Friendly Fire, In more ways than one.

[Moonlight Butterfly]

So I was playing magicka with a male friend and we were playing along quite happily. Only sometimes friendly fire occurs. At one point he killed me with a grenade (which I SWEAR he shot right under my feet anyway) and another time I fireballed him to death. To me it looked like he ran right into the centre of where I was raining death, although he denied this profusely. He said 'It's not my fault you don't notice things' and then ran merrily into a laser beam...

Now the point is normally I'm totally apologetic about things, excessively so. However, I hate it when someone accuses me of something which I don't see as my fault. I try not to argue back at him when he gets pissed at me but I can't help it. Sometime I just wish there was no friendly fire so we dont get into an argument as both of us are far to stubborn to back down and it just ruins the gaming session.

So I guess my point is what is your view on friendly fire in games and how do you react to it when stuff goes wrong?

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I like friendly fire, it makes for some really funny goings on if you don't get too serious.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Eh people are stupid sometimes. I was playing SC2 with a friend, 2 v 2. I had a line of tanks defending our base. We get attacked. He runs his units into the line of fire. I say "fall back to the tank line". He doesn't listen, they all die, then he reams me out for leaving him hanging. I told him not to be stupid? He also had unit control so he could have controlled my units into the meatgrinder too if her wanted, but oh well. People are always quick to blame their own mistakes on someone else. Just tell him it's a game and to stop taking it so seriously.

 

[DazZ.]

I thought killing your friends in Magicka was half of the fun?

 

[vvvmr]

I don't like or hate it, it honestly depends on what game I'm playing.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Pisses me off, I'll instantly deactivate it if given the oppourtunity. In a game like Dragon Age where I'm already fending off hordes of monsters I don't need that kind of shit wheighing down on my party as well.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I thought killing your friends in Magicka was half of the fun?

I don't really mind it if he's just having a laugh and does it deliberately it's more when he gets pissed and acts like I'm the retardotron 4000 when he seems to have no regard for trying to watch out or be careful. Meanwhile I'm sitting there like anxious annie desperately trying to not laser beam him in the face.

 

[Irridium]

I thought killing your friends in Magicka was half of the fun?

Like filling a spawn room with sticky bombs when friendly fire is turned on >

 

[Bassman_2]

Friendly fire, can be bothersome, when your teammate, runs into your bullets.

It can be funny, when something goes awry. Or when you're in last stand, your cousin starts reviving you from behind and you turn around and knife them by shock (things get hectic!). I apologized and he didn't rage, of course.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

It's fun with friends and strangers. Rounds of Halo or Left 4 Dead often end with us shooting each other to death. It can take a lot of bullets to bring down another player when both are popping in and out of cover with shotguns.

 

[KalosCast]

Apothecaries in Rift have the ability to make grenades that you can throw in a mass of allies and heal everyone in the blast radius. I like to call this Friendlier Fire.

But seriously, I like it in games where you have a lot of control over where/how you can fight (most shooters, for example) but I hate it in things like Dragon Age where you absolutely need to use gratuitous amounts of AoE, but it's exceedingly difficult to keep your derptastic teammates out of the fire storm.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Friendly fire is a tricky thing to sort out. In games known for causing rage, such as Halo, friendly fire offers little more than an excuse to boot someone. In other games, such as the Battlefield series, friendly fire makes sense simply because one ought to be somewhat restrained with their use of the ludicrous firepower available. But in such a circumstance, one opens the game up to griefing and a great many games do not offer any recourse against such nonsense. MAG, for example, will auto-kick a player but only after a long spree of team kills and other games might not offer a solution at all.

Thus I guess my perspective on friendly fire is two fold: I believe it ought to exist especially when players are given phenomenal firepower but on the other hand I think players ought to have a reasonable system to deal with griefers. The latter was once handled by server admins but such a thing is all but unheard of by people today (outside the PC space of course, and even then only in games that offer players the option to host the game).

 

[Zaik]

In most cases friendly fire is pointless, but in Magicka it is absolutely hilarious.

It's kind of the thing that sets it aside as different, there's no weird rules like not being able to hurt yourself or heal enemies, everything is applied literally and equally regardless of the target.

Kind of wish that FQSA wasn't so overpowered though.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

COD does friendly fire right. It only comes into play if you want to play the "hardcore" modes and it's turned on. For everyone else, just play regular.

 

[Xanadu84]

The point is moot, because friendly fire is quite possibly the most fun part OF Magicka.

 

[GraveeKing]

I thought killing your friends in Magicka was half of the fun?

And the rest of the fun being killing those 'friends of friends' that you don't really like and will never admit that the laser ice-shards were aimed at them and it's just a coincidence how you always kill them and not the other 2 players or indeed yourself.

E.g. Friendly Fire = Fun times.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I'm not entirely sure whether it's the friendly fire or his reaction to it that bothers me If he just laughed it off I probably wouldn't care but he's all like serious biznizz.

Edit: When I typed that some of the words actually came out backwards...I think it's bedtime for me.

 

[Zhukov]

But... but... friendly fire is half the fun of Magicka.

This one time someone set me on fire. My little wizard dude promtly freaked out and ran off a cliff.

On another occasion I asked someone to drop some of those healing blobs and he pressed the wrong button and dropped lightning rods instead.

Laughs were had by all.

 

[rockingnic]

Friendly fire is what made ALL the Halos alot more fun for me during campaign.

 

[SilentCom]

I'm not a fan of friendly fire in certain games. Often people will join a game to team-kill or grief. In some games I don't mind because there are some hilarious moments that come out of it.