Is camping in Battlefield as bad as in CoD

[Gpoisonstar]

Ok so I'm a CoD player but recently haven't been playing any because of campers.I blame leader boards and kill streaks. So with BF3 and MW3 coming out soon and since I know that both will be online oriented. I need to choose one. Now I know that BF has bigger maps but does that cut down on the number of people camping or is it about the same.

 

[somersetsaxon]

There isn't as much camping in the way that you've run into on CoD. The most popular game modes tend to be ones involving capturing and holding an objective, so there is always some measure of people hanging around the objectives they hold to defend them. But there is always a way of dealing with them.

edit: At least, that's been true of the more recently released games in the series, and while i don't see why it would change, I cannot speak for BF3 as it isn't out yet.

 

[Legolum]

In battlefield camping is accepted, rather then cod. they play so much differently, in battlefield you will play a attackers/defenders gamemode allot, which the defenders are almost all campers and the attackers are rushers/snipers.

 

[SonicKoala]

As the above poster noted, there is quite a bit of camping in Battlefield around the objectives, which is more a strategic move, if anything. However, as you pointed out, the maps are much bigger, and in my experience, there simply are no camping spots that give one team or one player an unfair advantage. Many players of Bad Company 2 learned that the lesson the hard way when their "tactics" got them well-acquainted with my knife

 

[Nunny]

Theres plenty of camping in Battlefield, but its the better type of camping were it plays a roll in the battle rather then someone trying to get a quick killstreak.

 

[somersetsaxon]

Many players of Bad Company 2 learned that the lesson the hard way when their "tactics" got them well-acquainted with my knife

I prefer the "disappearing wall" method, where the wall the defender had their back so comfortably placed goes for a grenade motivated walkabout.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

The only problematic camping in BC2 is when your base is swarmed with enemies and you basically just die, respawn and die again, but that's pretty rare.

The rest of the time, if someone's camping just to get kills rather than say, defend an objective, its not too hard to just drive a tank through whatever wall they're hiding behind.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

As said, you usually play matches that are attack/defend with differing objectives. So yes camping exists, but the game is better designed to counter it. (Mortar strikes anyone?).

In TDMs the camping isn't as bad as you'd expect for several reasons. You can always tell when a new player joins because they camp Easily C4'd buildings without thinking about the whole destruction mechanic (which rips camping apart). More approach options to each spot mixed with a constantly moving fight means camping for kills is always counterable.

^at least, that's my experience with BFBC2.

 

[llew]

in battlefield camping is accepted as it is a "strategic" shooter while COD is an "arcade" shooter, so battlefield si generally more fun to play as there are no "bad" tactics because every tactic has a flaw (plus you can just blow the cover to bits rendering it useless) while in COD if you camp they are generally very difficult to counter or just impossible to get at without lowering yourself to their standards

 

[SonicKoala]

Many players of Bad Company 2 learned that the lesson the hard way when their "tactics" got them well-acquainted with my knife

I prefer the "disappearing wall" method, where the wall the defender had their back so comfortably placed goes for a grenade motivated walkabout.

And this. I'd love it when I'd blow open an entire building with a tank and find three of four guys desperately trying to scramble out of there, having just realised how very, very screwed they were. Goddamn, that multiplayer was fun. I, for one, eagerly await BF 3.

 

[Vakz]

The only problematic camping in BC2 is when your base is swarmed with enemies and you basically just die, respawn and die again, but that's pretty rare.

This used to be a huge problem. Then I applied to be admin on a server that forbids baseraping, and now it's not a problem anymore

 

[RuralGamer]

Camping is more acceptable in BF, mainly because campers get deaded pretty fast; mortar strikes, C4, grenades, launchers and vehicles and such make pretty short work of them and because of the destructo-scenery, hiding in a building isn't always an option; still, it occurs and there are some places were its annoying, but I wouldn't say its anywhere near the scale of CoD.

 

[My name is Fiction]

Well in my experience spawn camping at least compared to the last game in the franchise is damn near impossible.
When a man says "Don't worry I got a shotgun and my back against the wall." I blow the wall up and get him well acquainted with mister stably.
So when it comes to camping no.
I prefer to call it choke points since it sounds less boy-scouts and more strategic.

 

[Tom_N7]

In Bad Company 2, even Squad Deathmatch has few campers. Obviously objective modes feature it, but you'd be a rubbish defender if you didn't. Most campers are snipers (which usually annoy their own team rather than the opposition, because they barely contribute to the team's objectives) and can be dealt with fairly easily. In the event that a squad does start camping, you can either blow up their cover (bonus points, quite literally, if you can bury them in a collapsing building) or mark them for the rest of your team to deal with. The killcam in BC2 is different from Modern Warfare as well; rather than showing them killing you from first person, it shows a live third person view for a few seconds before the respawn menu pops up, so hiding in an obscure spot is pretty much impossible. Add to that the huge maps, and camping for kills is often just pointless. After all, there's no killstreaks, so all camping really does is reduce your total kills.

 

[Nickompoop]

Camping is a legitimate strategy. Isn't the goal of the game to get as many kills as possible while staying alive as long as possible? Camping solves both problems quite well. Sure it's not perfect, but no strategy is.

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Pretty much as other people have said, there's just as much 'camping' in Battlefield, but it's not as bad as in CoD. People will often set up strategic points to cover from, but they're not just sitting around to mass a good score. And of course camping doesn't last long if you don't let it - a group of snipers is still vulnerable when camping, so flush them out.

Since the levels aren't tight and indoors, camping spots that would make things unfair don't really pop up so much. If they do, blow up the building, problem solved. Basically, the scale actually does make camping less of an annoyance since there's always some method to counter it.

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[Kwaren]

I can't play COD because people run around like idiots and spray wildly at anything that moves. I don't see the problem with camping.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Not really. I suppose one could call what snipers tend to do "camping", but they rarely cause enough damage to annoy me. Couple that with the fact that most of the good "camping" spots are entirely temporary (in that they explode) and I'd say I rarely have a problem with camping in the game. Sure, people defend locations but such is to be expected. The game would be rather dull if the defenders simply all ran and met the attackers head on given that a single player could then slip by and capture points one after the other.

 

[Juk3n]

Ok so I'm a CoD player but recently haven't been playing any because of campers.I blame leader boards and kill streaks. So with BF3 and MW3 coming out soon and since I know that both will be online oriented. I need to choose one. Now I know that BF has bigger maps but does that cut down on the number of people camping or is it about the same.

No camping isnt as bad in the 'greedy' sense but spawn blocking/camping reaches whole new levels in Battlefield, and imo since it is game breaking, it is worse.

 

[Kahunaburger]

Camping isn't a problem in Battlefield, but there are other obnoxious behaviors that are like the equivalent of camping in a more arcadey shooter. Lots of people will hang back and not help their team, and some people will run out by themselves instead of waiting for their team and get themselves killed for no reason. Really, hiding in a building and waiting for people to come by is almost encouraged if you do it tactically and effectively - that's the sort of game Battlefield games are. You're trying to help your team win, and whatever you gotta do to do that is good.