Cheapest Multiplayer Tatic/Class/Combo (can be all three)

[Antonio Barrientes]

When I played Battlefield: 2142, most people were equipped as Assault troops with an advanced medical and defribulator, a Voss L-AR and PK-74 rockets.

What you got were mobile healing units with fast, accurate and hard hitting firepower, the ability to revive incapacitated allies, and an alternate firing mode that was easy to set up, which allowed players to attack enemies hiding behind cover. It could be a nightmare, attempting to destroy enemy hard-points.

 

[Sangtrain]

I never thought I'd get to link one, let alone two of my youtube videos on the escapist and have them be relevant! Both are the answers to the OP, and both are extremely disturbing...



Watch at your own risk. If anyone has ever been commandoed worse than either of those times, then I'm here for you...

The music on the second one Matches the "Wtf?" you probably had so well I nearly cried. Also...Commando in Blops. By a Dog. Behind Several boxes backwards. Final killcam. I WISH This was one of my usual "BACK IN MY DAY" jokes.

 

[Kargathia]

You just gave me bad memories of BC battlegrounds. Warriors had no counter to rogues. Fuckers were overpowered and kept calling you a noob who didn't know about a non exsistant counter.

Don't want to be a twat, but from the rogue perspective geared arms warriors were a nightmare during the first half of TBC. Favor shifted towards rogues during the second part, with the mace stun nerfs, and the resurgence of hemo.

It's a perspective thing, as fighting a rogue is very annoying, even if you win in the end.

 

[Slimshad]

Fox or Captain Falcon on anything faster than normal speed. FUCKING. BULLSHIT.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

The Backburner, combined with any loadout ever. Extra points if the user has the Gibus, Alien Swarm Parasite, Proof of Purchase or Ellis Cap equipped.

 

[Worgen]

the shotgun with slugs in bf2, that thing is stupid op, its as accurate and powerful as a sniper rifle and in hardcore mode it still gets cross hairs since they didnt let you shove the gun up to your nose

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Sometimes Medics in TF2 will uber one another, then that uber'd guy uses the uber saw to gain more uber, and then ubers the other guy. It can be annoying, but hardly impossible to deal with

That isn't really a cheap combo, since it is incredibly hard to pull off effectively. To be a cheap combo, it would have to be so simple that a noob could use it and it invalidated other tactics.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Rome total war. Any sick fuck who plays the Germanics online. They have a dirt cheap phalanx unit, the strongest infantry in the game, and huge numbers of armor piercing units.

The only way to deal with them is with archers, but they each come in the largest unit size, meaning that you will run out of arrows before they run out of men, and then the remainders will tear you apart in close combat.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Quick-scoping. The art of using a one-hit-kill sniper rifle, and running up to people, zooming in, shooting them, and getting a kill.

I used to be great at it, but I haven't played a FPS in over two years, so I don't really know. But I know it was ridiculously cheap, and wretchedly overpowered.

Please explain how using a single-shot weapon is overpowered compared to using an assault rifle or SMG at close range. The amount of skill it takes to quick scope is FAR higher than that required to spray with an AR or SMG. Please don't spout that "It's a glitch!" non-sense, because anyone who has done it knows there's nothing glitchy about it. You aim, take a shot, and often hit the guy. There's not even any aim assist while scoped in, so you can't use that as an excuse either.

There's a reason no one uses Snipers in competitive matches: sniping is really really bad, even in MW2 (the best sniping has been in a CoD game by far).

I've done it by reflex or accident loads of times, without even intending to. Factor that into your "it takes skill"
And there is aim assist on snipers, especially when scoped in, want proof? Ok. I was scoping a window, an enemy ran in front of me, my scope automatically followed him.
Factor that also.

My apologies, what I meant to say was that there is no aim assist while scoping in, not while scoped in. While you are in the process of bringing up your scope there is no aim assist. The assist stops when you begin aiming and kicks in again once the scope is up. Most quick scopes happen immediately as soon as the scope is up, so there is no time for aim assist to factor into the shot.

