I need help from people. I need someone who camps (no flaming) to explain to me... why you do it? Whats the purpose of sitting in a doorway in a corner in a window ADS forward for minutes on end with equipment setup looking in 1 direction? Don't say "I get a high K/D" because that doesnt cover all the bases. I see people doing this in DropZone, completely disregarding the objective.

Why do it? If you do say "To have a High K/D, I i win a lot" etc etc. Doesnt it get boring? You paid $60+ to sit there and look forward? Thats about as interesting as watching paint dry, no?

Also... why are stats that important to you? In 1 year they will mean absolutely nothing. The next game will come out and they wont mean ANYTHING. So why play boring?

Seriously... someone explain this retarded phenomena to me.

Maybe some people just are satisfied by a number saying how many people they've killed before dying, seriously, thats just it, or they get a buzz off of knowing they pissed someone off

Camping is rewarding. End of story.

g0ggy wrote:

Not always.
More times than not someone will finish a game 3-1. So you are telling me, playing a TDM match for the full 10 minutes and going 3-1 is rewarding? In what way? These are numbers no one will even remember in a few short months. Seriously... remember when gaming was fun?

You have fun going 3-1? Come on. I know thats BS. I have to call BS.

Gaming is supposed to be fun. Not rewarding.

Im not talking about Competitive Gaming. Simply pub.

Not this thread again!

Camping is a much more boring, yet far more rewarding strategy in FPS games. We've come to a point where for a lot of people CoD is not fun, it frustrates them much more than makes them happy, so in the end they only play for that sacred K/D. You have much better chances of surviving if already aiming at a doorway where your enemy will come than sprinting/jumping through said doorway into a room where a camper has decided to settle down in.

ImpetuousPanda wrote:

You know its got out of hand when we have to bust out the italics

Im just a frequenter on this site. I odnt want to get out of hand with the flaming and such. I really want more explained into the psyche of what is going through a persons head who plays "Defensively" in a twitch offense oriented game.

Simply put, people have different ways of enjoying the game. Not everyone is a balls-to-the-wall objective player who likes to win every game by as much as possible. There are people who play the game because they like to get good ratios. And camping is a good way to accomplish that.

>Serious Thread
>Camping

Look, "Syndrome-X" (Jesus oh Mary, it sounds like some shitty hardstyle artist from 2004), Everyone has their own idea of what camping is, your's is clearly literally sitting in one corner and not moving from it. Others may see it as aiming down the sights more, not running around corners and setting up in a building/covered area.

And who are you to be a Bully Bill? some people like staring at one spot for the whole game, and if it prevents them from blasting their older brother's shit-rap collection on their headset, I'm not going to complain. If you played a bit more careful (Real men look both ways), you may be able to catch that camper out and carry on MLG XTREME RUSHING MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!XXXXXXXX

People don't like dying. Camping is a sure-fire way to keep your death count low, even when you're not very good at the game.

Simple, really.

Keenano wrote:

This. Also, Children play this game. What do you expect from children? Mommy paid the 60 dollars, not them.

Syndrome-X wrote:


I could go 30 - 5 while camping and not just sitting at one place, but actually move to a better location when it is necessary I could do this for multiple games even with sniper rifles. The people you talk about don't know what they are doing. Most likely casual players. This game is meant to be played passively. Let the enemy come to you is better than go for the enemy. I hope you don't need explanation for this otherwise I actually have to write again how CoD is meant to be played succesfully without involving much skill.

Also for some people fun = kills
For some people fun = playing the objective and winning
For some people fun = piss people off

Define camping.

They paid 60 pound for a game which is far too fucking expensive.

let them play how they fucking want.

Why can't they play that way? What's "Wrong" with it? That's how they want to play let them.
Why can you or anyone else question it? Don't like it? Leave the game. It's pretty simple.

Also, use the fucking search function.

I actually played a game yesterday where the entire enemy team would camp in random corners ith pp90s and shotguns on seatown. It was one of the most rage inducing games I have ever played. I looked back in the lobby to see the majority had about .8 kds, pretty sad really.

I never called anyone out on Camping. I never said its a BAD tactic.

I simply said its boring. I didnt say people cannot play like this.

All I wanted to know was.... What is going through someones head, as they sit their waiting for an enemy to come to them? Are they really that concerned.. that they must not move?

