Tales of Douche-Baggery (in games)

[drwow]

I take the tracer gun in BF:BC2 and shoot my own teams snipers.
I don't get the general bitching about the n00btube, it's a pretty easy counter. you just need to keep your distance.
camping is the only thing that makes me want to turn off the game.
I just don't understand how people can sit in one spot the whole game.

 

[Grospoliner]

Not really douche-baggery, at least I think, but maybe the slightest bit of trolling on my part. In Modern Warfare, I would select a kit which kept me off radar and gave me a c4 detonator. I would then select and follow an enemy player around the map until the opportunity presented its self that allowed me to get right behind him. When I did, I would begin to clicking the c4 detonator constantly, with no c4 deployed. The player would typically panic, turn and shoot me. I felt it was more fun to let them know I could have killed them any number of times before and they would have never seen it coming.

 

[BanthaFodder]

Some dickhead who, for about 2 weeks, would constantly stalk me in Red Dead Redemption's online. Any time I died in that game, it was always him with a fucking sniper rifle. I swear he didn't even bother with any in-game stuff, he just spent his time hunting me like an animal.

you know, i've never played Red Dead Redemption, but that actually sounds like fun! just hunting a player like an animal; tracking him down, following his path, then finding a nice sniper post ahead of him, and just waiting with your finger on the trigger, until BAM, you shoot the guy dead, and start all over again!

*looks back and forth*
*whispers* IT IS.
joined a posse with everyone on a server but this one guy. guy shot me, we took on a mafia mentality: no one messes with one of us without messing with ALL of us. we stalked him for a good half hour. best part, he was in the plains, always in eyeshot, no terrain or tree cover. it became something of a contest to see who could kill him first/the quickest after respawning/the most spectacularly. some of the most fun I had on RDR freeroam tbh

 

[BanthaFodder]

in general, i hate teabaggers. its the gayest thing ever. its not funny, its just dumb and immature. however, most of the time the place i encounter the most douchebags are on left 4 dead (1 or 2). they take the game way to freaking seriously!

we could have ran through 4 of the waves and be winning, then on the last round they decide to kick me because of a stupid mistake. or, i could be at the top of the boards and we are losing, and i make a stupid mistake and they kick me. it pisses me off. kick someone if they are being a douche bag, kick someone if they are trolling/griefing, kick someone if they are afk/arent trying at all; dont kick someone who is genuinely trying and just makes a mistake. its a mofoing pickup game. its not a clan war.

funny story bout that...
my friend told me this:
he was playing World at War, sniping some guys on Dome. snipes a guy. all of a sudden, what he thought was a bush (ghille suit) comes out and teabags the guy. he proceeds to headshot the teabagger. then the guy he shot first comes out and teabags THAT guy. snipes him. THEN THE GHILLE SUIT GUY COMES BACK. SNIPES HIM. this goes on for about 5 minutes.

 

[BanthaFodder]

I actually got a second one:

I was playing MAG once, when me and one other guy got put in a squad with a whole clan. they ALL had their mics on. the only way I can describe them is... well... you know those Christian/non-smoking youth groups that try to be "funny" and "rad" and "down wit da kidz"? the ones that fail miserably but god knows they're trying? yeah, they sounded EXACTLY like that... they run around yammering, dicking around, laughing at eachother's bad jokes, all while me and this one other guy actually try to cap the uplink. the other guy kinda gave up and just tried to focus on getting a decent killcount, I still tried for the uplink. eventually, I decided to initiate a vote-kick against one of the girls (in retrospect, this was a really bad idea). they start fucking SCREECHING over my mic (something along the lines of "you want to kick ME, SonicSnail? well I can tell YOU that I'M blahblahblah", you might as well replace my name with "satan" or "tobacco company", there, youth group) so I just drop it and mute them. then I get a vote started against ME. it hangs by a thread for a few minutes, then gets passed. no, they couldnt just move me to the other squad (even though they caused my death a number of times... sometimes deliberatly), they fucking BOOT ME FROM THE MATCH. the rage I felt was incalculable. a good 20 minutes of putting up with these pillocks, only to get dishonorably discharged (kicked with NO EXP POINTS. GOD DAMMIT.)

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

I like to teamkill campers in games like Black Ops or MW2 just to get a rise out of them and most of the time it is quite hilarious.

You do realize that makes you the bad one not them? Camping is a legitimate strategy and CoD shouldn't only be played by people who run and gun.

Some dickhead who, for about 2 weeks, would constantly stalk me in Red Dead Redemption's online. Any time I died in that game, it was always him with a fucking sniper rifle. I swear he didn't even bother with any in-game stuff, he just spent his time hunting me like an animal.

