Originally Posted by Pokerface

I reconcile it like this:

A closet has one method of entrance/egress, and is walled on all other sides. While you CAN shoot through the walls of a closet at zombies that can't touch you, you're shooting blind. The tactical advantage is that the survivors must cover a smaller area: the smaller the chokepoint, the easier it is to whomp the enemy.

That ramp has one entrance yet is open on most sides (including up). Defending the area is no longer about minimizing the area that the team needs to cover; it's making the whole team (by and large) untouchable through a combination of position and ability to see from that position.

See, to me, camping a confined area to limit the survivors exposure is a more then acceptable tactic on any map, the biggest problem is map design. The problem with it lies in the fact that on any other map except the finale, camping does little for the survivors other then limiting their exposure during a panic event. No matter what they have to eventually come out of that closet and get moving again. On the finales however the survivors can sit and camp that singular location until the rescue vehicle arrives. The tactic itself isn't a problem, it's the map design that allows or actually encourages the survivors to use this tactic for the entirity of the map.

Look at blood harvest's finale. The survivors can sit and camp in the room with the medpacks and ammo and totally destroy the enemy tank before he can get off 3 punches, and move into the living room/kitchen to totally negate any physics object the tank can punch around.

I still stick with my earlier comments that those tactics are cheesy, but not exploitative. So far I've had to ban over 20 puggers for either trying to exploit their way past the event on nm03 or using the gatling gun exploit to skip content/ Those types of moves are definte exploits. anything else is just an overpowered tactic.