Is it ever okay to camp?

[-Samurai-]

In Real Life? Yes.
In Games? No.
In MW2, Whenever I See A Camper, I Riot Shield Them To Death XD

Excellent strategy! I always find it fun to slowly move towards someone while holding the riot shield and laugh as they panic fire into the shield and hope they don't have Semtex!

I always kill riot shielders with a grenade. Works about 99% of the time.

When people use a Semtex, I flip on blast shield and rush them. They usually die, I move on to the next guy. If they toss a frag, I throw it back.

I actually got a list kill in a similar way earlier. I shielded someone to death, and they dropped a martyrdom grenade. I picked it up and threw it at a guy that had his back turned to me. It bounced off the back of his head and exploded. It was hilarious.

 

[Eldarion]

In Real Life? Yes.
In Games? No.
In MW2, Whenever I See A Camper, I Riot Shield Them To Death XD

Excellent strategy! I always find it fun to slowly move towards someone while holding the riot shield and laugh as they panic fire into the shield and hope they don't have Semtex!

I always kill riot shielders with a grenade. Works about 99% of the time.

When people use a Semtex, I flip on blast shield and rush them. They usually die, I move on to the next guy. If they toss a frag, I throw it back.

I actually got a list kill in a similar way earlier. I shielded someone to death, and they dropped a martyrdom grenade. I picked it up and threw it at a guy that had his back turned to me. It bounced off the back of his head and exploded. It was hilarious.

I don't just throw it like a dummy, I usually cook it first. Or use the grenade launcher.

 

[-Samurai-]

When people use a Semtex, I flip on blast shield and rush them. They usually die, I move on to the next guy. If they toss a frag, I throw it back.

I actually got a list kill in a similar way earlier. I shielded someone to death, and they dropped a martyrdom grenade. I picked it up and threw it at a guy that had his back turned to me. It bounced off the back of his head and exploded. It was hilarious.

I don't just throw it like a dummy, I usually cook it first. Or use the grenade launcher.

You'd be surprised how many people panic when they see a shield and just start throwing stuff. It's pretty funny sometimes.

With blast shield on, you can take 1(sometimes 2) explosives and be ok. That's usually enough time for me to either get out of the way, smash them, or pull a pistol and shoot them.

I once managed to melee a grenade as it hit my shield, and it bounced right back to the guy that threw it. I didn't get the points, but it was still funny to see.

 

[GenericAmerican]

I don't mind campers, in fact I might do it a little myself; more like patrolling though, I move from one spot to another covering a certain area. Kills are kills, don't complain if you die when you come rushing into the room and I am waiting.

Sitting in one spot is an easy way to get killed, if your playing against someone who has an IQ equal to or above a monkey. Good thing there are not many people like that in Modernwarfare.

 

[Eldarion]

When people use a Semtex, I flip on blast shield and rush them. They usually die, I move on to the next guy. If they toss a frag, I throw it back.

I actually got a list kill in a similar way earlier. I shielded someone to death, and they dropped a martyrdom grenade. I picked it up and threw it at a guy that had his back turned to me. It bounced off the back of his head and exploded. It was hilarious.

I don't just throw it like a dummy, I usually cook it first. Or use the grenade launcher.

You'd be surprised how many people panic when they see a shield and just start throwing stuff. It's pretty funny sometimes.

With blast shield on, you can take 1(sometimes 2) explosives and be ok. That's usually enough time for me to either get out of the way, smash them, or pull a pistol and shoot them.

I once managed to melee a grenade as it hit my shield, and it bounced right back to the guy that threw it. I didn't get the points, but it was still funny to see.

I have a friend that loves the riot shield, so I know what counters it. Generally, I find a cooked frag thrown so it lands above their head or bounce it off a nearby wall so it lands just behind him works most of the time. I also learned how to time a sidestep/knife attack pretty well too.

But yhea, it is funny when they menage to make either of those backfire with perfect timing.

 

[WillyG ZA]

I camp once while being a sniper if I get found out without changing position. Then I go renegade.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

It really depends on the game.

If their many counters to camping outside of "Sniper's aim is $#%^" and the sniper has to get a headshot to kill me (and it is hard to get), then I am fine with it. Battlefield Bad Company 2 made hard to get a headshot with its adding of bullet gravity (aim for the head at long range and your going to hit the chest) and it is possible to blow away all the sniper's cover, leaving a sitting duck with a pistol.

