Gaming Ethics (now about EVERYONE'S problems, not just mine)

[Sir Pinkleton]

Hello fellow gamers! (again...)

What are your stances on gaming ethics? What are your "pet peeves" in multiplayer? such examples include:

-camping
-shooting at a dead opponent
-Killing a teammate out of spite
-constant cursing
-more later...

This is a pitiful list of the many controversial tactics used by many a player. So, by all means, divulge your many idea's upon this thread.

EDIT: just a reminder, this doesn't only apply to FPS's. There are idiot's everywhere, yunno?

[ZAKtheGeek]

Although I don't play FPS's, in theory I really hate disruptive behavior (like TK'ing).

[Demetrius]

I can't deal well with people who hack in an online FPS; hack if you want in your own little world, learn how to play the game if you want to be here. I hate people who block you out to draw in badies for their own kills, also stats whores deserve to burn in unending hells. Also people who refuse to go for the objectives in goal oriented scenarios (SPAWN CAMPING DEVILS!!). Just basic whine asses who don't want to play the game and have their own agenda... I think I'm hungry, I shouldn't post on an empty stomach.

[Denivire]

The loud obnoxious guy who laughs at you every time he kills you, but as soon as you kill him he says your hacking or cheating and then tries to get yor account banned or something to that effect. These people deserve a hell with no people in it, that way they can complain about themselvesfro all eternity :shifty:

[steve11]

I'll note your remarks sound like FPS games, I only play competitive so here goes.

1. Camping- Idiotic strat to start with it does not produce real gains, or map advantage. Yeah it's obnoxious but it also tanks the team that uses it. Thus have at it, if you want to give up an easy win.

2. Shooting a dead player- Idiotic, it's a waste of amo and time on something you already get the kill on. At best you waste a shot, even worse you could get fragged while trying it and end up costing your team a frag. Have at it.

3. Doesn't happen in the circles I run with however this is a huge no-no, counter productive and bad. However in top level TDM (where you can frag your own team easy) stuff happens and it's not worth getting worked up over. Just laugh it off and move on.

4. Constant cursing- In game voice chat sucks, and I disable the text chat as well, who cares? Some of my clan mates cuss up a storm in game, and show up on voice drunker then sin, but those are friends so it's fine. Honsetly it's just a game, who cares.

5. More later- I hate public server players that try to cop an attitude or get smart ass. One of the reason I only play competitive matches. It's a great way to avoid the BS and make sure you play skilled players. Honestly competitive gaming gets a lot of flak, but the truth is you deal with less idiots, since everybody playing is about the game, and not the drama.

[Sir Pinkleton]

Since this IS my thread...

I hate it when someone joins your game and decides to use racial slurs/comments! Like so:

New Player: "what's up (N-words)'s?"
Admin: "Please don't use racist coments on this server"
Racist New Player: "Why? You a (homosexual F-word)got (N-word)?"
Admin: "I'll only tell you one more ti-"
Stupid Racist New Player: "(F-word) this (S-word)"

Pointless, annoying, and stupid...

[Demetrius]

Competetive is awesome, if you have the time. Its fun to work out strats and rape another team that is full of skilled players, but still hacking in competetive is an a different level, switchable boxes and no smoke/flash hacks piss me off a lot, especially when its team-mates because it cheapens your team. Another bugger is admins who are dicks for no reason when you kill em.

[Vaij]

My pet peeves include:
-Morons who can't go 5 seconds without a stream of racial slurs
-TKing

[Supreme Edgemaster]

I personally hate camping. I had this guy I was playing on halo 2 and he just camped at the spawn zone and waited for people to spawn and then shot them just as they did. That is just one thing that really pisses me off about fps games.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

I admit I am guilty of TKing at one point.
A guy was being a complete moron while we were guarding the flag and when I told him I would Kill him if he didn't shut up he called me a retard and said I'd get booted if I betrayed him...one shotgun to the chest later I got booted by him.>.>

Other then that Racism (something the moron in the base was guilty of) is something that pisses me off.

[ZERO.]

I admit I am guilty of TKing at one point.
A guy was being a complete moron while we were guarding the flag and when I told him I would Kill him if he didn't shut up he called me a retard and said I'd get booted if I betrayed him...one shotgun to the chest later I got booted by him.>.>

Other then that Racism (something the moron in the base was guilty of) is something that pisses me off.

From time to time I love doing the team kill glich in Halo 2 on the annoying little kids that like to beat on you for no reason in the zombie games.

[Raerlynn]

I play CoD2 and CS:S mostly for shooters, so my outlook is a bit skewed but...

