Ricochet wrote:Recently in Fortress I've begun to see a number of players complaining about "ganking". It appears to be the newest moaning, with people now moved on from holing.
Basically, it turns out that it means attackers crowding the zone to get the points and win the round, for example after an attacker has broken defense and cut the zone in half so to speak, another attacker(s) come in and capture the zone.
When asking the people who scream "bah, gankers", "omg ganked", "ganktastic", etc, they dont have a reason behind their "argument" as to me, they just see it as another way to complain to try and piss people off or hope that people wont do it to them in the future so they win.
How I see things is, its a team game - to win for the team, you need to either kill everyone on the other team or capture the zone. Now to me it seems the easiest and generally fastest way is to capture the zone - so what is the problem in crowding a zone so your team wins?
I just dont get it. Plus, Whats the betting the moaners even "gank" the opponents defense in important matches such as AFL, ladles or clan wars...
Rant mode over.
omg if i see anyone "complaing" about this ima smack them. I personally don't "gank" just cuz i hope my teammate dies and i get to 1v1 sumo the defender But to complain, o pish shut up
For every strategy, there is a counter-strategy. Only strategies that can't be stopped with a counter-strategy should be taken out of gameplay. "Ganks"/"Crowding" and Holes can be easily stopped with sweeps.
HellBlade wrote:well if it's just 3 people on the server then yes I fullly agree with how it is cheap cause nothing stops them from just speeding all the way to the defender and going around him into the zone. Unless you make a square in the zone (wont go all the way outside of the zone protecting it.
Tobe wrote:For every strategy, there is a counter-strategy. Only strategies that can't be stopped with a counter-strategy should be taken out of gameplay. "Ganks"/"Crowding" and Holes can be easily stopped with sweeps.
I'm pretty sure there is no counter-strategy to your opponent being awesome.