Poll: Brute Force or Lethal Efficiency?

[Alar]

I think it really depends on the weapon you're using. Something automated is designed to use a fair deal of ammunition, not just to hit the target but to ensure its destruction.

Likewise, a sniper rifle is designed to kill in a single shot. You have to know how to use every weapon, and adjust your firing style to suit.

 

[ffxfriek]

a bit of both. it depends on my mood. but lethal efficiancy is more fun when not using noob tubes and such

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Accuracy whenever possible with a crazy brute force SMG or two in reserve (if I'm allowed). Quite frankly on most online maps you might as well get the weapon that will put down a man quickly and has a large fast firing cartridge seeing as that is what everyone else is doing.

I actually used to be a Shotgun only kind of guy but I got tired of getting cut down when I need to rush to get in firing range.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Somewhere in between. Although if given a choice between a sniper and a shotgun, I'll usually pick the sniper. But I really prefer a good old assault rifle.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

Before I joined the army I was all about "Lethal Efficiency". But if there was one thing the army taught me it was that brute force is the name of the game. Aim, double tap (or burst fire which is usually more efficient in FPS games), repeat until the enemy dies and prosper. Close quarters map? Full Auto fire is your friend.

Brute Force also goes will with my playstyle of constant movement. You don't have time to line up a perfect shot when you advance on your enemies position.

 

[Ekonk]

Depends. Most of the time it's efficiency, but sometimes it's just fun to burst in guns blazin'.

 

[Spy_Guy]

Lethal Efficiency.

I want a reliable and accurate gun, it does not need a high rate-of-fire or a very large clip, but it will need to kill in two or three shots.
So, favourite guns in Mw2:
1. UMP
2. M16
3. RPD

The RPD actually does fit that bill, plus it has a huge clip, so I can still pick people off with bursts, but in an emergency I can point it somewhere, then fire until it goes click.

 

[Private Custard]

I always use LMGs, not because I spray and pray (I always burst fire two or three rounds for accuracy). I just like the bonus of having a belt of 100+ hard-hitting rounds for when covering fire is required, or for when someone runs into a building......I just grafitti the wall until they're dead!

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Well, once I realized that the 870 Shotgun was a weapon forged from win that delivered unending ruination to my enemies, I stuck with it in Bad Company 2. When one only has one shot, I suppose I could say that I was precise. But when I was delivering enough firepower to drop any two players in that shot? Sounds like overkill to me.

 

[Rewold]

I tend to be better with snipers and semi-auto weapons.

 

[Vrach]

Lethal efficiency all the way. In most games in fact, not just FPSs. I just love that feeling of taking someone down in one shot, preferably with them/their allies having not a clue as to where the shot came from.

That said, I also often play a bit of brute force in Battlefield games, opting for anti-vehicle weapons... in BFBC2 in particular, there are few things more satisfying to me than taking down a helicopter with a bazooka. There's a lot of satisfaction in tagging it and sending out a tracking missile knowing the pilot barely has any chance of avoiding it, but the most satisfying feeling was this one time...

Atacama desert, I was in a building near a flag point... enemy chopper is flying above us, showering us and the friendly tank with missiles. I'm in a building, the chopper has no clue about me, I can hear it flying above though and I know he has to take a wide circle to keep himself moving while he reloads. So I wait, looking out the window with a CG, waiting. Just as he comes into sight, I take a quick aim and take it down with the first shot. Just loved the feeling thinking how much of a surprise it was to just get shot down out of nowhere without any warning

I do enjoy squad-based breach-and-clear, but that requires good teamwork and sadly isn't always an option. Still, I much prefer providing sniper support overlooking wherever my team is going and taking down anything in their way, guardian angel style

 

[Naked_Snake]

Light Machine Guns. Particularly the RPD, when fitted with a foregrip it gives a tight spread for efficient fire (from the shoulder mount position), but when you've just been blinded by an enemy flashbang there's nothing like going prone and holding down fire for two lucky blind kills right before it's respawn time.

 

[Shinrae]

If a game has Sniper's, thats what Ill be on.
Fell in love with them back in the first Unreal Tournament, anything else just feels thugish to me.

 

[Iron Mal]

As a usual rule, brute force scares the shit out of people.

People who are scared often don't fight back.

If they don't fight back then I'm pretty certain that efficiency goes out the window.

I'm a shotgun man myself, so brute force.

Man after my own heart.

EDIT: Also, who said that brute force couldn't be efficient?

 

[Lord Honk]

Efficiency. I loved Oblivion's Assassin class, with poisons and sneaking for critical damage, the same way Fallout:NV's "steady hand" perk.

Recently, I love the shotgun in MoH, though I see it rather as a precission weapon (cause you're screwed when you miss).

 

[Durgiun]

I always combine the two. A sniper rifle and an assault rifle.

A sniper rifle when I need precision and have time to spare.
An assault rifle for when tits go up.

 

[crudus]

Surgical precision. I always think pray-and-spray is a waste of my ammo I worked hard to get.

But what if ammo is not an issue in the game you are playing?

I will admit there is a great catharsis that comes with wielding a weapon with a 100+ bullet clip and just laying waste to everything in your path. I still prefer precision weapons.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I go for Lethal Efficiency every time.

I started playing MW2 when my old roommates bought it, and with my trusty sniper rifle I had a better overall kill/death ratio than they did on their game. They obviously failed to realise that going Rambo into a warzone, while getting you some kills, gets you picked off fairly often too.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

I prefer lethal efficency. To the point where guns become redundant. There is nothing like sticking a sharpened length of metal into someone's kidney or throat then quietly walking away