DaFunktapus said:
Well I thinks it obvious that when you are playing MW2 that dying is something you try to avoid, what I meant to say, sorry if you misunderstood me, was that I hate dying by campers because its a cheap way to get kills and really should only be a strategy involved in defensive games like sabotage and domination. Even if the camper does not manage to kill me, I still find it annoying that the person was even there to begin with. Snipers have a right to camp obviously because that is the whole point of sniping. Maybe I am wrong about it being unfair since its not against any rules, but if you are good at MW2, why waste your time waiting for some unlucky person to wander into the building you are camping in just to kill him, possibly piss him off, and he spend the rest of the game trying to kill you and make sure you don't get back to that spot you were camping. It's not worth it in my opinion, but I have my point of view and you have yours.
Ah I get you a little more now.
I don't think camping is unfair, but like you I don't think it's a *good* strategy - you get far more kills roving around the map, unless you can camp with a view of something like a 4-route intersection that everyone passes along - in which case camping suddenly becomes a very valid strategy in my eyes and would militarily be referred to as "ambush", and that it's the fault of the other players if they keep dying whilst running down the same area. There's only so many places you can hide after all, and they shouldn't be charging headlong around the map if they're not planning on dying.
In my stint online I got called both a camper and a rusher. I tended to either snipe on the move (set up ambush, aim & kill, move on), and whenever I killed anyone got the "camper" tag - despite never firing from the same location. So I started to play more aggressively with a different class, and would stalk people and use the HUD to head them off and cut them down - usually hiding behind a doorway and shooting them in the back of the head with a shotgun as they ran past. Yet another "camper" tag, even though I had to actively stalk them and work out a route to get ahead of them. So I ran around blindly shooting anything I saw and got labelled a "rusher".
Which is why I think applying labels is a bad thing, and why I don't think that either "campers" or "rushers" are particularly bad, nor are they "unfair" - they can be extremely disadvantageous (camper: targets don't go by, rushers die easily) yet sometimes they can work really well and become valid strategies (rushes - if done right - can get passed snipers easily, camping -sniper or not- in an ambush position is just a good idea).
Hell, if I thought that anything that killed me was "unfair" then I'd stick to playing solely with those without two thumbs (yes, I sucked at the game [comparatively to the e-peens frequently seen online] - but I don't own a PS3/360 and hate PC-FPS so it's no surprise)
