What is that gaming tactic/cheap move that you admit/avoid doing?

[JesterRaiin]

My plan hasn't been very successful.

Fighting for a lost cause ! I love it. Cheers to you sir.

Back to the topic. More like a "tactic" than cheat/expolit avoidance : If that's applicable i usually ditch strong, capable companions for sake of interesting, colorful characters.

Also, i stay as far as possible from on-hit-kill-wannabe weapons. Not many things are as amusing as killing Mutant Behemot (F3) with a combat knife.

 

[j86green]

Using the hunting rifle in fallout new vages, that thing is so over powered if in full condition

 

[Kinguendo]

I dont care what people choose to do in single-player but I dont do anything cheap in multiplayer games, out of respect for the other people playing and respect for my own skill at the game.

You cant claim to be good at the game if all you do is spawn rape or just use 1 hit kill weapons that do the aiming for you. Whats the point in playing the game if you arent going to play the game? If you are just going to sit in an area killing people who spawn or letting the game aim for you, whats the point? You may as well be watching a film, but it has to be a film that ruins the fun for everyone else when you watch it.

 

[Aeriath]

I avoid sniping in most games *ba dum tsh*.

I do love using puff and sting as a Pyro in TF2, which is fairly cheap but it solves all my problems pretty quickly.

 

[Spambot 3000]

Camping and nooobtubing. Not that I feel shame for doing so.

 

[Rook]

Playing peaceful on Minecraft. I try not to, but dying always pisses me off.

 

[Vivi22]

On the other hand, apparently people consider the Last Stand perk to be cheap and noobish. I've never found it so, even when it's used on me; but if the majority think so, then I guess that's a cheap move I indulge in.

I agree with you there, it doesn't become a factor often enough to piss me off. On the off chance they do manage to kill me after they go down, they're probably going to die anyway and I'll still get the kill, so I don't mind all that much.

COD4 is the last one I've played so maybe they changed it since then, but I never understood the hate for Last Stand. I think it basically came down to people who got killed by it whining like a bunch of babies because they didn't expect it. Except that I almost never had any trouble recognizing that someone I shot was dropping into it since it had a pretty distinctive animation. I'd usually laugh and toss a flash grenade at them to finish them off before moving on.

 

[PieceOfEden]

Pretty much any hadouken in RPGs. Yes it kills every grunt within a mile radius inn a few seconds but mages with no mana die.
Also noobtoobing and matyrdom. The latter is hard though seeing as any knives-only match grants revenge very quickly

 

[ikyda1]

picking low tier characters in fighting games! dunno why but i like working hard for the win and not go into autopilot with a few easy combos with a overpowered character!

 

[Creator002]

I used to not use certain tactics/weapons in games, like the rocket launcher, sword and needler in Halo 3. Now, I don't care. If the game developers put it in there,[footnote]I'm not talking about glitches and bugs. I mean genuine features and tools, though sometimes I use a glitch or bug get something free or early.[/footnote] I'm going to use it.
Tactics on the other hand. In relation to FPSs, It's fine to talk with team mates and tell them where the enemy is, that should be expected, it's even encouraged, but camping? No.
Imagine if all anyone did in a game was camp. It would be much more fun if everyone who had a mic actually used it tactfully. Not being overly serious, but being serious enough to try and win.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

I uhh Item duplicate on Oblivion .. i guess it was karma when i tried to dupe a lockpick into 300 something lockpicks that the game crashed

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

When I used to play Halo online years ago and I was in a 'whoever shoots first wins' contest, I'd always stop shooting before I died and dropped a grenade right at my feet while moving backwards. Been doing it since Halo 1. Good days.

My entire household and many other friends still do that to this day. Fun times indeed.

 

[AceTrilby]

Spamming projectiles in fighting games - but only against the AI. I would never have beaten Shao Kahn or Seth otherwise.

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

I only use bad weapons or abilities. If something is good, I don't use it. My plan is to make people thing that the weapon or ability that I'm using is good and then they start using it and they do bad and then I kill them really easily because I know how to use it effectively.

My plan hasn't been very successful.

And I thought I was the only one...

 

[Aean]

When people ticked me off in SC 2 I'd play Link and stand near a ledge...

 

[Insanity72]

I only did this for fun, but when playing a 6 way free-for-all lan party for halo Reach, i was using evade and an energy sword the entire match, oh did i mention we had infinite armor ability?

 

[s0p0g]

intentional use of anti-tank weaponry against infantry.
how i hate that.

sure, i killed one or another guy with ATs, too, but only if i got ready to engage the armoured thingy over there, and then some guy jumped right in front of me; i will most certainly not switch weapons before i defend myself, no sir ^^

and explosives on (fast) vehicles to suicide/remote-bomb groups of enemies by drving right into them.
dickheads.

 

[Rasputin1]

I camp like a ***** in any online shooter I play. (Cod4, Halo 3 & Reach, BF BC1)

Maybe that's just because I'm a sniper though.