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Battle Royale Etiquette?
- Thread starter Aswitch
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I couldn't have said it better that's what I usually do. Like a revenge thing if they killed one of us. I usually say you killed me but have fun waiting in the main menu for your friends to finish. Shit is embarrassing but hey we are fighting for survival hehe
[Mainly PUBG experience]
I really dislike camping, and people who camp. For me, it's just not fun to play in that style. I much prefer to engage in firefights and have a more active playstyle. I would gladly remove going prone from games to start there. That isn't to say I want an arcade brawl, where a round lasts 3 minutes, or similar.
That said, the game rules encourage it, so I can't really fault anyone for playing that way. PUBG keeps on rewarding it as well, as proven by the Event Pass missions (and now the new Survival mission stuff). "Surive for 20 minutes", "Get to Top 3 with a maximum of 2 kills", etc.
What it comes down to for me is that I feel that playing for a win isn't the most fun, and I would have wished for the game to give incentives and cater more towards my preferred playstyle. I've tried a more camping sort of playstyle a few times, even winning some matches because of it... but for me it was seriously unfun.
But yeah, can't really blame someone who wants to win for doing something which increases their chances of winning (in a legitimate way, e.g. no cheats or exploits, etc.).
I really dislike camping, and people who camp. For me, it's just not fun to play in that style. I much prefer to engage in firefights and have a more active playstyle. I would gladly remove going prone from games to start there. That isn't to say I want an arcade brawl, where a round lasts 3 minutes, or similar.
That said, the game rules encourage it, so I can't really fault anyone for playing that way. PUBG keeps on rewarding it as well, as proven by the Event Pass missions (and now the new Survival mission stuff). "Surive for 20 minutes", "Get to Top 3 with a maximum of 2 kills", etc.
What it comes down to for me is that I feel that playing for a win isn't the most fun, and I would have wished for the game to give incentives and cater more towards my preferred playstyle. I've tried a more camping sort of playstyle a few times, even winning some matches because of it... but for me it was seriously unfun.
But yeah, can't really blame someone who wants to win for doing something which increases their chances of winning (in a legitimate way, e.g. no cheats or exploits, etc.).
Respect the marker. If your squad puts a marker down, go there or provide an alternative in good time. Don't just decide not to go there and let your squadmates die because they thought you were cool with it.
Also never go to Tricky Towers, what's wrong with you?
Also never go to Tricky Towers, what's wrong with you?
100% when you search for a squad please play like a team. Don't go alone leaving your team. That's really annoying. That's why my friends don't like leaving fill squad option on. I always say there are some good random folks but sadly always get proven wrong. There is no good in random guys in matchmaking
Camping is a valid strategy, especially if you have barely any weapons and know that someone in the area will be there shortly. I generally move from circle to circle only engaging when necessary. I.e. only shooting when I believe I will get the kill and not use an SMG at 100 metres like some do.
I think communities that try to enforce an etiquette or meta are kinda stupid. The game is made in a certain way and balanced continously for it, don't blame me if I use a class, weapon, setting that is deemed OP or unfair. Unless, of course, I'm abusing of a glitch or downright hacking. Can't count the amount of times I got a votekick for choosing the "wrong" class in Siege or how many times I got insulted for picking someone's favourite character in Overwatch. Horrible stuff, really. A good thing about BRs is that there doesn't seem to be a huge enforced meta, probably because there are too many people involved in a match to properly enforce anything. It's a mode where even hardcore camping isn't particularly condemned, which is good: I am not normally a camper per se, but it's an option games give you, either you balance the game to damage campers (eg. Treyarch Call Of Dutys making sure you can only block out the UAV if you are moving, so a camper's position would be seen regardless of the perks) or deal with the fact you can camp. BR allows anything as long as you win - seems fair to me, and I've won quite a few BR matches in the most bizarre ways. My 2nd PUBG win, for example, was me staying motionless in the grass for minutes. I had a dozen different opportunities to strike down the last opponent, but I waited for the perfect moment. And that is what makes BR fun: anything goes.
