Why do games have friendly fire?

[maddawg IAJI]

To add realism, lower gernade spamming and to encourage careful care when dealing with explosive weapons like rocket launchers and mortars etc etc.

 

[shoot and hope]

yer but you dont have to be carefull if there is friendly then you can shoot thehell out off the other therefor funner.

 

[Misterian]

Realism, but I wish that didn't apply to Oblivion, this game sometimes has your allies get in your way of killing something just so they could kill something and possibly get killed.

 

[MrFluffy-X]

more tatical, meaning more fun

 

[Nikolai Smirnov]

to teach players not to grenade spam, be more carefull where your shooting and know where your team mates are because they might startle you and you might end up killing them and realism.

 

[dicai]

To punish teamates when they've done something bad/are being annoying as hell.

Or realism.

 

[Jennacide]

Best example: play Bad Company 2 online without it. Then play with it. It's starkly different. Almost no noobtube and CG spam all over, a lot more coordination between teams.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

Because it's fun. Granted, in stuff like Halo it can get annoying, but in the LEGO games, it's a blast. =P

 

[shoot and hope]

Maby there should be a vote when you go online if there is friendly fire or not because evryone seems to have a different opinion. But I see what you mean.

 

[6037084]

realism, adding a layer of skill so you couldn't shoot at anything moving, randomly but had to identify it as an opponent etc, also in the games I play retards that shoot teammates on purpose almost always get banned for a few days.

 

[aegios187]

Because sometimes the best way to convey the concept of lanes of fire and not having people run around like a fucking spaz is to put two rounds into the back of said person's head.

 

[natster43]

To add difficulty and consequences to people who just spray bullets and spam grenades. My question, why do most FPS' now only have friendly fire in the realism mode where you have no hud and increased bullet damage? Such as in Bad Company 2 and MW 2.

 

[Daemascus]

Because as fun as it is to shoot the enemeys in the face its ten times as fun to shoot your friends.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

What is the point off friendly fire?

To stop your from grenade spamming, shooting unconrollably and things like that.
The only problem I've encountered with Friendly fire is:
Me throwing a grenade + dumb teammates rush and stand ON TOP of MY nades = -10 points in CoD4 Harcore TDM.

 

[Zenn3k]

So that I can fire an RPG at the ground at the start of the match, of course.

 

[Snotnarok]

I love having friendly fire on, it makes the game more interesting. Except when you run into that asshole that will shoot but otherwise it works REALLY well.

 

[Xanadu84]

It makes the game less automatic. If you're moving along, you can't take the mental shortcut of, "If it moves, mouse cursor over it, fire until it stops moving". You have to constantly be paying attention to where your teammates are, and make judgment calls in a split second. Friendly Fire sacrifices Flow for Engagement. In some circumstances, for certain people, it's a good design choice.

 

[DustyDrB]

It wouldn't be so annoying if the friendly AI didn't walk right in your line of sight.

 

[noobium]

friendly fire is there to add more realism to the game but i did get spawn killed by an RPG more times than i would like to count.

MW2 tried to fix friendly spawn killers with ricochet fire but sometimes you end up getting screwed over by it

 

[Jamieson 90]

Because it would be unbalanced without it, Take games with air strikes, I could run through that area and complete the objective, I know the airstike will kill the enemy and not hurt me because FF is turned off.

Same for shooting people in firefights, its not fair because you don't have to worry about your teammate just fire a rocket or a grenade and they are fine yet the enemy dies.

FF is annoying when people abuse it but it would be even more unfair/annoying if it was not on all together.