The Problem with CrackHouse
Posted: May 25, 2010, 20:24:01
If there's one problem with the Crackhouse server, it's the players. I know, it's kind of a generalization: putting them all into one category and slapping a label on them as a whole, but that's what I'm doing. You can analyze your own playstyle on the server and remove yourself from the category if you wish, but you're starting there.
If you're in disagreement with me, spend twenty minutes on the T-side with more than 15 people playing on the server. The problem originates with your team's inability to act as such: a cohesive, fluid, unity - you know, a
team. They pretend it's all for one and none for all, except those who are actually playing the game properly. They state, "Why didn't you allow me to knife him?" and "I could have killed him had you let me;" yet their backs are turned and they offer no gratitude. But that's none of my business, they can be rude and obnoxious if they choose - it's only when their actions get me killed that I'm really ticked. For example, when your team is performing and moving forward as one in the back fenced area and a CT jumps in and knifes you - This shouldn't happen. Where'd my team go? Oh yeah, they buggered off and are now attempting to hop in through ground floor windows from the ground. How daft can you get? If it doesn't work the first time, stop trying and move on.
I don't mean to sound selfish, but it's quite a nuisance when, in a team game, your teammates are more for show than for assistance. Pro-Tip: if I'm pinned and you run by me, thanks! Your stupidity has proven effective and you've been baited. Thanks for the free kill.
The second reason has a lot to do with the first. Shouldn't it be simple to hold your own team's roof? I mean, a ladder and a half isn't that hard to defend. Even if the opposition should grace your roof with their footprints, it's not that hard to get them
off. You do have guns, you know. Actually, I'm going to merge this in with the first reason and continue on with the real second reason: "knife rounds out back, everyone, don't shoot."
Ok! I'll just give up kills for the sake of your silly little game that only one third of the server is participating in, no problem! Not only that, but you're literally commanding me over the internet to "not shoot you, you're knifing!" - scary stuff if you ask me. Being an admin, Crackhouse is already a heavy load as is, I really don't need the added task of dealing with the people screaming, "ADMIN, BAN THIS ******." Chill out, dude, it's just a kill - besides, it was the admin who killed you in the first place. Perhaps you should go cook something if you like playing with knives so much...
The third reason is the obvious one: the idiots who camp Neutral Roof with an AWP and scream "owned" over their mic every time they kill someone. Congrats.
I'm not going to further elaborate on that point, I'm not complaining. It's a free world and you can choose where you're going to camp and which gun you're going to camp with; it's not my problem that you chose the easiest route or the easiest team. This brings me to reason five: I'm always on T.
You know why? Because I swear I'm the only one who uses the "Autojoin Team" button. Everyone else is asking their computers politely to "Go faster so I can be on CT" as the map refreshes. What miffs me the most is when the teams are stacked as is and someone joins and decides that CT is the right team for them. What planet were you born on and why are you choosing that side? The former has nothing to do with my argument, I was just questioning their heritage. Perhaps the Top Ten would be a vastly different story if some of those people would try out T once in a while. My power is limited and once I had the audacity to ask someone to join the Terrorists to which one responded, "G.F.Y." - Thank you kind sir, this is a game on the internet and this is serious business, your credo would be jeopardized should you join Ts. (Oh, and I kicked him... just to make things clear)
Drifter, this one's for you. The autoteambalance-thingy-ma-jigger is there for a reason, no? I know he likes cookies, but he didn't just make it for *ahems* and giggles (I think). So, when the switcher does its job and decides that you're on the wrong team, you should stay on that team... Unless of course you're worried that someone might get the wrong message and think that you're out to get them and starts screaming - what kind of excuse is that? So, in an open letter to Crackhouse participants, I present you with the following:
*Ahem*
Dear Players,
If you are to be switched by the automatic team balancer, please do not move back to the team you got switched from - you were switched for a reason.
Thanks.
Next point - the complainers. We all know it happens and we all do it. But those that push down their mic button just so that you can hear their displeasure when you kill them is obscene. Yes, you know I'm going to kill you a lot, I don't need to hear you say that B word every time I do; it's not very pleasant. In any case, I take whatever profanities, obscenities, rudeness or whatever else you can throw at me and I turn it into a healthy dose of compliments. Thank you for those, they are appreciated. Not only that, but complaining about it isn't going to change anything. "killed" is in the past and, most likely if you're complaining, in the future for you. Also, if I just wrecked your face with an AK in the back alley, don't come rushing back in with a Compact expecting me to be serving tea from a golden platter while doing handstands - you bet your now non-existent face I'm going to be waiting for you again. Remember? You're predictable, just like the rest of the players.
Now I've played on SpawnPoint long enough that I can instantly recognize the play styles (or just the figures) of a lot of regulars. I remember being able to discern whether KillJoy was on under an alias in GunGame just by the way he moved and by the character he always chose - but that's GunGame, this is Crackhouse. People there just don't learn. I'm not sure if that's just how they think or if that's how they play, but it's not working. I'm getting four kills on your for every time you kill me, how, mathematically, does that work out in your favor? For this, I'm thankful, but sometimes it what they do that ruins the experience for other - you know, the ones that have the tendency to drop the big word or blast the music... it's rather annoying and I really hate it when I'm forced to stop playing because some idiot can't hear me over his music that he's blasting through his mic.
But I digress, these are merely an opinion formulated over the course of two years at SpawnPoint. I'm rather sick of having to rely on only myself in a game designed for team play. Even in DeathMatch, the team-styled game is in effect. Why else do you think that you're unable to kill, wound or otherwise destroy those who are similarly dressed as you? It's this key fact that I think separates the good players from the mediocre and, in time, the bad players. Those who, although alone, possess team traits will ultimately get the best score and have the most fun and those who decide that jumping out the front window into a party of CTs will have their own fun... spawning repeatedly.
P.S. Debs, Phil - can we talk?
