- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Fatso
Is it cheating when I fire a few bursts on a target, meet up close, melee, prematurely start to reload to prepare for the next encounter honestly believing that would have finished him only to follow up with another melee in a panic to finish the job? I performed a BXB without even intending it. What if that kill decided the game?
Granted that was unintentional so the answer is no but if I can execute a "cheat" that easily while in a panicked state and interrupt an animation in that scenario through a simple reload how can you judge malicious intent from an accident and claim it's cheating? There's an off chance to "cheat" by simply performing a melee, reload or weapon switch to cancel an animation at any point during a game. It's just far too pervasive in this game to consider this cheating IMO.If the glitches are done by accident, I wouldn't find that malicious at all: After all, that's how they were found in the first place, by accident. Practically-speaking however, I would have to say that an extremely high percentage of these glitches are performed by intent (or second nature, even, due to people becoming so accustomed to them) and not by accident.
Personally, I don't actually consider it cheating myself. However, I do find it unsportsmanlike and unfair to those who choose not to use button glitches and I respect players' decisions not to use them. They're glitches - they shouldn't be in the game in the first place and they significantly alter the gameplay. Therefore players should not be forced to perform these glitches and they have every right to feel violated if somebody uses exploits against them.Posted by: RussellTheHippy
No, that is not the logic I am using. Getting your xbox modded is going out of your way. Doing a BXR is something I can do on any regular xbox controller on any xbox in the world. It is not an unfair advantage. It is just tactical. Like he said, it's a stretch, but you seem to be saying that the only difference between performing in-game glitches and modding a console is the amount of effort involved, which seems like a poor argument to me. "Tactical" isn't what I'd use to describe abusing in-game glitches, more like "opportunistic."
It's not an unfair advantage simply because any player can learn and use them with their controllers? It is when you're playing against players who don't use them, as I mentioned earlier.
If the players agree that they don't mind that they will be using button glitches against each other, then that is acceptable and not unfair, as these players gave their consent. In that case, I don't find anything wrong with that. It's just unfair when you're using it against players who choosen ot to use them.