(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.........

the spectre with rapid fire has no recoil. use scavenger and sleight of hand and go to town on those campers

I dont dislike campers, I just hate them in certain game modes. Domination for example, all the campers on my team just sit on our spawn flag while im running around trying to capture the others. I suggest making a new game type with campers in mind.

it's called team deathmatch

IM pretty sure every single one of you have camped at least 5 or more times..

I personally love hearing people flip their shit because I camped.. just goin' at me like they are actually going to accomplish something, it's funny shit!

First off... The only people to get pissed off at campers are the people that are foolish enough to get killed by the same guy X amount of times in a row. If you can't kill him on your next pass, then just don't go back there. Your revenge is what campers rely on. If they had nobody to shoot, then they will move from their spot.


That's just the difference between IW and treyarch.

The definition term camping has been perverted ever since FPS became popular on consoles, which the mainstream (young) audience are attracted to. Camping used to describe the action of sitting in a corner or one spot for the entirety of a match. Now even playing defensively and not rushing into their spawns is considered camping.

If you hate defensive play and label it as camping, you are a BAD player, straight up.

the only time i really "camp" is when i either snipe (which is what a normal sniper does) or when i defend an objective (eg: demolition)