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The Big Fat Kill - Your Most Badass Gaming Moments
Mortal Sky
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Everyone has one. That moment where you just looked at the screen and thought "did I seriously just fucking do that?" Sometimes there's a story. Sometimes there isn't, and the kill just comes along. Sometimes you get an easter egg after a challenge the designers threw in to fuck with you that you could have skipped. Sometimes you beat I Wanna Be the Guy. So sit, stay a while, listen, and tell your stories.
I'll start this one off with my greatest FPS kill ever. In Tribes II, I headshotted a guy with the spinfuzor at 75m while he was flying. The whole server was like "omg wtf awesome" and because a custom scoring system was set up I got ten big fat fucking points.
Another kickass moment I had was killing a black phantom in Demon's Souls. Said phantom was wearing the badass turban you get from killing another player in world 3. I was intimidated, to be honest. He then locked down my magic after I tossed a Soul Ray at him. I ducked for cover, and then promptly jumped out with a throwing knife, then laid on a thick helping of axe wounds for good measure. Being a mage, he went down easy, but the fact that he was going for half of my battle plan (the magic at range half) by locking it down did shake me a little. Also, he was casting the DS equivalent of the Contra scattergun, which meant I was about half a second from being nuked.
I'll start this one off with my greatest FPS kill ever. In Tribes II, I headshotted a guy with the spinfuzor at 75m while he was flying. The whole server was like "omg wtf awesome" and because a custom scoring system was set up I got ten big fat fucking points.
Another kickass moment I had was killing a black phantom in Demon's Souls. Said phantom was wearing the badass turban you get from killing another player in world 3. I was intimidated, to be honest. He then locked down my magic after I tossed a Soul Ray at him. I ducked for cover, and then promptly jumped out with a throwing knife, then laid on a thick helping of axe wounds for good measure. Being a mage, he went down easy, but the fact that he was going for half of my battle plan (the magic at range half) by locking it down did shake me a little. Also, he was casting the DS equivalent of the Contra scattergun, which meant I was about half a second from being nuked.
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We were playing CTF and I kind of just waltzed into the enemy base and stole their flag, and apparently they didn't notice until someone saw their empty flagpost and I was halfway back to my own base
It was funny as hell too, the exchange went something like
Other Guy 1: ...wait a minute, where's our flag?
Other Guy 2: You mean our flag's missing and nobody noticed?
Other Guy 3: How the hell did that happen? Who's got it?
Arcibi: ...
Wii: 5024 6786 2934 2806 | Steam/XBL: Arcibi | FFXI: Arcibi / Bahamut
Another time I had a 14 kill streak going. Then I ran out of ammo.
3DS FC: 5343-7720-0490
just that calm and cool "Tank left, line me up" and watching his TV missile stream off and detonate right on target, so awesome.
We were on an objective map, I was an Axis sniper. I was holed up in a blown-out building, and was concentrating so much that I had neglected to check on my team's status. As it turned out, I was the only one left alive (and I'm sure there were people screaming at their monitors for me to blow myself up so the round could restart).
I guess the three Allied players that were left decided to come after me rather than hit the objective, and they charged the building I was in. I pegged one right away, and a second as they closed on the door to the building. I didn't have time to reload, so I quickly switched to my pistol and put down the third as he ran in.
Victory screen. Chat room cheers.
There was a feeling of being on the brink the entire time; make one mistake and I was fucked.
You talk clean and bomb hospitals, so I speak with the foulest mouth possible
There is a pause in the action as everyone, on both sides of the game, type messages expressing disbelief at what just occurred.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
I still don't understand how I managed to outdamage the healing once, let alone twice. But it was glorious.
So, me and my driver are in our Tiger, and three T-34s roll over the hill. At the same time. About forty meters from each other. And naturally I think, "Crap, screwed."
I order the driver to angle the thing, unless we both want to die, and I switch to AP and wait to reload. First T-34 fires. Then the second. Then the third.
Three shells literally bounce off the tank, with a satisfying *ping* each time. Granted, back then, the angling mechanic was grossly overexaggerated and overplayed, and soon was fixed.
I can only imagine how terrified/pissed off the other players were (with 2 to 3 men in each tank), as I knocked them out one by one.
When Virtua Fighter 4 or 5 (I think it was 4) was still fresh and kicking around in the arcades, I went to New York with a friend to browse the scene. I hadn't played 5, yet, but I was a hardcore addict of VF2. What could go wrong?
We ended up demolishing all comers and then a new group came into the arcade. We had to go, but we started rumbling with them and noticed they were better. Their Kage was going against my Jacky and the fight was intense.
We had each won two rounds and both had a sliver of life left and I sadly, froze. It happens in fighting games, especially when you don't know all of the new stuff in the game, you just have no idea what to do next and a brief moment of paralysis slips in.
