Imagine you just want to play a round of Team Deathmatch in Modern Warfare 2 after work. Suddenly you see a whole squad of players coming towards you, half hopping, half crawling across the map in a completely unnatural way. In a panic you empty your entire magazine, but you can hardly meet the group and you are overrun.
This has probably been the case for some players who have encountered members of the Euphoria clan over the past few days. Like their stranger G-Walk
looks like, and why the community is arguing about it, you can find out here.
Exploit or just harmless fun?
To see for yourself, check out a video shared on Twitter by the creators of this spooky move:
link to Twitter content
Pretty spooky, isn’t it? However, Euphoria has not yet explained exactly how the manipulation of the movement works. The only thing that is certain is that players who move like this are pretty difficult to hit. And that’s exactly why opinions about such videos differ widely.
In the eyes of some, the whole thing is just harmless fun, which is about creating funny pictures for other players’ killcams and just doing a bit of practical jokes. For others, the G-Walk is an exploit that takes advantage of game mechanics to farm kills and spoil the enemy team’s fun. For example, Twitter users are discussing the meaning and purpose of the whole thing under a shared video by Euphoria:
link to Twitter content
Another Comment defends the creators of the G-Walk likewise and even claims that mastering such tricks is, after all, an expression of superior ability. However, this point of view seems to be very daring, since it is hardly the intention of the developers that players move around the map in this way. It is quite possible that in the foreseeable future a patch will make the G-Walk impossible.
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What do you think of the G Walk? Does he look more funny in your eyes, or also scary? And more importantly, do you see it all as harmless fun, or are you already dreading that this weird trick will be used in your games as well? Write us your opinion in the comments!