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Some of us are lucky, we go through our life in gaming without ever experiencing those other gamers that will do anything in their power to win, sink to new levels of dastardliness to get that point. Those that have played with then know them to be....
Gamers from Hell!!!
These nasty, foul beings have a number of tactics to help them on their way to an ill-earned victory such as:
1) The tactical 'pause'
A procedure simple in it's delivery, but timing comes with practice. It's a case of just hitting the 'pause' button at the right time to put off your opponent. In a football game, for instance, just as he's run through your defenders, hit the pause button before he can shoot. Release the button whilst he's not concentrating, and he won't get his shot in before your keeper dives on the ball. Devious, very devious.
Another use for this measure is in the FPS genre. Again press the pause button if he has you in his sights. Release the button and hold hard left or right to aviod getting shot.
2) Withholding information
This only works if you're playing a game that you don't know that the gamer from Hell is familiar with. In a racing game you find that whenever you get in front of him, he'll get a sudden surge of speed, and be back in the lead. Why? Well he hasn't told you about the 'nitro boost' feature.
This also works in beat em up's. Not revealing special moves is fine, you're expected to work these out yourself, but not telling you simple commands like run or block that could make the difference in a tactic often used by these nasty gamers from Hell.
3) No mercy
I'm not one to take an unfair advantage, gamers from Hell, however, thrive on them. They'll learn the places where you reappear after death in an FPS, and wait there for you to start again with no weapons, or a poor weapon, and blow you away with their all powerfull rocket launcher. They'll abuse a flaw in the goalkeeper's AI and chip the keeper from 50 yards again, and again, and again, even though there's nothing you can do to stop this. They'll keep using the 'sweep' manouvre whenever your characer gets up, and they'll find themselves back on their backs, even though you can't block until you're fully standing.
Usins such measures is acceptable for amusement in a small number of contests, but if you do it every time then you must surely be a gamer from Hell.
4) Online cheats
A different kind of gamer from Hell, the anonymous kind that could well be ruining online gaming for people the world over.
In FPS games they're using invincibility cheats, weapons cheats, invisibilty cheats even, so you can't possibly beat them, but still, they get some kind of sick pleasure from this.
Online RPG's are a haven for gamers from Hell. They're be very friendly, ask you to accompany them on a quest, only to run when faced with adversary, and steal all you gold pieces when you lay defeated, merrily stoking their matted beards with a perverse sense of joy.
These aren't the only types of gamers from Hell, oh no, there are many other kinds, but there's one further kind I'd like to present to you. The co-op cretins:
Sometimes you'll find that gamers from Hell are disguised as non-gamers. You'll try to get them involved, let them have a pad, and join in a co-op mission with you. You'll soon realise that you've teamed up with a gamer from Hell when they immediately shoot you in the back of the head and ask "So what did that button just do?"
Splitting upfrom this hell-gamer is never a good tactic, especially in areas of darkness, as as soon as you wander into view a hail of bullets will come your way. Thank good ness for games that allow you to turn off co-op damage.
Co-op in sports games can be incredibly frustrating, though gamers from Hell seem to enjoy this. They'll pass back to the keeper from the half way line, putting the other teams star striker in with a shot at goal, they'll push over a defender as you're about to score and give away a free kick. They'll get your players sent off, they'll miss from 5 yards, they'll cross to close to the keeper.
You're only playing on the same team as them because they're the No Mercy types of gamer from Hell, and you know that playing against them will be pointless as they'll just score cheap goals. Can't do it when they're on your side though, can they?
Gamers from Hell are best avoided. Don't accept their challenges, don't take up their offer fo help. If you do you'll find yourself in gaming Hell for sure!
Gamers from Hell!!!
These nasty, foul beings have a number of tactics to help them on their way to an ill-earned victory such as:
1) The tactical 'pause'
A procedure simple in it's delivery, but timing comes with practice. It's a case of just hitting the 'pause' button at the right time to put off your opponent. In a football game, for instance, just as he's run through your defenders, hit the pause button before he can shoot. Release the button whilst he's not concentrating, and he won't get his shot in before your keeper dives on the ball. Devious, very devious.
Another use for this measure is in the FPS genre. Again press the pause button if he has you in his sights. Release the button and hold hard left or right to aviod getting shot.
2) Withholding information
This only works if you're playing a game that you don't know that the gamer from Hell is familiar with. In a racing game you find that whenever you get in front of him, he'll get a sudden surge of speed, and be back in the lead. Why? Well he hasn't told you about the 'nitro boost' feature.
This also works in beat em up's. Not revealing special moves is fine, you're expected to work these out yourself, but not telling you simple commands like run or block that could make the difference in a tactic often used by these nasty gamers from Hell.
