Private boosting - Yay or Nay??

shawpower

Okay, first up I want to state clearly that I've not boosted or glitched before, and never would in a public game. I'm also not saying I'd do this either, but a post I made in another thread got me thinking and I thought I'd play devils advocate...

What are people's thoughts on boosting in a full partied FFA? As in if there were six mates on line, go into a FFA match with no randomers and boost. What got me thinking was how hard it is to get the SitRep Pro perk, but I guess I'm asking about all the different boosting options.

I think the primary thing people hate about boosters is that it is ruining your game through their cheating. Boosting in a "private" FFA doesn't have this affect, so is it thus less of a pariah? Any benefit you get from this only has a secondary affect on people you face in public matches, and they are completely unaware that you killed them due to you having boosted to get that pro perk. Boosting in pub matches has a direct negative effect on them, and p1sses people off.

Obviously it is still a form of cheating as such, because you are boosting your stats to gain perks/challenges etc that you wouldn't get at all, or as quickly, by playing the game "properly". But my question is whether people still think this is a big no-no, or whether it wouldn't be as big a deal given you aren't directly hurting anyone in-game.

I have my own opinion on this already, but I thought I'd throw out the question for a while before giving my opinion.

Hoki

Im against boosting but what people do in their own private games doesnt bother me at all , they can go kamikaze cliff jumping while firing their RPGs and akimbo 1887s for all i care.

shawpower

Hoki wrote: »

Im against boosting but what people do in their own private games doesnt bother me at all , they can go kamikaze cliff jumping while firing their RPGs and akimbo 1887s for all i care.

Just to clarify, this isn't an actual private game. It's a pubic game but only with friends.

Private games don't affect your stats at all. Public ones obviously do.

So what I meant was if you had 6 XBox friends and went into a public FFA. No one else can enter, so you make it a "private" game in that way.

Tallon

Boosting is cheating full stop, its the same as 10th prestige hack...

The only time I would boost is in an offline game because, when I play with my brother or friends I find it unfair that I have all weapons unlocked and they have to use the crap default classes..

Shammy

Well as you know on one of my accounts i did go into an xp lobby and got ranked up to 10th. Nothing in my stats changed except for my rank and it was done in a private room.

As for public boosting i totally disagree with it, you are ruining other peoples game.

If eight people wanted to get together and boost , its up to them its still cheating as they are getting either a pro-perk by other means , and then if one in the party wanted to get a nuke you couldnt really say no.

You need 8 for ffa

Enigma IE

shawpower wrote: »

Okay, first up I want to state clearly that I've not boosted or glitched before, and never would in a public game. I'm also not saying I'd do this either, but a post I made in another thread got me thinking and I thought I'd play devils advocate...

What are people's thoughts on boosting in a full partied FFA? As in if there were six mates on line, go into a FFA match with no randomers and boost. What got me thinking was how hard it is to get the SitRep Pro perk, but I guess I'm asking about all the different boosting options.

I think the primary thing people hate about boosters is that it is ruining your game through their cheating. Boosting in a "private" FFA doesn't have this affect, so is it thus less of a pariah? Any benefit you get from this only has a secondary affect on people you face in public matches, and they are completely unaware that you killed them due to you having boosted to get that pro perk. Boosting in pub matches has a direct negative effect on them, and p1sses people off.

Obviously it is still a form of cheating as such, because you are boosting your stats to gain perks/challenges etc that you wouldn't get at all, or as quickly, by playing the game "properly". But my question is whether people still think this is a big no-no, or whether it wouldn't be as big a deal given you aren't directly hurting anyone in-game.

I have my own opinion on this already, but I thought I'd throw out the question for a while before giving my opinion.

April FOOL

shawpower

Shammy wrote: »

You need 8 for ffa

Oh yeah. So the question then would be if you had a full FFA lobby with 8 mates.

shawpower

Enigma IE wrote: »

April FOOL

Well it is kind of been asked tongue in cheek. I'm interested to see what the opinions are though.

Shammy

Ok Ok Rob i'll do it with you , as long as you get me the nuke symbol also the spinning cod4 symbol , plus i want red tiger camo on all of my guns ,

What'd ya say ????

shawpower

Shammy wrote: »

Ok Ok Rob i'll do it with you , as long as you get me the nuke symbol also the spinning cod4 symbol , plus i want red tiger camo on all of my guns ,

What'd ya say ????

