Screen Looking

Screen Looking is a problem many LAN gamers have, I have a blog entry about it, but do you guys know any ways to combat screen looking, how can I prove that they are screen looking? How can I prevent screen looking? Do you guys screen look?

Personally I screen look a little bit, but most of the time I am thinking so much about what position is the safest to move to and how I can protect myself, I don't even think to look at their screens. I screen look very little but my friends screen look a lot. I think the best way to prove they are screen looking is to have a system link game and see who is really screen looking or have a non player refree.

Screen Looking is a problem many LAN gamers have, I have a blog entry about it, but do you guys know any ways to combat screen looking, how can I prove that they are screen looking? How can I prevent screen looking? Do you guys screen look?

Personally I screen look a little bit, but most of the time I am thinking so much about what position is the safest to move to and how I can protect myself, I don't even think to look at their screens. I screen look very little but my friends screen look a lot. I think the best way to prove they are screen looking is to have a system link game and see who is really screen looking or have a non player refree.

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That's just a complaint a skill less person made up. It's for stupid people.

Well... you could always try putting up cardboard or something on both sides of your monitor to make it more difficult for people to screen look...

Plus doesn't sitting next to your teammates make a little bit more sense than sitting next to an opposing player, that way even if your teammate does look, he won't have anything to gain.

If screen looking at lan parties bugs you that much, try playing split screen on a console...

Yeah dude, if you are playing on one TV, how could you not? I don't have tunnel vision, and even when I'm focusing on my portion of the TV, I could still totally tell what the other guys were up to. Also, if you don't have the sound muted, you can tell a whole lot about what your opponents are doing too.

But the thing is that you said you had a LAN set up. Why wouldn't you just make it so that you make each TV its own team and position them so nobody can see more than one? PROBLEM SOLVING!

Kind of hard to combat. Perhaps instead of putting cardboard on the screen like Blinders, put real blinders on the players.

I screen look only by accident. If I'm playing a splitscreen multiplayer match and I catch someone screen looking, I quit. For me, it's an unfair advantage that saps the fun from the game. It's not a big deal if you happen to glance over by accident, but when someone is obviously using it as a strategy, I tell them to either stop or I quit.muthsera666

Dude, you can totally say that you would prefer to have people not look at each other's section of the screen when playing a split-screen game, but saying it is unfair? That doesn't make sense. Everybody has an equal chance to look at what the other dude is doing, and if that isn't fair, I have no idea what is...

Screen looking is legit in all games. It's something that will happen you can't stop it why not do it. When I play with my friends we all do it but it's tough, you ahve to memorize the map and figure out where they are in relation to you and how to exploit that very quickly

I often accuse people of screen-peeking when I'm online just to see what kind of reaction I get.:P

[QUOTE="muthsera666"]I screen look only by accident. If I'm playing a splitscreen multiplayer match and I catch someone screen looking, I quit. For me, it's an unfair advantage that saps the fun from the game. It's not a big deal if you happen to glance over by accident, but when someone is obviously using it as a strategy, I tell them to either stop or I quit.AtomicTangerine

Dude, you can totally say that you would prefer to have people not look at each other's section of the screen when playing a split-screen game, but saying it is unfair? That doesn't make sense. Everybody has an equal chance to look at what the other dude is doing, and if that isn't fair, I have no idea what is...

[QUOTE="AtomicTangerine"]

[QUOTE="muthsera666"]I screen look only by accident. If I'm playing a splitscreen multiplayer match and I catch someone screen looking, I quit. For me, it's an unfair advantage that saps the fun from the game. It's not a big deal if you happen to glance over by accident, but when someone is obviously using it as a strategy, I tell them to either stop or I quit.muthsera666

Dude, you can totally say that you would prefer to have people not look at each other's section of the screen when playing a split-screen game, but saying it is unfair? That doesn't make sense. Everybody has an equal chance to look at what the other dude is doing, and if that isn't fair, I have no idea what is...

Yeah... but if you are that anal dude, just hook it up online man. You can't expect everybody to have terrible peripheral vision dude. Back when I played Goldeneye with my buddies, I could look right at my screen and still know where they were and what they were doing.

The other thing is that it is basically an unenforcable rule you have there. Back in the day when I played Halo split-screen, I got accused of screen-looking all the time. Some of the time I was, but other times I was using the in-game motion tracker. I was also accused of screen-looking when I would hide in Blood Gulch when I heard a sniper rifle zooming in, something else you can't avoid.

[QUOTE="muthsera666"]It is unfair. An opponent knowing my location from the architecture he can see from my screen is something that is not a part of the game itself. If he knew my location because he saw my gun peeking around the corner, then that's my own fault. Getting an ammo pickup and dying because he was waiting in ambush because of information from my screen is not something that is present in the rules of the game. For me, it's equivalent to glitching a flag through a wall in a flag-cap mode.AtomicTangerine

The other thing is that it is basically an unenforcable rule you have there. Back in the day when I played Halo split-screen, I got accused of screen-looking all the time. Some of the time I was, but other times I was using the in-game motion tracker. I was also accused of screen-looking when I would hide in Blood Gulch when I heard a sniper rifle zooming in, something else you can't avoid.