Post obscure strats you use/used in videogames that you rarely saw anyone else use. See if someone in the thread did the same.
Think of weapon choice, routes, specific combo's, etc.
Me?
>counter sniping with a stationary RPG in BC2
>two-handing thrusting swords in DaS
>unironically using a UMP in CS:S
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>cardboard box camping in MGS4 online
using smokes to mask movement only to get shot in head by bolt action sniper anyway
nobody else seemed to do it. really weird
>smoke grenades in any CoD game
Nobody used them and most people would talk shit, but it worked.
That's basically smoke grenades in any game.
Other than Counter Strike, where they're the single most important tool in the game.
Smokes are always underrated as fuck, you just need a bit of creativity with them.
I love how in most games firing even a single smoke will throw everyone off because nobody knows how to deal with them.
>Red Alert 2
>Construct Nuclear Plant and Sentry Gun, don't deploy them anywhere
>Sneak engineer into any enemy building, usually some unprotected unimportant power plant on the fringe of the base
>Place Nuclear Plant in middle of enemy base
>Enemy kills his own base because his units and defenses auto-attack it
>Deploy Sentry Gun next to plant and force attack it in case he manages to stop his own units in time
>tfw spamming smokes on objectives in BC2 and killing anyone that runs in confused
Shit was fun.
Also Red Orchestra 2, you just cannot succesfully attack anything in that game if your squad leaders aren't creating smokescreens to cover the assault.
>pretend to run away around a corner
>turn around and drop a nade just out of view from the pursuing player
>turn around at a safe distance and wait
:^)
Flying a Mi-8 hip around flag points in a way that both captured the point and kept the nose facing outwards so you could absolutely decimate any approaching enemy forces in Battlefield Vietnam.
I'm not even good at FPSes due to a neurological condition but I could fly a chopper better than anyone I ever saw in that game, and I played a fucking lot. People just couldn't handle a rapidly spinning whirligig weaving a tight circle around the flag and since nobody really bothered to use the planes properly I was essentially immortal to anything but consistent small arms fire. I could juke that shit perfectly to dodge manpad fire.
>play warhawk with a friend
>we decide to throw mines on a vehicle
>enemy has a tank, so we decide to ram our jeep rigged with explosive mines at the tank
>we managed to blow up the tank and we see ourselves blasting off again
shit was cash
In DkS1, I used to roll a hybrid int/faith build.
The build basically relied on the MLGS for its main weapon, which is easily a top 5 weapon, and used WotG as its main miracle.
The versatility of those two items (R2s with MLGS, and deadangle WotG) made it much better than a standard int or faith build.
Velkas' talisman pretty much sews this build together, and it isn't hard to do, but crazy effective because of all your options.
thats not an obscure build
In MW2 I had a loadout that was a thermal scope assault rifle with smoke grenades
Worked like a charm
>DaS2
>estoc right hand
>heide lance left
>bait people into thinking they can get an ez bs
>swap to chime
>cast heavenly thunder
>kek
Whenever you catch someone with the backstep r1 you can feel the salt seeping through the console
Probably not. DkS1 was pretty limited in what you could do, honestly. I'm sure every combination has been done at least a few times.
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That's the build. Change flip ring for havels if you want 56 poise. Otherwise it's really strong.
Wow what is literally every invasion in the Tomb of Giants I ever had, Alex?
Can't recall any right now for older games but I would use lockers constantly in Dead by Daylight before they buffed them. They were so bad and nobody used them so Killer's would never bother to check them unless it was plainly obvious you were there. The fact they were so bad made them good.
You cheeky bugger.
That's brilliant
>obscure strats
In MW2 I would play the hardcore map modes using an UZI extended clip, marathon, steady aim and... stopping power or fast reload. Run around circles in the map doing drive by shooting at wookies afflicted with tunnel vision. Erryone getting mad I wasn't using a sniper rifle with a heartbeat sensor.
AFAIK didn't run into anyone else doing this.
Squad leaders get major shit in RO for not throwing smoke or arty at the enemy. My god it makes me go REEEEEE when the little shits do nuffin.
brits in CoH1 can bypass booby-trapped points by using infantry mounted in a bren to cap the points without the tedious cap, run away and then cap again.
>Red Orchestra 2
>Red October Factory
>Lots of boxcars
>Jump from boxcars to T-34 and ride behind the turret with PPSh-41 shooting people rushing the tank with AT nades screaming UUURAHH and having the tank be mobile cover for the entire map.
Also
>using frag grenades as mini smokes to throw into doorways and run in just after the explosion so there's still dust in the air and it's hard to get a good shot
Rolling Ninja Support in Battlefield 3
Support class:
P90 w/supressor, lazer, PSO scope
C4
Ammo bags
revolver
Perk of increased run speed.
