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DONT. BOX. THE. CUBE(s).

By maDEMOman

a guide literally explaining why putting a box around the cube is bad.

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Category: Co-op, Gameplay Basics, Multiplayer

Languages: English

General Gameplay: Building & Defences

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13 Oct, 2015 @ 5:36pm

18 Jan, 2017 @ 8:01am

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Guide Index

Overview

Intro

Good Reasons for Boxing

Bad Reasons 2 Box

Outro

Comments

Intro

You are thinking why am i making this?
the answer:
im sick and tired of the millions of new(bs) people consistantly making boxes around their cubes and cores.
im here to analyse why its a INSANELY bad tactic to do.

Good Reasons for Boxing

I would honestly say none here. but since im trying not to be biased...
Heres some GOOD reasons for it.

1: It delays the enemy from attacking your core by about 3-4 seconds of whacking a brick. more if its a sandbag.
2: It prevents explosive spamming for a bit on the core. (yes explosive spamming will damage core. yet only small. I think it should do 0 damage mainly because of explosive spammers.)
3: It forces enemys to stop moving to attack the cube/core.

I really couldnt think of more good reasons.

Bad Reasons 2 Box

OHHHHH Boy this is the part i was looking forward to.
heres a lot of reasons to why its bad.

1: Enemy can hide inside the box making it hard for you to stop them attacking the cube.
2: Enemy can use the box against you and put bricks down when they get inside delaying you from murder by about 3-4 seconds. (you may be about to say that its only one layer. but they can place it on the outside.)
3: It will really :Jarate: off the Smarter/Better players on your team. (if you think this is a good reason u r a troll.)
4: It Costs Bricks and will cramp the area around the box. making it hard for tonys to place turrets to defend. those 20+ bricks/sandbags you made to box coulda been used on a delicious hp station or ammo station.
5: It DOESNT stop Cogs suicide diving your cube.
6: You are boxing on invunerable blocks. those blocks could and SHOULD be used on traps only.

Outro

If you have not noticed by now. im heavily biased against this.
there is a reason because of this, and thats because ive seen teams lose entire games BECAUSE of a box around the cubes. (because im normally ABUSING the bad sides of it. I PUNISH those who box.)

I know fine well most noobs to this game wont be reading the guides because #Who-Reads-Guides eh? (apparently if i didnt have the apostrophe there its classed as a swear.)

hope you enjoyed reading this :).
P.S.im fully expecting trolls trying to say its a good tactic.

199 Comments

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ThousandFool 1 Mar @ 3:06pm

hahaha great guide. damn I miss this game, feels like block n load came out before its time.

Tacolord 19 Aug, 2024 @ 4:55pm

Old post but when I used to play me and my friend would both play yeti, box the cube but leave a little space inside. Then we would spam avalanche, and keep doing it the entire game while inside the box ourselves. If I remember, this rarely failed. We would just shoot anyone who came in, and they usually couldn't even get in. When they tried, we would hear them coming and be ready for them. Is this actually a good strategy? Probably not. But it was funny as hell.

Honestly though I never even saw someone say we shouldn't box in my 600 hours in the game. I was also really bad at the game though. I was like 12 or something, and I only played every other weekend (really have no idea how I got 600 hours in this game, it's my second most played game to date, only game I've played more was skyrim).

But yeah totally going to use this advice in my next game of block and load, thanks man (this is sarcasm I doubt I'll ever play this again).

a-z 15 Jun, 2023 @ 7:05pm

real

Contigo Las Moi Sexado Nararator 15 Jun, 2023 @ 6:07am

if anyones reading this , hi i hope your having a good day and im glad your still alive

j100j 5 Mar, 2022 @ 9:10am

I remember back in the early days I made a box around the base with fake blocks and won becuse of it. placed the fake blocks on the unbreakable block so the enemy team tought I had somehow placed the unbreakable steel blocks around my base. It was a fun time.

a-z 6 Jul, 2021 @ 10:19am

Homie just replied to a guide older than my sister

Suegiclah 29 Jun, 2021 @ 7:59am

You made a good point and the few games that I've played of this game and people didn't box, they had more of an advantage over the team that did box because of the reasons you stated.

Usually the boxers would spend most of build time boxing 3 or 4 layers of the main cube and not focusing on the others (if there were any).

And the team that didn't box built smart defences and positions around their base.

Bloxy 30 Dec, 2020 @ 10:22am

I used to play this game as a kid and all I ever did was box the cube

Mr.Xarxes 30 Dec, 2020 @ 7:14am

what do you do if not boxing? dont cover the core at all?

FreezeFlare24 21 Apr, 2020 @ 9:49pm

This the best tactic out here bro you don't even play the game fr you noob!

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