Ever wonder what type of gamer you were? Take a look at this list. Classify yourself and friends.

Below is the list of basic gamer playing styles. Where do you fit in?

1. The Whiner

We all know these players. They whine when they die whether they have 100 kills to 1 death or 5 kills to 5 deaths. They will always whine, but that’s just how they play. These players are generally the BEST players in terms of skill level and physical reaction to gaming events. While they whine, they are also the most intensely occupied by the gaming environment and when they are alive and playing you know they’ll be taking out the opposition. They play well with the team, even if they don’t always appreciate the whole concept of being forced to go to a particular place.

Number per Team: 1

Work Best With: Leader, Veteran, and “Radio”

Work Poorly With: Strategist, Baiter, and Guardian

2. The Leader

All teams obviously need a leader. This is the person in the team that demands the most respect or else they will be entirely in-effective. They are good basic players, but their strength is in holding the team together. They organize everything, set up the matches, and will be around nearly all the time to work with the entire team. The only major flaw of the Leader falls into their overwhelming responsibility. When they are dealing with all the other organization of the clan they fail to get the same amount of experience with the rest of their team members in preparation for matches.

Number per Team: 1

Work Best With: “For the Team” Guy, Strategist, and Radio

Work Poorly With: Baiter, Lone Wolf, and Veteran

3. The Veteran

Of course, you know this player? This is the type of player that can be sitting in a situation where he is surrounded and is just sitting back, relaxing. These are the strongest players overall in the game. While they may not always be the best in terms of skill, they are the best in keeping the team together. They are like the Leader, but much more content to sit back and play with the team rather than monitor it. They can aid almost all the players on their team. The veteran has a flaw in his armor though. The common veteran player tends to have two major issues in his game play. First, they can think themselves better for having the longer term of experience. The secondary problem that may come with a veteran is an attempt to spread too much of his own knowledge. They can quickly get into a power struggle with a Leader and hurt a clan.

Number per Team: 0-2

Work Best With: The Whiner, Radio, and Basic

Work Poorly With: Strategist, Leader, and Baiter

4. The Strategist

This is the team’s go-to guy for strategy. He is the type of player who knows other teams as well as their styles, but also knows how to work out the trouble spots in a map. They are commonly very smart players, but not nearly the best. A Strategy player is commonly the one that won’t play unless to call strats. While they commonly realize their strengths are in preparation and not actual participation, they are often the part of the group that can feel left out. Another key thing about the strategist is that the Leader can take this roll upon himself. While a very useful gamer, they are often the low self-esteemed part of the group that feels left out of the overall team.

Number per Team: 0-1

Work Best With: Filler, Prophet, and “For-the-Team” Guy

Work Poorly With: Leader, Veteran, and Lone Wolf

5. The Guardian

That’s the guy who won’t fold under the pressure of a team onslaught. They are very strong positional players and rarely leave a position once they are imbedded into it. The Guardian has one of the best senses of position in the game as they can commonly be called “campers” for their skill in hiding. That doesn’t mean they are entirely hiding types. They can easily change rolls to a rush-stopper because these players, while not the best, tend to have good shots and communication. The guardian’s flaw is his inability to move later in the round. While they are terrific for holding a spot, they fold under pressure and tend to be poor on offense. In a clutch situation from 1v5 to 1v1, these aren’t the people you look forward to being the last guy.

Number per Team: 1-2

Work Best With: Strategist, Leader, and Radio

Work Poorly With: Veteran, Lone Wolf, and Whiner

6. The Filler

You know that guy who’s just happy to get to play? That is the Filler. He can be anywhere from a decent player to a very good one. These guys are just the most versatile of all the groups. They are content to play any position and most commonly will get stuck with the position that no one feels is beneficial to them. They hold a team together due to their ability to change and they often have the most likable attitude of the gamer community. A tendency of the Filler is to not hold gaming in such high regard though. They enjoy gaming, but aren’t around as much as the other hard-core gaming members of the team. They hold an apathy towards all situations making them sometimes annoying to other people who care about competition.

