Why do I suck at multiplayer arghh

[gumpzilla]

The only FPS I ever got into playing multiplayer online was Half-Life free for alls. I think that on a lot of maps they fit my style very well. I tended to be very good at movement and evasion - thank you long jump module - and mediocre at accuracy in an actual firefight. Keeping moving usually meant you could find people otherwise engaged and pick them off with the grenade launcher, though, or get right up behind them and shotgun their ass.

Anyway, in playing Halo with friends of mine a few years ago, I found that I suffered in a game where the movement of the players wasn't quite as fast, because my relative lack of accuracy became amplified.

[capone0]

Being good at campaigns and being good at online games have nothing in common. They require 2 different styles of play.

[Taso]

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Being good at campaigns and being good at online games have nothing in common. They require 2 different styles of play.

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Agreed.

I've always been pretty darn good at any FPS I pick up. Started with Delta Force 2 on the computer (Novalogic) and out of the thousands of people that played that, I was in the top 10 - FPS' have always come very natural to me. I wonder why that is? Maybe it's just a case of growing up with these things, versus older players who are more used to mario type games.

[Arito]

I've sucked at pretty much any next gen shooter I've played online (GoW, FEAR, Resistance) but CoD4 somehow works for me. Everybody has said it before but knowing the map really is key. You have to know where the territorial battles are fought. Very often there is some spot in a map everybody either instinctively goes to or wants to occupy. All the action is there so go there! Use grenades in these situations and always try to come from wherever they are not expecting you to come from.

Aim for the head!