Dirty multiplayer tactics

[Jumplion]

Unfortunately, since my friend can be a douche sometimes, I absolutely can't stand it if my deaths are more than my kills on my Killeath ratio. It's just so annoying when he looks at my stats and says "Man you suck" while he has over 1000 more kills than deaths at 1300:300 ratio. The worst part is, I can bet you he didn't earn those kills fairly. He doesn't to it the "honest" way, he asks people if they can help him achive "100 headshots with X sniper rifle" and some people agree with him. Nevertheless, he's a good guy, just a jackass sometimes.

And 'nade spamming is extrememly heavy in CoD4 as people throw cooked grenades and have martydom and people hold grenades and die and then there's two grenades on the ground. And let's not forget the noob tube. Sometimes I was 30 ft away (I checked the killcam) and I still died. While everytime I throw a grenade, it's about a 1 in 500000 chance that it will actually kill something.

Its annoying, but also part of the fun that it's a frantic team deathmatch game.

And also about camping, these "professional gamers" arn't professional at all as all they do is find a good ledge to glitch and wait for someone to come up. And example would be T-squared, the alleged "god" of Halo 3, he gave some tips on how to own at halo 3 and ALL of them were hiding spots for camping and waiting for someone to come up and "own" them ith the Sniper Rifle. He makes me sick as he probably does that all the time in Halo 3.

 

[L4Y Duke]

I don't like people who spawn camp and people who hack.

Campers are fine. I've even delved into a bit of camping from time to time. Granted, that was in an objective-based gametype, so it was more 'defending' than 'camping'.

 

[shatnershaman]

I have a few things specific to COD4

1. 'nade spamming

2. spawn camping

3. Spawn bombing (Instant air strike on your spawn in S&D)

4. jumping/diving/dancing

5. blatant overuse of Juggernaut and Martyrdom

6. P90 + triple grenades + stopping power/double tap + martyrdom

7. Grenade Launcher when it's used instead of bullets.

I do all of those *eep*(sometimes I do the cardinal sin of Juggernaut AND Last Stand)

And example would be T-squared, the alleged "god" of Halo 3, he gave some tips on how to own at halo 3 and ALL of them were hiding spots for camping and waiting for someone to come up and "own" them ith the Sniper Rifle. He makes me sick as he probably does that all the time in Halo 3.

Going around the other team with invisibility while your team is BRing is camping? Running away while throwing grenades is camping?The Frag headshot or the B,Y,B combos is camping?

 

[Zulu-Echo14]

Grenade spamming and bunny hoping on CoD4

 

[Hey Joe]

I used to know a girl who talked dirty over Live. Like....real dirty, and then shoot bewildered teenage boys in the face.

She got off on that shit.

 

[shatnershaman]

-> Y,Y,Y with Rapheal in SC2 (Admit it we all do it)

 

[Lord Krunk]

Camping and Sniping. In TF2, sniping is cured by the Spy, but when an entire team decides to go Engy, it gets really annoying. It gets worse when the other team goes engy, too, and I'm stuck as a lone soldier, taking down sentries slower then they're being rebuilt.

My preferred tactic is to charge in there, guns blazing. It's not the smartest thing to do, but it's:

1) The most fun;

2) The most brave.

To quote Terry Pratchet in 'Eric': "The bravest general can say 'CHAAARGE!', but cowards always make the best strategists."

The cowards in this case are Snipers and Campers, who do nothing but hide. However, it is effective, and so should be commended as the 'smart' thing to do, if not the most commendable.

 

[shatnershaman]

Would'nt they just surrender?

 

[Lord Krunk]

Nah, the context is that Rincewind's (The worst wizard of all time, and renowned coward/athlete) ancestor was the man who came up with the idea for the Trojan Horse.

 

[shatnershaman]

Nah, the context is that Rincewind's (The worst wizard of all time, and renowned coward/athlete) ancestor was the man who came up with the idea for the Trojan Horse.

Ah so its not a quote on real life I see.

 

[stompy]

Nah, the context is that Rincewind's (The worst wizard of all time, and renowned coward/athlete) ancestor was the man who came up with the idea for the Trojan Horse.

Ah so its not a quote on real life I see.

Dude, Terry Pratchett! Of course it's not real life, have you not heard of the awesomeness that is Terry Pratchett and his Diskworld series?

As for what annoys me online, I'll have to say that camping isn't very high up there. Frankly, it's the bastard that hogs the power weapons. I'm not as stupid to say that everyone has to use the same weapon, but still, someone using an over-power weapon doesn ruin it for me.

 

[Lord Krunk]

Nah, the context is that Rincewind's (The worst wizard of all time, and renowned coward/athlete) ancestor was the man who came up with the idea for the Trojan Horse.

Ah so its not a quote on real life I see.

I don't know... Napoleon was probably the end of smart 'run in there and beat the crap out of them' tactics. I could be wrong, but nowadays warfare is just hiding, fooling around, and terrorizing developing countries in the name of 'freedom' (oil).

