Relative to FPS skill can be understood in relative terms...

Given the same tools to achieve an objective -- two players facing off in a battle with the same gear -- the capability of the player (their manual dexterity, their reflexes, their ability to judge the situation) decides the outcome. Skill is, in that limited sense, the ability of the player.

Now, lets consider the situation where both players have equal skill. If, in the same situation but with a different weapons, one weapon will regularly carry the day then that weapon takes less skill.

The argument is complicated because all weapons are not appropriate for all situations -- light machine guns are supposed to be more effective at close range than sniper rifles.

That leads to another level of player skill -- the more tactical skill that creates the situation where the weapon you have can be used to it's greatest effect. The player with the light machine gun that runs into the red line behind the sniper and shoots them in the head or the sniper that gets a clear line of sight to a spawn point out-of-range of most of the opponents weapons.

In similar ways single-player tactics build to multi-player tactics.

All of that is why skill is so hard to pin down -- people often mistake failure to be in the right place to use your weapon for the other guys weapon being no skill because they are easily killed by it. It _could_ be true but very often it isn't.

Skill in a fps environment, is the ability to win a situation where you have the disadvantage. Be it outnumbered, or your weapon's disadvantages. Anytime you say, "Wow they should have killed me" but because they lack skill you come out victorious! How is that for an answer?

Someone, please, define skill for me. These forums have confused me.

"AR takes skill!"
"It's a skill-less weapon"

"MD requires you to lead targets and find tactical positions"
"MD doesn't require any skill because it's a splash weapon for scrubs"

Every gun has this argument about skill surrounding them, so I'm looking for someone to tell me what skill actually is.

Someone, please, define skill for me. These forums have confused me.

"AR takes skill!"
"It's a skill-less weapon"

"MD requires you to lead targets and find tactical positions"
"MD doesn't require any skill because it's a splash weapon for scrubs"

Every gun has this argument about skill surrounding them, so I'm looking for someone to tell me what skill actually is.

Someone, please, define skill for me. These forums have confused me.

"AR takes skill!"
"It's a skill-less weapon"

"MD requires you to lead targets and find tactical positions"
"MD doesn't require any skill because it's a splash weapon for scrubs"

Every gun has this argument about skill surrounding them, so I'm looking for someone to tell me what skill actually is.

the answer is 23

I think that the people who say that the weapon is OP because everybody uses it and this a lot because of that weapon its just that no mater how good or bad the weapon is if 5 people shoot at u with that same weapon at the same time u will die

And so the trolling begins

Someone, please, define skill for me.

Someone, please, define skill for me. These forums have confused me.

"AR takes skill!"
"It's a skill-less weapon"

"MD requires you to lead targets and find tactical positions"
"MD doesn't require any skill because it's a splash weapon for scrubs"

Every gun has this argument about skill surrounding them, so I'm looking for someone to tell me what skill actually is.

Someone, please, define skill for me. These forums have confused me.

"AR takes skill!"
"It's a skill-less weapon"

"MD requires you to lead targets and find tactical positions"
"MD doesn't require any skill because it's a splash weapon for scrubs"

Every gun has this argument about skill surrounding them, so I'm looking for someone to tell me what skill actually is.

i know that stuff takes time to master and i know if someone can master a job then they have some serious skill. Also isnt the word skill used as a term for describing someones trade? Please correct me if im wrong.

My business is killing and business is good.


Anyway, real skill is battle awareness which, at its core, comes down to knowing where the enemy is and knowing where 'reliable' friendlies are. (no point in asking noobs for help other than using them as meat shields).

If I wanted to play a game where I ran around killing everything with 60 round assault rifles spraying all the time I would pick up my copy of COD again.