- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The things that are dirty tricks are exploiting glitches and cheating (usually using the standby "technique"). Someone jumping through the windows in Beaver Creek, manuvering a ghost or banshiee into the tower in New Mombasa, using grenades/rocket launchers and radar, etc. is just playing the game the way it was meant to be played. Bungie included those things to give you unique moments. I mean its very satisfying to jump through the window in beaver creek and surprise the guard(s) below you (though with an experienced player that wont happen seeing as how most experienced players know to watch the windows or at least take cover underneath the little arch where the flag is). The radar is also very important to the gameplay and is there for a reason. Besides if a player relies on it too much theyll get fragged, seeing as how anyone who bothered to read the instruction manual would know that if you crouch and walk or walk slowly you wont show up on the radar. As for shoving the boxes into the entrences of the bases in waterworks, yes it can be cheap, but its easily counterable. First off it takes a long time to get the boxes all positioned well, and you cant block the top entrence (well you could fly a banshee into the ramp but that still leaves the hole at the top, and its not like its impossible to top over the banshee), so a team that works efficently and well together could easily steal the flag before all the entrences were covered. Also, the blocking is a burden to the defense too seeing as how if the flag carrier gets out of the base, the blockage slows down the offense from chasing the flag carrier. As for grenades, unless thrown well (and if the enemy doesnt spot the telltale sings of a grenade) they wont inflict much damage unless the victim is unlucky enough to be within a foot or two of the explosion (and thats only for frags. with a plasma grenade you have to stick it to the enemy, otherwise it deals out a laughable amount of splash damage. and if you do get stuck with one all you have to do is just charge your oppenent and catch him in the blast, hopefully also taking him out a la kamakaze style). And with rockets and snipers, well snipers at close range are just bullet fodder and rockets at close range have a good chance of killing the attacker too. So as you see, these so called "dirty tricks" are all easily counterable strategies as long as you know what to do, and they add a good bit of fun to the game. I personally wouldnt have it any other way.