Why do games have friendly fire?

[oppp7]

It's another example of realism taking priority over FUN.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

realism and forces team tactics to avoid getting FF'ed

It doesn't do shit to prevent dickheads from teamkilling, in fact it encourages it.

 

[Yumi_and_Erea]

Because without it, everyone would just randomly be firing the heaviest guns at whatever moved, rather than try and employ actual strategy and tactics. Friendly fire is what happens in real-life, and removing it from shooters drastically cuts back on realism and immersion.

 

[slipknot4]

Friendly fire, encourages aiming since 1985. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanTheNES]

 

[TimeLord]

To teach 10 year old that you have to be careful if they grow up to join the army

 

[Lexodus]

For all the people that want to find out what it's like to be American, I guess?

 

[Teddy Roosevelt]

For people to not complain about it. Basically, yeah, realism. That's perfectly fine to have in a game.

 

[MR T3D]

realism and forces team tactics to avoid getting FF'ed

It doesn't do shit to prevent dickheads from teamkilling, in fact it encourages it.

Exactly this, try playing any FPS in "realism/hardcore/hard" mode, with one prick, and you will hate the game for life, unless you get kicked after a certain amount of kills like Battlefield and Counter Strike...though i dont believe there is anymore f.f on C.S

heh, bitches don't know about mah project reality.
almost perfect amount of lots of realism.

 

[Ymbirtt]

It's to encourage a bit more thinking before you shoot, and make zerging less effective, and also to allow panic to be used as a weapon. It's nice to have a bit of psychology in a game, and games like Dystopia have funky little features where they short out most of your heads up display under certain situations, basically meaning that you're fighting blind. Those times, when your vision is filled with EMP noise, and when there's an invisible man running around your allies, they wouldn't work unless FF was on forcing you to think rationally through all this.

Of course, a lot of games work better without FF, but there are situations where it's an absolute godsend.

 

[Rauten]

For realism, or to make certain weapons not so easy to use//abuse (specially explosives).

 

[Sentox6]

Because real life has friendly fire.

Lucky then that real life has considerably fewer "friendlies" shooting at you for their jollies.

It's an interesting name, too. Doesn't feel very friendly when you're getting hit by it.

 

[silasbufu]

Game developers probably don't consider players as being mostly retards.

 

[Berserker119]

Remember kids. It isn't team killing if you like it.

or maybe I'm thinking of something else.

 

[trueluigi7]

Because People are Dicks

 

[VanityGirl]

It stops people from spamming various weapons (grenade launchers, grenades, RPG's, ect.). I've always enjoyed friendly fire. Although in MW2 it's a pain because there's a lot of douches on there who like to friendly fire teammates for shits and gigs... annoying.

 

[Sebenko]

So you can kill those fucking AI companions who keep getting in the way.

 

[Symplify]

Usually its for the realism aspect, I'd say.

 

[Pielikey]

Realismfags obviously.


It's to keep a game realistic but if you wanted realism you could join the actual army.

 

[AngryMongoose]

To force players to use more skill. There should definitely be a "No friendly Fire" option of course, though matchmaking games seems against giving players options.

It works really well in Left4Dead where friendly fire seriously adds to the sense of desperation (When you can knock-over a teammate with one shot from a first tier shotgun).

 

[mega48man]

if you find it annoying, it must be because people are doing it to you. why are they doing that? you probably suck online and they don't like you AND when they do kill you, you flip out and it probably looks hilarious.

this is the reason anyone team kills anyone.