Basically hosing down people from any range. Long range just became a matter of aiming high enough to have your bullets fall into people. You can spray 6 round bursts all day like that because you have unlimited ammo. Your non stop suppression prevents people from regening hp. In cqb you can hip fire whole squads. Run fast and jump toss c4 charges over walls or hills or even adjacent rooms. Constantly refilling c4 ammo with bags. Bane of all land vehicles and can Jihad jeep constantly.
Marathon, stopping power SMG builds were fun as fuck used to do it with ninja all the time and just knife fuckers. Especially back when I played on console salt would flow every fucking time.
Do singleplayer games count?
Back when this game was alive, I used the fast cloaking strat one Preds.
It wasn't so much an obscure strat, but rather something that you naturally discover with experience and is super satisfying execute
The method is simple: as a Predator you decloak manually, shoot a plasma weapon (or disc) the cloak manually again.
The trick is that, when using any plasma weapon or disc is decloaks you automatically, but this type of decloaking puts a cooldown on the cloak, so you can't cloak for a good 3-4 seconds after that happens, putting you in clear line of sight for any non-xeno
Marathon pro and commando pro with care package smoke in your hand used to make you go Sanic speeds before they patched it.
On console it was even better as hardly anyone ever upped the right stick sensitivity so 90% of people couldn't turn fast enough. Plus auto aim meant you could "drag" sniper's aim away from friendly snipers by running in front of them.
That load out, the one I used solely for AA, and akimbo 1887s were guaranteed to get me some hate mail and I loved it.
Running around in BF4 while using the C4 as a primary weapon
It was fun while it lasted but the tank autists just had to get C4 nerfed to kingdom fuck so now I can't even do that anymore
Thats honestly the only thing I miss about playing on console over PC, everyone was so bad and it was hilariously easy to piss people off.
Before they nerfed the riot shields I used up one guy's Harrier strike by standing in the open looking up at it and soaked up all the rounds until it flew off. Stinger and either scavenger pro or sleight of hand took care of everything in the air. Even managed to hit a couple of care package choppers so the crate landed outside of the map.
CoD4 was my first online shooter experience so I can't imagine how easy it was for anyone coming from a few years of CS, Quake, or Halo.
fucking brilliant, bravo user
I don't remember which cod it was but I used to run scavenger and black hat for stolen care package and destroyed killstreak tears
>work economy up
>wait for team to call buy round
>buy m249
>flick sprays and taps all day
I unironically enjoy using shotguns in CoD games. When I still played Black Ops on 360, my go-to builds were usually centered around the pump shotgun and a scoped Python (the HS10 and SPAS-12 kinda shit even by CoD shotgun standards)
I also found it really fun to use enemy weapons a lot. I'd go whole games just picking up other people's shit. The insane things people would kit up with in that game, though, man
>people unironically using acogs on snipers
>people putting acogs on smgs
>peoople actually using warlord
the fuck man
only if it's REALLY cool.
not that guy but I play stalker by equipping as many sprint meter boosting items as i can, using a shotgun, and resolving gunfights by sprinting around like a madman and jumping around corners to nail people from the air and preserve the sprint speed while still shooting
basically bunnyhopping in a game that doesnt have actual bunnyhopping
Are you me? I'm about 10 hours in and thats very close to the play style I have. I've easily used shotguns more than anything.
In MW ACOG scopes on the snipers were viable. Particularly the M40A3 or M21.
Not really a strat or tactic, just a mini-game me and my friend would play
>be US on Crash
>one loads up with an M4 with suppressor the other with an M14 with ACOG
fight our way to the helicopter in the middle and attempt to keep everyone away from it
>one of us runs into it before the other does
>hold out for a while before trying to pull back to friendlies
Wow and the mind control hat
>alterac valley
>huge battle coming up figured this would be the best time to test it
>put it on hope I can get close enough without getting raped
>manage to snag one of their healers, he turns into my pet, spams all hisheals, heals me and a few others before it wears off, by that time I'm in the middle of our group, promptly gets destroyed
And from that day on I mind controlled everyone I could into doing crazy shit
>mc a death knight to help me kill his own guards then tell him to walk off a cliff
>mc rogue in neutral area and make him attack guards
Fuck engineering was so much fun
Smokes are bullet magnets.
There was a level in America's Army that had a bridge. Half way down was an arch/block that you could climb and use as high ground. There were two ladders, each exposed on the left and right sides.
Typically, you'd get shot climbing the ladder. You'd also get shot if you smoked the ladder you intended to climb.
