Why is backstabbing so broken in video games?
Why is backstabbing so broken IRL?
>>320290094
>>320290457
Fucking idiots, don't you know that your back is several times stronger than a polished shovel.
Go ahead, try and stab someone in the back in the real world. I gurantee that the knife will snap the moment you apply pressure.
>>320290457
does it have 5x damage multiplies and ignores armor defense?
>>320291289
Fuck you, I just pierced my friends lung and now he's calling the police.
>>320290094
tf2 uses a really old version of source and its coded like tangled spaghetti (also why valve won't even bother porting it to source2) This combined with the seriously flawed lag compensation and the way hitboxes and collision hulls work make lag compensation work always in favor of the attacker, especially when he has a bad connection.
The Souls series handles backstabbing even worse, and pvp would be much much more intriguing if they just removed bs from pvp entirely.
>>320290094
Because you keep showing me your back.
You're here to kill me - make no mistake I'm not going to miss my chance to do the same to you.
>>320291619
>Pierced lung
>Calling police
I smell Lies.
>>320291289
Don't try this. I did and it created chlorine gas.
>backstab humanoid enemy
>instakill
>backstab non-humanoid enemy
>only deal critical hit damage
>>320291797
>"hhhhghhhhghhhghhhhhhhhghhhhh"
>"The police are on the way to arrest you for wasting their time"
>>320291797
That makes no sense, why would someone go on the internet and lie?
>>320291643
>the way hitboxes and collision hulls work make lag compensation work always in favor of the attacker, especially when he has a bad connection.
Butthurt medic detected
>games where melee weapons don't do damage in a swinging area, they just shoot out a small hitscan directly over the crosshair
>>320292010
>Try to back stab guy on enemy team
>He jumps up, spins and tries to snipe me
>The third shot kills me
>Somehow i'm the asshole
>Knife makes bulletholes in walls
>>320292178
>projecting
>>320290094
>tfw trying to knock people out in deus ex
>>320291643
So THAT'S why my backstabs never register.
>>320290094
It's one of the few things IRL that pretty reliably kills people with little effort.
>>320291289
i tried, it's true. my buddy did a complete 360 and stabbed my back too
I love the concept of backstabbing. You're rewarded for sneaking up on somebody with a one-hit kill and even if you didn't have an insta-kill backstab mechanic you'd likely kill that person anyways when you catch them from behind with their pants down. Like a Heavy that you didn't expect face-to-face from around the corner who mows you down with his minigun.
Dark Souls 1 backstabbing is pretty fucked up. I've had really bad experiences with it where a guy is walking directly at me as I'm backpedaling away and his character teleports behind me and does the backstab. The netcode in that game is horrendous.
>>320295734
Yeh multiplayer in that game actually ruins the experience. I've never had a duel where I'm the one with good latency
>>320290094
I like how d&d and most tabletop systems handle it.
Extra damage, but not necessarily an instant kill. That way the fight is still challenging and you can handwave it as a constant state of awareness that allows your enemy to move slightly away from the blow preventing you from oneshotting them.
>>320290094
bc "element of surprise" and "we want the cloak and dagger audience"
>>320293090
You were assaulting them with a chair ?
>>320294793
a bullet from anywhere works a million times better
Literally point and shoot.