3) No mercy
I'm not one to take an unfair advantage, gamers from Hell, however, thrive on them. They'll learn the places where you reappear after death in an FPS, and wait there for you to start again with no weapons, or a poor weapon, and blow you away with their all powerfull rocket launcher. They'll abuse a flaw in the goalkeeper's AI and chip the keeper from 50 yards again, and again, and again, even though there's nothing you can do to stop this. They'll keep using the 'sweep' manouvre whenever your characer gets up, and they'll find themselves back on their backs, even though you can't block until you're fully standing.
Usins such measures is acceptable for amusement in a small number of contests, but if you do it every time then you must surely be a gamer from Hell.
4) Online cheats
A different kind of gamer from Hell, the anonymous kind that could well be ruining online gaming for people the world over.
In FPS games they're using invincibility cheats, weapons cheats, invisibilty cheats even, so you can't possibly beat them, but still, they get some kind of sick pleasure from this.
Online RPG's are a haven for gamers from Hell. They're be very friendly, ask you to accompany them on a quest, only to run when faced with adversary, and steal all you gold pieces when you lay defeated, merrily stoking their matted beards with a perverse sense of joy.
These aren't the only types of gamers from Hell, oh no, there are many other kinds, but there's one further kind I'd like to present to you. The co-op cretins:
Sometimes you'll find that gamers from Hell are disguised as non-gamers. You'll try to get them involved, let them have a pad, and join in a co-op mission with you. You'll soon realise that you've teamed up with a gamer from Hell when they immediately shoot you in the back of the head and ask "So what did that button just do?"
Splitting upfrom this hell-gamer is never a good tactic, especially in areas of darkness, as as soon as you wander into view a hail of bullets will come your way. Thank good ness for games that allow you to turn off co-op damage.
Co-op in sports games can be incredibly frustrating, though gamers from Hell seem to enjoy this. They'll pass back to the keeper from the half way line, putting the other teams star striker in with a shot at goal, they'll push over a defender as you're about to score and give away a free kick. They'll get your players sent off, they'll miss from 5 yards, they'll cross to close to the keeper.
You're only playing on the same team as them because they're the No Mercy types of gamer from Hell, and you know that playing against them will be pointless as they'll just score cheap goals. Can't do it when they're on your side though, can they?
Gamers from Hell are best avoided. Don't accept their challenges, don't take up their offer fo help. If you do you'll find yourself in gaming Hell for sure!
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Good post! :-) I think the worst is definitely No Mercy. The situation you described in deathmatch is my brother's tactics through and through
They certainly are a dirty bunch of individuals.
Some of us are lucky, we go through our life in gaming without ever experiencing those other gamers that will do anything in their power to win, sink to new levels of dastardliness to get that point. Those that have played with then know them to be....
Gamers from Hell!!!
These nasty, foul beings have a number of tactics to help them on their way to an ill-earned victory such as:
1) The tactical 'pause'
A procedure simple in it's delivery, but timing comes with practice. It's a case of just hitting the 'pause' button at the right time to put off your opponent. In a football game, for instance, just as he's run through your defenders, hit the pause button before he can shoot. Release the button whilst he's not concentrating, and he won't get his shot in before your keeper dives on the ball. Devious, very devious.
Another use for this measure is in the FPS genre. Again press the pause button if he has you in his sights. Release the button and hold hard left or right to aviod getting shot.
2) Withholding information
This only works if you're playing a game that you don't know that the gamer from Hell is familiar with. In a racing game you find that whenever you get in front of him, he'll get a sudden surge of speed, and be back in the lead. Why? Well he hasn't told you about the 'nitro boost' feature.
This also works in beat em up's. Not revealing special moves is fine, you're expected to work these out yourself, but not telling you simple commands like run or block that could make the difference in a tactic often used by these nasty gamers from Hell.
3) No mercy
I'm not one to take an unfair advantage, gamers from Hell, however, thrive on them. They'll learn the places where you reappear after death in an FPS, and wait there for you to start again with no weapons, or a poor weapon, and blow you away with their all powerfull rocket launcher. They'll abuse a flaw in the goalkeeper's AI and chip the keeper from 50 yards again, and again, and again, even though there's nothing you can do to stop this. They'll keep using the 'sweep' manouvre whenever your characer gets up, and they'll find themselves back on their backs, even though you can't block until you're fully standing.
Usins such measures is acceptable for amusement in a small number of contests, but if you do it every time then you must surely be a gamer from Hell.
4) Online cheats
A different kind of gamer from Hell, the anonymous kind that could well be ruining online gaming for people the world over.
In FPS games they're using invincibility cheats, weapons cheats, invisibilty cheats even, so you can't possibly beat them, but still, they get some kind of sick pleasure from this.
Online RPG's are a haven for gamers from Hell. They're be very friendly, ask you to accompany them on a quest, only to run when faced with adversary, and steal all you gold pieces when you lay defeated, merrily stoking their matted beards with a perverse sense of joy.