 

[hypovolemia]

The Backburner

Sadly, this. Pyro is my favorite class in TF2, yet the Backburner is the only weapon I hate. I hate using it, because airblasts cost so much ammo. I hate when others use it, as it's pretty much an instant death radius for most classes (and I hate Pyro duels). Also, it reminds me of that one time I ran straight through its flames as a Scout with full health (admittedly with the Sandman) and died the moment I made it through (even though the Pyro in question didn't move). That's a fraction of a second. What the hell, Backburner.
It's so easy to get kills with and thus encourages people to use it even more. And BB Pyros are apparently a really suicidal lot.

Though I find it funny to spam rockets at BB Pyros. They either don't reflect or are out of ammo after a few rockets. Too bad I'm currently practicing with the Direct Hit (and I still suck incredibly).

Don't mind me, I'm just bitter that every team I played against in the last few days had at least 3 Pyros (more or less all with the Backburner) and somehow every team I was in had at least 3 Engineers, but only one sentry at most. I really don't get it.

Also, spawn camping. That's just plain annoying. And premium-server bullshit. How can those people even live with themselves?

 

[Panzervaughn]

MTG: Counterspells/oblivion Rings/ others that go "Yeah, you didnt do that afterall"

 

[Hawk eye1466]

The class that makes me scream is the sniper with a shotgun the shotgun has I forget what but it increases the range to sniping distance and if they have the c4 then your really screwed because they put that down with motion sensors and the next thing you know your body is ragdolling through the air while the sniper laughs and then you snap your controller because this is the 7th time it's happened that game alone!

 

[demoman_chaos]

Play more defensively then, armoured hoplites (i think, if not then highest defensive unit for greek cities) in phalanx formation are virtually unstoppable, give them an armour upgrade or two and a cavalry charge into their back will do nothing except kill the cavalry. With best armour and enough experience a direct hit from an onager will be useless, only flaming artillery is any good.

Armored hoplites are not near as strong as Spartans. Carthage's Sacred Band is better in pretty much every stat than the Greek armored holites, yet they still don't stand a chance. The Urbans would all be well upgraded. Their pila volleys can take down 1/4 of even a well protected phalanx. They have among the best morale and staying power of any unit. They can go head on into a phalanx and win.
Light cavalry in the back of the hoplites won't do much, but upgraded Praetorians will do quite a bit. They have a very powerful charge (in the top 5).

 

[Janus Vesta]

Call of duty burst fire weapons. Words cannot describe the hatred I have for these weapons, for anyone not familiar, here's a checklist of what they can do:
1) Fire three bullets in one shot
2) All three bullets come out in under half a second
3) The three bullets have no spread, so are pinpoint at almost all ranges
4) it only takes 2 of the bullets to hit you before you die
5) The gun suffers very little recoil
6) The second burst can be fired another half second after shooting

These things honestly make me froth at the mouth. The ammount of times I've seen people using them and decimate whole teams is disgusting

And before I get all the "Well you're just shit to keep dying to it" hear this, I have made an m16 class out of spite in every call of duty game that allows one, because I was so sick of being raped by them, and do you know what? I didn't lose a game while using it.
I took them off in the end, they make me feel dirty.

OH MY GOD THIS! I once played with my ex clan on CoD4 (we've since disbanded because no one could stand MW2). We were a pretty talented group winning most matches, even when we were just dicking about, we had a good team vibe. Then one day we were against another clan (randomly, it wasn't planned), after beating them twice they ALL switched to M16s and decimated us. Sniper rifles? Burst fire destroys you. SMGs? Burst fire destroys you. LMGs? Burst fire destroys you. Anything that's not the fucking M16? The burst fire destroys you. So frustrating.

 

[Ironwampa]

Hacks, can't really beat those.