Sorry but that seriously made me laugh, he was one of those serious griefers that know the more you annoy someone the more annoyed the person becomes.

I was playing CoD 4 the other day and this one guy, on my team, comes up behind me while I am sniping and knifes me. I didn't die but it was to tell me to move. I said to him "I'm not moving, so just leave." then I get shot through the head with him behind me and the enemy gets a double kill headshot. I come back to the same area to try and snipe again and this bastard just throws a grenade at me and switches teams so the grenade changes teams (its called nade switching) and he kills me. Just for a freaking sniper position.

Healers in MMORPGs who won't heal you at the most important times, like in a fucking BOSS FIGHT!
Also people who Quick Scope and die 10 times when trying but if they can do it one freaking time, one time! You will never hear the end of it, they continuously say that they got a QS and they are so pro. They won't even mention how they are a detriment to the team.

I think you misunderstood what I meant. I'm saying that killing campers is the best way to get a rise out of players as is killing someone on a high kill streak. And you're right, they can choose to camp, run and gun or a hybrid of the two. I play the way that involves shooting my own teammates and tormenting them because they take a game too seriously.

But why do you need to get a rise out of people? These people at least play the game well and are helping your team, if you must team kill then perhaps kill someone who isn't helpful at all, like yourself. If you bought the game just to go online and team kill than that is low, real low.

Basically you're just trolling in games were you kill people playing well.

I don't really need to get a rise out of people, it's just much more enjoyable for myself. And you know what, if people have such a problem with it then they (for example) shouldn't play modes like Hardcore, they could go to Core and not get team-killed. I'm not saying they have to stop playing Hardcore, but if you choose to play Hardcore you know that you could enter a lobby where a guy is team-killing and possibly "ruin" the game for you. If you don't like the lobby you leave, plain and simple.

Besides I can't tell you how many times I've gone into a game team-killed a person and we spend the entire match bantering back and forth and killing each other. And at the end of the game there is no hard feelings. I've actually had people tell me that they way I play is much more fun that actually playing it how it's set up. That is what every person playing online should be like. If they don't like the team-killing you can leave at anytime, if they feel the need to retaliate by all means go ahead. It's all in good fun and anyone who has a problem with it takes the game too seriously.

Its not taking the game too seriously if you don't like it, people just want to be able to enjoy the game and playing the game properly should increase how much fun you are having without taking fun away from anyone else.

Games like Call of Duty or Battlefield are incredibly over priced in my country, and if someone finally saves up the money to buy it, they are looking for a fun online experience (rarely single player). They don't intend to be team killed because that basically destroys the fun they were or would be having. When you team kill you let your whole team down, not just yourself or one person, taking two people away from a team in a game like Cod will take away the competitive spirit most of the players have, because they know that trying to win after that is futile.

People join hardcore usually because it is easier to kill the enemy, its more realistic and there is a bigger sense of loss. People don't join hardcore to be team killed, sure they take the risk of being team killed, but you basically take the risk of being smashed in the groin with a sledge hammer every time you step outside. You can get pissed off about being hit with a sledgehammer just like you can be with Cod, you know there is a risk but you don't think anyone is going to act like such a dick and actually do it. When I try to play modern warfare 2 now it usually takes about 3 minutes just to get a Team Death match game, Hardcore modes often take up to 10 minutes just for one game. If I joined a hard core match after 10 minutes of waiting to find there is some guy on my team who is relentlessly killing me and the rest of my team I would be getting pissed off too. Imagine you are trying to play a game that you take seriously, like perhaps Heavy Rain, and every time you got up to an important stage of the game there was someone behind you who would kick you or who would push the remote, just so you would fail and he could say laugh and say "Don't take it too seriously." You would be getting pretty angry with the person too. Basically team killing people who have done nothing to you and have done nothing to deserve punishment is wrong, there is no point in justifying it because it is just wrong.

I actually have another question: When someone doesn't retaliate, do you keep killing them? If so, then that has gone past getting a rise from someone who is ready to snap, and it has gone into non-stop annoying until someone does snap. If you killed someone all freaking game and he gets pissed off towards the end then you're not just killing people who take the game too seriously, you are killing people who are looking for fun and trying to not annoy you.

 

[E-Penguin]

Those sonsofabitch in Command and Conquer 3 who would use an engineer to capture your base building in the first two minutes and then sell it.

I'm sorry, but that's one of the greatest tactics i've ever heard for that game.


I'm going to try it once.

 

[Soods]

In DotA the other team called my team noobs the whole game. And when the scales tipped in my teams favor, they tried to backdoor (bannable) our base. In the end we won.. Oh the emorage!