Call of Duty is a TWITCH FPS. That entails great player control and arcade like design. It is designed in a way that people have more engagements than other FPS games.

I understand IW and 3arc are catering towards the "Passive" playstyle more with each new release. Thats fine... people can play passive and take the easy no skill route.

Again... let me repeat my initial question and the questions I have asked as replies came into this thread:

Why do people camp? - All I got in response was:
To protect their ratios. Because they dont like to die. They are satisfied with it.

I dont know. I cant put into words that well I guess, what I am trying to say.

Creamygoodness wrote:

I never said anything was wrong with it. I just want to better understand why people play like that.

As for searching... there are probably 1 million and 2 threads about Camping. Im not sifting through every single one for the exact question I am asking and the subsequent questions I have in response to the answers posted.

Thank you for being so polite about it though. Makes me love this forum so much more. You can probably see now why I dont post very often. Ive been a member for well over 1 year, and only have a few posts.

Syndrome-X wrote:

1) They camp because they want to, the same reason anyone does anything. The same reason you're questioning them.
2)It's fairly simple mate, just go to a camping thread, one of the many ones that ask the very same question, and then ask your question again. Not exactly hard.
3) The reason none of you have an answer is because none of you like the ones you've been hearing. Is they want to play like that, and protect their k/d not enough for you?
4) Thank you complimenting my fucking kindness.

I play defensive because my connection limits the way i can play. If i rush around and lose a lot of my gunfights due to a weak connection i do less well ( I have fun by doing well and winning) while if i am headglitching watching a choke point i will have an advantage over the other players and do better, building my streak for a reaper or pavelow and so on.

My view of camping is wearing all the usual perks while laying prone in obscure corners having no effect in the match than just sat in your corner. Camping is not holding down an objective and or looking into a spawn that you know they are going to be so you have the advantage over them to the extent that you never die from a straight forward gunfight.

All my opinion.

Syndrome-X wrote:

As I already said everyone has a different reason to enjoy playing a video game. I can't understand how someone can play the game only for kills. A game is played so you can win. It is the goal of a game, but people have more fun to kill as many players as possible and call in their killstreaks.

I don't undertstand it, because it doesn't make much sense. If you lose a game even though you got over 50 kills it means nothing. Actually it shows how pathetic you are and unable to support your team. You probably lost to someone who went 14-20 on the other team.

Those people decided to play like this. Nothing more to say. If they really have no fun and don't feel rewarded they stop playing the game eventually, but as you see people still play so they must have fun.

Some people enjoy hurting themselves.

WoR quote: "Moving is the most detrimental thing to do in any first person shooter". Camping is the most efficient way to keep a good K/D and at the same time a compensation for possible lack of skill, that's the simple answer, as many others have mentioned. If someone has terrible aiming and bad reactions, camping might be a way to compensate that.

I despise corner camping for example, but I'm not gonna go ahead and say I don't care about my K/D, because I would lie.

Having said that, I do understand that it's quite annoying when you got millions of threads all regarding the same topic, while I also understand that sometimes it can be an entirely different question/statement regarding the same issue, so probably I don't see it as critical as some others do.

Once I opened a thread about Support streaks and someone trolled me about not using the search function without even bothering to read what I posted... and that was something entirely different than anything else ever posted about Support streaks before. Just to name an example.

However, your question has really been asked a lot of times already, so please do not surprised if it's annoying to some people. Just saying.

Gangsta-Nun wrote:
This ^.

I used to play like this in my first few prestiges when I was mostly using AR's and I would put up amazing scores. It was never really camping, in the sense that I didn't move an inch ADS down a random hallway, I was always "patrolling" a high traffic area. My playstyle has changed because I've started using SMGs more so I have become a pseudo-rusher,. But, back on topic, it is a play style. Besides Gangsta's experience/opinion, which is very similar to my own, there are people who gladly call themselves campers.

I play regularly with one of them. His first CoD was MW2 and he wanted to be a sniper. Not one of the quickscopers, an "actual" sniper. He would set up an area and hold it down, when he needed to move he would and find another good vantage point. He keeps this same playstyle with ARs.

Also, it all comes down to what you define as camping.

Not... another... one... of... THESE... threads...

Syndrome-X wrote:

A good camper will never go 3-1.

A bad camper does so because he does not know better and does not have the capacity to kill people and enjoy themselves any other ways.

Simply really.