"DONT BE A CAMPER!"
Please, just don't-please...
Here's one.
Be good at games in general.Don't bother about with any of the slightly intricate (but still insanely basic) rules about different games until you can pick up on the basics. This includes:
1) Knowing how to learn the game. This does not require hours of practice of several games worth of experience, this can be something as simple as looking at what worked and why. In the case of FPSs it's literally just knowing what things are at your disposal and how to best use them (which is really easy).
2) Don't complain or get angry / frustrated. You're an idiot if you think this will improve your play, help your progression or makes yourself justified in anything. If you don't enjoy it, don't play -- and propagating your views to other people online in a game when it's probably about a game mechanic of some sort just shows your idiocy. This leads me into. . .
3) Use what works. You're also an idiot if you figure that limiting yourself from camping when it works (as long as it's most effective) is a good idea, purely because people don't like it.
The people you go up against are almost certainly stupid, if they complain about you using a tactic that is effective against their play it shows their stubborness and parochial views.
Those are BASICS. If you think camping is bad, and especially since you couldn't even back it up then you're honestly stupid. Am I saying it's effective?
Yes.
Why?
Because it's against bad players who can't check corners or be well prepared. They don't think "A guy could be prepared in there, I ought to throw a flash in", they think they'll gun whoever's in there once they see them. As a result, they're playing against chances and hardly against skill.
2) No camping
No camping. Well, there's no such thing like camping in Battlefield 3, but thou shalt not camp! You won't get as many kills as other people, really.
Arbritrary stupid rule backed up by lack of kills? Have you seen how effective camping has been en masse in Battlefield 3? It doesn't look like it because people aren't perfectly static but yes -- in fact with their medics reviving, with the Engineers throwing rockets around and LMG suppression they
are camping.
But, you can just sit at one place and move on.
That's camping. That's also camping effectively. It's called moderation, and it's used more in other game genres than it is in FPSs because people generally play this genre poorly.
3) Obviousness
Enemies can expect you from the centre of action, maybe in a building or a park.
People really consider all the possibilities, and more often or not they cannot react to all of them, and always they cannot react effectively to half of them or more. Expecting you from somewhere would be from awareness and that's your lack of consideration that would get you killed. This ties in with one of 'my' previous rules.
Find your way at the sides, not through the middle.
People play poorly as I said. If you can tie your hand-eye coordination and think fast enough to shoot the guy, you're generally fine.
You also force enemies to react to you, which, if your team is smart (because I'm making the assumption that you would like to play this game properly), will take advantage of that.
In some games when shadows are a must for graphics,
Except having low graphics is usually beneficial -- ironically for this very reason.
But, once again, don't ever camp.
Rule of thumb: Be a sheep.
"The Gun Gamble"
You should try every different type of gun and every gun in that category. I call it "The Gun Gamble" because you be good with shotguns in MW3, but better with sniper rifles in Black Ops. it's really what guns you feel most comfortable with.
The better / best way to play would be to find out what is most effective with the Gun Gamble if you can manage actually using them most effectively.
Then stick with those and hone your skills -- it's usually logic / reason that lets you see which is most effective. A primary example -- MW2 and quickscoping. It's effective in nearly all situations and loses to very few other weapons in a 1v1 scenario. Learn to do that right (which is incredibly easy) and you're prepared for most things already.
That actually just summarizes the entire thing. There are literally no "secrets" in these games. They're just not fleshed out enough to where people find them, and people don't care about what isn't effective or even care about what is effective, because they're bad gamers in general.
You may think of that as an unfair assumption or generalization. Sorry, but it's true -- it's too easy to play effectively on an FPS and the probability is that the guy with a 4:0 K/D is actually not that good anyway. You can achieve that through having decent reactions and using what BLATANTLY works.
Another BASIC tip that relates to the "reacting to what could happen":
Suspect your enemies of being really good / of maximum potential. You don't want to adjust to fight noobs, and if they use "noob" tactics and they work, it's not nooby -- so that includes camping. This means you need to know when, how and if you need to react to various situations and the issue with this in FPSs is that you usually can't. With this, a more 'intricate' tip would be to find well coordinating, educated and decent players to play with that can grow each game.
Yes, this is a way to play for fun as it can also help you win. People watch professionals play games for fun -- but they can learn huge amounts at the same time (my example is Starcraft II). Finding things out and theorycrafting to improve your game could very easily be fun as well. If it's not that strong of a hobby, then play how you please, but there's no need for tips, then.
- H