Kage lunges forward with a quick punch. Luckily, a new move I did not know about kicked in...Jacky had a neutral stick counter which deflected punches. Panicked, I hit punch as well..which triggered the second part of the counter which was a powerful punch. Kage flew backwards and to the cheers of the crowd, I won.
My fighting partner bud leaned in and whispered "That was totally accidental, wasn't it?" while smiling as he noticed my shocked expression.
Later turned out the Kage was one of the best in New York. Glad a lot of the mechanics in 4 hadn't changed much since 2
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Second was simple, in Battlefield 2. On the dam map, the enemy chopper was constantly flying through the drainage tunnel fully loaded and capping the flag above it. Bullshit, of course.
I snuck in and planted C4 all over the walls of the tunnel and waited. Sure enough, in came the Blackhawk...BOOOM...:)
Felt good.
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CFN: Bizazedo (I don't think I suck, add me).
Stacking armor buffs
Sheild of Absorption
"Stand Your Ground!" (4 times, 5->10->15 energy and worse recharge+only affects party members)
Rampage as One
"Watch Yourself!"
Song of Restoration
Ballad of Restoration
Mending Refrain
Energizing Finale
Finale of Restoration
Avatar of Grenth
Divert Hexes
It was pretty awesome because at the time the big thing there was Searing Flames and everyone was complaining about it. This build just crushed them. I mean, their team would be 6 human players, mostly elementalists. We had me, 3 hero bots, my friend who plays Guild Wars causally who I roped into helping me and some random guy we picked up in the lobby. And it was like "yes, free win."
The best thing about it was the "Shit, shit, shit, shit" feeling as the Hornet flew past with nothing to stop it, I sidestepped, boom. 8-)
Back in the day my brother and I were really getting sick of halo 3 so we would just play one flag on avalanche. Not sure why but that was like the most fun I ever had playing that game so we did it often. Anway, everyone knows the best way to get the flag into your base is to hit the ramp. Maybe not the most subtle or effective way, but it is the most nba jam way.
For whatever reason I'm on foot chasing these two dudes that are in a vehicle as they hit the ramp. Also, for whatever reason, I have a spartan laser. Well when they got onto the ramp the descended because of the weight of the vehicle. Since I had already pulled the trigger, I was like fuck I missed.
But the laser fires as soon as they pop into the air.
Man you had to be there.
Map - Death's Fijord
Me - Ironheade (Jack Black)
Opponent - Tainted Coil (Tim Curry)
A very even match for the most part. He took the center three resource nodes first, and I got two on the safe lane on the map. This alternated for about five minutes at a time. During the struggle, we was tech rushing the whole time. He builds a Bleeding Death and drops it right on my base, where I have no defenses. I narrowly kill it with a handful of defense units. My base is nearly gone at this point.
Having wasted all that time, he didn't even have an army. I make a smash and grab and this time I have the center and he has the safe lane.
He begins spamming Heart Cutters in his base, Coil's vehicle killer. I build a full army with every unit under the sun, including a big, fuck-off Rockcrusher. I rally my army to one side, ready to do one last suicide siege to see if it works.
He does something I don't expect. He summons another Bleeding Death, in the center where all the resources are. He wasted his trump card. I no longer care about building units, I have a full army already and have no use for resources with what I'm about to pull. Furthermore, Bleeding Death refuses to follow orders and slowly bleeds to death. He just sent his most powerful unit to go looting. If I lose this push, he can just build basic things things, walk them over to my side and finish me off with all the resources he's going to get. Now I begin my final push, starting off with changing the weather.
*Long Guitar Solo* Oh mighty sun, burn the creatures of the night from this land while I enjoy coffee and bacon!
I cast Light of Dawn, creating a dramatic sunrise and killing all enemy buffs, and move my army in for the kill. I ride the Rockcrusher and summon Bladehenge on top of two Heartcutters smashed together. This is not enough to kill them. They are my priority because they're a car killer and once my Rockcrusher dies I'll lose all momentum.
*Another Solo* Oh no! The Metal Gods are still using Hydrogen! *BOOM*
I immediately jump out and cast Bring it on Home, summoning the motherfucking Hindenburg on top of the Heart Cutters for more damage. This takes about another third. By the time this is done, I get back on the Rockcrusher and summon Bladehenge on them again. And with that, suddenly he had all the resources in the world, and no army. I sack his stage and win.
That game needs a Replay viewer.
Counter Strike is pretty much where all my moments of glory, though few, are.
One time when playing with some guys from this here forum, I was turning 'round a corner, and there's two Ts crouching. In a single shotgun blast I headshot the both of them. And Hamurabi comes in over Ventrilo, "HEN. ROID."
