“Camping” – Strategic Warfare or Bad Gaming

Posted by Ironspike on Mar 26, 2009 in COD4 | 1 comment

Here I am playing BackLot hardcore team death match on COD4. I post up in the 2-story with the .50 caliber. I set my claymores and begin sniping the other team as they crossed in front of me.

An enemy player (let’s call him SirDieAlot) comes running up stairs to meet a timely demise with my claymore. I reset another one. SirDieAlot comes running up the stairs again and repeats his earlier fate.

I take his gun and the 3^rd time he comes up stairs I shoot him with it. I move to downstairs and when he comes crawling through the window I shoot him again. This repeat behavior went on until I got my heli.

Then I get a message from SirDieAlot:

“You fucking camper”

A similar incident happened a day or two earlier where I got a nasty little email calling me a “Bitch Camper”.

Maybe I’m missing something. History tells us when the military would hold down a location it was called a strategic advantage.

I know this isn’t a real world military simulation it’s a video game. Yet, if an individual or a group of people could statically lock down a room or a portion of the map in COD4 then I’d call them pretty dam good tacticians.

Using the word “Camper” in a derogatory term is a plain stupid. I have no clue when it became demeaning or why. If you and your team cannot break a defense mechanism that the opposite team has devised there is not need to cry about it.

Use your head and try to find a way around it. I’ve encountered this method on numerous maps. Vacant stands out as there are only a few entrances to the office room. I have my room busting builds in reserve just in case someone pulls that tactic.

I honestly think the folks who bitch about “Camping” are the run-and-gun folks who are used to Quake & Halo. That mind set is if you’re not out on the map running circles around each other and jumping like rabbits then pretty much you have no game.

My opinion only.  I’ll keep “Camping” until you can come and keep me out of my spot.