I know we're not talking about that kind of etiquette, but I'm not even kidding when I say that I always, ALWAYS, close the doors behind me. Everyone seems to never do that, people just don't care leaving open doors. And me, I have the weird habit of closing the door when I enter a house, and that's because if someone else enters, I could probably get to surprise them and kill them. Of course, that would require then some skill of my own, which is null, and which is why I lose pretty much all firefights, lol. But it's weird that even when leaving a house I HAVE this compulsion to still close the door. Someone help me for God's sake.
Also, it's whatever it takes to win, as long as you don't cheat, of course. I've found that that the more I spent with the game and the more I become skilled at it, the more I become an aggressive player. Hiding everytime was a thing of the beginning.
Also, it's whatever it takes to win, as long as you don't cheat, of course. I've found that that the more I spent with the game and the more I become skilled at it, the more I become an aggressive player. Hiding everytime was a thing of the beginning.
I'm assuming you can't tell which direction someone is at very well when you hear them. That shit is scary when you're in a house in cramped quarters and they could be anywhere. It's a death maze.
Anyway I used to do that all the time too until I decided screw it and to play aggressive whenever that happens. It feels better being the hunter rather than the hunted. Granted I also suck and die often still, but it's more fun than hiding.
A big part of that though is the audio I think. I use TV speakers and so never really know where people are, I just know they're there somewhere. I watch people like SypherPK and the pros like that and they always know exactly where people are and I'm just like... How?!
I can actually hear them and point their direction now that I have more expensive headphones, lol (#paytowin). Before, with a pair of cheap-ish headphones, I couldn't.
Me talking about closing the doors behind me when I enter a house is because when another player sees the house with the closed doors, they're not gonna assume there's someone lurking in there. To their best judgment, the house is still empty and filled with juicy loot, and that's my chance to catch them by surprise if they do decide to enter the house. I hide behind the door and wait till they enter with the gun pointed at where they'll be. I think this way I maximize the chances of killing them.
However, if they saw the door open, they either don't enter the house because it's already looted, or risk it and enter anyway even if someone is possibly there.
Its alright to do that if its in your favour, otherwise their team mates may just blow you away if your not careful.
This is why I didn't enjoy the little time I had with these games. It felt as though the best strategy was to avoid everyone. Not "playing" was how to play. I'm sure there is more subtlety to it that this, but I really don't enjoy this sort of game.
Headphones or surround sound. I can stand in the middle of a house and tell you which direction someone is walking around the outside of the house, or if they're upstairs and to the left, and so on. Makes such a massive difference. I've snuck up on so many people and killed them from close quarters without them knowing I was there it's not funny. People never get the jump on me by sneaking up on me cause I can hear them a mile away.
Find what works for you and just repeat until you're very good at it. Some people cannot handle it when you rush them guns blazing, some can't handle it if you just sit back and pick your shots. Find what you're good at. I've won chicken dinners by being stealthy and barely shooting a bullet, but I've also won ones with 10+ kills by going aggressive and actually going looking for people to kill.
I prefer to go looking for fights now, as most of the time people aren't expecting it and start to panic when you start chucking grenades everywhere and shooting doors/windows out etc. My K:d has gone through the roof since playing like that over and over, up around 2.2 in every mode now.
It's you versus ninety-nine other people; statistically speaking, you're going to lose every single time. Use whatever advantage you can get!
This. The only exception is in some BRs people don't finish people whine they're down especially in duos. Don't do that in COD however because the revive times are super short.
Everything you said. I play exclusively with earbuds/headphones to hear the audio cues better, but that only gives you left and right, not direction or elevation. Still better than nothing. And I am crap in firefights, but playing aggressively is always better than hiding in a corner. Although I have a fair number of eliminations where I hid behind a door and shot someone running into the room...
BR is a dirty business. You do what you gotta do to win.
I gotta admit though, if I just dropped and find myself face to face with some poor bastard who hasn't found a gun yet, I let him/her go. If I don't stick around the area it won't bite me in the ass.
