camping, why does everyone hate it

[Eclectic Dreck]

I don't find camping to be a problem with most modern shooters to be honest. It isn't like you have rooms wit only one entrance, ammunition health and armor inside and a rocket launcher to point at the door. When an entire team resorts to that however the game becomes entirely boring to play.

 

[Bloodastral]

I loved camping bosses in LotRO. Sometimes you'd log in at the boss and another person would be there and they would swear blind they'd only killed him once and not gotten a drop. So of course you'd wait and let them kill him, then camp the boss for a few hours and get a stack of items.
Camping in EQ2 - 2 days later and still no spawn....

 

[Ace of Spades]

It's because people come up with all sorts of reasons why you can't use "unfair" tactics to beat them. I usually don't camp because I've never been any good at it. There are always two ways to get into wherever I am, and an enemy will always bypass my claymore and ram their gun barrel in the back of my head.

EDIT: Although there was one time where I was a militant anti-camper in MW2. I and two colleagues were playing splitscreen on Skidrow, and one kept going to the same spot on the staircase at the end of the long corridor, and every time I would pass by, I'd shoot a grenade down the hall and kill him. We both had a good laugh about that.

 

[kouriichi]

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Defensive play is my version of camping. It's the closest I come to the actual thing. I care about my K/D, I don't really know why but I just do. I consider any game below 1.5 to be pretty bad but I'll never camp to boost it. I don't really care about winning or loosing either, I just happen to win alot because my team is good and everyone else seems to be really bad (had an 83 game winning streak on MW2, all legit without dashboarding)

My win streak is never over 10. In MW2 it was only 20. I ussually play with randoms.
I have alot of friends who play, but theyer almost never on when i am.

Personally, i dont care so much about winning. I care more about having a good time. Win or lose, im in it for fun and not much more. Camping isnt fun, and rushing can end up being a pain. Defencive play tends to be the most bang for your buck in that catagory.

 

[C95J]

to be honest if people are stupid enough not to have figured out where the guy is, or how to kill him first time round he deserves to die.

I have nothing against campers, or in fact anything else in the Call of Duty franchise. I just get on and live with it instead of complaining until I am out of breath.

 

[omega 616]

I do get pissed at them sometimes, like on rundown there is a house were you can walk across the rafters upstairs to a little ledge and sit there with any shotgun and kill anybody who comes in.

Spoiler

Opposite side of the river to the "fruit stand"

The only way to kill the camper is get lucky with a semtex or a rocket launcher.

Or the ones that sit in the most random corner and no matter how careful you are, they kill you.

There is no way to go round flashing or nading every corner, even if you manage to do that, there are still the snipers miles away just waiting for your crouch walking ass to come into view, so they will have time to get a perfect head shot.

 

[SuperCombustion]

I'd just like to get something straight.
Camping with a sniper rifle ISN'T camping, its sniping and is a valid strategy.... because what the hell else will you do with a sniper? Camping with a shotgun however IS camping and is perhaps valid but really annoying and defeats the point of any FPS. Thats why people hate it.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Camping is understandable in objective games and I don't mind people you use tactical locations etc. But in things like Team Deathmatch, having someone hide in a corner is just a pain in the arse.

I guess it's because I grew up with run 'n' gun FPS games such as Timesplitters and such. Like I said, it's okay for objective games, not Deathmatches. This is why I stick to objective gametypes...

 

[AnAngryMoose]

I don't find camping to be a problem with most modern shooters to be honest. It isn't like you have rooms wit only one entrance, ammunition health and armor inside and a rocket launcher to point at the door. When an entire team resorts to that however the game becomes entirely boring to play.

This more than anything. Especially when playing with randoms.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

people hate camping because shooters appeal to the adrenaline junkies who love being in fire fights and sitting on the edge of their seat with half their life gone and only 3 bullets left in the chamber. campers take away from the second-to-second fighting by going at it at a slow, tactical pace and tend to care more about their kill to death ratio rather than stacking up a max amount of kills and so they tend top win most encounters, taking away from the adrenaline junkies reason for playing. snipers are the worst for them because there is nothing worse then running into a fight where everybody is about to die from a wave of your machine gun than a single bullet from a sniper half way across the map

thats my thought on the matter anyways

A man (or woman) after my own heart... Or my style of thinking anyway. I've always seen shooters as something fast paced, like you said. Camping, however, is not fast paced.

 

[el_kabong]

Campers don't get to me. In fact, most campers are really easy to kill. The fact that they camp means you know exactly where they are. Losing the element of surprise is a huge disadvantage when you're playing anyone with the ability to recognize a basic pattern. Granted, there's a lot of people who can't recognize said patterns...but they deserve whatever deaths they get for being thick.

Even if a camper is dug in like a tick, it provides an interesting strategic challenge. For example, a person is camping in a room with only one exit and he's got his gun pointed at the door. What do you do? It's kind of like breaching and clearing an enemy stronghold, but scaled down a lot.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

I just don't see how much enjoyment you can get out of sitting in a corner all game, waiting for people, then shooting them in the back, it takes no skill, minimal brains (herpa derp I found a corner), and ruins it for people playing the game in a skilled way. That's my problem with camping.

 

[Kenbo Slice]

Camping takes so much skill you guys! Do you know how hard it is to sit in a corner with a shotgun out? It's so nerve racking! I almost had a heart attack it was so stressful!

In all seriousness, stop fucking camping.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Everyone camps. Let me explain why people get pissed at camping.......because it works!

 

[Sephychu]

Camping's all gravy. It irritates people who run around all the time because it catches them off guard and embarrasses them when they're not just running into other people. Campers have time to prepare, and apparently, that's unfair.

 

[Ashcrexl]

The question I have is why people hate campers, but are okay with snipers, when to me they honestly look to be about the same thing.

WRONG! i dont mind campers cuz its your own damn fault for walking right by them without being more careful. but i HATE snipers. snipers give you no chance. walk by this area, SNIPED.

 

[Harlemura]

I think it's because some of the campers I see can't be enjoying themselves.
Well personally I don't load up a game to sit at the end of the corridor, aiming down it for 10 minutes just for one person to wander past.

Yeah, this is only a handful of campers, but it's the worst examples that stick with me. And probably with everyone else. Hence the camping hate.

EDIT:
Oh, also, campers on objective games can get annoying. Holding a position because we need to defend, that's fine. But when the entire team just sits around their objective and makes no attempt to go for the enemy's, it can get a little... tiresome.

 

[shootthebandit]

im glad many people are liking my strategy. I know my tactic is a different kind of camping but dont mind people who sit in a corner with a shotgun. the immortal words of CPT. Price "check your corners". listen to the man he knows what hes talking about.

 

[laol1999]

when i red the title i thought you ment camping as in going into the woods.
i don't really have any input on this type of camping

 

[Baneat]

It's an exploit, the game isn't designed around wait and AR tactics. The controller doesn't allow for it (you're 90 degrees to someone just by staying still you auto-win. every time.)

kb+m games can allow for it because you can actually respond, but on a controller based game, with crazy acceleration shit making it impossible to reliably turn

It's heavily exploitative.