Campers are a forever topic in CoD. This is also the case in the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. But the annoying tactic can also become quite dangerous – for the campers.
This is shown in the clip: The reddit user PPerkinss posted a short clip on reddit, in which he totally surprises two campers. Campers are players who wait at one specific spot throughout the match and take out their opponents from there. On the new map Shoot House, he simply moves around to flank the enemies.
Here he stealthily approaches two campers waiting at a wall. He positions himself precisely between them, does nothing at first, and then takes out the first one. As the second one looks around, he immediately gets hit next.
PPerkinss himself is using the hated shotgun 725. However, he states that he only uses it to unlock new skins for it.
Campers in Modern Warfare – An eternal problem
What makes campers so annoying? In Modern Warfare, it is very popular to park oneself in buildings on many maps and simply wait for opponents. This takes away a lot of dynamism from the gameplay and leads to frustration.
Players complain that they often come around corners and buildings only to get hit immediately. Even if they are careful, it doesn’t always help. Claymores like mines increase this frustration, as they were way too powerful for a long time.
Campers are a crux for both teams:
- They annoy their opponents simply by ruining their fun with kills.
- They hardly help their own team because they often don’t care about the objectives of the multiplayer modes.
Why camp at all? Campers are not necessarily notorious spoilsports. There are also good reasons to bunker down. For instance, weapons challenges for rare skins are easier to complete – which probably the two victims in the clip above were trying to do.
But even in certain larger modes like Ground War, campers are not necessarily annoying, but can even be useful. They provide cover and reconnaissance with sniper rifles. However, they also live considerably more dangerously in this mode because there are more opportunities to take them out:
Are campers that bad?
This is what the community says: Many players agree that campers take away their fun. However, that is not the only problem. Shotguns like the 725 are at least as annoying, notes IRIEAILZ .
EpicSC even views this as a problem of skill ratings:
If you see a shotgun in every killcam, you’re not playing smart enough and running into every opponent before securing the area. […] Maybe this is really a problem at lower MMR, but at least in higher ranks it’s kind of useless to sit in a corner with a pump shotgun because people will hear you and react quickly when checking corners.
However, there are currently bigger problems with matchmaking. The upcoming patch could already address some of the complaints:
