dirty tactics you know you shouldnt use, but still do

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Captain Pancake

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Surprisingly enough, I don't really use dirty tactics... Probably why I lose so often!

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World of Warcraft. Corpse-camping.

Feels great to let frustrations out.
This is why I don't pvp... Took me long enough to figure out the proper rotations for my rogue in pve, let alone jumping into that bag of crabs...
 

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Anyone heard of the game "Commandos"? For those of you who haven't it is pretty much what you'd get if you combined Team Fortress 2 with some stealth-based, birds eye squad game. Anyway, while playing, whenever a nazi spotted one of my men, he'd yell, "Halt" and then fire if I moved or anything else happened. However, if I didn't move, and nothing suspicious happened, he didn't fire. He just kept his gun and his line of sight fixed on my soldier. Also, if another nazi saw either my guy or the previous nazi, he would do the same thing. Before long, I'd have all the nazis in the base pointing their guns at my guy. I'd then just take another of my men and silently kill all of them one by one with a knife. It made the game far too easy.
 

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JUMBO PALACE said:
Clocked Banshees to the mineral line :O
There is a difference between "dirty" and "intelligent." Economy raids are for the successful.

While we are on the subject of Starcraft would anyone consider the extremely liberal use of Nuclear weapons "Dirty" and I do mean liberal.
 

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In Batlefield Bad Company 2 I sometimes mine the enemy base. [sub]What? If they can't be ased to check it's their fault.[/sub]

I also feel cheap whenever I get in a tank. Mostly because of the high kill count that follows.

Halo (Pick one) Rockets = Free kills.
 

Doinstuffman38

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I normally don't use cheap tactics like that. But, in MW2, desperate times call for desperate measures, so I have a class with Marathon/Stopping Power/Commando with double Vectors and double Model 87's. I've only used it in Sabotage. For any other game type, replace Commando with Ninja, Use a single Vector and single Model 87.

(In private matches with my clan, however, I do all the cheap sh*t I would never be caught doing in a public game [tube with Danger Close, tac-knifing, etc.])
 
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Screen peeking.

I will occasionally camp, if the other team is really good.

We're talking getting spawn-killed(That means dying within 10 seconds of spawning) twice in a row by the SAME GUY. Which has happened. I don't think I have an alternative to camping at that point.
 

obliviondoll

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MW2 (No, not what you're thinking... I mean Mechwarrior 2).

Team battle, anything from 2vs2 to 4vs4.

Step 1.) One player does the following:

Jenner IIC
Strip the Mech down.
Equip the largest engine possible and MASC.
Add as much armour as possible without putting ANY on the rear torso sections.
Add one SRM launcher. Fill the rest of the Mech with missiles for it.

Step 2.) At least one ally equips a Gauss Rifle.

Step 3.) The Jenner runs into the middle of the enemy group, and everyone shoots it in the back.

Step 4.) A Dire Wolf might survive this. If this happens, one more Gauss hit to the torso will kill it.


I NEVER saw this tactic fail, but it always felt unfair.

Was fun though.

More recently, Resistance: Fall of Man. LAARK.

For those who don't know, the LAARK is R:FOM's rocket launcher. Pressing fire normally gives you a powerful area effect shot capable of instant-killing with a near miss. While this projectile is in the air, pressing secondary fire will slow down or stop it (pressure sensitive) and let you re-aim with a laser sight from the launcher. Good if your target moved effectively or you suck at aiming. If you press and hold the fire button while the missile is stopped, it launches guided submunitions which spiral off into the nearest wall if nobody's close, or take off almost a quarter of a player's health each if there's someone close. Alternatively, if you're holding fire while it's moving, nothing happens until impact, at which time it launches ALL of them at once. I've killed an entire 8 player opposing team in one shot with this before. There's a reason you only get 2 shots per spawn of the thing. It helps that some people don't know how to use submunitions (even when it's in the manual and the in-game description of the weapon)

Ultimate noobtube?
 

Harlemura

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JWAN said:
FreelanceButler said:
The rifle mounted grenade launchers of Modern Warfare 2 are, I'm ashamed to admit, terrific fun.
I don't do it that much in case one of my friends actually notice. Don't think they'd let me live it down.

