Online grievances

At some point or another we've all played online multiplayer videogames.  With as many people are online, there’s bound to be people who don't mind using cheap tricks and tactics for the sake of an electronic victory, this is just a sad fact.  Some of these people might not recognize the agony it causes the other people, while others do not.  But in almost every case, they just don’t care.
Now, before I go on, I must first say that what these people do are not against the rules of the games, but are rather abuses of systems in the game itself, or just tactics that take the fun of the game away from everyone else. For this week’s blog I will be highlighting a few common of these grievances so you can recognize them, deal with those who partake in them, and avoid doing them yourself.

Spawn-Camping-
            This tactic is one of the most common in first person shooters, and takes place in objective based game modes where a team’s spawn point (area where players reenter the game once they die) never changes.  The basics of this strategy are to wait near, in, or within line of sight of the opposing teams spawn area, and take kill them within mere yards of where they spawned. 

Noob-Tubers-
            A noob-tube is a grenade launcher that is mounted under the barrel of an assault rifle.  While this has many tactical uses, it becomes a grievance when people use a perk that lets them gather ammo for it from dead enemies, and fires the impact explosives at the ground near opponents.  It is often tough to get through a game with someone doing this because they require little effort to hit you with an instant kill explosive.  The best advice I can give is to switch to flak jacket and hope for the best.

Camping-
            This is where a player “strategically holds a position” usually in non-objective game modes.  Utilizing shotguns, burst fire rifles, and defensive equipment, they stay in a specific spot, moving only to aim, and farming kills.  While the small cases can usually be over looked, large time offenders can be a pain, though relatively easy to deal with. (snipers don’t fall under this category as this is the nature of the gun)

Quick-scoping
            This is a technique used in the Call of Duty series.  The way the game is programmed, when you pear through a sniper scope, the gun sways back and forth a bit.  However, when you pull the scope up to your eye, the lens starts out perfectly centered. So by firing the gun before the scope is fully pulled up you can use this, one shot kill gun in close quarter combat. 

Assassins Creed Online-
            In general the assassin’s creed multi player system is great, but many people don’t play it the way it should be played.  The game is meant to be a stealth game that rewards players for stylish kills.  Nobody does this, they just run around the roofs of buildings getting areal kills, they run around the open giving themselves away, and making it difficult in general to play the game in true assassins creed fasion.

Please leave comments about your opinion of these grievances, and even tell of some others you have encountered.