Pbox campers
Posted: 28-03-2003 04:22
as of late (not because of a new patch or anything) i'v noticed all games i'v played have had a little person i like the call the "pbox camper"
You may have seen this suspect in his own pbox, comping the edge, waiting for you to charge so he can shake you or walk in the box so he can frag you.
This may just be me, but i believe this an extremely legitimate complaint about shake and a reason to shorten it further or remove it completely. Its almost impossible to get off a good shot now because of these notoious pbox campers and n00b cannons and wally-vollies are just getting lame. Cant we go back to the good ol' days when you just ran at the net, took a hit from the defender and shot that sum-a-bitch in the net? Honestly this is seriously agrivating me more than you would believe. Its even worse on sprint servers when you not only have a pbox camper but one that can run across the pbox in a matter of 1-2 seconds making short passes totally pointless...
Now, since this doesn't appear to be another open complaint i have a resolution that i think many would agree be put back into deathball. A zero delay keeper hammer with the old hammer range (maybe slightly reduced) and a very short or no shake. It is the only way I can think of the prevent pbox camping altho a few other posibilities have crossed my mind.
One of which being a maximum time allowed for own team in the pbox, 7 seconds or so, (sort of like a 3-in-the-key violation in basketball) which would kill the defender and have a 3 second respawn delay giving the player a sort of penelty shot but theres a few drawbacks to this plan, one of which being a player dancing around the outside of the pbox on offense by passing it around or literally jumping around without being hit (which isnt too too hard) and basically getting a wide open shot.
Another idea i had was to increase the accuracy of a shake shot so the shot placment would be shot into a circular area about the size of your vacinity radar but have reduced power. Same for Overcharge shots in that case.
Lastly my other idea would be to prevent hitting from inside the pbox to outside the pbox, this would also prevent mose pbox camping.
Please consider this before forwards like myself lose intrest and start playing defense. Its quite annoying watching yourself get fragged or take some way off shot because a defender decides to chill in his pbox and rack up easy kills.
You may have seen this suspect in his own pbox, comping the edge, waiting for you to charge so he can shake you or walk in the box so he can frag you.
This may just be me, but i believe this an extremely legitimate complaint about shake and a reason to shorten it further or remove it completely. Its almost impossible to get off a good shot now because of these notoious pbox campers and n00b cannons and wally-vollies are just getting lame. Cant we go back to the good ol' days when you just ran at the net, took a hit from the defender and shot that sum-a-bitch in the net? Honestly this is seriously agrivating me more than you would believe. Its even worse on sprint servers when you not only have a pbox camper but one that can run across the pbox in a matter of 1-2 seconds making short passes totally pointless...
Now, since this doesn't appear to be another open complaint i have a resolution that i think many would agree be put back into deathball. A zero delay keeper hammer with the old hammer range (maybe slightly reduced) and a very short or no shake. It is the only way I can think of the prevent pbox camping altho a few other posibilities have crossed my mind.
One of which being a maximum time allowed for own team in the pbox, 7 seconds or so, (sort of like a 3-in-the-key violation in basketball) which would kill the defender and have a 3 second respawn delay giving the player a sort of penelty shot but theres a few drawbacks to this plan, one of which being a player dancing around the outside of the pbox on offense by passing it around or literally jumping around without being hit (which isnt too too hard) and basically getting a wide open shot.
Another idea i had was to increase the accuracy of a shake shot so the shot placment would be shot into a circular area about the size of your vacinity radar but have reduced power. Same for Overcharge shots in that case.
Lastly my other idea would be to prevent hitting from inside the pbox to outside the pbox, this would also prevent mose pbox camping.
Please consider this before forwards like myself lose intrest and start playing defense. Its quite annoying watching yourself get fragged or take some way off shot because a defender decides to chill in his pbox and rack up easy kills.