Lasertag! Campers everywhere!!

Yesterday I went for two rounds of lasertag with my sister, four of my cousins and my friend.

It was still Chinese New Year, and the lasertag arena we went to had a Chinese New Year promotion. So we played two games, and it was rather cheap in my opinion.

There were a lot of people there, so we had no choice but to play in teams. Unfortunately, playing in teams was really annoying in the first round as it was chaotic as hell, and more often than not, most of us team mates got penalised for friendly fire.

One thing that got me really annoyed was the amount of campers in the arena. For those of you who do not know the meaning of the term 'camper', it is a person or a group of people that usually just hang around in a spot and just shooting enemies from that spot. It is a lazy tactic and really a boring strategy. But is worked very well in lasertag, too well.

Campers were killing people here and there when they enter their territory, and I was pissed as hell. But the lasertag game had this nifty little thing where when you successively shoot enough people, your gun will become rapid fire, and if you kill even more, you become invulnerable for a few seconds. This works wonders for me as I usually have my rapid fire when I'm invincible. Once I got invulnerability I quickly rushed into the camper's zone and shoot the crap out of them. Best part? They were stunned on why they can't shoot me!

But the game ended, and we were 3rd place out of four. Even though I was the top scorer in my team, I was really annoyed by the fact that there are campers, and that the marshals never did anything to deal with these guys.

So we had another game left, and this time it was three teams instead. So now, being a bit annoyed from the first game, decided to devise a plan this time. I asked some of my cousins to head to the highest level of the arena, where some will be using the laser gun as a sniper and snipe those guys from the top, and some will cover the snipers. As for the others like me, we'll just roam the arena and shoot any enemy we see.

So, yeah. I was trying to beat the campers by out-camping them. Did it worked? A bit. One team had to resort into having five people camping in one small area, which would mean death for any other team when heading there, but it's just so funny to see them camp in a small spot. It's like playing a First Person Shooter online, with 5 campers hiding near the spawn just hoping for someone to arrive.

Needless to say, my team played better this time, even though we were just 2nd out of three teams. And as expected, the team that had five people camping in one spot - the blue team, got last. Again, I was the top scorer in my team.

I really think that all those time when I was playing the light-gun shooter series Time Crisis helped me a lot playing lasertag.

I think that next time I should apply to be a member there, then I will try to be the best lasertag player there.