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What's with all the "Newb" this and "Newb" that?

  • 25-03-2007 9:07pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭


    Has anyone else noticed that if you use certain equipment, some people will call you a newb?

    Eg; Grenade Launcher - "Nice use of the newb tube jerk."
    Claymores - "You're such a newb sniper."
    Grenades - "Omg you're such a newb, grenade spamming!"

    It almost seems as if you're expected to come across an enemy troop, wait untill he's nodded at you, and then fire pistols at 20 paces?

    You know, I've been playing BF2 a long time, and I've got (As of whenever my stats were updated) 15,600 kills and 13,788 deaths, so I'd say I'm probably not that much of a newb.

    Bah, minor annoyance though.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Citizen_Erased


    It appears to be the early signs of the cross over of CSS syndrome where every single word of chat slowly but surely degrades into acrynoms implying the stupidity/newbishness/hacking/sexual relationships with oneself-ish-ness of any player who just killed them. Its a slippper slope , and i liked battlefield for the very reason it was a break from that css behaviour.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭TheHairyFairy


    The game is full of **** at the moment, between accusations of hacking to good players and servers running with no admins at all allowing players to wall hack etc, its a real joke now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Creature


    Reminds me of a server I was on once. One particular player who was on the other side kept remarking that players were noobs if they killed him with any unlock weapon. "Omg n00b Scar L Wtf?!", "Lol G36 noob gun!" and so on.
    Those people are called idiots. The best way to deal with them is to outplay them and not let what they say get to you.
    Join a clan - that way you get to kick/ban them when they act up :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    There pissed you pwnd them tbh lolz. :D

    As creature said there idiots! Dont mind them and outplay them!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,920 ✭✭✭AnCapaillMor


    Yeah it gets annoying alright, especially when it comes to APMs in 2142. They're the noobs for walking into them. Basically these guys are so good that it only takes a noob fluke to kill them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭christophicus


    When I saw the title of this thread I was like "this is something that belongs in the CS thead not here" . In 2142 i find that it is very rarely that something like this happens. i think i have only seen it once and thats with me having played for over 70 hours!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭V9


    I'll tell ya what gets on my back, idiots who seem to think they are one man armies. Another thing, when one asks for a resupply/medpac when sanding beside an assault or supply, is it too much to ask to drop the damn box??

    Honestly, its idiots like that who are ruining the game, oh and **** who decide to take out the transport ships in titan and decide to jump out at the last second and forget about the lads in the back!! GAH!! Those are the noobs, ****...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Instant Karma


    noob tube ftw - seriously best weapon in the game I love it.

    i would call any idiot a 'newb' for fagmore spamming, how lowskilled is that?.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,370 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    noob tube ftw - seriously best weapon in the game I love it.

    i would call any idiot a 'newb' for fagmore spamming, how lowskilled is that?.
    How much skill does it take to avoid them? :cool:

    If you let us know where you would like us to place the claymores we will be happy to oblige.:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 327 ✭✭Jackabo


    Ah every game has them types of hemeroids playing, Bfv was the worst when you followed the noise of someone fresh out of water and killed them "omg how did you know i was there ?" "You hacker !" "Jackabo should be more like Hackabo!! " bla bla bla .But i actually enjoy all that ,it gives you more of a stiffy when you keep killing them again & again ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    You can't be picking good servers, methinks ;)

    Ain't had that at all, bar the odd one or two exceptions, in about a year of playing it.

    But then I usually get myself either on 'mature' servers (oldb@st@rdsclan.co.uk - note name edited with '@' for decency :) ), or on north european servers (german/swedish/finn are quite good), or on the jolt.co.uk ones. Plenty of decent teamplayers, and idiots of the kind you describe don't stay there long (they're made pretty unwelcome tbh - never given a ride, or revived, or given ammo/medipacks or offered cover fire, etc. :D )

    EDIT Oh, and I do use the auld M203 plenty - can't beat it when you start up Karkand as US and you got to make your way through that bunch of alleyways...

