Comments on: My Stance: Spawn Camping

By: Grate-Camper or Great Camper? | Pacabol Fortuente

Grate-Camper or *Great* Camper? | Pacabol Fortuente — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:48:53 +0000

[...] can understand why some people are completely against spawn camping, though I myself have a much more open view of that topic. But seriously? Grate-camping? I’m sorry, but if you can’t get around a demo-camped [...]

By: Proximity

Proximity — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:22:54 +0000

But even with stickies and and turrets if you work as a team you can defeat it. Have a heavy open the door while a cloaked spy runs out, or use the pyro’s blow gun to blow the stickies away right before he dies and then your teammates can rush out.

It can be done!

By: M e

M e — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:50:54 +0000

I agree with Bullet-Tooth. If I was a sniper in spawn and I knew that there was a scout outside, I would just quickly swap to a pyro and burn him. Its only sticky camping or a turret on spawn thats annoying.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:36:06 +0000

Camping is a legit strategy no matter what class/classes do it, imho. I’m far from skilled enough to pull it off, but if you can, it neutralises the other team and lets you win… which is the goal of the game, correct?

Sure, it’s not fun for the other team, but losing’s never fun, right? It’s not exploiting anything, it’s just pure skill. So kudos to the spawn campers and campers in general, more often than not it’s tactically legit.

By: Mortem

Mortem — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:41:13 +0000

One funny thing about 2fort is, there are 2 spawns. But yeah, you’re right, if multiple people, especially including demomen or engy with sentry guns, then that’s kind of taking it too far. However, again, if they got there in the first place, they probably deserve to be there, and if you can’t take them out, maybe you don’t deserve to.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:55:24 +0000

If you can get to their spawn without dying, you deserve to ‘camp’

By: Dur

Dur — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:21:02 +0000

lol wut?

By: Bullet-Tooth

Bullet-Tooth — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:46:22 +0000

For me, it depends on the class used that is being used for spawn camping. Sitting there as a scout should have no ill effects, especially if you just have a bat out. I think one of the douche-baggy things to do in this game especially in 2fort is to camp with a Demo man. The other night on the BONG server there was this gentlemen that would just sit on his grate and load it with stickies and then detonate them. He wouldn’t even pursue anyone. I look at this as “whats the fun in that.” Equivalently, its pretty lame to sit up on the enemy’s spawn with stickies. I can see if you are just up there and you do it once or twice but making it your goal is pretty lame. And I am a guilty party. But the real dick in the ass is a Heavy Medic combo. Unless someone goes down the long stairs and comes up the spiral the Heavy can pretty much take on the the whole team.