Spawn raping or flag capping?

2007-01-01 06:39:32

#1

MastersMom: YOUR mom goes to college; +61|6930

Ok, so let's say you're working with a squad and your heading in to cap a flag. As most of you run to the flag to start turning it, one of your squad members posts right behind a known spawn point waiting to see if someone spawns in before the flag is turned.

Sure enough, an enemy spawns in at the last moment but your squad mate is right behind him and takes him out with ease before he knows what happened. Your squad finishes capping the flag and moves on.

I've seen this happen on a consistant basis on IO servers and want to know what you think. Do you consider this spawn raping/killing or good defense during flag capping? Let me know what you think and why.

2007-01-01 06:42:50

#2

-[Silver.Inc*: BF2s AU Server Admin; +315|6855|Melbourne, Australia.

Spawn rape while capping the flag...everyone wins!

2007-01-01 06:42:55

#3

Fenris_GreyClaw: Real Хорошо; +826|6794|Adelaide, South Australia

"A good strategy is the one that works."
dunno who said that. And if no-one did, I claim it.

2007-01-01 07:21:35

#4

Titch2349: iz me!; +358|6627|uk

nah..... there is nothing wrong with it.

However, the majority of the time you can see the spawn points from the flag anyway, so although i dont see anything wrong with it, i find it pointless.

2007-01-01 14:15:48

#5

JakAttaK: csanva<3; +492|6600|England

i don't think spawn-killing is a problem. if someone thinks that they can stop your squad from capping a flag and they spaw in front of you it's just bad luck on their part.

http://soundcloud.com/csanva

2007-01-01 14:18:09

#6

Mason4Assassin444: retired; +552|6937|USA

How about capping all of warlord then raping the tv station w/ armor, apcs with no regards to flag capping?

Fags.

2007-01-01 14:19:44

#7

dead_rac00n: Member; +12|6757|DTC

Nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's not spawn raping, if you're trying to cap the flag.
Spawn raping is covering spawn points with no intention to cap the flag.

2007-01-01 14:25:37

#8

MagikTrik: yes.....but your still gay; +138|6645|Pittsburgh, PA USA

No, thats not spawn raping because your team (especially if it's your squad) is in the process of taking the flag, there is a term for that though, it's called "teamwork".

"A good strategy is the one that works." -Fenris_GreyClaw

2007-01-01 14:27:56

#9

JakAttaK: csanva<3; +492|6600|England

if its an un- cap then there is no point in not attacking it. war is unfair. in a real war you wouldnt not attack an enemy stronghold because it would be "base-rapeing"

http://soundcloud.com/csanva

2007-01-01 16:08:38

#10

MastersMom: YOUR mom goes to college; +61|6930

My thoughts exactly on pretty much all of your posts. Pretty much any time my squad goes in to take a flag (if there's at least 3 in our squad) I let the other squad members cap the flag and I post at a spawn. Almost always get a kill and keep from getting my whole squad taken out with one grenade. Thanks for your input.

And I strongly agree that "A good strategy is the one that works." -Fenris_GreyClaw

2007-01-01 16:36:23

#11

Skorpy-chan: Member; +127|6619|Twyford, UK

The example given is just spawncamping; annoying, but legit. I'd do the same myself, had I been playing for so long I had the spawns memorised. (Instead, I just stand where I can see the way in)

Baseraping is just repeated artillery or bombings of an uncappable spawnpoint for no reason other than to get cheap kills; like strafing the deck of the carrier in Gulf of Oman or Wake Island every few seconds when the USMC forces still have a beachhead.

2007-01-01 16:37:37

#12

Gooners: Wiki Contributor; +2,700|6907

dead_rac00n wrote:
Nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's not spawn raping, if you're trying to cap the flag.
Spawn raping is covering spawn points with no intention to cap the flag.

QFT

2007-01-01 16:39:17

#13

Mafia47: Member; +27|7015|Chicago

its war...maybe we should all hold hands and go learn how to actually have a parachute deploy after one click

2007-01-01 16:41:00

#14

HUNDaemon: Exploit/Glitch "Tester"; +49|6650|Inside the AR Rockets.

You know what? There's no ingame tip saying "While capturing a flag, to avoid getting your ass flamed, don't kill people that just spawned"

And thus, it's fair.

2007-01-01 16:42:34

#15

arson: Member; +99|6911|New York

let the enemy spawn so they can nade spam / gaymore hop and kill your whole squad all buched around the flag GG

2007-01-02 15:56:56

#16

bonedoc69: Member; +36|6685|Eugene, Oregon U.S.A.

when I play I tell my squad to cover all the spawn points while capping a flag, I have them cover the points that can be seen from the flag and I cover the others (south spawn @ suburb for example). this way anyone who spawns in to stop us is neutralized immediately and the flag is ours with no losses. I don't consider this spawn raping or camping, Its called capping a flag using teamwork!!!!

2007-01-03 02:09:24

#17

falafel: Member; +5|6604

i was playing on dalian and come in the middle of the game as USMC, we had got no base only the uncap and the chinese constantly baserapped, noone could do anything, only respawn-die-respawn-die and so on.

no sportsmanship, no fun at all not even for the winner, unbalanced matches sux couse you know that even if you win you're still a n00b

2007-01-03 02:12:18

#18

Fenix14: scout rush kekeke ^___^; +116|6831|Brisbane, Aus

nothing wrong with that, if it's cappable it's all fair game

2007-01-03 02:14:57

#19

Adams_BJ: Russian warship, go fuck yourself; +2,054|6897|Little Bentcock

its fine

2007-01-03 02:18:55

#20

MastersMom: YOUR mom goes to college; +61|6930

falafel wrote:
i was playing on dalian and come in the middle of the game as USMC, we had got no base only the uncap and the chinese constantly baserapped, noone could do anything, only respawn-die-respawn-die and so on.

no sportsmanship, no fun at all not even for the winner, unbalanced matches sux couse you know that even if you win you're still a n00b

I agree, that is crappy for sure. I've been on the winning and losing side of that. I prefer to be on the winning side but it's still not much fun.

But that's not really what this thread is about. I was talking about using teamwork to cap a flag (not attacking uncaps). Someone accused me of "spawn raping" because while my squad was capping a flag, I posted behind a spawn point and killed him as soon as he spawned. My squad continued to cap the flag and we moved on.

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