Poll: Do you use tactics in any game?

[Roamin11]

Well if you can call stealth a tattic, then yes yes I play with tatics, I enjoy sneaking behind enmey lines laying down mines, and shooting their unsuspecting butts off.

 

[Rhayn]

Mostly in single player games with an open world. I would scout out a target first, note patrols and their paths, look for suitable entry points and an exit strategy should things go bad.

Makes the experience more alive. I try to play it as the game was one shot and killed, but I hardly reload just because I took a bullet.

In multiplayer games though, I'm not one to try to force strategies on to others. If I'm asked and expected to, sure, but if not, I'll just do what everyone else does.

 

[blood77]

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Team Fortress 2 enforce tactics. Otherwise, you are surprised as your team makes no progress.

Weird, because I ignore tactics in both of them and I still pwn.

Maybe it's just that everyone else with the 360 versions of those games are morons?..


Run and gun IS tactics if you ask me, I've played L4D matches where the others in my team sit in a corner talking about the best way of doing it, so yeah..

You might "pwn" but how often does your team win?

In Team Fortress 2, almost always.

In Enemy Territory, I've won once. LMAO.

Actually I have a fool proof tactic for Team Fortress 2. Just be a spy, sneak over to the enemy side with invisibility, then disguise yourself as an enemy demo man. Then all you do is kill some one, run away, and then repeat.

I don't know why but when I am disguised as a demo man I never seem to get that suspicious blast to the face check that they will do usually when I am disguised as some other class.

 

[stompythebeast]

yes thats why we vote kick your idiot asses, if you want to run and gun, go play single player you freaking rage quitter.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Damn, it is annoying when you have military-wannabes playing for "skill" and not for fun.

Idiots who run off by themselves then expect everyone else to rescue them are extremely annoying. In fact I tend to boot players that do that on L4D, if they don't want to play with the other players that's fine, they can do it somewhere else.

I use tactics and communication on every online game I play, how can you not? On games like Battlefield, TF2 etc it more or less ensures victory. You also get to know the people you play with as you, y'know, talk to them. Granted I tend to play with friends more than randoms.

 

[keptsimple]

You don't have to be ordering people around to use basic tactics.

If I'm playing L4D and another player wanders off from the group, rushes in front of me while I'm shooting, etc., I won't let him die, but I'm not going to go out of my way to save his ass. Why should I risk my (avatar's) life when you weren't supporting the group?

 

[sabotstarr]

Tactics are fun when your whole team uses them, but suck when one person doesn't do their assigned duty, so no i don't use them on halo 3 due to the 10 year old who cant play, but i do on Cod4 with my semi good "clan" type of thing

 

[KSarty]

I mean planned out tactics where some people will get into a little group and do what they do only to curse at someone who messes up.

This may not have happened to you exactly, but these people just get on my nerves when I play L4D. Run-n-gun always works for me, sitting in one spot always made it less fun. But when I ignore their "plan" and am attacked by a special zombie, these guys would refuse to help me, and if I was wounded on the ground, they wouldn't help me up and would continue with their mission. This is like the Leeroy (Leroy?) Jenkins syndrome. Damn, it is annoying when you have military-wannabes playing for "skill" and not for fun.

Well if thats the way you want to play the game then why are you bothering to play the cooperative mode. Just play with AI teammates if you dont want to work with a team. You shouldn't expect your teammates to act as if you're a part of the team when you don't.

 

[ZP---Fanatic]

Run N' Gun

OR

Stay Still And Kill (Sniping)

IF YOU Call those tatics then yes

Sometimes Use Proper Ones tho...

 

[Bassman_2]

to the person above, as it won't let me quote for some reason:

I just started for the first time a game in versus, as soon as i take one step forward too many, i get curses and insults, then getting killed by my own team when they are a tank. I never say anything ingame, but to curse at someone who doesn't even know that tactics they use I get annoyed for getting these insults, I just play. Sure I duck, sure I cover, sure I hide behind the doors with them, but when you're own teammate kills you for not playing by his player-made squadron rules, I get pissed and quit their game, go find another not so tactical fanatic game.

 

[Bassman_2]

I play fine online with others in a nonversus game. We all go our own way, and I even get praise for killing a mob by myself. I just want the game to go by faster than making a pit-stop ever second.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Yes, except in fighting games. I've never lost a match in Soul Calibur IV against my friends, and all I do is button mash.

 

[Zersy]

I mean planned out tactics where some people will get into a little group and do what they do only to curse at someone who messes up.

This may not have happened to you exactly, but these people just get on my nerves when I play L4D. Run-n-gun always works for me, sitting in one spot always made it less fun. But when I ignore their "plan" and am attacked by a special zombie, these guys would refuse to help me, and if I was wounded on the ground, they wouldn't help me up and would continue with their mission. This is like the Leeroy (Leroy?) Jenkins syndrome. Damn, it is annoying when you have military-wannabes playing for "skill" and not for fun.

What i've noticed is

the less people in the game the more tactics are required

 

[Areani]

Well, you can't really play Civilization IV without any plan of attack, but when I play FPS's I usually just run around and shoot.

And get killed a lot becaue you don't take cover.

Obviously

 

[PureChaos]

in real time combat i try to predict enemy movements and attack accordingly. i also try to lower their offensive and defensive levels before i start an onslaught.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

It depends, once I become too comfortable with a map, my tactics just vanish and I run the same plan over and over.... Which makes me suck.

 

[Fightgarr]

I use tactics in strategy games. If you don't, you aren't playing a strategy game, you're playing a losing simulator. Starcraft at least, requires I use strategy dependent on my opponents' race vs my race, I usually lose but I still use strategy. The only strategy game I've ever played where tactics were pretty much not involved was (ironically) Final Fantasy Tactics, in which my characters were so ludicrously overpowered that it didn't matter where they were or how many enemies were around them because all of my guys could teleport, and deal 1-hit kill every turn, in addition to having abilities that make them almost impossible to hit.