 

[Chaos Marine]

Most recent, griefers in Magicka. Most jarring? Xbox 360 gamers. I can not believe the hideous personalities displayed.

 

[Treblaine]

Modern Warfare 2 on PC, team deathmatch on. Working my way round the map with a FAL, which is beastly at medium range but useless at close range.

I'm on a balcony when my Radar starts to steadily haze into static, characteristic of someone with Scrambler approaching. Naturally I got defensive, I'd been rushed by enough Akimbo G18 spraying walls of lead at me, I crouched pointing my gun at the stairwell and shot him as soon as I saw him (twin G18, big surprise) that just happened to be the game-winning kill. Then the messages began flowing in.

"FUCKING CAMPER NOOB!"

"NEver EVER FUCKING CAMP! Get some skill!"

And bullshit like that. I mean he was a rusher USING SCRAMBLER, all that does is warn your opponent the moment you come near, what the hell am I supposed to do if I KNOW he is coming up the stairs? I tried to explain that too him but it's much easier to type "Camper NOOOOOB!" than the above.

Camping is more than pausing for a second when you KNOW an enemy is going to come round a corner to ambush you.

Camping is hiding in the same spot of favourable angle waiting for someone to come by, gets a good K/D ratio but fails as the score is so low spending most of the game waiting around.

People griping about camping. IT'S A VALID TACTIC, PEOPLE.

Not always, some camping is very poor play both on the individual scale and team scale.

Camping screws your team as the very nature of camping (as opposed to sniping) as you are basically pretending to be a claymore mine. All you are doing is hiding in some corner at such an angle where you'd have an advantage in shooting if they come in, but the problem there is the same as claymore kills: you have to wait for them to come around. For every kill you get you are guaranteeing a revenge kill as when they re-spawn they will know right where you are.

Campers may get a relatively high K/D ratio but they spend so much time waiting that they never get that high a score.

I remember reading some hippy-dippy anti-landmine book claiming Landmines were the "ultimate soldiers", well BULLSHIT! Soldiers have to do far more than sit on their ass all day and just kill anyone who comes near, soldiers have to hunt down and destroy the enemy and occupy their positions. The Trenches of WWI were caused by the idea that "soldier just has to sit tight and shoot anyone who comes near", all sides got so focused on that but lost focus that war was about conquest not mere killing. Assault tactics fell so far behind that the war became a pointless stalemate.

I should mention Sniping is very different from camping. Sniping may be stationary but it IS aggressive, you have to stick your head over the defences, expose yourself to fire to actively get kills. Staying in one room popping out of windows to take pot-shots is NOT CAMPING!

Camping also does not work as it does not scale, both teams full of campers will never score anything and the timer will run out to a draw. Snipers can duel with each other, as a sniper even but its definition can still move around to get better BROAD angles to get kills.

Elements of camping have their place, but it cannot be sustained, as ultimately you must be aggressive (while cautious) both for your team score and also for your own enjoyment. Don't spend your precious time sitting around like a claymore.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Every single cheater. I hate how they are constantly on many CS:S Deathmatch servers ruining the whole show. There are also those, in servers with AWP restrictions, who block you on an open spot so they can get the gun. Then there are the odd TK'ers and teamflashers, although I've barely seen any in my regular servers anymore. Then there are also those who steal guns from the enemies you've killed yourself, take defuse even though it's really you're right killing the last enemy and you being the closest. Some even do the cowardly flashbang-rattle-on-head when you're defusing.

 

[DTWolfwood]

My rat bastard friend who likes to use the shotguns double barrel alternate fire on AVP to push ppl off edges of cliffs in invasion mode.

Its Hilarious as an observer, but Douche-Baggery when its done to you.

Best part was when i did it to him but he was actually too far from the edge, but when he got up he still ran off the cliff and killed himself. we balled until tears came to our eyes when that happened.

 

[Treblaine]

My usual grief is with quickscopers and campers.

No, they are not valid tactics, they're cheap ways of playing for people who don't have actual skill in the game.

The same goes for those MW2 snipers who do that spin/shoot thing that almost always hits and requires no aiming.

Another one is crate stealing. You order a crate to be brought and your OWN teammate shows up to try and take it. I've even had cases where I grab my own crate before the guy and they have the nerve to shoot me for it!

But then again, I'm starting to feel like most CoD servers are populated by people who have no business being online in the first place.

IMHO, the douchebags there are ultimately not the players, but the people who made the game! now they made a great game but they have not done enything to deal with the negative emergent behaviours.

