Open Question, tactics Options

[gregoryas]

Usually I don't care how people play, be it running and gunning or sitting and waiting. This last method of play is what this question, or rant, is about.

Earlier today I had just joined GoodFellas and the map was Remagen. The Axis, my team, was getting their asses handed to them when a player named CUBANRANGER started calling Epacy and Cypher hacks. I told the player that they were on Missionary and could not be cheating. After all, Missionary players should watch each others backs.

CUBANRANGER's tirade continued for the rest of the map and into the next one. Epacy had taken his usual position in the house off the alley and was dealing death to everyone foolish enough to go near it. Stalingrad was next.

CUBANRANGER was coming unglued at this point. Meanwhile, I had gotten lucky and fragged Cypher twice in the bombed out building with the plank. Cypher asked Epacy for help with a camper. I was thinking it could not be me.

Well, I was shot trying to go for the stairwell as usual. So I went down to the boiler room. Usually I do set up on the top of the stairwell for the inevitable snipers going for their perch, but this time I was moving to another position. Epacy came in, shot me, and asked if my player had legs. Perhaps I wasn't moving fast enough to provide him with a challenging target.

The next map was Algiers. Epacy set up in the alleyway behind the room with all the beds and proceeded to butcher anyone stupid enough to venture by.

Here are my open questions to everyone: What is the difference between camping and taking a position covering a high traffic area? Is it wrong?

My answer would be none. It is not logical to run around the whole time and get shot. "Camping" is part of the game. Be it sitting on a spawn point, covering an alley, or guarding a house. Learning to deal with it only makes one a better player.

I do realize this is a long post and most of you have played here for a much longer time than I have, but I am really tired of comments such as the ones above. I know I have a choice of servers and that if I don't like it I can leave. This not about Epacy's witty comments. I would just like to know everyone's thoughts on the camping issue.

[Silver]

my freaky thought is this, camper is a guy that sits takes cover waits for the guy to come to him, is found out and still goes there even being killed over and over and over. me and flame take the church in the destroyed village, i move on to debris to shoot down the road into the garden at that point....i dont consider it camping because im being proactive by driving the enemy back...camping is like ambushing nothing really wrong with it but people use the same spots over and over...alot of senior mohaa guys are very active constantly moving and shooting with good reaction time but they use the cover to their advantage...i do this in stalingrad...most mob members play this way...some dont...i play alot like lom in the destroyed village...epacy is really a good guy (deep down somewere) if you watch him you will learn alot...also watch real and diesel...their view is different...they see you as sitting there not being active, to them your camping like in stalingrad when you hide between the watertanks in the bolier room...and wait to shoot peeps as they come by if you do it alot or stay too long its camping...to get the guy who is bettter then you and then move on i dont think its camping...I usto do it to real, i learned to stay away from where he is now...do the same for diesel if you want stats...