single one is 'impossible' as you say, it will be infinitely more satisfying to just play the game as intended, get better at it and end up earning the challenges yourself. They are called 'challenges' for a reason, there is little satisfaction to getting them by cheating. Ultimately it is up to you, do whatever you want but my advice is to just play the game as intended, and focus on having fun rather than giving way too many shits about some silly 'challenges'.

Yes, they are impossible for various reasons.

Hit an RC-XD with a combat axe? So you have to hit a rarely used, fast moving score streak with a lag dependant weapon?

Destroy 5 tac-inserts in 1 game? I'm lucky to see 1

20 kills in a free for all? With my connection? I think boosting is a better option then moving house. Granted I got 18 by camping an obvious spot in ground war but ffa is a different thing

 

[SlaveNumber23]

Yes, they are impossible for various reasons.

Hit an RC-XD with a combat axe? So you have to hit a rarely used, fast moving score streak with a lag dependant weapon?

Destroy 5 tac-inserts in 1 game? I'm lucky to see 1

20 kills in a free for all? With my connection? I think boosting is a better option then moving house. Granted I got 18 by camping an obvious spot in ground war but ffa is a different thing

No, none are impossible, just difficult to achieve which is the intended nature of a challenge. My point is that cheating to beat these challenges defeats the purpose of the challenge.

 

[omega 616]

With my renewed enjoyment in CoD, I am wanting to get all of the titles and icons but there are some that are impossible, such as 30 gun kills, hit an RC-XD with a combat axe, get 20 kills free for all.

I say impossible 'cos it's the lag that is killing me.

So I am considering boosting, which brings me to a moral cross roads. Do I boost and know I never legitimately earned them or satisfy the completionist in me and try to boost?

Like I said I'm not in it for the glory of having an impressive title, I just want everything unlocked.

So, what do you think? Or what do you think of boosters?

could you explain what you mean with boosting for the people outside of the COD community?

It means to get an enemy to allow you to kill them or something to by pass the challenges. For example think of NFL, the bears vs the patriots, the bears want a higher placing so they get the patriots to just stand there and get beat.

Yes, they are impossible for various reasons.

Hit an RC-XD with a combat axe? So you have to hit a rarely used, fast moving score streak with a lag dependant weapon?

Destroy 5 tac-inserts in 1 game? I'm lucky to see 1

20 kills in a free for all? With my connection? I think boosting is a better option then moving house. Granted I got 18 by camping an obvious spot in ground war but ffa is a different thing

No, none are impossible, just difficult to achieve which is the intended nature of a challenge. My point is that cheating to beat these challenges defeats the purpose of the challenge.

Which is why I haven't done it, I want to look at my nuclear title and think "I remember that match!" but at the moment it's like trying to beat Tyson in his prime

 

[V8 Ninja]

I was going to comment on how boosting solely for titles would only show that you have an unhealthy relationship with the game and aren't actually playing it for fun, but then I saw this comment;

Boosting only proves that you're actually bored with the game. You don't care about playing. You only care about earning some extra unlockables that aren't even worth the effort. And you know they aren't worth the effort. Otherwise you wouldn't be boosting.

Well-said points, Mr. Jensen.

 

[Longstreet]

If you don;t get busted it didn't happen.

That said, you will get a role back if you do.

Personally I don't have a problem with boosting, it doesn't ruin my gameplay. So you are Master prestige (or get w/e challange) before me. Big. Freaking. Deal.

Some of those challanges are freakishly hard to get, if not impossible, for various reasons;

- They are player depended. For example that 5 tac insert one. I have maybe seen it used 3 different times. In total.

- Lag, specially on the PC where it is practically a ghost town (seem maybe Max 40.000 online once) there are fewer good connections you can get. Get a 30 kill streak with a 1.5 / 2 second delay? Not likely.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Soo Boosting is like like Grinding..Only co-operative and online? Got it

As for the mater at hand, if you really want to I guess but try do it private or something just for niceness

 

[skywolfblue]

I just want everything unlocked.

And what is that worth to you?

It seems like this "boosting" (grinding by another name?) would be tedious, not very fun, and boring to boot. Not to mention since it's a cheat rather then an accomplishment, you deprive yourself of that feeling of "worth" that the end goal may have.

In my opinion not worth it.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Boosting is cheating. Whether you're doing it for titles/achievements or doing it to annoy people around you, it's still the same in the end. Personally it would ruin the achievements or titles for me if I knew I had to cheat to get them.

Also... 20 kills in FFA is impossible? Really? Maybe I'm biased since I'm a CoD phenom, but I can't remember the last time I didn't get at least 25 kills in FFA.

 

[omega 616]

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I took a guess at you being an American, I'm on my phone so seeing your account would be a chore.

I totally agree with you but things like "destroy 5 tactical insertions in a game" isn't skill, it all comes down to other players using that and since nobody does use it, where does it leave a player wanting to achieve it?

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A sense of completion, the same one that compels people to get all the achievements in a game.

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So do you think people who get all the achievements in a game have an unhealthy relationship with it? I am doing it for the same reason, just to have them all unlocked.

It's the same reason people complete a game several times to see all the endings.

 

[destroyer383]

I felt the same way a while ago, I did the boosting. It ruined the game for me because I no longer had a goal, and also because every single time I saw the title I got I felt guilty, guilty for ruining peoples games, guilty because I cheated and took the easy way rather than the correct way. I massively regret doing it.