Hold your fire! Friendlies coming thr-, oh you shot at them already, good job idiot

As I've been recently hosting a few MGS3 Online games, I've set the game settings at friendly fire off. As most of you may know, friendly fire is the occurrence of your own team mates taking (in)advertent damage by your own attacks and vice versa. This results in team killing and perhaps the banning of such “team killers”. I don't know how much of an issue this is in many FPS multiplayer games, but I personally don't like the friendly fire feature.

Some may argue that this friendly fire feature heightens the realism of the game, while others who enjoy shooting at everything at will. I personally find this helpful as I’m the jumpy type that will fire first and ask questions later. Usually when I go around a corner, my finger is already on the trigger, so to speak, so I want to have the first shot out before the other guy. I’m sure all the others are thinking the same thing, but I can’t seem to immediately pick up if they’re friendlies or hostiles especially when the uniforms are quite similar in appearance.

Also, I love how in MGS3 you can throw a grenade into a crowd with your own friends, but it only damages the enemies. Some may see this as cheap, but I see it as a tactical advantage. As well, I’m a big sniper fan and whenever a friendly is in my line of sight in front of an enemy, I just shoot and let the bullets fly without a moment’s hesitation. I might be stealing their kill, but at least the bastard is dead.

What’s your say? FF yeah/nay.

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Originally Posted by SuperDK

Speaking of friendly fire in arcades, I hate playing games like Virtua Cop and stuff. Who the hell would run right up to you and tell you not to shoot them when they are in your way?

:Runs up to my face:
"Help me!"
"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY"
:Zombie throws axe:
"OWWW"
:GAME OVER:
:Harry (or whatever his name was) runs in on a drawn line and then falls over:

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Indeed, why the "friendlies" pop out on screen waving arms in the air like they just don't care and screaming, "DON'T SHOOOOT MEEEE PLUUUUEEAAASEEE" is already irrating me enough. I mean if you DON'T want to get shot, just stay down and wave a white flag or something, Jesus.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'm surprised by the amount of yes responses to the friendly fire feature mainly for first person shooters. Perhaps I should start hosting FF on games.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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Unfournately I play online so most of the time I get banned from that room.

So I take it you enjoy team killing? Looks like you're in the same boat as Crash.

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I never said I rocked at sniping, but I prefer sniping over assualting most of the time. I'm just not good with aiming at point blank range (if you call that aiming) and running around in circles trying to hopefully fill the guy up with more bullets then he does to me first.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Er no, that would be the Canadian Armed Forces, Exlir.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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Me, In CS: *Runs to the tunnel.*

Me: Uh oh, here comes the enemy. Time for a frag!

*throws it, only for it to bounce off the wall, taking me and MY ENTIRE TEAM OUT*

I've done this a few times, especially with flash bangs and the next thing you know is the squad leader yelling on his mic, "WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF?!!!!!!!?!?!?!? SPATULA I'M GONNA KKKKKKILLLLLLLLL YOUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!"

And no matter how many times you apologize, they still come to TK you.

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Originally Posted by Shin

Pretty much every online game gives you the option to kick people like that though these days.

Which makes me more inclinded to host my own games (esp MGS3) since I tend to sometimes get a bit too trigger happy. But I'm improving. Of course I apologize profusely after and allow them to TK me back. It's better than getting kicked. I've also kicked others out that SO intentionally kill my own team. One time there was this dude that just kept "shotgunning" my team so I gave him the boot even when there were no enemies nearby, no questions asked.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?