10 Hilarious Ways To Troll People In Online Games

4. Spawn Camping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0sg5163OsU This is one of the most infuriating ones of the lot, but poor game design is as much to blame as the trolls who choose to exploit it. Spawn camping consists of exactly what it says; camping at the enemy's spawn-point, such that you're able to freely pick off the players as they respawn. Granted some games have sought to combat this, by allowing newly-spawned players temporary invulnerability, or staggering spawns over the space of the map, though the latter is only really successful if the map is large enough. This is a pretty cruel one, so it takes a cruel sense of humour to get a kick out of it, especially when it can almost "break the game" in a sense, if the enemies are left defenceless. Thankfully for their sake, spawn camping is mostly a thing of the past, as FPS games have become more complex and intuitive. But still, if we can get the opportunity to get some easy kills, we're hardly going to turn it down, are we?
 
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