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7/14/2011 4:02:22 AM
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Spawn Kill! YAY! Power Weapons! WOO!
Community, take a seat. Help yourself to some coffee on the desk right there.
Now, if you see nothing wrong with spawn killing or the use of power weapons, feel free to get up and leave. This meeting is for those who somehow find it "wrong".
I have noticed your guys' recent work performance on these here forums. You're getting sloppy. You fail to convince me I am a terrible person for spawn killing and that things need to change.
Long story short, if I have dominated you and your team to the point where you are at your base scrambling for safety upon every spawn, are you seriously implying that I am somehow the bad player? What would that make you if you're running and cowering away from any and all fights?
Is it poor sportsmanship to slaughter you over and over? Nope. Would it be poor sportsmanship of one NFL team to intercept the ball thus denying the opposing team their chance to score? No. This leads me to believe that any and all who find spawn killing "mean", are simply too sensitive.
What do you want my team and I to do? Would you like us to go back to our base, drop the power weapons, exit our vehicles and start over? Don't be stupid. We're not going to do that and if we did you'd call US stupid. Why should we hand you an advantage on a silver platter? You had your chances and failed.
In essence, my disgruntled employee, I will not stop pushing to your side of the map and slaughtering you if I am given the chance through your constant failures.
You are not dismissed, sit down. We're going to talk about those big guns we call "power weapons".
I see some of you posting on these forums calling others "whores" for using a weapon they rightfully earned. As such, cut the crap. I'm not going to put down the rockets, sniper rifle, pro pipe, sword, shotgun, and whatever else there is simply because it hurts your feelers.
If by the end of the game I have accumulated 18 kills with the rockets and you feel the need to call me out for it, just think about how stupid that sounds. You're basically telling me to walk over the rockets and leave them there for YOU so YOU can "whore" them.
This meeting was brief, but you are dismissed. Get back to work and please, for the love of all that is good and pure in this world, cut the crap.
Love,
Diaper Spills
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-sigh- Your sports reference is a poor one. The receiver isn't stationary, disoriented, nor is he not expecting the ball. When you spawn kill, your opponent is disoriented, momentarily stationary (albeit for a split second but that's all you need if you have a hammer, sniper rifle or rockets) and isn't expecting to be killed within the first half second of spawning. Does it take skill? Well, if EVERYONE went into forge world and saw where the spawns were JUST so they could have map control all the time then we wouldn't be playing HALO, would we? We'd be predicting math problems and the statistical likelyhood of where your opponent is going to spawn next. If you remain on one spawn point and barely move your retical to get a kill that you KNOW is going to be there, then no, it doesn't take skill. You've mastered the game. Congratulations. Why are you still playing? Its not about whether its a good strategy or not. The fact that you are taking advantage of the spawn system is borderline cheating. You are using "known methods to influence the outcome of the game." Why is it borderline cheating? Can they counter it? 90% of the time, no. If there is a 10% success rate against this strategy, it should not be implemented. You're basically playing against the spawn system at that point, not the player. TL;DR When you spawn kill, you cease to play against other players. You are playing against the spawn system, and once you figure it out, the other players could be noobs or seasoned pros. You're going to win 90% of the time by spawn killing with power weapons.
