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Tactical Gamer Primer
http://www.tacticalgamer.com/tactica...er-primer.html
Tactical Gamer has been through many incarnations over the years. The community was originally built back in 1996 around the popular game Quake 2, running the LMCTF mod. In the years following, we began hosting more games and underwent the re-branding that turned us into the Tactical Gamer you see today.
Tactical Gamer was founded with a few very simple principles:
1) Create an environment conducive for mature gamers to enjoy the games they play without the everyday interference from the less-than-mature gamers.
2) Create an environment where there was mutual respect for your fellow gamers and where all members would be working together to advance the enjoyment of their hobby.
3) Support game play in a near-simulation environment. Where the focus of play would not be solely on doing what it takes to win, but doing so utilizing real-world combat strategy and tactics rather than leveraging exploits provided to players by the design of the game engine, regardless of the level of advantage, if any, it gives over the opposing team.
The third principle is the most complex to understand and the most difficult to maintain. With so many viewpoints and interpretations as to what it means, people can become clouded as to what the overall objective is for our community.
Within Tactical Gamer, ANY activity that capitalizes on the limitations of a game to provide the advantage rather than that advantage coming from superior teamwork, strategy and tactics, is frowned upon. We all want to win when we play, but the focus at Tactical Gamer should be one of winning with some sort of dignity, honor, and skill, not because you were able to out-exploit the other team or box them into a corner built on technological weakness that gives you the advantage.
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Hi POE guys
I had a question about those 2 videos I linked above, mainly: is this appropriate and normal behaviour for
TG members (as well as admins) on the
TG POE Server? Or was this just on a silly/fun night where everyone was just goofing around?
I understand most the videos posted in this thread are all in good fun and mainly to poke fun at the various regulars of the POE server... but I wanted to get some clarity here. It's noticeable that alot of players come from vanilla
bf2 (and a few from POE as well) and when they first join the PR servers, they have a mindset that this kind of behaviour is acceptable and "normal" (lonewolfing, exploiting,etc) and after watching some of these videos, I thought maybe its because in these other
BF2 mods this kind of behavior is condoned and even encouraged...
Nothing wrong with a bit of fun, just noticing an interesting divide in the different sectors of
TG gaming and mindset. One thing I think most could agree with, is its really tough to explain that this type of gameplay is meeting with the
TG Primer...
Now dont get me wrong Im not trying to attack POE's gameplay or its player base, I just came looking for some positive answers from the
TG community. I've tried playing on the
TG POE server many times in the past but just couldnt get into the high paced action where most players were running around by themselves fishing for kills and there was very little if any VOIP useage (basically felt like vanilla
bf2). I'd love to get into a good game of POE, and I really do think that there must be interesting gameplay happening on the
TG POE server, but through the course of this thread I have not seen one solid gameplay footage of compelling teamwork, something that goes hand in hand when I think about
TG game servers...
So maybe I am missing the point of this thread, and you guys are storing all your uber awesome gameplay footage videos somewhere else, and this thread is just for silly inside jokes... either way, I would love to see some gameplay footage of Real compelling POE gameplay at its finest, with the best of the best using superior tactics and teamwork to close with and destroy an enemy!
