What is camping?

[Rad Ished]

Hey Kozak6 if look at that picture a little closer..........

BA£^%$^%RDS
particularioly that one on the left with the mg .... B*****D!
You can see that thousand yard stare from being zoomed in with the mg for too many hours in a row, serious camping

serious camping

[Mr. Bougo]

NO THEY HAVE SUPERPOWERS TRANSFORMATION AARGH



It's a dog and a... Uh wtf?

[Oblivion]

vcall kick cat's balls

[C.Brutail]

OMG

[oz]

I thought a lot about this, because camping seems to be useful in defense, but sometimes it is used as an insult against noobs, like defense was something bad or noobs weren't the pros of tomorrow.

I came to this decision for myself:
staying useless in one place = camping
staying partly hidden in one place waiting for an opponent to occur = ambush (This makes only sense, when there is a high probability for enemies to occur, eg. in front of the flag room. Otherwise it's stupid and a waste of time...)
staying useless in the base (probably shooting spawning teammates or jumping into their rockets) = base camping
staying in the base defending a flag, protecting freshly spawned players and taking items 1 sec. before the enemy can = defense
staying not hidden in a place in enemy territory trying just to make a lot of kills in a CTF game = bad idea (Because it makes enemies angry and keeps them (spawning) in their base, so teammates have more difficulties getting the flag...)

However, if a skilled player is camping, he probably will just take an evil laugh, when being insulted as a camper...

[Mr. Bougo]

I like defending my base from the outside... For example on facing worlds, I stay on the enemy base and kill flagcarriers or people getting too close to my base... They can easily kill me, since I'm very close to their spawn points....

I consider this as camping, but also as defending... Still I think camping isn't lame at all... Except MG camping of course

[liolak]

best thing to do imho when someone camping and it bothering you is to frag him.

[Mr. Bougo]

Totally agreed, and I try to make that job easier by camping from outside of my base

(cept on hydronex, and I hate that, and everybody hates that bunch of defenders in the base)

[Rad Ished]

best thing to do imho when someone camping and it bothering you is to frag him.

word

[Dokujisan]

I agree that camping is a legit tactic. At the beginner level. it's often an effective tactic, to the frustration of many players. When the game involves more advanced players, then camping becomes more difficult to do effectively. You may kill someone once, but after that, you are a sitting target.

I applaud someone who camps effectively in the company of more advanced players.

If there's ever a problem with the abuse of camping in Nexuiz, then it's usually a problem with map design. There are some maps that are just setup for camp spots. I don't like that because it tends to make the map unbalanced.