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Subject: What is the enjoyment in spawn camping?
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Could someone PLEASE explain to me what the hell the fun in spawn killing is? Especially on modded maps with transports. Those are really fun until some stupid (n word) decides to take over a pertch with plenty of health and overshields to keep him alive. I just played a game with one and it just puts everyone in a bad mood. I understand that in real war you wouldnt be like "HEY! Thats not fair! You cant kill our guys when they walk out of our base!" but this isnt real war is it? It just puts people in a bad mood and ruins the map for most people. Someone please explain to me what the fun in this is.

  • 01.04.2005 2:40 PM PDT
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There is no fun.Thats the answer

  • 01.04.2005 4:20 PM PDT
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camping in a tank, or heavy wepon is no fun, its repetitive. how ever i do somtimes sit in an enimys base, pick up there flag and drop it to lure them in then i kill them. they throw nades in and i wait for them to come down and shot gun them in the face, but that wouldent count as camping cuz they can leave the base so long as they dont come down. ;) thats when i drive of with the flag.
i tend to try avoiding games that have more than 2 tanks and shee's in them, last thing i want is 6 tanks spreed around the base with shees hovering over killing you 1 sec after you respawn.

  • 01.04.2005 4:55 PM PDT
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some guy was like, c'mon, let's camp behind the blue base in bloodgultch ctf. it's so fricken boring though. you sit there like a moron, waiting for someone dumb enough to leave the base in the back, and kill them. much more fun to run them over.

  • 01.04.2005 5:46 PM PDT
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camping in a tank, or heavy wepon is no fun, its repetitive. how ever i do somtimes sit in an enimys base, pick up there flag and drop it to lure them in then i kill them. they throw nades in and i wait for them to come down and shot gun them in the face, but that wouldent count as camping cuz they can leave the base so long as they dont come down. ;) thats when i drive of with the flag.
i tend to try avoiding games that have more than 2 tanks and shee's in them, last thing i want is 6 tanks spreed around the base with shees hovering over killing you 1 sec after you respawn.


you spek deh tru7h

  • 01.04.2005 6:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: pollopesca
how ever i do somtimes sit in an enimys base, pick up there flag and drop it to lure them in then i kill them. they throw nades in and i wait for them to come down and shot gun them in the face, but that wouldent count as camping cuz they can leave the base so long as they dont come down. ;) thats when i drive of with the flag.
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Thats a good idea!
So basically no one enjoys spawn camping... right? Do you find it ruins the game too?

  • 01.05.2005 12:01 PM PDT
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Heyyo,

I HATE bloodgultch for that... it's one of the reasons I think that map kindof sucks... Sry peps, it's the worst map for spawnkilling. when you spawn there's NO good weapons around you, and most of the time they block off the portals so you can't even flank them. And there's no good exits to the bases other than the portal that gets blocked. Usually I see a rl or fuelrod whore just stand ontop of the bases n' spawncamp thinking they've got skillz when really all they are is a spawn camper. Sure, sometimes I spawncamp, but that's with usually a pistol, or a hog on that map, nothing too cheap that they don't stand a chance to fight back at me. If the netcode was more reliable though... my pistol would be cheap, cause I wouldn't spend like, half a clip to finally figure out how much I have to lead for bad netcode prediction. Geez, M$ really needs to implement that delaginator, or at least better netcode by them (HAHAHA... yeah right) into HaloPC... at least people would seemed more skilled cause they probably aim right at the enemy instead of leading their shots...

As for that flag technique? If they're dumb enough to run to ya? that ain't spawncamping now is it? :)

[Edited on 1/5/2005 12:12:34 PM]

  • 01.05.2005 12:12 PM PDT
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when people to that to me i get mad while the are shooting at my team mates i burst out of the base with a pistol and grenades and come out shooting it may take me more than once but i get them...then its pay back

  • 01.05.2005 12:18 PM PDT
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it brings up your killing points :-)...but it is not fun to the other person :-(

  • 01.05.2005 12:52 PM PDT
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But if it's payback is it really that bad? ;-)

  • 01.05.2005 1:33 PM PDT
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Heyyo,

What always intruiged me is how there's no like, spawning invunerability for a few seconds, or spawn with extra health? Q3A you spawned with extra health, not much, but gave the spawner an extra split second of life at least...