But if you smoked the other ladder. Well, you just might make it to the top.
It never failed me.
smoke grenades prevented snipers from using mortar call-ins. very useful on isla innocentes.
Thats generally how they are used though, you really shouldn't be running through them you use them to block vision or get someone to expose themselves to fire at you.
In CS for example you would smoke here so you can cross without getting picked off from the CT spawn. Or once you have secured a bomb site you would smoke entrance ways so the enemy is forced to run through the smoke in most cases giving you the drop on them.
I used the UMP in CS also.
>ump
>rarely
>people unironically using acogs on snipers
what's the problem? do you not know of DMRs?
>Smokes are bullet magnets.
if i'm in range of where the smoke is deployed (because i mostly play project reality), then i usually order people to throw a few grenades in.
>Probably not.
it isnt
They're really bad in CoD because they take longer to bring up than normal scopes for some insane reason, can't be steadied like normal scopes, and you lose the entire point of having a sniper rifle (the magnification). They also mostly had very busy or obscuring reticules that cannot be changed, as opposed to nice simple crosshairs on the normal scopes.
ACOGs are just really shit in CoD, especially on sniper rifles.
And even in real life, you don't use 2x scopes for DMRs, and you use normal rifles for it, not giant honker sniper rifles that are like 30 feet long and fire 7.62. A DMR would be made from slapping a scope on something out of the assault rifle category, you fucking mallninja faggot
Are you playing the ARMA or BF2 version? I'm assuming BF2. Is it active?
>Smokes in BF 4
>Squad is down, need revived
>Lay down smoke and revive everyone without issue
Also
>Enemy in cover suppressing my niggas
>Lay down a smokescreen all of the way to their position
>Move up the flank and wipe out the enemy position
I fucking love using smoke. I practically never see it used, but every time I use it I become an unstoppable super soldier and a perfect medic. 10/10 would recommend to a friend
this but in cod4
smokes are the best special grenade. full auto fire is just too inaccurate in that game to hose down a cloud and actually hit anything
>I used the ammo box to help my teammates refill ammo
>I used the medbox to help my teammates gain health
>I placed the spawn beacon in a reasonable position, not to close to get fragged not to far away to be useless
>I prioritized using the rocket launcher on vehicles
The absolute madman
The Active Camo power in Halo: Reach
This might as well be an 'obscure' tactic because i swear i only saw like 2 people use it in all the time i played. everyone picked sprint or the armor lock
Being stealthed whilst crouch-walking AND jamming enemy radars was crazy useful, i would make it my mission to get as many back-stab assassinations, i enjoyed the little animation you got if you held down the b button.
Camo + charged plas pistol + oncoming vehicle = easy disable / hijack, worked every-time and i got so much hate-mail messages
>sentry ward reveals observer
>leave it up for false security/smoke through it
>some faggot kills observer
>enemy team backs off
This definitely
My friend and I pulled an all nighter the night reach came out, and that was the first strategy I used. I got first place every match and nobody could find me. It was insane
This thread is about as on topic as it gets around here
M3 super 90 ftw
Idk about later games, but in CoD 4, smokes were pretty much a necessity on certain maps. i.e. If you spawn at the bottom of the street on Crossfire, your whole team should be using smokes.
It's a shitty build, but back when i played League of Legends i would build Attack Speed and Crit-Strike Sion just because the crit animation was a curb stomp.
Decoy Hologram was the GOAT armor tech in Reach, faking people into thinking you were the decoy was an incredible feeling
MW2: A silenced Uzi with a thermal sight. It sounds fucking terrible but it worked like a dream, I still don't know why.
Well, i guess it's technically the BF2 version, but you don't need BF2 anymore to play it.
>Rush a boat across the lake in the Lancang Dam when no one is looking
>Deploy beacon at the corner of the map that no one would check
>C4 AA faggot just sitting there or whatever armor is in the neighborhood
>Don't go for the objective to avoid enemy aggro, go for the tow launcher just outside of it
>Destroy boats, floating coffin LAVs, and cunts dicking around C for days since they're have no clue where the missiles are coming from
>Rack up those anti-vehicle ribbons without being in one yourself or being an engineer
>Inevitable death
>Parachute spawn right behind the new AA that someone was almost certainly clicking on its icon over and over on the respawn screen waiting for it to become available
It just works. Alternatively, you could waste a lot of the enemy's time by playing cat and mouse in their first objective.
>When they catch you they will kill you, but first they must catch you.
I didn't play Insurgency a lot but I had an impression that smokes are very important there. Especially on a map like Sinjar.
