Something that ****** me off about online gaming!

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Yesterday was the first time I played DoD in about a year and a half. The map was Caen which I remember very well from the last time I played the game, and I was hiding in one of the buildings peering out of a slightly ajar door, I could see the enemy sniper hiding in one of the windows, managed to kill him with my Kar98.
A few minutes later, he runs to the exact same spot, and by this time I'd moved into the next room so I was watching him through a window, I killed him again before he got his shot off. As I had the high ground compared to most of the enemy, I was able to pick off a further two people as they hid by the statue in the middle of the map.

So I've got 4 kills and no deaths yet, and the enemy sniper who I'd killed twice calls me a "n00b camper lolol". I've only been there for a maximum of 3 minutes :rolleyes:

Anyway, I head out into the open courtyard in the middle of the map, I see the same sniper in the same window, I got a shot off but hit the wall next to him. So I tried to get some elevation and hope to get a bit more of a target. I jump up onto a wall, and start running around it to get onto the wooden floor above it (by the third axis flag), the sniper manages to kill me, followed by "haha camping retard is dead".

I had sat in one location for only a few minutes, whereas he was ALWAYS at that window trying to get the odd kill off with his sniper rifle. Just to prove a point, I started running to different spots where I usually sit and pick people off from a higher ground. Killed that guy at least 6 times without him even managing to get a shot off at me.

Glad to see there's still the 8yr olds ruining a perfectly good game :rolleyes:
 
Depends on what game actually, for example medal of honour allied assault spearhead in freeze tag mode i hate camping, and thank god the server i play on has campign protection ( if u dont move for 30 secs they take 20 health / half a second unstill u moev at least a few steps ( or kill u if u dont move).

In bf2 however, i dont really care about camping, doesnt bother me as theyre easier to kill & locate...

Fear combat has overpowered melee attack to kill campers wich comes in handy.

Overall it depends on the game wether i can live or can live with campers, in medal of honour allied assault series, imo all campers must die... and in battlefield series, im ok with them...
 
I think there are campers and then there are campers. We all generally understand about a player getting a good position and picking off other players but then theres the kind that sits by a doorway or an entrance/exit that he knows people will have to use and kills them with no skill or sense.

I personally just hate the term noob and its use as an insult on online gaming. So someone is 'new' to a game - well what about it so was everyone at some point.
 
Depends a lot on the type of game.

If it's a teamgame, then anything goes. When online teamplay FPS first originated (Quakeworld), there were no objectives per say so teams would camp/control the major items (powerups, armours, and weapons). It's always been this way and to be the idea of people moaning about campers in a teamgame kinda goes against the whole principle of it. Some people do take issue with spawn camping but again that is just people trying to maximise the chances of winning.

Essentially being able to work as a team and have tactics to break an opposition map lock is an important part of TP.

In FFA however I think that camping can be a bit lame. Cycling items is OK, but staying in one area all the time even when not in combat is questionable.
 
also, i hate the people who consider you a camper if you go off to answer the door then get extremely arsey when you get killed!
 
Campers, the swear word of online gaming. Personally, i don't mind campers. Most of the time anyway. It's only when they sit outside or even inside your spawn pwning you. If they're snipers that are half a mile away, yeah, i can handle it since snipers weren't made to run around after people trying to point blank them. They were made to lay in one spot and pick off that stray little piggy who thinks he can make it to that flag just in time to capture it. Bad bad piggy. We'll be having bacon sandwiches tomorrow.

I personally love being a sniper. It allows me to get a view of the action (i tend to hide on top of tall buildings) and lay down a bit of fire for my teammates while at the same time distracting the enemy away from objectives. You do have to be talented to be a sniper, especially if it's a moving target. I may not be too talented but the crap hitboxes in almost every game make up for it.
 
I loved campers in DoD, there was nothing more satisfying than smashing them round the back of the head with a shovel.

Especially those snipers and MG'ers that went straight back to the same spot every time. :p
 
Camping doesn't really bother me but I hate these damn servers with the anti-camp mods. I mean SOF2 is now plagued with them, Im trying to Snipe then 5 seconds until your popped, then you get auto killed. How lame is that.
 
Zip said:
And that is the people that always crack the ****s and start whinging and calling people campers when the sit behind some bushs or in buildings and not move because they have found them selves a good Location.

It really gets on my **** TBH :mad:

If people can find a good weapon and location to sit to use it then why should they need to run about like a pig with a pole up its arse :confused: :p

I dont see any problem with Campers personally. You just have to learn to find them and flush them out before they do too much damage and it gives the games some more challenge.

Im not sure if any of you feel the same about it but im really sick of people calling snipers or MGs campers when thats what there job really is, just to sit there and pick every one off.

Sorry i had to get it off my chest.

/rant off
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camper.
 
Im usually a sniper, my most played game used to be CoD:Uo and CoD:2, where being a sniper and kinda camping was the way to go. All the time i used to get the camper abuse, even though i moved around every few minutes, i still got it. as much as i try to explain to them that in WW2 soldiers didnt run about like headless children point blanking the enemy, they refuse to believe that.

If your any good you can get in behind any but one of the most paranoid snipers who check every 3 seconds, if you cant do that you really cant insult anybody
 
In Day of Defeat you needed to camp to defend key points and lock down the map, you got points based on how many flags you controlled.

Even so, it was always frustrating when your teams sniper was camped near your spawn point and refused to move up to where the action was.
 
harris1986 said:
way to deal with campers especially in 1.6 cs i found is if you know where they are camping and lets be honest it's fairly obvious on 99% of the maps then spam them! that way they die without them seeing you or vice-versa and then start crying that your wallhacking! oh germans i love them so their logic = you are better than me, you are cheating!
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Not sure I follow what you mean, mate. D'you mean spamming by typing messages in the console?

In 1.6CS I find the worst are the campers who make use of bugs in the maps, e.g. camping on top of archways in Dust where they've been bumped up there by a teammate. AWPers... and CTs with shields that just run around like idiots, they both do my head in as well.
 
Triad2000 said:
I play ET quite a bit - if you get on servers with good admins, base campers (the worst) are usually kicked.
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A server...With GOOD admins? What is this you speak of?

In 04 and 05, there were a lot of decent servers with good admins around, but in 06 it all went down the pan and it was like 12 year olds were in charge. If ya got like over 50 ping, you'd get kicked. That's something i really hate, kick because of ping. It's like you've got a connection, you optimise it as much as you can for gaming, you've got like 50 ping and they still kick you for lagging the game down! Then there's like some noob with like 380+ ping and they don't get kicked.

CT's with shields are fun, all you had to do as throw a grenade just behind them, if they turn around, shoot them in the back of the head (or stab them). If they don't turn around...kablammo. I wish they had the shield in CS:S. Shield>anything else. But Grenade>shield.
 
"Dont hate me because im better than you"

Is my usual reply to all those awp haters.

At one time, i was pretty good with it. And when i had the oppurtunity i would use it. google bs.cs and see if the enemydown forums thread is still there :D
 
have read only a few replies in the thread, but anyone who complains that in cs/css about people who camp at spawn with awp, or camp with bomb, are quite obviously noobs

if my whole team rushes bombsite, and ive got AWP, then it would be a good tactic to stay in spawn and wait for any CT that pushes wherever they come from

try playing wars not just public ;)
 
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