I'll admit to doing it on occasion when playing split-screen, but I think that's unavoidable in that situation. I don't make a habit of it unless I'm playing my buddy who usually kicks my arse at every shooter we play. Then I stand a slight chance.
Poll: Screen Watching.
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Guilty!
Still working on getting PSN so when a friend is over we play call of duty 4 a lot.
But god i hate em when they use the M-21.
Still working on getting PSN so when a friend is over we play call of duty 4 a lot.
But god i hate em when they use the M-21.
I always say if it's there, you can do it.
And my friends always wondered why I would destroy them in Goldeneye.
And my friends always wondered why I would destroy them in Goldeneye.
One of my friends calls it 'screen hacking' which sounds just as goofy as screen watcher
Screen cheating/watching/hacking/gawking/wanking is pretty much why I never got into GoldenEye all my friends knew the level layouts backwards and forewards while I'd be stuck wandering around in the basement Until one of them mercy killed my wayward ass.
Screen cheating/watching/hacking/gawking/wanking is pretty much why I never got into GoldenEye all my friends knew the level layouts backwards and forewards while I'd be stuck wandering around in the basement Until one of them mercy killed my wayward ass.
I try not to, but I always see what they are doing out of the corner of my eye, so I guess I do it.
Yep, its totally annoying. my brother used to do it during the 'splitters marathons. lets just say i told him off. a bit too nastily. (whack)
I try so, so hard not to, but come on, they're right there... Just a dividers line away from your screen. Its so tempting. Im working on not doing it, I really am, but its deffinately a process.
If i have no other advantage (and am outmatched by my fellow players) i will occasionally screenwatch just to keep myself in the running.
Or if the other person is one of those annoying "run and hide" assholes. not the ones that take a hard-to-spot location and use it against you via camping or something, those im fine with. i mean the ones that arent good enough to kill anyone so instead they hide where noone can find them to avoid dying.
Or if the other person is one of those annoying "run and hide" assholes. not the ones that take a hard-to-spot location and use it against you via camping or something, those im fine with. i mean the ones that arent good enough to kill anyone so instead they hide where noone can find them to avoid dying.
It's a cheap move. then again so is the while-you-are-dead-look-at-everyones-position in halo ability. Takes away the whole point of hiding or setting up an ambush. So annoyingly stupid why include that?
i dont like when people deliberately screen watch but i do it on occasion normally by accident cause im not used to just looking at a portion of the tv. i dont often play split screen games, considering the only one i own where your against each other is gears of war and halo 3
That is a viable and encouracged strategy in Goldeneye which was the first game I remember screen cheating on. Set up som remote mines and watch for people to venture near from a safe nook. It does feel cheap though. To combat this in Halo we would just lan and put the tv back to back so we could seee each others faces as we teabagged for the extra personal experience of it all but could not see the screens.
It drove me crazy when others would do this to me but how do you fight it. we are both looking at the screen and only a hairs width separated his screen from my own how can you not see where is is in a map. Now if you don't know the maps the benefit is negligible. So perhaps the answer is to have random map elements generation where all the maps have the same pieces, but they are put together in a different order when the game begins.
That would be an interesting gameply mechanic and be more realistic. You are not going to know the exact layout of a battlefield in advance. You might have a gist of it generally, but you would not know that there is a blind spot on the second floor behind a door.
It drove me crazy when others would do this to me but how do you fight it. we are both looking at the screen and only a hairs width separated his screen from my own how can you not see where is is in a map. Now if you don't know the maps the benefit is negligible. So perhaps the answer is to have random map elements generation where all the maps have the same pieces, but they are put together in a different order when the game begins.
That would be an interesting gameply mechanic and be more realistic. You are not going to know the exact layout of a battlefield in advance. You might have a gist of it generally, but you would not know that there is a blind spot on the second floor behind a door.