They had to have known about the Intervention's exploit of SoH-Pro, and they've had long enough to de-incentivise camping. One idea is camping motionless for too long you appear on radar as a pink dot, obvious to everyone there is an easy kill, a coward waiting behind a door with a gun.

But don't let the Quicscopers get you down they CAN be countered. First of all they are very easy to spot, a ghillie suit and 4 foot long Intervention Rifle is very obvious running through the middle of a combat zone when they should be sniping from the periphery.

Secondly you must understand the way of the beast, with Stopping power they will only kill in one hit if they hit you in the stomach or higher, so limb shots you'll scrape through with 2hp, while they desperately reload. If you are quick (while wielding a submachine gun like UMP) you can counter Intervention by jumping and strafing FAST when you come head to head with a QuickScoper.

What I do on PC is sprint and reverse direction as fast as I can with my mouse, it become a very hard to hit with a single shot weapon.

As to care packages I can't agree with you more, I don't use ANY crate based killstreaks any more and actually I prefer to play on Barebones mode anyway (killstreaks I find disturb my flow of play more than they are satisfying to deploy).

The problem with care-packages is the Radar, it is OBVIOUS to the enemy when a care-package is incoming they run like horny dogs to a ***** in heat, as not only is there a killstreak they can steal but also a distracted enemy to easily kill. It is more a curse than a blessing, but you know the fundamental problem? Your own fucking team.

I mean so many times I'd have a care-package/sentry-gun/whatever and find a load of team-mates and I'd be like "cover me while I get this" but they all fucking run off on the same flank while on the opposite flank rushers are storming my position. CoD has fucking terrible team dynamics, and IW, Treyarch and all those responsible have done nothing to fix it. Could you stop racing around the map for just 30 seconds?!? They get so pissy with a game-loss but they won't help you get more kills by helping you with killstreaks because it's more important to be best in team than 2nd best in winning team.

I really suggest barebones, very different type of players there. Good hunting.

 

[Zeema]

first of im a guy but i sound like a girl on mic

i get people in MW2, Blops, Battlefield, starcraft, WoW and Other Games

Saying/Typing this sentence

'R U A GURL'

 

[isnosche]

In world of warcraft - lvl 85's killing low levels over and over again ><

In Counterstrike -Hackers, aimbotters, and if your on a roll people that just scream cheater

Trolls, Seriously like 1% is good at it

 

[Blind Sight]

Those sonsofabitch in Command and Conquer 3 who would use an engineer to capture your base building in the first two minutes and then sell it.

I'm sorry, but that's one of the greatest tactics i've ever heard for that game.


I'm going to try it once.

They fixed it in the Kane's Wrath expansion, engineers used to instantly capture buildings, making them almost impossible to stop early on unless you deconstructed your base and ran them over. Now engineers take a couple seconds before they capture a building, giving you time to kill them.

 

[The SettingSun]

L4D can get quite bitter.

 

[Vault Girl]

I get grief for the old "There's a girl playing, lets spam chat with dickish questions/remarks"

I'm not one of those feminist "I'm a girl gamer deal with it types" i just want to get on and enjoy video games without grief. Mostly i'll be chatting with my clan-mates and others will hear, or one of said clan-mates gives the game away by accident through banter.

the most annoying instance i can think about is Red Dead Multiplayer. i'be lost count of times i went to do a gang lair and got sniped in the head by arsholes when i'm trying to earn points or do it without incurring death subtractions.

This.

Also I think those chicks that are super into girl power and say stuff like, "You just got beat by a girl!" are ironically anti-feminist.

It says something when other girls get pissed off at others for playing the whole feminist tune. a months ago i was on RFOM and i joined a 1hit sniper game. after a few minutes without speaking i congratulated another player for an impressive running snipe when another girl hears me starts trying to draw me in to an argument she was having with some guy, using the whole "your losing to a girl, how do you feel about it". for the most part i ignored her but it eventually got really tiresome and by now she had incurred the wrath of my clan-mate, who was a guy, who backed up my repeated claims of wanting to just play the game. she then started to call him a mashochist who she was going to report to the admin and get him banned, even though he was cordial.

there are 2 points here.

1) getting grief from both guys and girls for your gender is just really annoying

2) getting dragged in to arguments you neither agree with nor want to participate in.


I hat to admit that on more then one occasion on Red Dead Redemption me and another player have sworn vendetta's against each other because of accidental horse killing (killing horses on purpose is something that warrants a retribution kill) and such.

 

[Broady Brio]

On a game OMGPOP Pool...

I hosted the game and Douchebag came along. He kept saying similar to "noob! bid your coins pussyfaggot"

I did.

I beat him, got his money, he raged quit.