These aren't the only types of gamers from Hell, oh no, there are many other kinds, but there's one further kind I'd like to present to you. The co-op cretins:
Sometimes you'll find that gamers from Hell are disguised as non-gamers. You'll try to get them involved, let them have a pad, and join in a co-op mission with you. You'll soon realise that you've teamed up with a gamer from Hell when they immediately shoot you in the back of the head and ask "So what did that button just do?"
Splitting upfrom this hell-gamer is never a good tactic, especially in areas of darkness, as as soon as you wander into view a hail of bullets will come your way. Thank good ness for games that allow you to turn off co-op damage.
Co-op in sports games can be incredibly frustrating, though gamers from Hell seem to enjoy this. They'll pass back to the keeper from the half way line, putting the other teams star striker in with a shot at goal, they'll push over a defender as you're about to score and give away a free kick. They'll get your players sent off, they'll miss from 5 yards, they'll cross to close to the keeper.
You're only playing on the same team as them because they're the No Mercy types of gamer from Hell, and you know that playing against them will be pointless as they'll just score cheap goals. Can't do it when they're on your side though, can they?
Gamers from Hell are best avoided. Don't accept their challenges, don't take up their offer fo help. If you do you'll find yourself in gaming Hell for sure!
Gamers from Hell!!!
These nasty, foul beings have a number of tactics to help them on their way to an ill-earned victory such as:
1) The tactical 'pause'
A procedure simple in it's delivery, but timing comes with practice. It's a case of just hitting the 'pause' button at the right time to put off your opponent. In a football game, for instance, just as he's run through your defenders, hit the pause button before he can shoot. Release the button whilst he's not concentrating, and he won't get his shot in before your keeper dives on the ball. Devious, very devious.
Another use for this measure is in the FPS genre. Again press the pause button if he has you in his sights. Release the button and hold hard left or right to aviod getting shot.
2) Withholding information
This only works if you're playing a game that you don't know that the gamer from Hell is familiar with. In a racing game you find that whenever you get in front of him, he'll get a sudden surge of speed, and be back in the lead. Why? Well he hasn't told you about the 'nitro boost' feature.
This also works in beat em up's. Not revealing special moves is fine, you're expected to work these out yourself, but not telling you simple commands like run or block that could make the difference in a tactic often used by these nasty gamers from Hell.
3) No mercy
I'm not one to take an unfair advantage, gamers from Hell, however, thrive on them. They'll learn the places where you reappear after death in an FPS, and wait there for you to start again with no weapons, or a poor weapon, and blow you away with their all powerfull rocket launcher. They'll abuse a flaw in the goalkeeper's AI and chip the keeper from 50 yards again, and again, and again, even though there's nothing you can do to stop this. They'll keep using the 'sweep' manouvre whenever your characer gets up, and they'll find themselves back on their backs, even though you can't block until you're fully standing.
Usins such measures is acceptable for amusement in a small number of contests, but if you do it every time then you must surely be a gamer from Hell.
4) Online cheats
A different kind of gamer from Hell, the anonymous kind that could well be ruining online gaming for people the world over.
In FPS games they're using invincibility cheats, weapons cheats, invisibilty cheats even, so you can't possibly beat them, but still, they get some kind of sick pleasure from this.
Online RPG's are a haven for gamers from Hell. They're be very friendly, ask you to accompany them on a quest, only to run when faced with adversary, and steal all you gold pieces when you lay defeated, merrily stoking their matted beards with a perverse sense of joy.
These aren't the only types of gamers from Hell, oh no, there are many other kinds, but there's one further kind I'd like to present to you. The co-op cretins:
Sometimes you'll find that gamers from Hell are disguised as non-gamers. You'll try to get them involved, let them have a pad, and join in a co-op mission with you. You'll soon realise that you've teamed up with a gamer from Hell when they immediately shoot you in the back of the head and ask "So what did that button just do?"
Splitting upfrom this hell-gamer is never a good tactic, especially in areas of darkness, as as soon as you wander into view a hail of bullets will come your way. Thank good ness for games that allow you to turn off co-op damage.
Co-op in sports games can be incredibly frustrating, though gamers from Hell seem to enjoy this. They'll pass back to the keeper from the half way line, putting the other teams star striker in with a shot at goal, they'll push over a defender as you're about to score and give away a free kick. They'll get your players sent off, they'll miss from 5 yards, they'll cross to close to the keeper.
You're only playing on the same team as them because they're the No Mercy types of gamer from Hell, and you know that playing against them will be pointless as they'll just score cheap goals. Can't do it when they're on your side though, can they?
Gamers from Hell are best avoided. Don't accept their challenges, don't take up their offer fo help. If you do you'll find yourself in gaming Hell for sure!
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