Grab your tent.

[Still Life]

Allow me to contextualize:

I recently began playing MW2 again (breaking from BFBC2 for a bit) to satiate my cravings for mindless and fast paced fragging bonanzas; despite its short-comings, MW2 is still a fun way to chew through some leisure time every now and then. However, some players take issue with my play-style, and thus I have labels such as 'hacker' and 'camper' thrown my way quite often. I don't consider myself a camper. I take position at an ambush position, take one or two kills, then start maneuvering to a new position and set up another ambush. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Unless I feel a bit of 'quake' in my pants, I don't run around like a total moron and spray at every target that presents itself. I tend to be methodical in my approach, but it still pisses my fellow gamers off to no end. I don't even think that genuine campers are particualrly difficult to deal with: you just avoid, flank, or flush -- pretty fucking simple.

So, what constitutes as 'camping' to you? Do you accept it as a legitimate tactic, or do you rage like the aforementioned gamers?

I won't do a poll.

Discuss.

 

[Ryuo]

In my time on Bad Company 2, I was a Recon. Part of a Recon's work is finding a suitable location to take out the opposing force, so my occupation of a building of tactical value might be camping to some.

I however only call someone camping if they find a corner and sit there, never moving or changing tactics game after game after game. I am not fond of those people, but I have nothing against it as a method for getting points/kills. Whatever floats yer boat.

 

[Meilow]

Sadly, I see more people camp with a shotgun than I do with a sniper rifle. I see campers as the people that sit in a corner and just blast away anyone that walks into the room. They sit their, and wait. The whole match. That's what pisses me off.

 

[zaiggs]

I don't even think that genuine campers are particualrly difficult to deal with: you just avoid, flank, or flush -- pretty fucking simple.

Exactly.

I used to camp a lot, but stopped after I realized that I would see more action moving around the level looking for people (though I do find I die quite a bit more).

A couple people I was playing with the other day were complaining about campers on the other team. I said almost exactly what you said above. "It's easy guys, lets just go around and flank em". It was like they couldn't be bothered to stop throwing themselves up against the campers wall of bullets. I then proceeded to kill the camper several times in a row forcing him to leave that camp site and find another... which I followed him to.

I guess some people just forget there are ways to get at an enemy that isn't a straight line. Camping's a legitimate strategy.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

A "Camper" to me is a player who goes to one position to where he could have the biggest advantage and just sits there getting cheap kills on any passerby's

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Camping: Any time you are sitting in one position waiting for another player to pass by, WITHOUT prior knowledge that the player is there (ie: hearing their footsteps with a headset and laying down to wait on them isn't camping, it's just smart). "Ambushes" are the very definition of camping to me.

 

[Moonmover]

i have no problem with other people using camping tactics, but I personally find it boring (plus I'm hopless at sniping), so I rarely do it.

A "Camper" to me is a player who goes to one position to where he could have the biggest advantage and just sits there getting cheap kills on any passerby's

Yes, then the passerby's notice him, find another way around, and kill him. So it is fair.