Riot Shields in MW2.
I know it was used a lot, but a lot of the time it was used to piss people off, but otherwise they were useful for many reasons.
Demolition on small maps or heavily defended points usually had me using an Akimbo Secondary with Blast Shield, Smoke Grenades and a Riot Shield. Firstly, you were a distraction for your team, if people were above you while you were crouching, you were basically mobile cover. Secondly, while you were planting while prone and with blast shield on you couldn't be knifed from behind since your shield covered that area, and explosives including predator missiles couldn't kill you with blast shield on. Lastly, if you ever had a friend planting you could always go prone and pretend you're planting, while they're distracted with you and kill you, they've already planted.
S&D was a charm as well. Having a C4 meant you could camp places and always be the one to take people out.
>A DMR would be made from slapping a scope on something out of the assault rifle category, you fucking mallninja faggot
Not him, but most DMR's are made from battle rifles, not assault rifles.
>Mounting a sniper scope and bipod on a LMG
>Become sniper with 200 rounds
We used this strategy in 1.6 its called the hale storm, all we basically do is just wait for the enemy team to get balls deep in our teams side of the map and we just rain hell on them with flashes smokes and he grenades while that is happening we just spray them down with m249 machine guns, it worked 70% of the time, but goddamn that is an expensive strategy
COD MW:2 I had that unlimited sprint perk and increased knife range and I'd just run around stabbing people, good times.
That is what anyone else would just call an ambush
I got a nuke with a riot shield, claymores, and scavenger on the snow map with the warehouse
on ffa
I just mined both entrances and did clean up with the shield
running a 2 man party with dual riot shields was unstoppable, we basically just charged through the map and my buddy would instawreck anyone over my shoulder while I provided cover, and we couldn't be hit from behind ever
That kinda shit is out of the norm is counterstrike though. Most maps are pretty small and nobody uses the M249.
I did that aswell but there was a lag issue when looking through smoke with a thermal.
In black ops 2 I did a thing with the shield.
>Plant it in the ground
>Crouch behind it
>Scope in
>Aim just under their head
>Stand
>Shoot
Worked perfectly and won 90% of sniper duels
The shield was amazing in that game except for lag and people knifing through it.
in the BF1 beta, i would be a support, spam gas grenades on an objective constantly refilling ammo
When the whole place was gassed out, i'd throw my mask on, run in and take it with zero opposition
Gas is so damn underplayed in that game. could be so cool
Did the same in BF3. Also screwed around with using a M16 with suppressor, bipod and 8x scope. It was basically a faster firing MK11 that did less damage (due to smaller caliber), but it worked well.
>Dishonored
>cut off enemy's head
>attach a few wire traps to it
>throw it at a group of patrolling enemies
>all dead
I play widowmaker in overwatch
>obscure
Try playing hanzo on attack, they'll never expect it
Kek
Decoy and Active Camo were the only 2 reasons I stayed with Halo 4 as long as I did. Oh, and Promethean Vision.
>creeping around with an unmounted MG
>walking slow enough to hide my blip
>PROMETHEAN VISION, see someone approaching me
>go completely still until they're right on top of me
>turn them into a bloody smear before they can even touch my shield bar
In a game of flies buzzing around with their jetpacks, I was the spider.
Once joined a server where the admin had made himself invincible to guns and explosions, little bitch wanted a high k-d ratio. I brained him with riot shield. Admin goes berserk in chat, I'm perma-kicked from server. My steam friends said admin pulled plug on server minute after I was kicked.
I loved the UMP in CSS. Good feel, decent price. Only shit part was the small magazine, but I constantly reloaded anyway.
>Hanzo on attack
Nah nigga try Symmetra on attack or KotH.
I don't think this would be considered a strategy but I remember when I used to go to LAN parties at a friend's house to play Halo.
I was one of the worst players there so I'd usually get destroyed. But I got really good at taking people out with me by throwing a grenade just before I died. I got pretty good at it and people would get angry that I ended their sprees.
UMP was legit, TMP was the headshot machine though.
>cardboard box camping in MGS4 online
If you do it badly you look like the #1 idiot
It's a valid strategy near grass or on top of the map and at the end of a round when people used their E-locs grenades (especially in Rescue mode)
Love this.
Especially when you're low on health and the enemy thinks he van easily getroffen you.
>catch a nigga in a net
>decloak in front of him so he can see my wristblades as I'm about to take his head
I loved that multiplayer.
DAMAGED
>Things that never happened
>Riot Shield with Blast Shield
That shit was hilarious. Enemies would point blank you with RPGs and you would walk away unharmed, not to mention killing people with their own Semtex and surviving.