What really ruins an FPS for me

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Pyro Paul

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rushing i don't care about because it is a valid strategy a player can employ and really is the whole point. of most combat, catch them off guard.

camping i don't care about too much because it is a valid defencive strategy. it does get a little annoying because being defencive gives you an advantage against attackers, so dealing with only a handful of campers tends to take twice as many as attackers.


the only thing i truely dislike in FPS games are these:
Jump spammers.

in games like battlefield 2, counter strike, and several other fps multiplayer games by 'bunny hopping' you can confuse the game and warp your hit box making it harder to hit you. hopping around the battle field is unrealistic and simply stupid. and the fact that you can unload your clip towards the enemy and have the same general accuracy as them makes it unfair.


weapon cyclers.

another glitch with in several games, but most prominent in counter strike since it has never been removed, is the cycle feature a trick used to bypass longer reloading times and animations by simply switching weapons at key times. in some cases allowing you to double the rate of fire of some weapons.

the AWP in counter strike for instance has a reload cycle (bolt action) of about 1 second. if you press 'change to last weapon' twice you'll put away and pull up the awp bypassing the bolt action and be able to fire again right that instant, effectively .25ths of a second.
 

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Guitarmasterx7 said:
and you can't just backpedal and fire because...? you seriously have a problem with rushing? I don't think I've ever once seen anyone with a problem with rushing. it's EXTREMELY easy to counter, and it's the most basic strategy of an FPS.
I had a problem with rushing. I backpedalled and fired, changed the magazine while dodging backwards into the corridor, emptied that magazine into the rushing enemy too while backpedalling down the corridor, changed mag again while jumping backwards down the stairs, and got caught on the end of the bannisters. Then the guy with no armour at all whom I'd just shot 60 times from within five metres with a .45 stabbed me once and I died instantly.
 

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If you guys don't like run & gun type FPS you should play Red Orchestra.

Its more like run & dive into a fox hole and try to hit distance targets using iron sights on a bolt action rifle while avoiding being mowed down by MG fire.

Such a good game.

But you know what the biggest problem with gamers is? They just focus too much on the triple A titles and moan about how they aren't catered for games wise when in reality they are.
 

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Shoqiyqa said:
Guitarmasterx7 said:
and you can't just backpedal and fire because...? you seriously have a problem with rushing? I don't think I've ever once seen anyone with a problem with rushing. it's EXTREMELY easy to counter, and it's the most basic strategy of an FPS.
I had a problem with rushing. I backpedalled and fired, changed the magazine while dodging backwards into the corridor, emptied that magazine into the rushing enemy too while backpedalling down the corridor, changed mag again while jumping backwards down the stairs, and got caught on the end of the bannisters. Then the guy with no armour at all whom I'd just shot 60 times from within five metres with a .45 stabbed me once and I died instantly.
Wow... whatever game you're playing is severely broken.
 

Deadpool062

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Thyunda said:
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Hmm... on the subject of rushing...

I don't have a lot of experience in the multiplayer world, but I will say this. If you're being beaten in a long ranged gunfight, and your HP is seemingly lower than your opponent, isn't it a form of genius to then rush out suddenly and defeat your opponent with a short range weapon when he/she isn't expecting it? That, then, is the beauty of rushing. Yeah, its cheap sometimes, along with shotguns, rockets, vehicle kills, sniping and just about anything else that makes FPS's fun. If you're at an advantage in a gun-fight and you lose that advantage to some berserker with a shotgun, you weren't thinking your strategy through.

Doesn't mean your hopeless because you got caught by a rush attack. Sometimes there's little you can do about rushing, they had a close range weapon and you didn't, but kudos to them for thinking of using it and then being bold enough to pull it off like any other tactic.

It is annoying in close quarters when you get that dude with the shotgun running through a tunnel level reducing everyone to dust in seconds though. Not much you can do in that circumstance except counter with a shotgun of your own, that or a well placed grenade.
ok, THAT is not cheap rushing, but when someone is behind a box taking cover, and there are about six people behind him on his team and you rush, only to be gunned down seconds later but still kill the poor guy behind the box. THAT is cheap rushing, it gives the rusher 1 kill 1 death and doesent really give him any advantage, it just pisses off the guy who died...that is what i dont like
So what would be a better idea? To stand and die and not get a single kill? It seems more like an act of desperation. If you're gonna die, at least take somebody down with you, as opposed to standing in the open like a goon and dying there.
Very true. As you can see from my earlier posts, i'm a sniper. I guess i don't get the concept of rushing with some largeish automatic weapon.
 

