Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Knife Kills and Teabags

I was hooked on Halo. I was playing ranked until I reached a point where I only got one star and kept getting bars underneath meaning I wasn't moving up in ranks. Then I moved to Social Slayer. The sheer joy of killing someone, having them see you teabag their corpse, while you speak through your Live headset and know that they can hear you yelling the words "teabag mother fucker!" in their own headset or maybe even TV speakers.

Then along came the Modern Warfare 2. I never really got into Modern Warfare 1, but I really got into Modern Warfare 2. I never really got good at it, but garnered enough points to unlock all the weapons up to the AK-47 and reach level 70. I never prestiged, though. Then I got suckered into paying fifteen bucks for the new downloadable maps. With no achievements. What a waste. Fifteen bucks for just maps, and no achievements. That is the most I have ever paid for anything on XBOX live. Total ripoff. The cutoff for add-ons should be ten bucks. Assholes.

It got stale real quick, and we learn of another sequel war game of which I never played the predecessor of. Battlefield Bad Company 2. It took some getting used to, as I was used to the run & gun tactics from Modern Warfare. For crying out loud, the only joy I found in MW2 was
finding snipe campers and laying multiples C4s on them with the scavenger perk equipped. The maps in BFBC2 were huge. The graphics sucked. But it had vehicles.

Still not enough to sell me on it.

Then I learned of one thing.

Knife kills earn you dog tags. Dog tags of the player you killed. The ultimate insult. Why? Because you can review the Dog Tags you have taken in the game and online. You can keep track of how many dog tags per person you have gotten. It means they were stupid enough to let their guard down while you ran all the way up to them and didn't waste a bullet. And the kill-cam is better than MW2. It shows you after the kill, like in Halo 3. So teabag away.

I have gotten up to 1843 knife kills/dog tags up to today. At one point, when I reached 1000, I was 50/50 on knife kills/gun kills. Meaning I preferred to knife people instead of shooting them. This means running behind someone for sometimes the whole map, just to get the knife kill. But my K/D ratio suffered and I am now 500+ kills below 1.00 K/D at 0.88. But I still prefer the knife kill.

In one of my games, I got a guy at 11 times, well maybe it was a few games in succession. But I killed him 11 times by knife in that day. I got to the point where I would celebrate knifing him with multiple teabags. Hoping he was watching in disgust on his own TV, crying.

The next day I logged on, my skill level was reset from the high 100s to 0. Zero. I figured it was my unsporting conduct. Which led me to my next great idea for games.

Teabag stats.

The only rules I can come up with are:
1. Teabag must be applied to corpse from your own kill (you can't teabag someone else's kill)
2. Teabag must be applied within at least 5 seconds (sucks to snipe, or if you're a hiding camper, you won't teabag in hopes of saving your little hiding spot)
3. You score 1 teabag point for every drop and raise within 5 seconds (imagine the Halo guy announcing "TEABAGTACULAR!" or "TEABAGTROCITY!"

How fucking amazing would that be?

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