- Tyrant122312
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- Fabled Legendary Member
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Best Regards,
The Tyrant
Well, it's already happening, the cheating infestation that has been running rampid through Xbox Live has started trickling down into our own little PC community. I figured I'd post this to get everyone's opinion to see if I'm just in feeling the way I do about the game that went down last night. It was old school Capture the Flag on Coagulation. The shameful starting weapon was the SMG with no secondary weapon and to top it off, flag runners couldn't drive vehicles. On Coag this generally presents an endless loop of players scrambling to find new weapons, in the process running into the enemy, and transforming a strategic game of CTF into a mindless blowout of Slayer. No this isn't what I found wrong with the game. THAT was just a result of poor planning seeing as how starting weapons for a map that size should at least be battle rifles or at least give random secondary weapons.
Anyway, I served as the team's flag guard. Now allow me to editorialize this position for a moment. First off, in CTF this is known as a defensive position (which I'm sure is a no-brainer for most of you) and is an actual CTF position, not just in the game, but in actual real-life CTF games. In my opinion, having a flag guard, at the very least, represents a sense of team work and dedication. In other words, it's no longer about your individual score, but the TEAM score. There are different ways to guard, and in my opinion, a powerful weapon is always a good way of taking the enemy assaulters by surprise. My choice of weapon? The Brute Shot. In a Coag base this offers a number of advantages. Not only are you able to quickly launcher a number of extremely lethal projectiles in a short period of time, but even when you run out, you still have a powerful bayonnette which can down enemies in usually 1-2 hits.
This proved to be a very effective tactic throughout the games all night, generally resulting in a victory for my team (the red team), because now it was easier for the rest of the team to assault the enemy base with little fear of our flag being taken and being forced into one of those stale-mate positions. In fact, it even got to a point where my team mates even started bringing me Brute Shots from across the map to save me the trip and to keep me in the base. Now that's what I call teamwork! And if any members of my team happen to be reading this, thank you for your support! That's the way CTF is supposed to be. Sometimes they'd even stick around to help battle out the more heavy assaults coming from the Blue Team. Wish I saw that kind of teamwork in every game.
Well, at some point during the night, the owner of the server (the ES Clan Server) showed up... and spawned on the Blue Team. It quickly became a game of cat and mouse. The assaults became increasingly dramatic. A major plus about the Brute Shot is that in a Coag base, it's easy to take out 3+ enemy infiltrators at a time. It wasn't long after that before a few new members of the Blue Team started calling me a camper and saying that I was cheating. I guess they prefer the idea of being able to simply dash into Red base and steal the flag without any opposition. Later, I started getting booted from their server, not just at random times, but right before a Blue assault. I also noticed at least two or three others from my team getting booted at the same time, thereby making the Blue's assault much less of a challenge for them.
Now I in know way support the concept of cheating, and am not much for campers either, and if it had been a game of Slayer, I would've had the advantage. But in CTF, guarding the flag does nothing to boost your points, rank, or give you medals. All it does is help out your team. So my question to you is who was right in this matter?
And also on a side note, you might want to avoid the ES Clan Server. I'd like to report them, but I don't know how to report a server.