Blog:Stereotypes of FPS Players (Supersalsaboy)

The following is a list containing common stereotypes of FPS players.

The Hacker
Hacking is the act of modifying the game's code simply to give yourself an unfair advantage. Hacking is typically frowned upon because it ruins the experience of everyone else playing the game. Well, usually execpt for the hacker themselves and a few of their teamates. Double standards will rise however as they love having a hacker on their team, but hate having them as opponents. Hackers will eventually be banned and everyone may resume to play the game normally again. That doesn't mean most hackers will just wait for their ban to be over or just make a new account however.

Signs of hacking:
 * Suspiciously high accuracy (aimbot).
 * Either takes no damage or has too much health (invincibility).
 * Continously spams powerful weapons like grenades or special attacks and never runs out.
 * Moving faster than normal players (speedbot).
 * Janky poses and movements like spinning around endlessly and always looking straight up.
 * Odd username or usernames that change.
 * Killing you like he knows where you are (X-ray vision mods).

The 9 Year Old
Ah yes, perhaps one of the bigger and more infamous stereotypes. Although the fps genre is typically aimed at teens and a mature audience, many spoiled kids think that the game suitable for them. Many of them have little to no skill and think that it is safe to chat with total strangers on the microphone. Alright, we get that many shooters are fun to play, but can you maybe just wait until you are older to play this game? No? Alright then.

Signs of the 9 year old:
 * "Don't kill me!"
 * "Get rekt noob!"
 * Childlike voice.
 * "My dad is (John Kodera/Bill Gates/Gabe Newell) and he's going to ban you!"
 * "Hacker!"
 * ”You guys are noobs!”
 * ”Stop knifing me!”
 * Awful grammar.

The Noscoper
Okay, this stereotype is not really that common anymore since MLG is a dead meme by now, but that doesn't mean a few people still like to use the meme. They always think that they are so cool by shooting enemies from a distance and not zooming in on the sniper rifle scope. In reality, that just makes it harder to actually shoot people and ends up wasting ammo. They also are usually unaware of how bad they are because most of them are in the toxic meme community.

Signs of the Noscoper:
 * Uses a text to speech voice.
 * Has a ridiculous username, such as "XXXXX_(insert dank meme here)_XXXXX".
 * Uses dank terms like "rekt" and "scrub".
 * Always picks the sniper rifle and never zooms in.
 * Always spins around once before shooting.
 * Spams very loud MLG music every single time they get a kill.
 * Always getting mad at randoms (people who don’t noscope)
 * Being in locked lobbies letting each other kill each other for noscope kills.

The Camper
Camping is the act of remaining in spot for most or the entirety of the game, hoping that someone will just walk right past you while you are hiding in the corner and then you can just shoot them and get easy kills. The most common type of camping would be spawnkilling, as the term implies, it is hiding by the spawn of the enemy team and killing them the second they respawn, making them harmless and most likely causing them to rage in the chat or quitting.

The Drill Sergeant
You've had a bad day. You got an F on your test, your girlfriend dumped you, that package you ordered still won't come in, you just want to take your mind off of it all and play video games. NOT! In gaming, you would encounter someone who would yell a lot. Whether it’s role playing or an FPS shooter, there is someone who is the drill sergeant. Like drill sergeants in the military, they often yell at their teammates to complete the objective. These people usually have short tempers and take the game too seriously. In role playing military games such as ROBLOX military groups, you have these kids pretending to be drill instructors or soldiers by yelling orders to lower ranks in caps looks, “doing PT” etc. Such children take it WAY TOO SERIOUSLY, as if it was the real deal. These kids have no clue about how the life of a soldier is: you have to do PT everyday in the Army and Marines, you have to shoot a real gun which is very loud and can cause some ear damage, getting yelled at in real life is nothing compared to getting yelled at by texts, you may lose some body parts, get traumatized, kill people, be forced to participate in killing, seeing friends and enemies get killed, having to live life in bad conditions, not getting paid much, etc.

Signs of the Drill Sergeant:
 * Can't accept any sort of mistake a teammate makes.
 * Can't accept any sort of mistake they make.
 * "You guys are garbage!"
 * Threatens to report teammates if they lose.
 * Gets personal and starts talking about stats.
 * Rage quitting the second the enemies win or score a point over their team's.
 * Almost always uses the voice chat.
 * Always praises self about being the best on the team.

The Troll/Griefer
Trollers/Griefers are gamers of all ages who usually try to troll their teammates and not take the game seriously. This can get often annoying and frustrating, especially if the team wants to play the game for grinding and points. Usually, the majority of trollers/griefers tend to target users who use mheadphones just to hear their reactions. Here are some things that trollers/griefers might do:


 * Teamkill.
 * Block a path so that his teammates cannot escape.
 * Make offensive emblems.
 * Bypass the username.
 * Purposely messing up the objective, such as not defusing the bomb in search and destroy.
 * Teabagging on dead enemy players and teammates.
 * Stealing or destroying teammates equipments.
 * Stealing a drop item from another player who worked hard for it.
 * Trapping players of both teams, such as trapping players with riot shields in Call of Duty: Black Ops II
 * Messing around with noobs or new and inexperienced players.

The Micspammer
Nothing can really be described about this stereotype expect for playing unwanted sounds into the voice chat. They will commonly spam:
 * Hated songs like Baby Shark.
 * On a rare occasion, they will spam NSFW.
 * Sing obnoxiously.
 * Very loud songs.
 * Gross out sounds like farts.
 * Meme music.
 * Moaning and groaning sound effects.

The Lone Wolf
You rarely ever encounter a lone wolf player in games because many modern day shooters like Overwatch and Splatoon (1 and 2) heavily rely on teamwork and cooperation due to the fact that you have less teammates. Lone Wolves are almost the exact opposites of Drill Sergeants, because while they boss their teams around and get mad as heck when they lose, the team is inferior in the eyes of the wolf, and only serves as cover while they attack. This is the type of player that goes "Get carried!" when they win, even if it actually was a team effort. Many wolves could actually be smurf accounts if they seem to be experienced, which is why they tend to brag a lot if they win and tell their team that they did all of the work. When you do encounter one of these in the game, here is what they will usually do:


 * They will try to play the game without the assistance of his teammates, which is basically self-importance.
 * Ignore teammates that need to be revived, this is common in games like Splatoon 2's Salmon Run mode.
 * Frustration to inexperienced teammates.
 * "Get carried!"
 * "Easy!"

Credit goes to Like a Boss999 for writing 3 of the sections. 