Yeah, gonna have to disagree with both the reasons in this article. I don't know about anyone else, but I've learned a lot from watching killcams. And it sounds like the writer is just complaining about lag more than anything, which is his own problem. Discouraging campers is always good, and frankly if a sniper can't be bothered to relocate every couple of minutes then he's not going to last long anyway, with or without killcams.

I love killcams (though in th egames I have played with them they seem to be slightly different than COD) because you know where you were killed from and if the player who killed you is stupid (which lot seem to be) then when you respawn you can repay the favour.

In Resistance 2 I got about 3 kills in a row because the killcam.One guy sniped me so when I respawned, I ran to where he was and there was about 3 of them sniping. So I snuck behind them and smacked them all in the back of the head getting 1 hit kills.

I got a lot of kills in R2 due to killcams.I would sneak to snipers, activate stealth then smack them in the back of the head.I sometimes racked up like 15 kills in a single match by doing that.


If you are smart enough, killcams are nothing but cool.

Well, go team retard.

If your game is lagging and the Killcam is affected that isn't the game's fault, it's your fault for having an inadequate connection/playing with people with inadequate connections.

As for snipers, of course it doesn't affect realism. Do you know why? Because any soldier worth a damn will know where a sniper is as soon as he shoots his rifle. So if we assume, from a realistic stand-point, that respawns are actually back-up soldiers entering the battle (since resurrection would be unrealistic, and apparently that's so *bleep*ing important these days) then they would have been radioed the position of the sniper by their allies/heard the shot and seen sense themselves. In a realistic battle situation in which there were only a small number of people on each size in an enclosed space, a sniper would have to constantly be on the move anyway otherwise they'd be made and killed very quickly.

Besides, what is a sniper that doesn't move around from position to position? A camper. So... you lose. Goodbye.

Hideo, if you knew who you were talking to, you would realize that calling me a sniper-camper is laughable. I don't have a single kill with a sniper rifle and I NEVER camp. Have you ever seen El Presador on Youtube? That is how I play. I'm always on the move, never standing still. Campers ruin CoD games for me. I don't understand how its fun to hide in a corner and shoot someone as they run by. I like giving the other person a fair chance to kill me. Gun on gun, though, YER DONE.

I'm arguing against KillCams because 1) they are fake so they cannot be used as a learning tool and 2) they SHOULDN'T give away position. There should be other ways this game combats campers. KillCams aren't really working to this effect considering how widespread camping is so saying that KillCams help defeat campers is completely wrong. Just look at how the game is played.

I could come up with 10 ways to completely take camping out of this game and killcams aren't one of them. They should be taken out because they have absolutely no purpose and just frustrate players when they show fake stories on how they died.

I have a 2.02 k/d ratio. As a runner-and-gunner, that is equivalent to something like 6.0+ if I were a camper. I obviously don't suck at the game, I hate when people think that when someone complains about a game it's because they suck at it. I'm a BEAST and my stats and play-style prove it.

I also don't see why you are claiming it's my connection. I have a 40,000kbps connection man, how much faster do I need?! These are widespread criticisms of Call of Duty games, it's not just a personal problem. Call of Duty uses very poor lag compensation coding. It's the mechanics of the game, not my connections. Why doesn't this happen in other shooters if it were simply my connection?

Do you have any more rationalizations / excuses as to why I'm wrong which I can completely blow out of the water?

Maybe people shouldn't talk about REALISM. Especially about a game where you have perks that make you immune to a 2 storey high fall, teleport to an enemy when using a ballistic knife and able to order a nuke strike without Presidential consent. If you want a game to be realistic without the Kill cam, maybe the game maker should look at the US military's hardware in current conflicts. They do have audio sensors in their Humvees that detect gun shots. Why not apply those in games? Campers? I believed there's a company that's currently making a motion/body sensor just like the one used in the film Aliens. It already promoted the device to the military.

Personally i think Killcams are pointless, and the only purpose they should serve is who and how they got the last kill in the game. Also all you people that think anyone who hates killcams are campers who don't move and gets killed because their position was given away, i don't camp i run around with a machine gun and shoot people in the head. i hate killcams so much i play hardcore....and i like people to die when i shoot them in the chest with a 50 cal.

....People are funny. This is a Jenga situation. Remove the Killcam and you'd have to rebalance the rest of the game.

Lag I'd probably know better than most, being a Canadian in the boonies. I still get to see killcams no problem, and I deserve 80% of my deaths. 10% it's because of teammates being useful, and the other 10% is legitimate lag spikes noone has any control over.Why complain about something you have no control over is beyond me. I treat it the same as not voting and politics.

Meanwhile the realism debate is a giant strawman as the only true test would be to join the army yourself, otherwise quit playing videogames. Considering Black Ops is the most balanced (with the notable exception of fast claymores and RCXD) entry into the series everyone should just have their f&^$ing cake and eat it too. Playstyles will always be playstyles, there is no win all - there's a counter to every situation and tactic and it's up to the better player to know them. Don't like killcams? Play hardcore, since you're already enough of a tryhard to contemplate the fair nature and realism of war, which is an intrinsically unfair human behaviour. /debate

Well as I stated earlier, my connection is a beast and yet I would say 75% or more of the killcams I see are telling me a false story that did not happen. The vast majority of my deaths are undeserved. Maybe I'm too good at the game so the game compensates and gives me free deaths to make sure I don't dominate every lobby I'm a part of?