A lost but fun feature in games: Playing Dead

[troybob]

Wouldn't it be kooky if you could play dead in BF2?

It's not a realistic or very useful tactic, so I understand why it's not in video games anymore, but I still think it'd be kooky. Maybe the only weapon you have while playing dead is the ability to trip other players. But then you'd have a bunch of guys shooting dead bodies.

It's good for certain types of games, but probably not for FPS.

discuss.

[DOGGiE52]

Wow no no no no, never for BF2. But in real life I could actually picture it being a pretty nice tactic. But nowadays less and less battles are actually fought over large areas, more and more it just missiles flying around so maybe it wouldn't be useful after all.

[troybob]

Wow no no no no, never for BF2. But in real life I could actually picture it being a pretty nice tactic. But nowadays less and less battles are actually fought over large areas, more and more it just missiles flying around so maybe it wouldn't be useful after all.

I actually agree that it would not be good for BF2, the feature would be ridiculed by hard core gamers and developers alike.

Answer me this though doggie, have you ever played a game with a "play dead" feature? (or any similiar feature e.g.: in space sims, shutting down your ship so you look disabled)

[Chris_Redfield]

Ive done it many a times. Theres a chopper airbourne, and you see a friendly corpse, what do you do? I know I lie on the corpse and wait for the best. It has saved me more than a few times.

[jesus]

I actually agree that it would not be good for BF2, the feature would be ridiculed by hard core gamers and developers alike.

Answer me this though doggie, have you ever played a game with a "play dead" feature? (or any similiar feature e.g.: in space sims, shutting down your ship so you look disabled)

well, in the UT3 MP demo there's a play dead feature. It's really fun, and it works well in that game, but I don't think it would work in BF2.

Also, in america's army, sometimes my brother plays dead and he said it works most of the time. He's go prone and drops his gun on the ground. a lot of time I'll see the enemy walk right by him. then he'll get up, get his gun, and kill the guy lol

[waaah_wah]

This probably wont work too well in BF2 since corpses only stay for about 20 sec. It does work in PR tho.. Since corpses dont dissapear for about 1 min or so in PR.

[ConscriptVirus]

the spy in TFC (team fortress classic) could play dead. but i dont think uc an do that in TF2

[L3adcannon]

Playing dead is in UT3 and it`s useful at time, not agains good players though. I mostly use it for reaching unreachable places with the rag-doll that kicks in when playing dead.

[DOGGiE52]

I actually agree that it would not be good for BF2, the feature would be ridiculed by hard core gamers and developers alike.

Answer me this though doggie, have you ever played a game with a "play dead" feature? (or any similiar feature e.g.: in space sims, shutting down your ship so you look disabled)

Never. Ever.

[CQ-Reborn]

I actually agree that it would not be good for BF2, the feature would be ridiculed by hard core gamers and developers alike.

Answer me this though doggie, have you ever played a game with a "play dead" feature?

Team Fortress Classic

[camper.]

Ive done it many a times. Theres a chopper airbourne, and you see a friendly corpse, what do you do? I know I lie on the corpse and wait for the best. It has saved me more than a few times.

Same. I also make a note to "kill" dead bodies in a chopper whenever I can. Just have to make sure

[imported_Erol]

It could be useful after you jumped out your heli because that Apache is shooting at you, play dead and make the gunner leave you alone :P

And only if you could swim underwater, I cant count how many times i'v tried to get the to carrier (at Oman) while im MEC with a boat, and a apache sees my and rapes me, it would be nice to dive in for like 10 seconds so they think its just a empty boat.

wad?

[Baron Fuzzy]

Troybob you fool! How could anyone safely move in for the teabag when theres a risk of being bitten?

[LightBred]

so maybe some people do take teabagging in bf2 sexually.
:hmm:

[Webs961]

Answer me this though doggie, have you ever played a game with a "play dead" feature? (or any similiar feature e.g.: in space sims, shutting down your ship so you look disabled)

Quite a few Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory mods have the playdead feature. It is a very, very powerful tactical tool (your character plays the wounded, not dead animation while you're playing dead, so as long as you gib players, you're fine against playdeaders). It takes time to go from the playdead animation to the firing animation, so it's not an immediate ambush. If you get into a firefight with a large group of people, drop down and playdead before you die, and each one of the enemies in the group (if they're foolish) will think that one of their buddies got the kill. Then, once they go on by you, you pop up and shoot them (or knife them) in the back.

Before you say it, yes, I know, W:ET has got to be the most unrealistic game, yadda yadda. I know.