 

[jhlip]

Grenade launchers in CoD:MW2. Yes, it's the easiest answer, and there's a frigging good reason for that. The number of times I have died without even getting a chance to engage with my enemy is absurd. I've seen people use all the grenades for their launcher, then toss themselves in front of an enemy's gun, so that they'll respawn with more. People that go entire bloody rounds without firing one bullet. It's bullshit and I can't stand it.

PS: I am well aware of the Blast Shield, it's a pain in the ass to use and most grenade launcher kills happen when you aren't expecting them.

A-FUCKING-MEN GOOD SIR. FUCK THE NOOB TUBE IN THE ASS WITH A SHARP OBJECT.

 

[jhlip]

I never thought I'd get to link one, let alone two of my youtube videos on the escapist and have them be relevant! Both are the answers to the OP, and both are extremely disturbing...



Watch at your own risk. If anyone has ever been commandoed worse than either of those times, then I'm here for you...

Aside from absolutely insane commando lunges, I also play other games! Yes I know it's crazy, someone who plays CoD also plays other games. Here are their problems!

Bad Company 2: In terms of what vehicle-less players do, anyone who picks the medic class is automatically on my hit list. That class is so insane. I unload my SMG ammo into them, they turn around quickly and in literal seconds I'm dead via and MG3 and it's ludicrous fire rate. In terms of vehicles, it's a tie between the guys on the ground with that monster known as the Bradley, and these idiots in the sky flying in circles with their Havocs and shooting rockets down on me. The Bradley is impossible to kill because it's defended from all sides by various guns, and since it can fit like 4 people, it almost always has an engineer who just gets out and repairs it when I rocket the thing. I basically exclusively play as an engineer, so that obviously bothers me. And with the helicopters, I just get on a gun and hope and pray I can shoot it down before the monster decides to either turn around and go repair, or more likely look straight at me and rocket the ever loving fuck out of me.

Fifa 11: I play Fifa all the time. I'm a huge soccer fan so I can't stay away from it. However I hatehatehate when these guys on Ultimate Team buy all these fast and strong brazilians, and just run through me with absolutely nothing I can do. Then they tramp it. They always tramp it. For people who don't know...

Spoiler

That is a tramp. They don't go for the chip over the keeper or anything, they just do a lame pass to the guy next to them for the easy open goal. It's Fifa's #1 nono.

In the defense of BC2, it is more a team strategic game where the challenge of taking down a tank is getting your teammates to help you take it down. Other than that I completely agree with you.

 

[MrLumber]

This thread is why COD is a bad game.

Hmmmmmm.... Now that I think about it, I don't really play any games with abusive mechanics. Closest thing I can think of are heavy control oriented decks in MTG, they are near impossible to beat if played well, and literally prevents you from doing anything in order to fight them. This wouldn't be so bad, but they tend to win on the 15th turn or something horribly late in the game.

 

[ecoho]

Viper with an M32 and turrets on Combat Arms, god it's so gay. Also the other chick who's name I can't remember with the m4 super 90, that shotgun is stupid and her speed is stupider.

There's also the full bruiser team on LoL, not exactly competitive level play, but in a pug match its just a pain.

ok what team is that?

I agree with the fellow that saidd stun locks for whatever game. Nothing more annoying then going about your business and then not being able to do anything for however long the twit wants to play because he just stuns you for however long... WoW had it had with the whole vanish sap repeat till you get bored bit. nothing like any moron rogue able to shut you down for potentially hours cause he wanted too.

yes.... just yes i hate rogues i played a hunter and nothing pissed me off more then when they made them our counter instead of us being theirs........soo much bullshit

 

[JaceArveduin]

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Let's see, I think they nerfed it by now, but who knows, I haven't played much of lulz in the last few months.
Mordekaiser, Garen, Warwick, Xin Zhao, and Ashe. Not the only bruiser set up, some had more CC, some had less, this is just what my sleep deprived brain came up with on short notice.