Back in the day I used to play Vietcong online. Campers were a huge issue in this game, ruining the gameplay for many players. So me and a buddy put “Camp cleanup crew” in our names and we would play on local servers. We learned all the best camping spots and would kill anybody camping there. We did our rounds going from spot to spot killing the campers, leaving the rest of the players alone. Sometimes a camper would get one of us, but as they usually had the sniper rifle, they were reloading when the other of us rounded the corner.
I’m not sure it really helped anything, but I’d like to think so. We had a lot of fun, that’s for sure.
A couple of months after the game had a huge outbreak of cheaters, some funny (changing their player model into a tank or something like that). Most not funny, becoming invincible, having infinite ammo and no-clip/fly mode. The game was dead within weeks with all the servers shutting down because it became unplayable.
Similarly, in Battlefield 2, if you played Commander you could zoom in for a pretty good live feed of the battlefield so you could call out soldiers if one of your squads was in a fight. In addition to that you could do a full radar sweep of the full map that would put markers on enemy positions.
Anytime I did the full sweep and saw one or two soldiers waaaay outside of any fight, I knew they were either another Commander or a camper. So I’d do what they call “Car-tillery”, and call a friendly jeep right on top of their heads. Bonus points if it was windy and you still got the angle right.
It became such an issue that servers would specifically ban Car-tillery, and if you were caught you’d usually get kicked. Good times, good times
Back in the day I used to play Vietcong online. Campers were a huge issue in this game, ruining the gameplay for many players. So me and a buddy put “Camp cleanup crew” in our names and we would play on local servers. We learned all the best camping spots and would kill anybody camping there. We did our rounds going from spot to spot killing the campers, leaving the rest of the players alone. Sometimes a camper would get one of us, but as they usually had the sniper rifle, they were reloading when the other of us rounded the corner.
I’m not sure it really helped anything, but I’d like to think so. We had a lot of fun, that’s for sure.
A couple of months after the game had a huge outbreak of cheaters, some funny (changing their player model into a tank or something like that). Most not funny, becoming invincible, having infinite ammo and no-clip/fly mode. The game was dead within weeks with all the servers shutting down because it became unplayable.
Most of that war and most of war is camping though, right?
Similarly, in Battlefield 2, if you played Commander you could zoom in for a pretty good live feed of the battlefield so you could call out soldiers if one of your squads was in a fight. In addition to that you could do a full radar sweep of the full map that would put markers on enemy positions.
Anytime I did the full sweep and saw one or two soldiers waaaay outside of any fight, I knew they were either another Commander or a camper. So I’d do what they call “Car-tillery”, and call a friendly jeep right on top of their heads. Bonus points if it was windy and you still got the angle right.
It became such an issue that servers would specifically ban Car-tillery, and if you were caught you’d usually get kicked. Good times, good times