Camping? Valid defensive tactic.
Spawn camping? Not cool.
Shooting at a Dead Opponent? After everyone else is dead, sure.
Killing a teammate out of spite? Depends. Is said teammate an ass? Then he may have accidentally walked in my line of fire.
Constant cursing? This is something I laugh at. Especially when its some 10 year old or some 40 year old, I just find it hysterical.

[Sir Pinkleton]

Almost anytime I TK it's an accident, but if I do we all have a laugh... well, at least on the server I play on. Especailly when we play a map with only knives and grenades, only the masters make it above 3 kills.

[Azisien]

Enh, it's a game, you take it in stride depending on how you're playing.

Big TDM games, heck yeah I'll both camp and spawn kill, unless the server rules don't allow it. One of my favorite things to do in COD TDM in Dawnville map was get to the spot where you can stand RIGHT behind the main enemy spawn. I would just spam melee attack and rack up 20 or so kills before someone got me.

Camping...it's often a newbie tactic. Put it in the hands of a skilled player, and it's an advantageous tactic depending on the map/objective. The best competitive players I've ever challenged at LAN tournaments were huge campers, because they knew how to do it and their surroundings.

TKing, obvious no in competitive play, or in gametypes where its a longer spawn (CSS, COD Search and Destroy, etc), but for instant respawn, nonstop TDM games: who cares?

Obsessive cursing can be funny, again it all depends on the situation, and remember you're playing a game. Take it as a complement when someone calls you a cheater when you aren't. Varying from game to game, ACTUAL hacking is rare. I'd say even 9/10 when *I* think someone is hacking, they're just good, or there's a significant enough ping difference. Real hackers are blatantly obvious. I came to that realization after *I* became "hacker good" in COD.

Do I have pet peeves in FPS...hmm, not really. Rifle Only servers and junk like that tend to piss me off sometimes. Welcome to the real world, where automatic weapons exist and you, you pansy riflemen, have to deal with them. That's coming FROM a rifleman for the most part.

I mean, if anything gets me riled up, its constant unlucky deaths. Or really fast deaths 10 seconds into a 6 minute game with no respawn. Spawn-OMGFREAKGRENADE-*waits*

[P-Sleazy]

For RTS's

I hate it when you're playing teams and you ask your team-mate to do a simple little thing, but essential (like leveling up your units), and they refuse.

Hate it when you have 3 opponents concentrating on you, and your team-mates are like "You dead man" and they also refuse to attack your currently defenseless opponents, only to have you barely survive the onslaught.

Hate it when someone quits 1 minute into the game because they got a civ they don't like or any other such reason.

Hate it when you're going easy on someone new to a game, trying to help them out during the game, only to have them do something else and get horribly pwned.

More later.

[Living Bobbeh]

Annoying
Waste
If they deserve it
Never

in that order.

[Fivestargammbit]

My FPS experience is mostly limited to Halo 2, but one thing that always annoys me is when someone calls me cheap for using the energy sword, saying I've got no skill. I just remind them that if they were any good I wouldn't be able to get close enough to get them with the energy sword.

[Mirai Gen]

I hate spamming moves/attacks in Fighting Games.

The first person who links me Playing to Win gets shot by Ratchet.

I know, I've read the article, and I don't care. In a tournament, doing whatever it takes to win is perfectly legit, since you have a reason to try to win. But why would you do it in casual play? I like looking like a good player, not just winning because I'm good.

Get equipped with
Rant Gun!

EDIT: The reason people get pissed off at the Energy Sword is because it's a one-hit kill if you target anywhere on their body. That could be frustrating if someone sword-whores a whole game. (By which I mean actively seek out only using the sword, not just "killing spree, really good sword user" guy.)

[notasfatasmike]

In fighting games, I am OBSESSED with quarter-circle forward moves, i.e. Ryu's Hadoken or Sub-Zero's freezing thing. I used to get yelled at by my friends all the time because I would just sit there and hit them with these moves all day, and never let them get in any other moves.

Little did they know, it's because those are the only special moves I can do. I love the old Street Fighter games, and Ryu's my favorite character to use, yet I still, 10 or so years later, cannot do that damn Dragon Punch to save my damn life.

I never claimed to be good at games that required strong reflexes.

[Lockeownzj00]

I've always been apprehensive about competitive gaming. I've wanted to "try it out" for a while, as it would logically diminish the amount of fucktards, but historically I've always played public. I guess that gives me a certain perspective on games. In a way, I prefer it, but I definitely want to be challenged by more skillfull players.

I just never understand the arrangements. I always find out about a tournament too late, or need to find teammates, or won't be available, or, or...I feel like by the time I'll be "ready" to compete in a tournament, all the games I "play" will be dead and gone.