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Zeeky_Santos said:
Keenanr1234 said:
Well, really what ruins them for me is....you will have a really cool firefight going like...in a movie and its awesomely cool and you actually can get a sniper around to flank them or something...but before any of this is possible someone rushes...its just like COME ON DUDE WTH OMG AGH BLURG AEHJDN because almost all of the time they shoot you in the face before you can do anything...this really ticks me off. For the replys i would rather have people explain what ruins it for them rather than just saying RUSHING IS A LEGITIMATE STRATEGY BLAH BLAH YOU JUST SUCK CHICKENS NOOB HAHAHAHAHA, even though i agree rushing IS IN FACT a legitimate strategy...just like camping
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It wants to be your friend. so does the grammar section, seriously , why did you constantly... like... use lots of... ummm... periods?
because it shows a pause (at least as far as I know) and I was trying to make it look more like a conversation rather than a document. THIS IS NOT AN EXCUSE well it is, in some peoples eyes but not in mine!
 

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hagaya said:
Keenanr1234 said:
Well, really what ruins them for me is....you will have a really cool firefight going like...in a movie and its awesomely cool and you actually can get a sniper around to flank them or something...but before any of this is possible someone rushes...its just like COME ON DUDE WTH OMG AGH BLURG AEHJDN because almost all of the time they shoot you in the face before you can do anything...this really ticks me off. For the replys i would rather have people explain what ruins it for them rather than just saying RUSHING IS A LEGITIMATE STRATEGY BLAH BLAH YOU JUST SUCK CHICKENS NOOB HAHAHAHAHA, even though i agree rushing IS IN FACT a legitimate strategy...just like camping
Allow me to translate:

There is one aspect of Multiplayer First-Person-Shooters that ruins the fun to be had in them. When I am engaged with an enemy -- as if I were in an action film -- with a sniper around the enemy's flank to surprise attack, somebody comes and attacks me head on and kills me before I can get my kills in. I am about ready to spout random nonsense and type in all caps because this happens to me all the time. It really irks me.

Please, my fellow escapists, I would rather you not question my skill. I am actually quite skilled at my previously unmentioned game, but people somehow do better than me. Attacking somebody when they are hidden is not a legitimate tactic, much like camping.

I fail to see the logic in your statement. If you are in a spot to attack the enemy, and they come and counterattack because they see you, that doesn't seem too unfair to me. It just means that they saw you and your hiding spot isn't exactly wonderful. Rushing is a legitimate strategy. "Let's send our entire team to do a devastating frontal attack!" seems like a pretty good idea depending on the context. It just seems that you were unprepared for somebody to strike without warning. Also, if they attack head on, you should be able to see them and give them a good bullet to the brain.
uh... yea, i'm not that good at games :0
 

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Aughhh!!!! That very last line was a shot through the heart for me. Camping ruined CoD4 for me,and is half way there for ruining WaW for me. I HATE camping.
 

Arachon

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I can't understand why people rage so much at camping, I mean, if the camper doesn't move, he should be pretty easy to track down and shoot... especially if he's a sniper...
 

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Keenanr1234 said:
Well, really what ruins them for me is....you will have a really cool firefight going like...in a movie and its awesomely cool and you actually can get a sniper around to flank them or something...but before any of this is possible someone rushes...its just like COME ON DUDE WTH OMG AGH BLURG AEHJDN because almost all of the time they shoot you in the face before you can do anything...this really ticks me off. For the replys i would rather have people explain what ruins it for them rather than just saying RUSHING IS A LEGITIMATE STRATEGY BLAH BLAH YOU JUST SUCK CHICKENS NOOB HAHAHAHAHA, even though i agree rushing IS IN FACT a legitimate strategy...just like camping
So you dont like shooters because people run up to you and shoot you?

P.S: Camping is not a legitimate strategy, its bullshit.
 

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My biggest pet peeve in a shooter (either First or Third) is this, Why the hell when I am getting my ass shot to smithereens does the screen change to the point I am either blinded or so blurred out that I can't see a freakin thing. Do they think "hey he is getting raped well lets make sure they finish the job by making him play blind"? Why not just include a program that disconnects my controller and save my poor retinas?