(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); So, you may not know of cod4boards.com, or you might. But I was just browsing the forum when I found this for black ops.



Would anyone actually want to see a tactical guide to camping? I mean, I just laughed when I saw this, not just at the fact that it's a guide to camping but also the content within the guide itself. It's barely one page long for a start. There is only one suggested weapon layout and one killstreak layout, basically his way of camping. This is where I got to thinking....

What actually motivates someone to "camp" when playing call of duty?

In my head, I boiled it down to a few reasons:

1: Your not very good.
Everywhere you go you seem to die, so staying in a corner looks like a good option.

[ In fact, the more practice you get, the more skill you gain. You wont make much progress by not pushing your own limits ]

2: You and your team are trapped in your spawn area.
You dont want to go out in the open and get killed.

[ In fact, unless you are not fighting back, all you have to really do is get a few kills and push forward a little each time. Using ghost won't stop you being found if you commit yourself to an area and flack jacket only protects against explosions, players have guns too ]

3: You want killstreak rewards or a high K/D ratio.
But your not willing to go far to get them.

[ In fact, you are more likely to have less killstreak rewards by camping unless you are skilled, if so, you don't need to be camping ]

Now this applies to many people I know,

4: You got skill but camping is easier.
This way you just let your enemy keep coming back to find you so you get an easy and fast killstreak reward.

[ In fact, unless you have the whole team coming at you, bigger and better rewards can be achieved by being active in more than one area ]

To a certain extent the term "camping" is often misinterpreted and used as an excuse or even as an insult. In which case, what is or where is the clear definition of the term, in relation to call of duty? But beside that, if all 12 players in the game are running around grenade spamming, doing 360's and what not, you would probably complain about that too.

Imo, the game is generally quite balanced between rushers and campers. I like those un-skilled ones, it's easy picking, if he's skilled then prove your worth and flush him out. It's a game after all, but the basic tactics used by campers stems from real life. What? you think the army doesn't camp? that's where the term is from and I can't stress this next fact enough, camping is kind of part of the game wether you frown upon it or not. You may think its cheap or lame but the game is about war, war has never been about having a fair fight has it?

But what do you think? Is it sad? does it help you out? does it even bother you?

I think most are a little guilty of a bit of camping.........

So to answer the question....Camping is bad.

However most people dont truly know what camping even means. They think camping means, the guy killed you.



I agree. It's technically a war game, so camping is the most realistic strategy. I DO NOT THINK ITS OKAY TO CAMP. But there are plenty of guys who beast campers. Its almost like complaining about somebody trying to dunk every possession on NBA 2K11.

Sure dunking every time is gay, but its gayer when you cant stop it and just complain about it.

Good players can kill rushers, campers, etc.

I saw a guy go 50-5 AND HE WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT CAMPERS. I guess if they didnt camp he would have had a flawless. I killed a bum using an Olympia 5 times and he called me a camper, even though every time I killed him it was upclose. I even sent him the Theater Mode video...I would take camping complaints seriously if people didnt just use it as an excuse for every death.

only problem i have with it is in free for all when people sit in a random ass corner

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Are you good at running and gunning? I have a guy on my friends list who has 2.5 K/D and he runs and guns. I was sure he camped but he didnt.

What I mean is if you run and gun and go 5-15, you are not better than a camper who goes 15-5.

Exactly :y:
I'm all out of rep today but you got some owed to you. I always read your posts and you always make a lot of sense. I might just nominate you for premium :p

i never camp, on mw2 i have 1k medals of most sprinting

yea im good at run and gunning i play search only i play a couple tdm i be 20=7 running and gunning

I usually rush in Hardcore TDM with my scorpion, go around the map whole map searching and killing campers like if it were some hide and seek game haha...I don't think there's nothing wrong with camping. In the beginning of a game I usually camp it out, get few kills then go rush around the whole map. Camping throughout the whole game can get boring. Though I hate when the whole enemy team is camping, that's when the game really gets boring & annoying lol... I find running and gunning very fun, my K/D ratio is 2.63 which I think is not so bad.

I never camp.
I personally hate campers and I'm getting sick of it because all people do is camp.

Yea it's a bit pointless too, sitting there waiting for one kill to come along and I should imagine it's very boring.