If your honest with yourself though Darren the way gaming is today would you want 64 people noob tubing allover the shop or 64 snipers. Cos that is what would happen. All games seem to get abused by the occasional fun gamers.
True. But there are ways to stop that, or at least minimise the effects of players taking the 'easy option' all the time. Sniping should be a LOT harder than it actually is in many FPSs. And there shouldn't be any of this 3-round reload for your anti-tank launcher stuff. One tube and that's your lot.
Reward people for taking different character classes and promote their use towards the objective for the team. Points should be awarded for contributing to the team effort rather than focusing on the players' own achievement. Most FPS games these days have just desolved into Achievement Chasing and that in itself promotes crap like n00b tubing. Let's see - I get 5,000 points for killing 100 enemies with an RPG-7. A tank normally takes 3 hits to kill and a man takes 1 hit. Gee, which one am I going to actively go after to gain more achievements? I'll admit, I've done it myself. Switched to a s**tty weapon in BC2 simply because I was 5 kills off getting an extra 1,000 experience points. How can I be helping the team as a whole when I'm pissing about with sub-standard kit choices - all in the name of bumping up my own 'trophy cabinet'?
That culture as a whole needs to be addressed within FPSs imo. COD is cringe-worthingly bad for that. I've genuinely thought WTF at some of the online 'achievements' I've gained. There really is no need for the majority of them.
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