On the other hand, the worse would allow sniper's to replenish clamors, make shooting anywhere in the body a kill, and let them carry around a shotdgun or duel machine pistols, but no game developer would be THAT dumb...

 

[Assassin Xaero]

For sniping, sometimes. Anyone who has said "camping is a legitimate strategy" is a camper. Another little fun fact, the majority of people who hate martyrdom are also campers because they don't understand the concept of killing someone then MOVING (well, at least the majority of the ones I've run into).

 

[Apocalypse Tank]

I camp all day everyday, and hate people who complain about campers.
I will attempt absolutely no excuse on my behavior, and can only say I get the upper hand at the expense of others. Isn't that what life is all about?

 

[ShakesZX]

For sniping, sometimes. Anyone who has said "camping is a legitimate strategy" is a camper. Another little fun fact, the majority of people who hate martyrdom are also campers because they don't understand the concept of killing someone then MOVING (well, at least the majority of the ones I've run into).

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not a good strategy. It is annoying and I always hunt down campers mercilessly, but it is a sound strategy. It is an acquired skill to camp correctly, just as it is an acquired skill to run and gun correctly. Also, what does sacrificing yourself for your beliefs have to do with killing and moving?

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Well, if you consider it to be a legitimate strategy, and if you can still enjoy the game while camping, then fine. I personally get bored, but that's just me. The only times I camp if I'm getting spawn-killed 10 times a minute. It's called going on the defensive.

 

[Gambinoxkid]

This might help you out or maybe it won't. the best time to camp is when you are doing bad in a game: for example lets say your 5-and-30 in a match, if your death's are that bad then its time to camp, just dont make it a habit to stay in the same spot.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

For sniping, sometimes. Anyone who has said "camping is a legitimate strategy" is a camper. Another little fun fact, the majority of people who hate martyrdom are also campers because they don't understand the concept of killing someone then MOVING (well, at least the majority of the ones I've run into).

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not a good strategy. It is annoying and I always hunt down campers mercilessly, but it is a sound strategy. It is an acquired skill to camp correctly, just as it is an acquired skill to run and gun correctly. Also, what does sacrificing yourself for your beliefs have to do with killing and moving?

Umm... I fail to see how hiding around a corner and waiting for someone to appear to blast them with an M60 is a "strategy" . And to that last remark, are you trolling or have you not played a Call of Duty game in the past 3-4 years?

 

[Something Amyss]

That depends. Camping is perfectly valid if you are sniping, defending some kind of choke point, something like that. Spawn camping is just dickery.
Then there's my old bad habit of throwing prox mines in the vent above the toilet stall in Facility on Goldeneye...

I'm gonna go with this answer.

 

[andriod]

as sniper yes, but even as a sniper i always make it my priority to move every couple of kills to a new position and even while in that position i move constantly so, i dunno thats the snipers job tho :T

 

[Harkwell]

Way I see it there are three kinds of camping in the gaming world. Those that camp (What snipers do. Okay unless you plan to sit there for the whole damn game.), those who defend (Holding an area, usually temporary), and ambushing (find a spot, kill some people as they go buy, move if you think you've been discovered).

All are legitimate strategies.

 

[Nosense]

If you're defending an objective, it's not camping. It's 'defending the objective'.

I think that generally if you camp a spot you're just doing it wrong. Not because it makes you 'too good' at the game, that's a pretty piss weak excuse. "You're not moving or performing any sort of evasive maneouvres and that means you keep killing me!" Uh... what? Sorry, if some guy keeps picking you off because you keep coming round the same route, and despite the fact he's not moving you can't put a bullet in him, that's not him being good, that's you being awful.

The best 'snipers' move around all the time, to make sure they're always catching the enemy off guard.

You pretty much took the words right out of my mouth!

 

[joshuaayt]

Of course it is, it's a legitimate strategy. Besides that, it's not too hard to kill a Camper, if you use your head (Well, at least not in good games; I seem to remember the first Halo making it easy enough to remove a Camper, but I don't really play shooters anymore, so I don't know about these dangfangled new games)
Besides, isn't that what grenades are for?

 

[Boom129]

horde/firefight/survival modes

 

[Riddle78]

Camping is always a valid strategy,no matter the game. They're easy to counter,once you know where they are.
Approach from an odd angle.
Swarm them.
Or my personal favourite...Indirect fire or shooting through a wall.
People just whine,moan,***** and complain about campers because they're uncreative,unadapting people who,ultimately,use the same tactics as those they complain about.