Do you get mad at video games?

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I was playing Call of Duty: United Offensive, yesterday and one thing always bugs me. During the final battle at the train station in Kharkov, you have to put up with a lot of things, not the least of which are incessant stuka runs. The problem is, after a while it seems pretty obvious that the damn stukas are only trying to kill one thing: you. If you save the game the moment someone yells out a stuka is coming, the stuka will likely drop a bomb on your head. Reload and move somewhere forward or back. The stuka will still probably drop a bomb on your head. You can actually see it alter it’s fight path to try to hit you.

Rather breaks the illusion that you’re just a single soldier in a big war, when all the stukas are trying to kill YOU in particular.

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Well, you can’t blame them: if I was the enemy, I too would want to kill that guy that keeps respawning every time I kill him! :smiley:

I get so mad at my teammates in the COD games that I try to get them killed just to get them out of the way. If you’re hiding in a building, you push them outside one by one, so they’ll get sniped and won’t bock your retreat if you need to back off in a hurry.

I guess that’s why I don’t play online :wink:

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True, but according to the rules, you don’t actually die. You die and then go back in time to an arbitrary point where you’re still alive.

So while you experience death a lot, the enemy just sees a soldier who just happens to know every ambush is coming.