I gotta admit though, if I just dropped and find myself face to face with some poor bastard who hasn't found a gun yet, I let him/her go. If I don't stick around the area it won't bite me in the ass.
It's a video game. As long as you're not cheating then there's no such thing as etiquette unless it's towards your teammates. Just do whatever to win and who gives a shit what the other person things.
So much this. I actually stopped playing full squad games in PUBG because there was always one person that would split off despite us agreeing on a marker and it would usually end up getting us wiped.
I think a lot of the "etiquette" comes from streamers and their audience. Streamers are always trying to create "content" by forcing exciting moments. That means no camping, always aggressing and bitching endlessly about people who don't conform to that same style of play. It leads to their audience adopting the same mentality but then getting incredibly toxic towards people in-game about it.
Don't cheat, don't team in Solos, don't TK. That's it. Camping is perfectly fine. I've got a lot of my kills by hunting people engaged in combat and waiting until one of them dies, so I just have to finish the other with a quick snipe :D they're never all that happy when it happens.
Nah, its one of the few game modes that certain play styles arnt frowned upon for being unfair or unfun
All my solo games one have been me hiding in the middle of the circle and then just shooting the last guy.
Surpringsly alot of fun to treat the game like metal gear solid
All my solo games one have been me hiding in the middle of the circle and then just shooting the last guy.
Surpringsly alot of fun to treat the game like metal gear solid
I know for at least Fortnite squad mode, it's generally frowned upon to down and then kill someone on a team. The "proper" etiquette is to down all players on a squad so that they all automatically die. I think it's so someone on the team doesn't just have to sit and watch the rest of their teammates after that.
It's battle royale though so anything goes IMO
It's battle royale though so anything goes IMO
maybe its different in other br games but the one time i struck a partnership in a Fortnite solo match (dude was doing laps at the racetrack so i hopped onto his vehicle and when the storm came we just stuck together swapping loot and having each others backs until i died) the lack of communication combined with how chaotic fights can be made it feel like a fun novelty moment that would be very hard to exploit as an actual strategy without a heaping dose of luck especially considering f you even manage to pull it off theres still the double dragon final boss moment waiting at the end of the match
It's the best feeling in the world to be camping in a bathroom in a random house and hearing a car pull up and them coming into the house your in. You know when that door opens and you kill them you scared the living shit out of them. Love it.
As long as you survive that is all that matters.
Only etiquette I have is I don't brag about a kill to the person i just beat (open mic, teabag, etc etc).
I don't toy with downed people either. Unless I feel you are going to crawl and expose your teammate I'll make it quick so you can start another game.
Only etiquette I have is I don't brag about a kill to the person i just beat (open mic, teabag, etc etc).
I don't toy with downed people either. Unless I feel you are going to crawl and expose your teammate I'll make it quick so you can start another game.
Yeah unless I have another threat to deal with, a downed person is catching a merciful death.
I once got a victory royale (Fortnite) playing as the bush. I waited until two guys were left and I killed the last one right after their gunfight, while he was still injured. No shame lol.
All good suggestions, and I am sorry if this was posted already, but the best chance you have to win when playing with teammates is to use teamwork and to stay together. A high percentage of the time everyone goes their own way and then if you do make it to the top 5 by yourself, you're playing against a team of 3 or 4.
if you start in the circle, scrounging for some supplies but then just camping is a valid strategy. You have no reason to leave the circle, and if you have a fortified position it just makes sense to wait it out.
I was going to give standard BR suggestion of "playing for awhile where you're actively seeking out combat will get you good at the shooting which will help in the long run" but with CoD that's super not needed because there's so many other modes where you can just shoot stuff constantly.
I guess you still need to get used to the different tactics and ranges of the BR mode, so there's still some benefit to getting spicy.
I guess you still need to get used to the different tactics and ranges of the BR mode, so there's still some benefit to getting spicy.
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you know what? That's been on my watchlist for a while. Definitely got to watch it sometime soon.