Oh, and Natascha from Team Fortress 2.
I know it's not really cheap, Valve put it in themselves after all that testing they do, but using it against something like a Scout or Pyro is both unfair and satisfying in equal measure.
On that note putting 3 docs on one heavy and having the heavy walk forward and take (pretty much) anything
That's not cheap...
That's genius!

I'm guessing spies really ruin that party, huh? I wanna go try it regardless.
 

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ganking (5 man vs 1) on league of legends. it gets a lot of rage either way but i know i shouldnt use it even though its fucking hilarious
 

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Stickman Sam said:
In FIFA, playing counter-attack style is so easy, I wouldn't call it cheap but it's easy wins
But thats kinda depending on your opponents skill at defending too. Or attacking in the first place.

The best cheap thing to do on Fifa was in Clubs games. If you're learnt the long throw for your VP you just aim at the crossbar while your teammates flood the 6 yard box. Bounces off, keeper dives but never gets near it, cue easy tap in. Always a shitty move to pull :).
 

Kurt Horsting

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Oh, i use all my dirty tactics. It would be insulting to my opponents if I felt that they couldn't handle them. But here's a small list.

Mvc2: Sometimes Doom's sweep is unblockable (especially on wakeup), so is sentinel's cr. HP. Then there's the infinite combos (too many to list) America's favorite DHC which is a 90% damage combo that is extremely easy to do that ends in a 50/50 mixup where if it kills the opponent, sets up an unblockable for sentinel for when the next character comes in, and trap teams in general (teams build to spam projectiles to lock down opponents and chip them to death.)
3rd strike: Chun-li's karathrow that option selects off a parry into a hk that can be hit confirmed into a super combo. So if they do nothing, they get thrown, and if they hit buttons, I parry and supercombo them for 1/3 their life which goes back to the same set up. Urien's unblockable Aegis reflector setups. Makoto's 100% stun combos, and many more stupid things that I point out to stupid people that don't know how to play 3rd strike that say 3rd strike was better then SSF4 (it isn't btw).
Guilty Gear: Just playing someone that doesn't know how guilty gear works is dirty enough. I don't even need to list the bullshit in this game.
Blazblue: No one knows how to play against Carl (Unless I already know them, or they play Carl). Its kinda sad... if it wasn't so fucking funny! And Although Noel got nerfed I have a few dirty trade secrets that will win me some games ;P (hint 8k resets and fatal counter frametraps).

And much much much much more dirty dirty stuff.
 

omega 616

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shootthebandit said:
omega 616 said:
shootthebandit said:
you may be a noobtuber, a camper or a nade spammer. we all have our dirty tactics that we love, my personal favourite is in BFBC2 covering a quad (ATV in USA) with C4 and driving it into the objective instantly destroying it. it feels wrong but it gets the job done

so i ask my fellow escapees, what dirty tactics do you use?
Always wondered how it works, does it detonate itself then? Can this only work on MCOM stations or could I plow into a building and make it go boom?

I often return noobtube fire, rather than be the bigger man and shoot them.
you have to jump out or change seats and detonate but its still very quick to do, in certain cases you may get shot, after you die you cannot detonate previous C4
If you sit on it with your C4 trigger out do you get off with it out or is it back to the rifle?

I know quads are great for ghosting though, they go for ages.
 

thenumberthirteen

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I don't have that many dirty tricks, but I had a few when I played Dawn of War. Having 3/4 artillery pieces in the distance to pound units ahead of your forward advance timed so it would be a constant stream of shells. This became less usefl as they changed the number of vehicles you could have in the various expansions.

I also used to have 2-3 squads of space marine scouts all with snipers and cloaked (post Dark Crusade). They absolutely decimated infantry since they could take down a whole squad in one volley from miles away without revealing their position. Perfect as fire support as well.
 

esperandote

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In fighting games:
Running or docking and blocking when there's little time and im winning
Shooting hadukens (or equivalents) repeatedly and performing shoriukens when the opponent jumps or dashes
Abussing low kicks/Uppercuts
 

Popcicle42

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Other than the occasional camp (sniping, C4, shotgun, whatever), I really don't play "dirty".

However, in MW2 Hardcore multiplayer, tagging someone in the head with a smoke/flash/stun/airdrop grenade (marker) for the kill is immensely satisifying. :)

Edit: Oh, totally forgot LoL. Yea, again, I wouldn't call them "dirty", but Teemo placing mushrooms everywhere and your team all having Teleport means alot of enemy team wipes when they try to take on the epic creep.