Number per Team: 0-2

Work Best With: Leader, Strategist, and Guardian

Work Poorly With: Lone Wolf, Whiner, and Baiter

7. The Prophet

How did he know I was there?! Wasn’t he on the other side of the map?!?! Those are the common things the other team will say when they are playing these types. The Prophet is the guy who can instinctively understand a situation and rotate to where he is most needed. They are the fastest players in the game in terms of tactical ability and know the positional breakdowns of the map. They are decent for clutch situations and are often some of the best shooters on a team. The major flaw of the prophet can be their instinct. If they feel something is happening, they move with it or they overanolyze the situation and get themselves killed for thinking too much. They can be the best or worst players on a team depending on a match to match situation. They are probably the least dependable gamers to consistently perform, but when they’re gaming is hot, they can’t be stopped.

Number per Team: 0-3

Work Best With: Radio, Leader, and Basic

Work Poorly With: Lone Wolf, Baiter, and Guardian

8. The Lone Wolf

This is the class most gamers love to hate. They are decent to great gamers that have overall great skills on every area of the game. Their problem is their inefficiency in working WITH a team. They often have terrible communication skills and can be similar to the Whiner except they won’t listen to the strategy as closely. A Lone Wolf is good for some teams, while others they can destroy. The Lone Wolf often also has a superiority complex and isn’t afraid to show their ego.

Number per Team: 0-1

Work Best With: Radio, “For the Team” Guy

Work Poorly With: ALL OTHERS

9. The “Radio”

“He’s on B plant, watch your 6 for the second guy”. This is your “radio”. They are often the players who will break the silence in a match and call out the enemy positions. They are very good team players and are happy to call out a position rather than get the kill if they see it beneficial to the team. All of their efforts go into the group and their individual skills aren’t as honed as the other classes of gamers. However, like all gamers, they have a flaw. “Radio” gamers can be overly talkative and block up the team’s communications. They may be giving out useful information, but that time spent blocking the sound of another player’s headset can get him killed. A good “Radio” is precise and exact in his coordinates and can be valuable to any team.

Number per Team: 1-2

Work Best With: ALL

Work Poorly With: —-

10. The Basic

Yep, the guy who knows he’s not too good at anything, but tries. This is the type of gamer most clans are forced to settle with as a 4th or 5th slot filler. They can be decent, but that’s the extent of these players. They have yet to choose a direction to hone their skills in as well as generally lack the experience of the gaming environment. Once they develop, they commonly become very decent all around players, but until they understand what’s going on, they can be frustrating to the team. More than likely, this type of player won’t last long in gaming unless they can find strength.

Number per Team: 0-1

Work Best With: Leader, Veteran, and Strategist

Work Poorly With: Whiner, Lone Wolf, and Baiter

11. The Baiter

Oh boy, everybody loves this class of gamer! Of course, when you think about it, this type of gamer can be useful to the team. They have often developed into crack shots who quickly deal a fatal blow to the enemy upon the baiting of a team-mate. These types of players can save a team or destroy it, depending on their skill level. If a player is a baiter, they need to have terrific accuracy and speed to avenge the death of a teammate. The baiter can sometimes be a negative influence on the team’s chemistry however and can quickly destroy a team if no one feels safe when this player is watching their back.

Number per Team: 0-1

Work Best With: ALL OTHERS ((Uses them))

Work Poorly With: Lone Wolf

12. The “For-the-Team” Guy

“Yeah sure, I’ll do it”. It’s that guy. This is the guy who will bait himself for the team or run a suicide run down a street if he knows his death is going to save the team some trouble. They are often very likable people because they don’t get many kills and they are very versatile. They can be decent players to very good ones and can honestly be from any of the other gamer styles, just very much a team player. The flaw is their clutch situation strength. When you’re the guy who dies for the team and runs routes that you expect to die out quickly, you don’t take the time to look into the positions and map breakdown. It’s only a matter of time before this class of player gets bored with gaming though unless assigned other tasks.

Number per Team: 0-1

Work Best With: ALL

Work Poorly With: —-

Found here: http://gameolosophy.com/games/the-fps-gamer-styles/

Im crossed between the whiner and the for the team guy. The whiner because im a perfectionist and will get annoyed with myself for dying, not for the enemy getting a cheap or whatever.

