> > Spawn killing is pathetic and lame. If you really have skill, then giving the other guy a second or two to get his bearings won’t matter, you’d still be able to kill him. This has nothing to do with skill and everything to do with wanting an unfair advantage, it’s actually the complete opposite of skill because you want the guy to literally die before he can move.
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> > It’s boring and lame when you’re doing it to the other team, and it’s boring and lame when it’s done to you. Yay, I just made the other team spawn into the sights of my team mates sniper rifle and the guy died before he could even move. Wow, we’re Yoink!!
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> > Why not just petition for wallhacks and aimbots? It’s cheating, pure and simple. The whole original point of the spawning zone system in Halo was to prevent lameass spawnkilling in the first place.
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> > Banking a plasma grenade off a wall onto the face of a guy charging up a ramp is skill. Realizing the opposing team is about to pick up the RL, jumping from the top of Dammy and no scoping them on the way down so your team mates get it instead is skill, and also hilarious when your corpse splat lands amongst the carnage.
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> > Spawn killing is not skill. It’s lame, and so are you. Unless it’s Full Map All Rockets on Longest, when everbody explodes before they can move no matter what you do.
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> The only thing that needs to happen to prevent spawnkilling is better spawns.
That guy is a pretentious hypocrite (and seems to support bullying and just being an overall jerk in the way he thinks video games should be played) who, by his own definition, is himself a scrub, and whatever tournaments ban that Street Fighter character. They are making up their own “home” rule, and thus by his own definition of the term he is a scrub. He shoots his own argument in the foot by bringing that example up. In fact, he further goes on to undermine his own argument(s) in the other parts to his first article as well!
Making up rules of conduct by common consent does not make one person or any group of people a scrub or noob or anything of the sort. What does make one something like that is trying to force your own rules on everyone and not being willing to play the game any other way.
The goal of a game is to win, yes, but that is not the whole purpose of a game, the very reason for game’s existence is to provide a means of entertainment and fun. (Yes I know that fun is a subjective term, just humor me) It is the duty of all the players keep the game fun for everyone. And taking the goal of the game (winning) to its furthest extremes (which is what the writer of that article advocates) undermines a games very purpose in a general setting like the matchmaking of Halo. And that’s why people make rules for games, to preserve the fun of other players and the enjoyment of everyone. Which brings me to another point, just because something is in the game does not meant that it is something that should be used or something that the creators of the game intended to implement. What should or should not be used within a game is determined by the majority of the people who play the game.
And this brings me to Spawn Camping, the majority of players in Halo’s general matchmaking do not approve of Spawn Camping, and thus it is not something that is considered a legitimate tactic there or something that should be used. I will not say whether the issue itself is something good or bad, but I will say that it is a rather immature tactic and not something an honorable player or good sport will use.