Poll: Are you a Camper

[Jonci]

Yes. There's very little intelligence behind running and gunning in military-style FPS games. You lose accuracy and you are a big target. Combat is about finding a defensible spot and taking out the enemy. The enemy should be smart enough to locate you quickly and snipe you, use heavy gunfire, trash the area with grenades, or find a blind spot to get behind you.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Camping is a legitimate strategy.
I won't sit somewhere unless I am defending that area.
Or if I am running and I know an enemy is coming, I will wait just out of sight to ambush them.
I normally run around set areas terrorising the enemy team...

 

[bew11]

Nuf' said.

 

[knight56]

Do I stay in a specific area for a specific amount of time because it gives me a decent view of the battlefield and safety from most attacks. Yes. Do I stay there for longer than 2 or 3 kills though, no.

 

[AOS]

I find camping to be rather lame, but in situations where my friends aren't aware of where I am I'd like to hit up against a wall and wait a while, but given too much time i'll play normally.

Sniping is fun even though I suck at aiming, but if I got an aim at the enemy from a distance even if I don't got a sniper, i'll still shoot anyway

 

[Bat Vader]

In game modes like free for all I can see how camping is ruining the game.

But when you are with a team you need someone to camp besides a sniper. In capture the flag it is usually smart to have someone camp and guard the flag besides a sniper. It does not ruin the game. It is good tactics.

Like in Counter-Strike usually one or two people camp and guard the bomb/hostage area. Not really ruining the game. Just a good tactic to use.

 

[wax88]

nope: im the guy campers get mad for using explosives to flush them out. most notably using the "noob tube" to flush out potential camping spots. to which they will start pointing fingers at me, screaming "toober!", for which my reply can only be:" hey, you camp, i tube. if you didn't camp, i wouldn't be tubing you"

so yeah, my philosphy is that the tubes are for use against campers. or rather all explosives...

anyways, i prefer using AT-4 or RPG for those jobs but really, i like to conserve them for trickier camp spots which i cant reach with grenades or toobs.

 

[wax88]

also, there's a diff between camping and sniper in my opinion. campers are less skilled and will ALWAYS stay at that one spot. even if you flush them out once, they will ALWAYS return. which makes for a few easy kills.

the real snipers are a real pain. they know to fire and displace. usually to a spot that covers their previous sniping spot so they can take out anyone who tries to sneak up onto their previous firing position. those guys, are really up there.

 

[wax88]

Does sitting behind a rock to recover and shooting anyboy who comes near count as camping?

nope-that's just recovery, or being pinned down. definitely not camping

 

[GrandmaFunk]

camping is not a dirty word!

tactical shooters are about out-thinking and out-positioning the opposition, not running around spraying bullets and rockets.

this is especially true in any game with objectives...defending the bomb spot is not camping, it's doing your job.

 

[Jedamethis]

Does sitting behind a rock to recover and shooting anyboy who comes near count as camping?

nope-that's just recovery, or being pinned down. definitely not camping

Well then no, I don't camp.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

If I am required to by game type or situation like a sniper map or being pinned down although normally no I do not camp.

 

[Flames66]

Most decisively not. I even start to feel guilty if I linger in one area for too long. Campers are a nuisance and can in some cases even ruin the online experience (MW2). And don't even get me started about spawncampers...

I agree with the spawn campers part. If you are continually getting killed by campers who just sit still in the same place that you have only your self to blame for not looking where you are going and checking properly.

It's a legitamate strategy!
If there's a sniper rifle you need to camp. The game wants you to.
If a shotgun works at close rang and there's a rock along a main road, you wait to shoot someone as they run past.
I don't often do it but i have no qualms in doing it.

If you have a problem with a camper just grenade or rocket launcher the sod out.

Agreed. Use tactics, not just running around like you're the bus in Speed.

Not really, but if I stop for a second because I ended up the the enemy spawn AGAIN I immediately get screamed at for being a camper.

You hit the nail on the head here. You know what ruins the game for me? "Pro" gamers. Gamers who take the game so seriously that it's not a game anymore. You know the people I mean, the ones who start shouting at you the second you don't do what they think you should be doing. The ones who have fast reflexes from years of constantly playing and, rather than doing anything clever or interesting or fun, just try to turn the game into one big reflex testing quick time event.

 

[JWAN]

look, I camp especially in 2142. I set up ambushes with one of my friends and as soon as we wipe out the incoming forces we move ahead and bring the ambush gear up to another choke point. they put those in games for a reason.

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

Easy question.

If you do, you ruin the game.

(Sniping is camping by nature, and that is how you use the weapon, so you do not count. This refers to when you are using anything except a sniper rifle.)

I have a lot of time in online shooters. I know the percentage of Campers to Players. (Camping is not playing the game.)

So just be honest.

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I hate camping. I run around, usually with my Vector. Just went 31-11 in hardcore TDM a little while ago.

Sorry about the 2 posts if you see both. I forgot the poll.

well if you're playing a more sophisticated shooter you need to take cover and shoot tactically to win the match. what you call "camping" i call "holding chokepoints" or "providing suppressing fire".

it seems like a lot of people who play small scale shooters like modern warfare or most generic shooter Dm modes seem to expect everyone to run around like a dodgem with an uzi taped to it. thats not realistic or clever fighting, it looks stupid, feels stupid and on a larger game will get you slapped stupid by a better player. on games like battlefield, quake wars or operation flashpoint you take cover, keep the enemy's heads down and prevent them advancing. hell, if you're playing a rocket trooper or an artillery designator then holding an area is your duty. on quake wars if i let someone around the flank of my team's advance then i've failed them. so no, i don't skip merrily through the game holding down sprint and mashing jump,there's camping and there's making yourself a target.

What your saying is completley true, by all means, except the type of gameplay in MW2 is supposed to be fast paced. The map sizes alone prove that. Look at Halo: the maps are quite large and open, even the smaller ones, so the resulting gameplay is medium paced. Operation Flashpoint and Battlefield have huge maps that allow more realistic tactics and slower gameplay. CoD4 and MW2 have compact maps. They seem big, but see how fast it takes you to get to the other side off the start. I dont run around like "dodgem with an uzi taped" to me. The game is too unforgiving if you do that, but I do move around, and that is the point.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

Just kidding, I never camp. Too much wilderness.