Im also a for the team guy because i like to help the team, although i dont have a mic, i can listen to the team and have gladly sacrificed myself.

"Oh Ninja theres no more room for you. Sorry."
"Dont worry you escape with the flag, i'll hold them off" :gun:

id say vet/baiter i tend to look after the team making sure people are supported and the like... but im not afraid to quickly move in and mop up after they die

probably the for the team guy i will do what is needed to help the team even if i die.

I picked "For-The-Team Guy", because if I can be useful it doesn't matter to me whether I live or die. The way I think about the game is in terms of the team's goals, and not generally my own glory. I haven't been able to play FPS games with a mic, but I intend to change that by the time Brink comes out. I'm not sure what exactly I'll do with it; I think generally I am kind of quiet and don't have the force of personality to get a team together on a strategy, but I'm always thinking about what is needed to overcome the enemy's forces and tactics.

The Guardian because I'm pretty good at 'mobile' defense, but can easily do stationary defense, and i'm only a decent attacker

This sounds like it applies more towards clanners than regular players like myself, but out of all of them I guess I'd pick the For-the-Team Guy. I hate losing more than I hate dying, so I generally try to do whatever it takes to win the match. In other words, I do whatever I feel will benefit my team the most. Of course, I still try to kill a lot more than I die, but that's more of a secondary concern. Oh, but don't expect me to be too hardcoe about it; I'm a fairly casual gamer, despite the many, many hours I pour into my hobby.

I guess I would be a Radio. I tend to let everyone know where an enemy is if I spot it and I cant get to them myself especially if there are snipers on my team. I usually will play a medic so I might be too busy resing or healing to chase down enemies unless they are an immediate threat to myself. (Got to beat those respawn timers)

i voted filler because i am happy to do what others don't

You shouldn't have to worry about the respawn timers. If your fallen teammates see that you're coming, they can elect to stay on the ground instead of respawning.

Personally I voted Guardian but felt my style branched into quite a few of these descriptions, you should add a 'Mixture of many' vote option.
I'm strong defensively and decent offensively and have a good to great shot, I'm vocal during a match and often call out the strategies in my team. I'm generally happy just to get to play leading for me to do anything to win and will therefore play any position that is needed. However, I have my bad times and might have a tiny whine because we lost, but do realise personal mistakes. That would make me a Veteran/Guardian/Filler/Radio/For-The-Team with the bad parts of a whiner...sadly not this part = "generally the BEST players in terms of skill level and physical reaction to gaming events."

baiter/strategist.

baiter as in ill completely block a room with claymores and shoot my gun off until people come. its one of the few fun things to do in mw2.

strategist as in once i get some basic knowledge of the maps, ill run right past the enemy team through the flanking routes i discovered

I meant in other games. Like in BC2 im always having to rush to rez people when we are behind enemy lines so they dont have to respawn far away. I like the idea in Brink, but i guess ill be more of a Radio, tellin people not to respawn cause im comin for them.

I would say im the combination of: Leader / Strategist / Guardian / Prophet / Lone Wolf and For the Team.

Each situation has to be played on its merits, or as they say in basketball: "You take what the defense gives you"
So sometimes you need to play lone wolf, other times you might need to guard or hold a high traffic hallway.
There will be situations where you will act as a decoy, or bait - and there will be times where you have to drop whatever it is you're doing,
change class and defuse the charge for the team, even though thats not your specified role And all of this can happen in one single game.

Second thing regarding your description of The Prophet.
Players who act on instincts dont overthink. Its actually the complete opposite.
BattleSENSE - is a feel for what is actually happening, and what WILL happen before it happens.
You can even sense confidence levels in the opposition, which you can use to great advantage.

Bit of a rant, but you get the point
Good thread though.

Me I like to bumrush...... :gun:

.....my gamerstyle changes alot but the one style I cannot do is camp ( I find camping boring). B)

lone wolf and for the team? those two are exact opposites

I'm probably the lone wolf. I can't really play with a team( don't use my headset). But i aren't a ego

Veteran/Guardian/For-The-Team.

