Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Noob busting: The haunt of the online shooter Jerks and Jackasses.

      I was reading an article in I believe it was Cheatcodes Monthly where someone decided to purposely be an online jerk in Halo. The sad result is that people thought it was funny and some people decided to be bigger jerks and it just got scary.  The sad thing is that alot of players avoid first person shooters with an onlide mode for this very reason. If you're trying to learn a game or style of game you want people whom are beginners as well, but instead you get the lowlifes whom don't give a new player or "noob" a chance as this is their 100th profile and they know just about everyway to cheat the system and ruin a players experience. In playing online I've experienced this and honestly passed off my mic so I didn't chance banning myself as the Jerks seem to overrun the servers. The following is a list of the things that people found funny in one aspect, but if you look at it from an outside view it's irritating and just not fair when someone doesn't have a chance to learn at their pace.
  1. Your Mom- The threats alone empty as they may have been to psych out another player seem at times to go too far. example... "come back here or I'll rape your mom in the ass" and the sad thing is that with some of the reporting systems these games have to stop things like this most people laugh instead of saying "Whoa too much dude".
  2. Purposely Glitching the system -  Resistance Fall of Man had this problem and I've seen it in some other games, but not as bad as when this plague was ruining games of Resistance. What basically would happen is people would bog their incoming server so that they had the ability to run a thousand times faster and shoot faster than everyone else so within seconds of trying to help or accomplish a mission is was "Bang you're dead"
  3. Spawn Killing Fucktards - Now alot of games give you a random spawn point now of days but it used to be if you knew where someone was going to spawn you killed them and trapped the area where they would respawn to get instant kill after kill.
  4. YOUR MUSIC IN YOUR MIC - You may like Rap or that Beaber kid, but not everyone want's to listen to your taste in music. Spend the extra few bucks to get a mic that helps cancel out your background noise. This goes for people with kids and their neglected girlfriends as well. Cause yeah you may be able to frag 500 players but your girlfriend begging you to stop playing and fuck her isn't really something you should advertise unless you wanna give me her number, cause then I'll put down my controller and you can take my turn.
Now this is only a taste of what some players have dealt with over the years I am finding games to come across less of this, but it still exists. I'm not complaining about razzing someone or psyching out your opponent but I personally think you should allow fair play to true beginners. Especailly because you may be great at Halo but another game you might just end up the noob and I don't want to hear you bitch at how we are playing unfair.
     

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