This isn't much of an awesome kill story as it is a ridiculous fight: Captain K and I are the remaining people on each team, we both have AWPs and we come across each other like ten feet from one another. We're repeatedly firing our AWPs and missing pathetically. One of us switch to pistol, which convinced the other to as well, and we're still pathetic and not hitting each other, circling around and around. So it comes down to knives and I lose, but it was funny and I wouldn't have it any other way losing a knife fight.
I jump and mount the vehicle and it explodes as we head for the next Scarab.
Got a souvenir from that.
The map is de_train
I was CT and was playing around with the TMP not really expecting to do well with it. One by one my team mates fell to the terrorists until soon it was just a full squad of terrorists, all of whom were much better players than me, against me and my TMP.
I don't know what happened but something inside me took over and I stalked the map, taking them out one by one in a hail of gunfire until I had murdered every last one of them.
Not one person on either team could believe I hadn't cheated but I didn't care. I'd just murdered an entire squad with the TMP.
I have never had a moment of sheer bad-assery like it since.
Where Madness and the Fantasical Come to Play
I can remember a lot of games where, honestly, it's like you go into overdrive or something. You start seeing shit in slow-motion almost. You rush a flag under a hail of gunfire, pop smoke and toss a frag into the area above. You get hit, jump up and dive for another piece of cover while you headshot the person that saw you. And you pick up the capture even though their whole team was trying to pick you off.
Those moments are amazing.
It's really a shame that 90% of the people who play Domination couldn't care less about the flags; they just want a high kill / death. Anybody can get a high K/D. Especially in Domination, when you're working together to control capture points, and the enemy has to come to you if they hope to win, you can really work up some high scores. But there's nothing more fun than pulling off win after win after win.
CoD4 is amazing in that regard. It's really a shame that MW2 sucked so much.
In all seriousness, Modern Warfare 2 is the biggest disappointment of my adult life: yes, it even beats Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Sadly, Quake 2 was the very last competitive multiplayer game I was even remotely good at.
Aw man! That part was my most awesome moment too except I did something no one had thought of at that time. I drove a warthog onto the scarab. From off the hill-like ramp bit that's on the foot of the cliff that you drive down to get into that area. I think I have a picture in my halo account.... Fuck YES! Its still on there.... Jesus, been years since I went on bungie.net.
Sorry for the scroll-rapage. That pic was a different attempt to the one that was just perfect. On the perfect jump I actually nailed the turret on the rear and went right down into the tunnel on the rear of the scarab crushing two elites and a grunt.
First time I played Halo 3 online (didn't play it that much), played Team Deathmatch with 3 friends of one of the sites I work for for, they were "veterans" and I was a noob so didn't do much, one time we picked up 2 4x4 I was driving one and ran over a bajillion guys in a row (that were usually owning me) while singing "Oh waffle time, waffle time, won't you have these waffles of mine?". (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH0jJIvUXG8#t=00m27s)
Not badass, but we laughed and I still remember it.
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It's really quite hard to describe, but it was hilarious. Early Source physics at work.
Course, a mistimed shot never ended well.
A disk launcher duel in Tribes, even between moderate level players, is 100x more intense than any game since then.
Evergreen Falls itself was also quite the moment of Clint Eastwood inspired justice. Three Dog kept going on about a raider camp out that way, and I just had to pay a visit. I approached it from the backside, without even realizing I had done so. What a stroke of luck for me, as I slowly came down the rocks, positioned myself with the Xaunlong and went to town. As I approached the entrance, Charon finally catches up to me, and he's running through that tiny bottleneck entrance, firing as he does. It was great, becoming a pincer movement, I went in the back and Charon couldn't come down the rocks, so he ran around front and we met towards the middle. Then he unleashed the Behemoth, the thick bastard.
The inside of Evergreen was even sweeter. For some reason Charon was hanging back, generally. So, I'd kick open a door and swing around with one VATS shot to the head of any individual in the room, each time popping them like blood-filled pumpkins.
VATS might very well be my favourite device in any game to date.
PS3 Trophies
I can also think of this time in Bad Company 2 very recently when I was defending a bomb I planted in Rush. Right after planting it I go to hide in the trees right next to it and a guy runs over and someone spawns on him. Then another guy runs over and someone spawns on him. Then suddenly there are 3 more guys and they all had spawns and then there were like 10 guys all surrounding this thing disarming it. Well. Im alone and they hadnt noticed me so I break out my gun and let loose 30 bullets in the fray killing 4 guys. My friend spawns on me and whips a grenade killing two which I had reloaded by then and killed another two and then he mowed the other two down. I was just like. OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOMAN YOU GUYS JUST GOT DESTROYED and I was just ecstatic going to town and laughing and just all around having one of the best fucking gaming moments Ive ever had.
Also playing Splinter Cell Conviction I think Marking 4 guys and my friend marking 4 guys, busting into a room, hopping over a ledge and hanging right next to each other and executing all 8 guys and then looking down and shooting the last two by ourselves has probably been one of the biggest highlights of that game to me. Ive never felt like I just coordinated such a deadly strike in my life.