To quote Stalin (I think), "One man's death is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic."

Is it just me, or have a couple of 'tragedies' been happening recently?

NOTE: The most people who died at any given point in the Iraq war were British soldiers; the ones who were bombed by -you guessed it- Americans.

EDIT: Oh, and I agree with TPAM. Martyrdom is cheap.

 

[Jumplion]

And example would be T-squared, the alleged "god" of Halo 3, he gave some tips on how to own at halo 3 and ALL of them were hiding spots for camping and waiting for someone to come up and "own" them ith the Sniper Rifle. He makes me sick as he probably does that all the time in Halo 3.

Going around the other team with invisibility while your team is BRing is camping? Running away while throwing grenades is camping?The Frag headshot or the B,Y,B combos is camping?

No, finding an invisible ledge that no one else can get to is camping. Finding an invisible ledge, jumping from that ledge to another invisible ledge where it's impossible for anyone to see you is camping. Going off the freakin' map where there is yet ANOTHER invisible ledge on a pile of grass where you pop out and kill someone passing by is camping.

Though I guess that's what halo is based off of

 

[shatnershaman]

And example would be T-squared, the alleged "god" of Halo 3, he gave some tips on how to own at halo 3 and ALL of them were hiding spots for camping and waiting for someone to come up and "own" them ith the Sniper Rifle. He makes me sick as he probably does that all the time in Halo 3.

Going around the other team with invisibility while your team is BRing is camping? Running away while throwing grenades is camping?The Frag headshot or the B,Y,B combos is camping?

No, finding an invisible ledge that no one else can get to is camping. Finding an invisible ledge, jumping from that ledge to another invisible ledge where it's impossible for anyone to see you is camping. Going off the freakin' map where there is yet ANOTHER invisible ledge on a pile of grass where you pop out and kill someone passing by is camping.

Though I guess that's what halo is based off of

Yea what next hiding in cardboard boxes? Or even Barrels that are made of metal that is solid and may even be Japanese or meatshields like in Gears of War 2.

 

[RYjet911]

I don't use these tactics in FPS games, but I really don't mind people camping. Generally campers know of places people go most often so they can get kills, and they may find that fun. For me, it adds a new level of challenge because I've got to be prepared for the campers, which is why I never go around a corner without strafing and checking all the little corners and hiding places.

Generally, people who say they don't like things in games is because they are always owned by them. It's like people who say the Pyro was heavily unbalanced when it had 50+ health from the backburner, yet when I played I still had more trouble with sentries and enemy Heavies than Pyros.

Instead of complaining about campers and anything else you're not good at solving in a game, try learning how to solve the problem and kill the campers using something like a grenade round the corner or making sure you check areas are clear or something.

 

[shatnershaman]

I don't use these tactics in FPS games, but I really don't mind people camping. Generally campers know of places people go most often so they can get kills, and they may find that fun. For me, it adds a new level of challenge because I've got to be prepared for the campers, which is why I never go around a corner without strafing and checking all the little corners and hiding places.

Generally, people who say they don't like things in games is because they are always owned by them. It's like people who say the Pyro was heavily unbalanced when it had 50+ health from the backburner, yet when I played I still had more trouble with sentries and enemy Heavies than Pyros.

Instead of complaining about campers and anything else you're not good at solving in a game, try learning how to solve the problem and kill the campers using something like a grenade round the corner or making sure you check areas are clear or something.

How do you fix hackers though.

 

[LOOY]

If it's not cheating using a third party hack its part of the game and therefore is the fault of the game designers and any "lame" campers have every right to assume it's a legitimate tactic.

 

[shatnershaman]

Spoiler: Camping

 

[Anniko]

Gate exploiting in TF2. Firing through the gates on maps in TF2, which was fixed, but their fix introduced another bug, gate exploiting. You can still shoot through the gates, but this time with rockets, shotguns and sniper rifles.

GG Valve.

 

[Iron Mal]

Camping, abuse of power weapons (rocket launchers etc.), no scoping (if you're that close pull out a goddamn shotty!), snipeing and granade spamming are the most annoying ones to me.

My main problems with sniping, before anyone starts preaching about its legitimacy as a tactic, are as follows:

1. A rediculously large number of people do it, if one person in a prticularly large match pulls out a sniper and takes a few shots...fine, no problem. If its a rather small match or (god forbid) a one-on-one and you are the only person not using one...it does get a tad annoying.

2. It's inconsiderate- granted, long range obliteration of the target may be the point of a sniper rifle, but if you are up against 1 person with a short range weapon then it does get somewhat infuriating when they continuously get picked off because you elected to stay seated in your super-secret unreachable sniping position at the end of a long tunnel or wide open space, there is a time and a place for it.

3. It's anti-social- While this may not be a very strong arguement, close or mid-range combatants can actually have rather epic or otherwise entertaining fights at their ranges while long range encounters tend to be one-sided and dull which (lets be frank) doesn't make for good annecdotes to your friends the day after.