Nooooo!! I want the spinning Nuke icon!!

Shammy

shawpower wrote: »

Nooooo!! I want the spinning Nuke icon!!

Ok i can do that for you but instead of red tiger camo i want the fall camo on all weapons plus 1,000 headshots with the desert eagle.

krudler

Im not bothered about when people boost in private, and to be honest booster hunting has become my new favourite pasttime when I get bored of playing matches properly I also take delight in being called a noob at level 45 then completely annihilating someone who's boosted their way to level 70 and cant actually play the game worth a sh1t or fall for the same tricks again and again.

I had great fun the other night where in a public FFA match I ran into someone down the back of the Skidrow map which is a booster hotspot, tbh I didnt even see him and thought he had me but he didnt shoot, so I didnt either and he thought I was up for boosting,so i followed him to a quiet part of the map, he got all set up, then bam, throwing knife in the back of the noggin, then after this I spent the whole game hunting him down and knifing him, he eventually quit, mwahaha

shawpower

Shammy wrote: »

Ok i can do that for you but instead of red tiger camo i want the fall camo on all weapons plus 1,000 headshots with the desert eagle.

Throw in the "All Pro" title and it's a deal.

Shammy

Done , should only take about 20/30 hours

Lab_Mouse

boosting is boosting.You are getting challenges/xp unfairly irrespective of whether or not you're ruining someones game....

Batmantastic

Boosting is boosting. However, I do see your point with it not affecting other peoples games. Regarding the perk challenges though, SitRep Pro is fairly easy because nearly EVERYONE uses Claymores. Not to mention it helps you find boosters with ease (spotting their Tac Inserts). I do have my own point to make on this though. Say you don't really use the Riot Shield. Does the completionist in you (Don't say you don't have an inner completionist because we all have) simply let you walk away from that blue emblem that you get when you deflect 50,000 bullets or do you grab a mate every now and then, and hammer it out? Considering the amount of XP you gain from it, it is miniscule. Again, you're not ruining other peoples games but as stated above you're obviously gaining these challenges in an unprofessional way. But can you honestly say that you haven't been in a FFA with mates and NOT boosted at least one challenge? I boosted a Nuke with some mates ONCE. And I didn't feel very proud because of it. But there are so many elitists out there who claim to never have boosted, but they seem to forget about that one time when they got their mate to stand there while they got the "Misery Loves Company" challenge. Bottom line, it's up to you and your mates if you want to boost. So long as you're not ruining anyone elses game then I can't see why there'd be a problem.

Hoki

But can you honestly say that you haven't been in a FFA with mates and NOT boosted at least one challenge?

Yes,yes i can honestly say that.

ardinn

I can say that too - Never have - 13 days playtime and only 3rd prestige lvl 40

Really thinking about it tho as some of the challenges are ridiculously hard to get.

And for the past three weeks ive been trying to get a nuke - lots of 20s 21s 22s and a 24 last night until some XXXXXXXXX ran into me while I was dropping a claymore and it blew up in my face

I almost cried.

Shammy

Hoki wrote: »

Yes,yes i can honestly say that.

Me too

Nuri Sahin

I think people must be pretty sad, desperate and pathetic to have to boost.

Play the game for what it is, a game. But no I have to get the Nuke emblem or Fall Camo because it makes me better than you.

The mentality of a lot of the COD community is small time.

That is all.

Dublindude69

I work hard for my rank, it pisses me off to think someone is higher then me with almost no time or effert spent getting it.

Batmantastic

Hoki wrote: »

Yes,yes i can honestly say that.

I find that hard to believe, if it is true then fair play. But my point is that people see boosting as somehow affecting their real lives when in actual fact it's only a game. It doesn't matter whether you're 5th Prestige or 10th, if you suck at the game then there's nothing you can do. I find it hilarious when I beast loads of 10th Prestige players because they've obviously hacked their profile. Boosting is irritating but it's SO easy to hunt them out, so I really don't see why there are so many people complaining about it.

I've boosted a couple of challenges and found that after doing so, I've gotten them a couple of times again since Prestiging. The point I'm making is that everyone is so "against" boosting when it doesn't really change the player's skill level at all, in fact it hinders it because all they're doing is sitting in a dark corner with a silenced weapon and a knife instead of actually playing the game and getting better.

