Ninjat_126 said:
Ninjat_126's List of "Noobish", Unfair and Game-Breaking FPS Tactics
1) Camping
Sure, you might be having fun with your high powered sniper and your dark corner. But we're hating you right now.
NB: This mostly only applies in TDM and FFA game modes.
2) Quickscoping/Noscoping
A quick/no-scoper can get off a single shot in the time it takes most SMG/AR users to fire a single shot. However, the no-scoper's single shot will kill you if it connects, unlike the other player's gun which takes multiple shots.
NB: This is technically a legitimate strategy and at least puts you on the battlefield with the rest of us mere mortals, unlike camping.
3) Dolphin-Diving/Drop-Shotting
If your hitbox drops to a crouch/prone before your character model does, you'll have to be really unlucky to find someone who can hit you. Fairly common in the Battlefield games.
NB: Not all games have this hitbox problem and the hitbox is actually in sync with the player model. In which case, this is just another bullet avoidance technique.
4) "Noobish" Weapons
Using weapons that are unbalanced, overpowered or just plain unfair will help you get kills, but won't help you make friends. Examples include the "Noob Combo" from Halo.
NB: These are the sort of things that will generally get patched rather quickly, or fixed in sequels.
5) Glitch Exploiting
Glitch abuse includes noclipping into rocks, climbing the skybox and basically exploiting any loophole they can.
NB: These aren't meant to be in the game. If you find a way to hide inside the rock, don't.
6) Hacking
The Holy Grail of players being complete assholes. Granting you unlimited ammo, homing bullets, indestructible skin and the like, as well as cheating everyone else out of a fair game.
NB: Players caught doing this will usually be banned or have their accounts deleted.
I just posted this on the Bethesda forums, wondering if our fine community of Escapists have anything to add or correct.
EDIT: By "Noobish Weapons", I mean things like an Assault Rifle in a World War 1 game. Unbalanced, a bit out of place and completely unfair to anyone trying to play the game with anything else.
EDIT 2: I'm judging this from the point of view of someone out to play some games and have fun, not someone trying to get a huge K/D and a spot on the leaderboards. In my personal opinion, FPS games are more fun when everyone mixes up their tactics and weapons a bit, rather than sticking with whatever they think is the best and kill-farming.
all of these complaints are that of a less skilled player... None of these are unfair or game breaking tactics as they use legit tactics of the game. And hacking isn't 'noobish' because it is a completely diffrent problem all together.
Camping: A legit tactic.
it is acctually more 'noobish' to simply run around a map guns blazing. Taking up a defensive position is a common tactic in real world combat as you are able to fight on your terms.
if you where a skilled player... in a team game you would deduce the location of the camper and either avoid them or use methods to dislodge them such as grenades or superior tactics.
the 'real problem' with camping:
campers die last.
in a CS style death match game, often the last 2 people alive are campers... and often they still don't move. meaning every one dead has to sit and watch these 2 players camp until the round times out.
quick/no scoping: A legit tactic
the problem stemming from quick/no scope isn't the tactic itself it is the dynamic of the gun. The sniper rifle in most FPS games are 1 shot kill weapons dealing a default 100+ damage this means any hit, even poorly aimed ones, kill. This mechanic rewards individuals with poor aim but high fire rate rather then the other way around.
in all honosty, games like Team Fortress have the best solution to this problem as the design of the sniper rifle is that the uncharged 'quick/no scope' shot does not do enough damage to kill. it is when you sit in your scope for a set period of time charging up the single shot when you do enough damage to kill foes.
in other fps games, the only clear solution is to make sniper rifles only do 90 damage (see L4D or DoD) thus the player must apply 1 well aimed shot or 2 near good shots.
Dolphin Diving: a Legit tactic
however, in most games the true problem stems from poor hit box coding. because of the transition between standing and prone the hit box distorts making it very difficult to hit the individual. look at the developers, not the player.
games which have proper hit box coding (CoD:Modern War) Going prone constantly puts you at a disadvantage and makes you an easy target.
'noob' weapons: Your own damn fault.
Figure out a counter. I have yet ran into any game where a weapon or any mixture of weapons was the problem with the game. Understand the reasons you're getting owned and devise a method to reverse that.
grenade launcher/plasma pistol+AR/Auto-shotgun? how about you kneel a fair distance away and take pot shots at him? trying to go up and make the barrel of your gun apart of his anatomy before you pull the trigger is playing into his advantages, not yours.
Exploiting/Hacking: These arn't 'noobish'
it takes a long time to figure out the code or the map of a game, and individuals that hack/exploit effectively means that they know more about the game then you. And while they are breaking the game and its mechanics by using something that isn't intended to be used or done, it is a far cry from being a 'noob'.
These people are Hacks and Exploiters... not noobs.
In short.
This list is wrong.
L2P.
