Adventures of Xbox Live

By: Paul Clark | November 30th, 2009

Now, I’m not someone who usually goes for all this player versus player action, and pretty much steered clear of it all (except when necessary) in something like World of Warcraft, but for Modern Warfare 2, that is pretty much the only thing I have done. So I have to give a massive round of applause to Infinity Ward for making love this aspect, as it is entirely down to every minor and major design choice they have made.

However, something Infinity Ward haven’t had control over, is the players online…and, dear god do they just make your brain bleed sometimes.

Now, with first person shooters online you get the occasional teabagging incident, perhaps an overzealous grenadier and these often bring about much rage from the vocal players online. However, the most hated of all, the camper. Now, I really couldn’t give a monkeys about this act, as it makes sense, and for the most part the level design works enough that you can’t grief with this tactic. Others, aren’t as forgiving:

Player #1: Oh my god, that guy is still camping! Look at that, 29 kills, 0 deaths. What a loser! I have 12 deaths and 0 kills, this is just stupid.

Me: Really? Because I thought that was a tactic, should they put their guns down, drop their pants and run about in the center? Yeah, I hear that’s an awesome tactic.

See? Truly amazing. However, it got better in the post-game lobby…

Player #1: Hey camper, well done on that level, maybe next time learn to play.

Player #2: Alright, whatever.

(It was at this point, a revelation occurred, from hearing the ‘camper’ speak)

Player #1: Oh my god, you’re a girl?

Player #2: Yeah…

Player #1: A girl…on xbox live? How sad are you? Get a life!

Me: Erm, you know you’re on xbox too, right? Not sure if you noticed.

Yeah, I’ll cut out any transcription of the next half hour, but if you want to guess at it, simply right down every profanity you know, and randomly drop my gamertag between them.