  • 01.05.2005 1:40 PM PDT
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That would be kool.

  • 01.05.2005 2:37 PM PDT

This is a RETICULE, and that is a RETICLE. I'm using the latter to aim. And what are you using?

You have to make a difference between two completely different types of spawn campers in CTF: the ones actually helping their team by surpressing any resistance, making a flag run like a walk in the park, and those who just spawn camp to score as many kills as possible and to brag about how cool and skilled they are in the postgame carnage report.

The later type doesn't really care about the principle of CTF, which is to win the game by stealing the enemy's flag and returning it to your own base. At the latest you recognize such people when they kill their own flag carrier on purpose to stop the game from ending. There are some spawn campers who really are skilled, taking out the other team with pistol and nades. Most of them, however, have to rely on their beloved noob-rod-gun, tank, or a banshee.

However, I've also experienced that spawn camping during a CTF match is the only way for the "spawncamp with FRG" dudes to actually score any kills at all. In a TS (or even worse for them - FFA) games they utterly suck.

  • 01.06.2005 4:25 AM PDT
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I belong to a clan that enjoys racing and we are damn good at it. We have our own server thats open to all. What really pevs me is those that camp at places like the infinity bottle neck just before the blue base with a rocket hog. Well big freakin deal. Its like shooting kittens in a box. No skill a racing, can't drive a Hog, so I'll just sit here and rocket everyone that comes thru, but then dont understand why they get kicked or banned.

In the post carnage report cant they see that kills dont matter for the Team Win, it's Laps done.

  • 01.06.2005 7:44 AM PDT
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Heyyo,


Hahahaha, race, a gamemode not for the retarded. :p

I used to love race on that official Bungie slayer server. Anyone who diddn't do his laps, and constantly camped? we ran infront of his guns, and pissed him off so he'd shoot us, and we'd get him banned... and then we'd win! w00t! =D

The part that really intruiges me is how most inexperienced race players leap inna hog all alone.. and takes off... with his team running after him thinking, "pick me up you dolt..." and they wonder why most people shoot team vehicles to try and get their attention....

  • 01.06.2005 10:51 AM PDT
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Very true. The first time a played a race thats what I did haha. But I was stupid then and quickly realized that it wasnt the enemy shooting me but my own team-mates. Once I figured that out it was pretty easy winning.

And yes... there is a big difference between the people just kill for the numbers and the people who make it easy for the flag carrier. I personally like to run up with pistol and lots of grenades in hand while a team mate pulls around back (blood gulch) and grabs the flag. Everyone is to distracted with me to notice that they lost their flag. Its great fun... but once the flag carrier is away from the base I give them a break for a while.

And for anyone who cares I am in a clan and we desperately need people! The rules are no bad language, must be nice, and have AIM cuz thats how we communicate games. If you are interested go to the clan web site: http://www.angelfire.com/realm3/ss-clan/ and go to the message boards. We only have a few people but they are hardly ever online. So if you can help just let us know. Thank you.

  • 01.06.2005 11:50 AM PDT
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i always wished blood gulch had a hole in the floor, in a corner, with a later, that would leed threw a nexes of tunols, one leadin to that cave with the flame thrower, people rarely go there, good way to flank em. maby i'll make a remake of blood gulch like that for CE? hmmm......

(SS) clan eh?,
i dont think "(SS)pollopesca", would fit. most clan ofers i get are from players who rilly arnt that good but if you guys know anything about map maping i'm in. cuz i need a lot of help with that.
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  • 01.09.2005 3:00 PM PDT
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Spawnkilling is also really bad in HALO2 mp on the new blood gultch. I had a moron take me down and he sat at the edge of the cliff near blue base firing mortars all over killing us if we tried to leave the base. Ever once in a while he would boost around back and blow up the banshee so nobody could fly out. It got so anoying that we quit the game and then had to listen to him brag about how many medals he got from this cheap tactic.

Word of warning if I could have left the base without a one hit kill on me that tank would have been mine ;)

  • 01.09.2005 3:18 PM PDT
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That must of sucked Pax, iv had bad expieriences with banshee campers on Halo 2 Coagulation (aka new Blood Gulch) They just swoop down and run you over, luckily not killing u most of the time, thank god for no fuel rod gun!

  • 01.09.2005 3:38 PM PDT