    Am using two PIDs atm btw, need to edit my entry in the sticky - ambro25 my oldest one (playing any kit, mostly sniper/assault/spec-ops), and 5T3F (playing nearly only as medic/AT).
    GreeBo wrote:
    If you let us know where you would like us to place the claymores we will be happy to oblige.:rolleyes:

    ...round the next corner, or just behind him as he lays prone (but resisting the urge to knife kill is the hardest part) :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Just wait for the "OMFG!!!!, 2:1 kd, l2p without hack u newb!"

    I learned not to play.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,920 ✭✭✭AnCapaillMor


    Jackabo wrote:
    Bfv was the worst when you followed the noise of someone fresh out of water and killed them "omg how did you know i was there ?" "You hacker !" "Jackabo should be more like Hackabo!! " bla bla bla .

    Latest version is 2142's active camo, people who use it forget you can hear it a mile away. when you shoot them when its active, you get pretty much the same.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    GreeBo wrote:
    How much skill does it take to avoid them? :cool:

    If you let us know where you would like us to place the claymores we will be happy to oblige.:rolleyes:

    Agreed.

    Go charging into a flag area, you should expect to be splattered across the wall by a claymore. Doesn't take a genius to work out that you can actually spot them and go around them very easily.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Instant Karma


    any idiot can throw down a few claymores round a flag radius. and those things have a MASSIVE blast area so most of the time by the time you see it your toast. Its EZMode frags tbh, anyone can do that with no effort whatsoever.

    The funny ones are the snipers who run at you with claymore in hand in the hopes of throwing one down and getting you before they die.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    Latest version is 2142's active camo, people who use it forget you can hear it a mile away. when you shoot them when its active, you get pretty much the same.

    And if you are in a squad with the helmet you can see them on netbat anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    any idiot can throw down a few claymores round a flag radius. and those things have a MASSIVE blast area so most of the time by the time you see it your toast. Its EZMode frags tbh, anyone can do that with no effort whatsoever.

    Well, (i) it's a game simulating combat and (ii) combat includes AP explosives so (iii) it simulates AP explosives as well :rolleyes: If you don't like it, don't play it, just stick to Unreal or CS.

    Another twist, if you want: (i) it's a game where you win by capping flags and (ii) to avoid losing you have to stop opponents capping your own flags so (iii) any means provided in-game (Claymore, C4, etc.) to do that is fair game :rolleyes: If you don't like it, don't play it, just stick to Unreal or CS.

    etc.
    The funny ones are the snipers who run at you with claymore in hand in the hopes of throwing one down and getting you before they die.

    And it works every time! :p You kill, the sniper drops, the next thing you do is move and... bang :D For a sniper, the claymore is the best item to have in hand (better than rifle, pistol or nades) when moving from a sniping post to another, in case you get jumped.

    ...
    <>[]<>
    <blahblah> [G36C] <ambro25>
    <ambro25> [claymore] <blahblah>
    <>[]<>
    ...
    oooh, the satisfaction :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Instant Karma


    just as well the snipers are so easy to kill in everyother regard. When i find a snniper lying down, i wont even go for a knife, i just shoot the b@st in the back..now thats satisfaction :D

    or sniping them back with an AT kit...ohhh yes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Evd-Burner


    The best has to be when u kill some1 when ur assault and w8 for them to be revived then fire the nade launcher and kill 2 of them...

    The accusations go flying all over the place they start cursing and all...

    Thats when i ban them from the server :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Instant Karma


    haha i love doing that, I have the biggest grin when i get a frag as assault and see a medic run too him... then you just wait a few secs to make sure he gets the revive then boom :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    sniping medics is fun too :)

    headshot an emeny sniper, wait for medic to res him, head shot the medic and then hit the sniper whatever way you can.

    Even more fun is playing support (2142) and hitting two guys coming around a corner. with luck there's a medic out of sight that just keeps resing them... eventually someone throws a 'nade right at the corner and ruins your fun :( - for some reason camp gibraltar seems to be the most popular location for this past-time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    I have a spot on karkand where I place two claymores at the start of every round when playing as mec.. I have 2 - 4 kills about 5 mins later.. its kinda n00bish but I dont care :D

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭d22ontour


    Claymoring the spawn-points, how evil.