Batmantastic

Dublindude69 wrote: »

I work hard for my rank, it pisses me off to think someone is higher then me with almost no time or effert spent getting it.

Why does it piss you off? You're working hard for your rank, so what if they're a higher rank, it doesn't mean they're better at the game than you or I.

shawpower

I didn't realise I'd be away so much since Thursday when I posted this. So here's my 2c. I've never boosted at all at any level.

I voted for option b. I'm 100% against anyone that boosts in a public game and has direct affect on you. However, I'm not as staunch about someone jumping into a game of just mates to fill out some challenges. The riot shield deflection is a perfect example. I've never once used Riot Shield, and I wouldn't think I will either, but do I want to get the challenge completed? Possibly. But overall I don't think I'd do it.

Interesting voting numbers. Basically a 3:1 vote against it, which is a big majority.

Praetor

Hoki wrote: »

Yes,yes i can honestly say that.

Another one here. Never boosted, not interested. The worst thing about booster is that they really dont understand that what they are doing is wrong. As soon as I see someone boosting I immediately stop playing and make my personal objective to hunt them and stop them. The worst thing is when they send you a PM insulting and giving out, telling you to get a life and to f.... off... although it amuses me I find it pathetic. How can they be so blind, I mean, they were the one boosting, should I be the one giving out and insulting them?

An analogy for boosting will be: you waiting in the queue for hours to get, for example, tickets to a concert, after a few hours of queuing a guy, who wasnt queing, sneaks in before you, you decide to tell him and the guy turns around, tells you to fec.k off and pushes you away. Then when is your turn you realize that he got the front row tickets you were hoping to get... People who boost are normally immature and with a lack of respect to everybody else, yesterday I got into a good few games, and of all of them with the exception of 1 there were people boosting... enjoyed hunting them but sometimes is jsut too much...

shanec1928

i think taking away 3d person cage match will lead to more people boosting in the game

shawpower

Praetor wrote: »

yesterday I got into a good few games, and of all of them with the exception of 1 there were people boosting... enjoyed hunting them but sometimes is jsut too much...

What game mode do you normally play? FFA? I have only seen people boosting maybe 5 times in seven and a half days playtime.

jk86

Batmantastic wrote: »

I find that hard to believe, if it is true then fair play. But my point is that people see boosting as somehow affecting their real lives when in actual fact it's only a game. It doesn't matter whether you're 5th Prestige or 10th, if you suck at the game then there's nothing you can do. I find it hilarious when I beast loads of 10th Prestige players because they've obviously hacked their profile. Boosting is irritating but it's SO easy to hunt them out, so I really don't see why there are so many people complaining about it.

I've boosted a couple of challenges and found that after doing so, I've gotten them a couple of times again since Prestiging. The point I'm making is that everyone is so "against" boosting when it doesn't really change the player's skill level at all, in fact it hinders it because all they're doing is sitting in a dark corner with a silenced weapon and a knife instead of actually playing the game and getting better.

You're a cheater. Most people aren't. How on earth would that be hard to believe?

hypersquirrel

forza rovers wrote: »

i think taking away 3d person cage match will lead to more people boosting in the game

Since they've taken it out I've been finding it very hard to get into a booster free game. Kinda hope they bring it back again.

CORaven

hypersquirrel wrote: »

Since they've taken it out I've been finding it very hard to get into a booster free game. Kinda hope they bring it back again.

Yeah I have been finding a lot more in FFA now, but it now more widespread in other game modes.
Two days after they removed the game mode, I played in a match that four of the eight were boosting with each other. One guy headshoting two of my tac-insert team mates and another guy over looking the whole thing, (he was involved anyway). Took me a while to notice as I don't pay attention to non-knife kills, but I managed to turn it around and win the TDM game. Spent the next few games making it hell for the group, much fun and many 'we will hack you' threats. What annoyed me was not the fact that they were boosting, but the fact that the other people who joined ignored the boosting and played 1 vs 2.

*edit* I know it was a public match, but they were trying to keep it private by getting people to leave I guess.

darraghwalsh100

i was folowing boosters in ffa and hiding and killing them all in hardcore so they wouldnt no were i am i got a 15 killstreak and the game winning kill