Noob

A  noob  is a stereotype that describes players who play and/or act in an immature or primitive manner as if they were new to the game. The word derives from the slang term "newbie", meaning "new player".





Characteristics
Behavior Gunning

The grunt is the gunner class of choice in gunning servers due to its simplicity and straightforward gameplay. It appears to be the least complex character, though in reality it actually does require more skill than some other classes. Noobs have a tendency to randomly throw all their grenades in panic, which catches more experienced players focused on a well-established strategy offguard. This leads to much frustration over such players.

A more experienced but skillfully immature noob will rely on certain classes overpowered abilities. The most popular of these abilities is the mine. The mine that comes with the demolitions/heavy weapons class can one hit kill not only other gunners, but heroes and vehicles. It takes less than 10 vehicles to take down a mobile CPU (AT-AT or AT-TE). The most common tactic for these noobs, commonly reffered to as "mine noobs", is to simply lay down mines at their feet when being attacked. Since most public servers have friendly fire disabled, this tactic is perfectly permissable. Experienced players who choose to rely on more skill-demanding tactics become frequently frustated at these "mine noobs", who essentially negates the purpose of their gaming style and throws the gameplay off balance.

A similar type of noob at the same class, namely the rocket noob, will fire rockets directly at his feet when engaging in close quarters combat. Most mines noobs are also rocket noobs.

Det rush noobs engage in a similar practice as the mine noob, only they use the engineer class and utilize their det packs. Det packs have the advantage of being throwable, but are not as overwhelmingly devasting. Some veterans also considered the engy's primary weapon, the shotgun, OPed because of it's common 1-hit kills. Even inaccurate noobs are capable of getting easy 1-hit kills with this shotgun through luck and SWBF2's natural lag.

Tank noobs, as the name suggests, are players who are extremely dependent on the use of tanks to succeed in the game.