Veteran - This has more to do with SD-style, shooters rather than overall FPS. I have played a whole lot of RTCW, W:ET, and QW over the years, and have experience playing both pub and comp matches. I can definitely say I understand how to play these types of games, and that I would be an asset to a team.

Guardian - I chose this mainly based on the fact that I enjoy defense more than offense, and I also will stay positioned near teammates while playing Medic to drop heals and revives.

For-The-Team - This is probably the biggest reason I enjoy objective type games - you can be so useful to a team, without focusing purely on killing. I would say this sums up a big portion of my playstyle, but I'm not stupid about it. I will run out in the middle of gunfire to revive a teammate needed to complete an objective or perhaps another medic, but I'm not just gonna run out to revive anyone if I am hard pressed and the teammate who are still alive need me.

Probably the prophet and strategist for me. I usually play pretty tacticly and I tend to think of strategies the moment before I spawn. Im always the leader or in second in kills, but I don't camp. I kind of agree with HORSE, I do defend, but I won't sit in a corner unless im reloading or hear someone and I don't know where they are. The way I see it, being behind someone with a regular gun is better then being infront of someone with an overpowered one. Oh and no, I don't play the bane of online gaming. I mean MW2.

No they aren't.

The Lone Wolf you're thinking about is a player who racks up kills and only cares about their stats.
They dont care for handing out ammo or reviving or doing the objectives. They dont care for winning the game.

The Lone Wolf Im talking about is the player who does the most damage to the opposition so that his team wins.
;)

Agreed. A player who really knows what he's doing can tie up a disproportionate amount of enemy resources and forces. Let's imagine a Brink situation that'll be pretty common: an Operative wants to hack an enemy command post to give his team an advantage. In order to do this without help from your team, you have to be able to avoid your enemy noticing you until you get there. Then, to keep them from simply reclaiming it, you need to understand how the enemy will behave: if you camp correctly, setting up in unexpected places and relocating after each kill, you can take out several enemy combatants before they reclaim the objective. And if you have the self-preservation skills to understand just when you're about to be overwhelmed, you can disappear instead of dying, setting you up perfectly to do it all again.

It takes a lot of strength in various different skills: stealth, behavior prediction, and shooter acuity. If you've got all these skills, your team will adore you for tying up your enemy's forces and weakening their front line; by yourself, you might take on three or four players if they don't realise they have to work together to beat you. If you don't have the abilities to pull it off, you need to realise it and start working in tandem with your teammates. If there is another lone wolf, one of you has to svck it up and be a team player, because if everyone works alone it doesn't go the way you want it to.

I dont know what attacking objectives will be like in Brink, but in ETQW, splitting up and attacking outdoor objectives from multiple approaches, and vantage points is incredibly powerful - if you have players on your team who can shoot well.

So collectively we used to 'Lone Wolf' objectives - which sounds strange, but works wonders against teams who have the "power in numbers" approach of sticking right next to each other. Usually teams, that have one or two strong shooters, play the "power in numbers" way to compensate for their poor shooters. However once they get nailed from 6 different directions, it forces them to split up where they are at their weakest. It exposes their poor shooters, which eventually allows the "Lone Wolf" team to control the objective.

edit: a little bit off topic, but oh well

Another off-topic comment, while we're discussing lone wolf gameplay:

wolves are pack animals, this nomenclature makes no sense

I wouldn't call it lone-wolfing if you're working together. Even if you're not shoulder to shoulder that's still teamwork right there, in my opinion.

By the way, I wish I was a prophet type. They're the ones who can headshot you from across the map because they know where you'll pop out from. They're terribly annoying to go up against, but a great credit to their team due to their ability to read their enemies so well.

EDIT:

I think lone wolf is a term used to describe a wolf that has been kicked out of the pack, or one that has left his/her pack of his/her own accord. :shrug:

I have a tendency to switch roles from being a Guardian to a Lone Wolf. When I play Killzone 2 I play a lot of the Saboteur manly because that's my strongest play style. While on Battlefield I play as a Medic because keeping a good offense is also a good defense.