Poll: Crysis 2 anti camping...does it really work?
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People still camp, it is just a different kind of camping, in other shooters camping is setting up in a bottle-necked spot and waiting for people to come through so you can gun them down. In crysis camping (from what I've seen from hours of playing the beta) is more of a person sitting in a decently populated spot while invisible and meleeing/unloading in close range. This is because of the whole dog tag thing, and the fact that most of the guns are pretty much close to medium range, I personally have found that most of the guns really aren't that great at long range and you just end up clipping someone, they dash away never to be seen again, if you bother at long range.
Firstly, why is camping so bad?
Campers don't annoy me, if you're running around every nook and cranny of the map without paying attention to your environment you kind of deserve to be shot. I don't see why people have to implement "anti-camping" policies. As soon as you start to descriminate against what is essentially a play-style that pretty much every concievable PvP game allows, things start to get blurry.
If you can stop camping, can you stop sniping? If you can stop sniping, can you stop people who are using certain weapons in a certain way?
Armor Lock from Halo Reach comes to mind, everybody complains about it, but it's as much a part of the game as the guns you use, people just need to devellop counter measures.
As for the dogtags, while i was playing the demo it took me some time to figure out the system which was never actually explained in-game, but i think it will piss off snipers more than prevent campers.
It makes you choose between being safe, or getting killstreaks.
Whats the deal with killstreaks anyway? As a friend of mine said:
"Dude, you already have 7 kills in a row, you don't need a F*@!ing helicopter!"
lol @ the COD flamewar. While COD is a fun series on it's own merit, it really has done more harm than good in the gaming community.
Campers don't annoy me, if you're running around every nook and cranny of the map without paying attention to your environment you kind of deserve to be shot. I don't see why people have to implement "anti-camping" policies. As soon as you start to descriminate against what is essentially a play-style that pretty much every concievable PvP game allows, things start to get blurry.
If you can stop camping, can you stop sniping? If you can stop sniping, can you stop people who are using certain weapons in a certain way?
Armor Lock from Halo Reach comes to mind, everybody complains about it, but it's as much a part of the game as the guns you use, people just need to devellop counter measures.
As for the dogtags, while i was playing the demo it took me some time to figure out the system which was never actually explained in-game, but i think it will piss off snipers more than prevent campers.
It makes you choose between being safe, or getting killstreaks.
Whats the deal with killstreaks anyway? As a friend of mine said:
"Dude, you already have 7 kills in a row, you don't need a F*@!ing helicopter!"
lol @ the COD flamewar. While COD is a fun series on it's own merit, it really has done more harm than good in the gaming community.
My response is to suggest reasons why it is not a CoD clone. Sure the multiplayer has taken a turn for the round based deathmatch/objective which is a CoD thing but the nanosuits where not "dumbed down". They where optimized for console yet they where not "consolized" in the negative sense because I have a feeling that the new changes in the modes will make the freeruning aspects smoother even on PC.Assassin Xaero said:
So thats why I rarely go a kill streak. Not because I was camping but, I got most kills from across the map, and then run the other way, not knowing what the D-Tags were. Thanks for clearing that up, and I think its a good Idea.
