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Is Camping a Legit Strategy?

Yes 55 45.83%
 
No 32 26.67%
 
Only with a sniper. 29 24.17%
 
Only if you don't know the game yet. 3 2.50%
 
Total:119

Camping: Legitimate strategy? Or cheap, annoying pseudo-tactic?



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Yeah. Why would it be ilegitimately? Because it annoys a lot of people?



Wright said:

Yeah. Why would it be ilegitimately? Because it annoys a lot of people?


I think it depends on the type of game and type of camping. But Spawn Camping/Killing is very very annoying if done to you.



Camping just kills competitive gaming. I mean sure, it's a strategy you can use, but if you pick a camping spot that no one is going it be able to sneak up on you, out of many, many spots like that in many competitive multiplayer games, you have a better reaction time to kill someone that pops around the corner than they have at killing you. Even if they know you're there, the distance you are away already with a good shot aimed, it'll be too difficult to counter.

It really takes no skill to sit there and camp. You're wasting time just sitting there doing nothing, although since you can snap in Netflix on the Xbox One now, you can watch Netflix while you're camping, so hey, that is one reason to own an Xbox One. 10-20 minute matches of sitting in one spot waiting for someone to pop into view. When you are against an entire team who does it though, it's a bit ridiculous.

Spawn camping is even worse when they have a couple people behind one spawn point, a couple people behind the other, no matter where you spawn you're going to get raped.



Who likes campers? Has there ever be an instance were one would say: Yeah campers!
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jlmurph2 said:
Wright said:

Yeah. Why would it be ilegitimately? Because it annoys a lot of people?


I think it depends on the type of game and type of camping. But Spawn Camping/Killing is very very annoying if done to you.

It definitely is, but it's kinda the developers job to make these things impossible. Telling people not to do it isn't gonna stop them, people know that it's a cheap tactic and that people are considered assholes for doing it, if you still do it then you just don't care what other think about your playstyle.



Of course it's legitimate if it's possible. Unfortunately it can also be very annoying, but it's bad game design is camping is a real problem.



DerNebel said:
jlmurph2 said:
Wright said:

Yeah. Why would it be ilegitimately? Because it annoys a lot of people?


I think it depends on the type of game and type of camping. But Spawn Camping/Killing is very very annoying if done to you.

It definitely is, but it's kinda the developers job to make these things impossible. Telling people not to do it isn't gonna stop them, people know that it's a cheap tactic and that people are considered assholes for doing it, if you still do it then you just don't care what other think about your playstyle.


Infinity Ward with COD4 and MW2 made it difficult to camp because there were so many different ways to get to any spot on the maps. Regarding spawn camping, Halo made it a strategy to control the other team's spawn when you're ahead. Not necessarily camping it but making sure they dont spawn behind you and then call out that spot for your team. That's one of the things Halo 4 kept intact.