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.

Wow, this thread is actually going quite well!

Nice to see so many people posting with some sense on these forums.

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?

I know 1 thing that requires no skills... MD.

the ability to use one's knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance
dexterity or coordination especially in the execution of learned physical tasks

a learned power of doing something competently : a developed aptitude or ability


http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skill



google is hard

And so the trolling begins

dude, don't act all high and mighty when you google'd this yourself and 'copy paste' it here since you weren't sure what the definition is.

just showing how easy it is to find for anyone and everyone who has questions as to what skill means.

even an idiot like me who hasnt put two thoughts together about it untill now can go look it up on google and now i am fairly certain i have quite an accurate grasp of the concept



your just mad that i killed your thread with the actual definition of skill thereby ruining any posability for debate :P

I don't want the dictionary definition. I want to know why this guy says x takes a ton of skill, while this guy says x is the current FotM.

What, in your mind, is skill? I can google words too, but I want your definition.

I don't want the dictionary definition. I want to know why this guy says x takes a ton of skill, while this guy says x is the current FotM.

What, in your mind, is skill? I can google words too, but I want your definition.

IN this particular game, skill equates to good aim coupled with good tactics.

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.

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.