I'll try my best to describe why camping is so hated.
I think it stemmed from CoD4, especially the hardcore matches. Remember that there were no kill cams on HC matches in CoD4 (unsure if there is in MW2), so people could set up camp in a faraway corner, and easily pick off people. There'd be no map, so they wouldn't show up as a red dot, unless someone had a UAV on the go.
Now that they've introduced a silencer for the sniper and the tactical insertion, campers will have a field day.
I ocassionally snipe (love the thermal), but I tend to take 2 or 3 people out from one spot then move to the next (as if they're anything like me they'll be after my blood). I agree that in some cases, ie. you're tactically trying to defend something, then "camping" is necessary.
You'll always find someone has something negative to say about anything, for example random grenades, n00b tubes etc, but if you find something that works for you, stick to it!
Camping has been around a lot longer and people have moaned continuously and erroneously about it long before CoD4.The term camping used to be defined as staying in an obscure place and picking off people as they went by, often these people didn't know you could get into that position. Now, however, every whiney eleven year old who balls are yet to drop complain about campers every time they die. Just because you were shot by someone out of a window it does not mean they were camping. Hell by traditional terms it
can't be camping.
Silencing your sniper rifle drastically reduces it's effectiveness, meaning you have to double tap people for them to go down. Doing this at range with a sniper rifle can be difficult. Tactical Insertion is far less useful than it would first seem and it comes at a high cost that for me means it's not worthwhile.
In any case, in any game with the killcam on people are foolish to be camping anyway and those who are killed have plenty of chance to return the favour.
Grenade launchers and random grenades are far more annoying than being caught by a sniper.
The respawns are god awful, the number of times you kill someone and are dead again before you've even had a chance to reload and move is unreal. I honestly killed someone only for them to respawn looking at me from behind with no Tactical Insertion on Terminal. Its a fucking big map, theres no need for that kind of thing.
This is a real issue, I've had too many people respawning directly behind me for no legitimate reason. This is a death sentence if I have my sniper rifle in my hands, I'm decent with it at short range but 5-10 paces is asking a bit much. My other issue is being respawned in the middle of nowhere when there is air support, I don't mind being spawned outside but if I have thirty seconds to a minute of running to get to a safe point when there's a harrier in the air... I might as well not bother.
Ninja is my third perk now, so I don't have to worry about heartbeat sensors.
Original?, I got screwed twice with a shit team! You'd think some would help contribute to the score with some positive kill/death ratio, but no. Even in the penultimate game, it was your 6 against my 3 (I guess the other 3 guys fucked off) and although I died a lot, I still got to steal some kills, so I ended up with 1 more death than kill, but the two other guys on my team just kept dying and not taking any kills at all! Terrible!
You destroyed me in Estate. Couldn't take a piss in the bushes, without you seeing!
You did get lumped with some shit players... one of your team mates ran out, saw me and stopped dead in the middle of nowhere... then he stayed there after I'd blown his head off his shoulders. This wasn't the first time I'd tagged him, he was a high rank... you think he'd know better. On the other hand you didn't have to put up with imbeciles robbing your killstreak rewards.
Yeah, I remember getting you a few times from long range in Estate (note: I wasn't camping in the house! Just to allay any fears of all those camper haters!) but you had an annoying habit of stumbling upon me while I was picking off someone else... particularly at the end of that game. I won't mention Scrapyard as it's a cancerous level.
