Spawncamping

[The Super Atheist]

I play Battlefield 1942 alot. My Name is +Red Baron+.

And everybody on the game hates spawn camping.

Is spawncamping ok?

P.S. This is for spawncamping in general, not just in battlefield.

[johnny139]

Underhanded techniques are to be expected on teh interwebz.

[Fallen Templar]

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Originally Posted by johnny139

Underhanded techniques are to be expected on teh interwebz.

It's still noobtastic. COD 2(Call of Duty 2) is the worst for spawn camping

[Schulzy]

I used to play UT2K7 alot, and spawncamping ticked me off, especially when you can't get out of your base.

[johnny139]

Originally Posted by Fallen Templar

It's still noobtastic. COD 2(Call of Duty 2) is the worst for spawn camping

Well, sucks to be you. Once your team works together you should be able to beat them.

[NiteRaider]

I don't play online PS2 (although I keep trying to get it set up). In my experience in multiplayer combat with my cousins (Black Hawk Down, Medal of Honor, SW Battlefront, etc.), camping (or spawncamping in this case) is something that you praise when you are using it against your opponent and loathe when it is being used against you. I for one, approve of forms of camping. It can be the ultimate defensive tactic. I understand that it is never any fun being on the receiving end of a camper's (or anyone else's) new-age version of "lead poisoning". Campers are just trying to help their team win by fighting with every last breath to keep a key position (i.e. base, command post, lookout post, etc.) from falling to the opponent. In my experience with SWBF, when my faction is down to its last few men, I always look for a spot on/near a CP with health and/or ammo posts and fight it out until I defy the odds and win or go down in flames.

So really, spawncamping is just a harmless tactic that you use to win that just so happens to get under your opponents' skin. This also applies to something I call "crossfires" when you have two MG turrets side-by-side and you and a buddy use them both and slaughter the enemy forces. Your cool gets broken because frustration sets in on the sole account that you are facing a virtually inpenetrable defensive fortress. That is what camping truly is.

[Fallen Templar]

Originally Posted by johnny139

Well, sucks to be you. Once your team works together you should be able to beat them.

Umm people spawn camp in regular deathmatches as well. Considering your a Nintendo fanboy you probably haven't played in many games with inordinate amount of Spawn Killing

[johnny139]

Originally Posted by Fallen Templar

Umm people spawn camp in regular deathmatches as well. Considering your a Nintendo fanboy you probably haven't played in many games with inordinate amount of Spawn Killing

My friend makes me play PC FPS, and I have an XBOX.

If it's one on one... then you lose. Too bad for you, try again next time.

[NiteRaider]

Not necessarily, it depends on the game and map.

[CupidsArt]

What's the point of playing the game if all you're going to do is camp. In real war, yeah I'd camp, I'd camp like there's no tomorrow, but this is a game.

I really don't get mad at campers, it's not their fault that they can't kill anyone without taking that particular advantage. I also love killing campers especially in HALO and COD. Get up behind them, say their screen-name and POW. Then I proceed to teabag them until I get killed, rinse repeat

"Hey Sup3rSn1p3r4423!" Then I giggle like a school girl even while they are shooting me back.


The only people who make me truly angry in multiplayer games are those who choose to cheat. I hope they have a power surge that destroys their console/PC,

[The Super Atheist]

Originally Posted by CupidsArt

What's the point of playing the game if all you're going to do is camp. In real war, yeah I'd camp, I'd camp like there's no tomorrow, but this is a game.

I really don't get mad at campers, it's not their fault that they can't kill anyone without taking that particular advantage. I also love killing campers especially in HALO and COD. Get up behind them, say their screen-name and POW. Then I proceed to teabag them until I get killed, rinse repeat

"Hey Sup3rSn1p3r4423!" Then I giggle like a school girl even while they are shooting me back.


The only people who make me truly angry in multiplayer games are those who choose to cheat. I hope they have a power surge that destroys their console/PC,

Yes, I enjoy killing the guy who parks his heavy tank right next to my spawn point.

I also like being the guy who parks his heavy tank right in the center of the base.


I really hate servers that don't even let you bomb the enemy base, or don't let you obliterate it with artillery guns. That is what a bomber and scout is for.

And then they put these auto kill base perimeters on so you can't sneak in and mine all the tanks. That is what an engineer is for, he has dynamite and mines.

see, there is no team work EVER in fps's and other kind of shooting games unless it's a 2 on 2 Goldeneye match.

[Erasmas]

Every once in a while I get a good group of players on Rainbow Six who work together as a team. But it is definitely not the norm on FPS's, that's for sure.

Also, just to make a clarification here, there is a difference between camping and spawncamping. In my opinion, camping is perfectly okay. Especially in gametypes where there is a specific objective tied to a certain local. If someone is going to be trying to come in and plant a bomb in my team's base, you're damn straight I'm going to be in that base watching the drop-spot. If someone's going to be trying to steal my flag, guess what I'm going to be in eye-sight of. But even if that's not the case...

If I find a place where I can keep the directions that I will have enemies coming at me from down to a minimum and still be able to attack them, I'm gonna take it. As long as it is within the rules and spirit of the game. Having your sights trained in on where players are respawning, so that you can shoot them in the back as they run for some sort of cover is not in the spirit of the game. This is the same kind of personality triat that thinks it's alright to shoot big-game animals ten yards from the cage they were just let out of.

Most players seem to forget that the point of a game is for everyone to have fun. Players seem to set their mind to winning and little else matters. Flinging insults, cheating, tea-bagging, spawn-camping, yelling random strings of curse words... these are things that should not be part of any gaming experience. These are things to do for people who get off by pissing off strangers.

But that's just my two copper pieces.