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭TheHairyFairy


    Teh noob tube is teh fun allright. Ignore the **** when they post about newb this and newb that. When you have a 3 or 4 to 1 KDR it shows who is the noob.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,920 ✭✭✭AnCapaillMor


    Favourite moment with a noobtube, karky, 2nd flag, guys come around the corner, tube him, medic jumps in, just as i finish reload, tube him and the other guy i originally killed. reloading and i could'nt believe my eyes, 2 medics jump in to revive the other 2, waited for them to do it and tubed the 4. The guy i originally killed left the server then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭spooky donkey


    Has anyone else noticed that if you use certain equipment, some people will call you a newb?
    .

    AH look at ya, ye noob poster.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,912 ✭✭✭SeantheMan


    lmao @ spookey :D

    Best thing is Outsniping..if you can call it that...a sniper..using a Rocket from miles away:D :D
    Love killin them on top TV station on Sharqui:o :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,817 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    YORE. MA. has the gout.

    Prove otherwise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    just wondering, does the claymore charge work in 2142 and 2? (no reason for asking ofc, just curious :P)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Claymore at the top of the stairs. BOOM. Put another one down. BOOM. Put the last one down. BOOM. wait at the top of the ladder, wait untill you hear them, kill them, take their kit (and their claymore's), and reapeat step one...

    As for an easy kill: yes, but if you're sniping, its dumb not covering your back.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    Best one i had was a 5 man deagle clutch on inferno. I was staled as a deagle noob :/

    I mean common.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭nzamcdza


    lol quality


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭X-Ecuti0ner


    Has anyone else noticed that if you use certain equipment, some people will call you a newb?

    Eg; Grenade Launcher - "Nice use of the newb tube jerk."
    Claymores - "You're such a newb sniper."
    Grenades - "Omg you're such a newb, grenade spamming!"

    It almost seems as if you're expected to come across an enemy troop, wait untill he's nodded at you, and then fire pistols at 20 paces?

    You know, I've been playing BF2 a long time, and I've got (As of whenever my stats were updated) 15,600 kills and 13,788 deaths, so I'd say I'm probably not that much of a newb.

    Bah, minor annoyance though.
    OMG YOU ARE SUCH A NOOB. it's noob not newb. lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    OMG YOU ARE SUCH A NOOB. it's noob not newb. lol
    STFU n00b.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭X-Ecuti0ner


    lol, jk guys...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    Anti wrote:
    Best one i had was a 5 man deagle clutch on inferno. I was staled as a deagle noob :/

    I mean common.......


    haha cs ftw!!!!1

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Grim.


    DeafVision wrote:
    haha cs ftw!!!!1

    cant believe you said that your such a noob daz *shakes head* ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭FranDrastic


    I'm new to 2142 but enjoying it. What's "the noob tube" when it's at home?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    There ain't one in 2142 (I believe).

    n00b tube 101

    A n00b tube™ is an M203 grenade launcher, habitually underslung (under the barrel) on an M16 assault rifle (such as equipping the standard assault infantryman in BF2). See below:

    159491ss_sm2.jpg

    Deemed the n00b tube™ because of the medium range of the grenade throw and the blast radius of the grenade on impact, which help BF2 beginners to get lucky multikills from a reasonably safe distance and/or kill enemies in one not-so precise shot at close range.

    Skillfully used by a seasoned player, it ceases to be a n00b tube™ and becomes a portable piece of pinpoint-precise artillery™, particularly suited to urban combat and most helpful in the context of commo-coordinated team-based tactics, for laying suppressing fire on massed infantry defenses/static posts while buddies go round the back with knives...

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,920 ✭✭✭AnCapaillMor


    I'm new to 2142 but enjoying it. What's "the noob tube" when it's at home?

    It was the grenade launcher attachment in BF2 that went with standard assault rifle. It was bloody lethal, and waay too easy, i remember racking up 1700 kills with it. The 2142 equivalent would be the rocket launcher attachment for the assault gun, good long range but crap up close, the noobtube was lethal medium to short range.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 David K


    i just shoot the b@st in the back..now thats satisfaction :D

    or sniping them back with an AT kit...ohhh yes.
    so true
    love when you hear a sniper shot in your area,check your map and c no 1 from your team is around
    u track the sound and low and behold there he is !!!
    sneek up and cap his ass with a shot in the back of the head

    ftw :)


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