Camper (computer game)
Camper is the name given to a player who is in multiplayer - computer games (especially first-person shooters to the) remains permanently in poor visibility areas of the game environment pawns of passing players to kill ( " frag "). Often a weapon is chosen for this, with which one "kills" the opponent if possible after a shot without being detected.
Evaluation by the players
In most games, the term “camper” is seen or used as an insult. The reason for this is that many players see it as an unsporting and cowardly tactic. In some team game modes , e.g. B. Capture the flag , however, "camping" is a recognized tactic to achieve the goal of the game (e.g. to defend the flag), as an attacker in an assault match, however, it is a very hindering approach. In some games, such as B. Battlefield 1942 or Call of Duty , the so-called "Killcam" was introduced for this reason, which enables a player to see from where one was shot. This is supposed to force notorious campers to change positions after each shot.
When Deathmatch the so-called will spawn camping regarded as very unfair. Here the camper waits near a spawn point in order to eliminate his victims immediately after starting the game. The dynamics of the game are thus lost. In addition, they deny the starting player the opportunity to orientate themselves and seek cover. Especially with newer games, many different spawn points are inserted in the game environment, which are selected at random by the program in order to minimize the chance that a victim will appear next to the "spawn camper". Also in some games, such as TimeSplitters, a starting player is given a short time in which he is invulnerable, which can lead to "spawn campers" who do not know this effect, die without a chance themselves. In some games, this protection expires when the player starts shooting.
In Quake II , another possibility was introduced to combat Spawncamper in Deathmatch mode by the program can "respawnende" Players materialize from the other players as much as possible. However, this is not possible in all game modes.
In the meantime, however, there are also clans that have explicitly turned to "camping". In Unreal Tournament, for example, oversized maps are created, cities, rooms or even apartments with extreme dimensions. The goal is not - as usual - to ask as many opponents as possible , but rather not to be asked what actually corresponds to the game variant "Last man standing"; Deathmatch or team deathmatch is played. Since spawnkilling is seen as unfair even when camping, spawn protection is integrated on most servers. Other modes or mutators are possible.
Massive multiplayer online roleplaying games
In MMORPGs one speaks of a gate camper . These are players who hide behind doors or narrow passages in order to defeat individual opponents one after the other, instead of facing all of them simultaneously in an open area.
Others
Protection against campers is already integrated in some games. In Nexuiz, for example, a large amount of life energy is withdrawn from a player if they stand still for a long time, with a message to refrain from camping. The third offense is even counted as a suicide. There are also game modifications in which the sniper rifles, which are mainly used by campers, leave a streak in the air when they are fired, which makes it easier for the other players to discover the camper.
On the other hand, there are games in which "camping", even if it is not only used to defend a flag or base, is considered a valid tactic - especially games with cooperative content in which the players are not predominant play against, but with each other against the computer, or realism-oriented games in which many players accept this style of play as a realistic tactic.
See also
literature
- T. Wright, E. Boria, P. Breidenbach: Creative Player Actions in FPS Online Video Games. Playing Counter-Strike. In: Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research. Bergen 2002, ( available online )
Web links
- Detailed article about campers on counter-strike.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Counter-Strike: From the Life of a "Noob". In: stern.de. Retrieved May 23, 2015 .