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*arrows fly at dante*
*he casually clicks his fingers, sending the world into slow motion*
*strolls away from underneath the hanging arrows and towards the archers before time speeds up again.
Team Fortress Classic. I mastered the art of destroying sentry guns. As a scout. Using only my crowbar.
Obviously it only worked when it wasn't in a corner, I would conc-jump behind it and circle-strafe faster than it could track me while beating it to death.
But even more awesome than that was my GTA4 multiplayer story:
So, Morrowind,
Another day in Dystopia,
I choose random team and get stuck on teh red team, the hacker team. We are raiding base with a bridge and we are being pinned in our base. The doors out of the base are being camped by the blue (corporation team) who toss spider grenades and frag and emp grenades off teh walls. Our hackers are being caught in the wake of the emp grenades and can't hack open the other door to the base.
I spawn as a medium, using a sniper rifle, I can't remember what cyber mods I used but I do remember timing my grenades to the door (1) and rushing out the door (2 on a twich) charging a heavy with a chaingun (3 before it could spin up) and dying on the bridge, all this within a minute of spawning, somehow the camp at the door of our base broke up and everyone had respawned in time to take advantage, 3 kills (1 probably due to damage over time) and my team capped the next objective.
This was at 2008 pax,
My only kills for the round, the final kills before I left the computer?
TF2, on some server. I am on Blue granary, sniping from the top side on the left, and I see something, its a shadow, a sniper shadow, I crouch and ease ever so slightly to the left and keep my dot on the wall, I wait until I see a shoulder and take the shot, fully charged, 1 shot, one kill. Never saw it coming.
My memory basically only really functions properly for high emotion moments when it comes to video games, so when I look back on my digital adventures its like a slide show of only the cool shit that happened.
I've had tons of cool things happen in games like Jedi Knight with the realisticcombat code, or counterstrike, or prototype.
I think one of the most unusual ones would suffice here. Unusual in that I doubt many other people put enough time into the game to learn it so they could do this.
The game is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, aka My Bitch.
The level is the third one, where you are on a jungle planet and a million enemy melee dudes come leaping at you out of the trees for the whole level.
The point on the level is a place where you kill a rancor and then have to face off against a bunch of staggered leaping enemies.
The trick I had recently learned is instant throwing, where I could throw something with great force after only targetting it for a split second. I've forgotten exactly how I did it now, but I think I pumped the throw trigger button twice to pick up the item, while holding both analogue sticks to the right or left. Holding both increased the speed of the throw, and pumping the trigger guaranteed you could throw it as soon as you picked it up. Otherwise you had a little delay.
A previous trick I had learnt: it's possible to target enemies off screen (ie behind you). You just turn your character towards where you think they will be and hit target. Basically just tap the movement analogue in the expected direction. If they are there, they get targetted and the camera will immediately swing around behind you, putting them in perfect view.
So with those two tricks in mind, I ended up having a rapid fire series of moments where I would 1). hear the thing about to leap 2). Tap and target him, spinning the camera around to see him in mid leap aliens style just about to hit me. 3). Grip the enemy in mid leap and instantly fling him sideways so fast he disappeared off my screen entirely.
In particular, the part I remember most vividly is that my first visual sighting of every enemy in that encounter was mid leap, so I had about .05 of a second to react and throw them in each case. (
If they didn't telegraph their leaps with their growls I wouldn't have been able to do it at all.)
It was the bestest thing ever.
I've never repeated it, because now I know where they all come from so I generally don't wait until the last moment like that.
Let's see...
Plenty of awesome matches in QuakeWorld with the clan, though almost entirely practice/skirmishes. The most notable one that comes to mind:
Simple skirmish, 8-10 people, paired up in 2's. This was right around the time people started switching over from modems to real connections, sadly, my partner and I had not made that jump yet. Looking down the player list, I see a sea of 100ish ms pings... and then us, at 350ish, each. My partner expresses a bit of a pessimistic view of our chances, I simply state to the server, "Eh, you sods have it all wrong. Higher is better."
What followed was a glorious round of two sumbitches firmly in The Zone, airjuggling fellows with rocket launchers, banking grenades off of everything in sight, etc. When the dust settled at the end, I'm sitting at #1, my partner at #2, by a healthy margin. "See? Told ya higher was better."
The second event that comes to mind is the most epic game of Battlezone ever played.
Simple 1v1, I'd held on bravely, but my beautiful base was quickly getting exploded out from under me. I figure I'm pretty screwed at this point, only had two lives left, rapidly running out of resources, etc. Still, the other guy was gonna have to work for it. I grab one of the smaller hoverturrets, and sneak out of the carnage. While the other guy is combing the map for any trace of me, while what few units I had left harassed him, I snuck up on top of a plateau overlooking his base.
Now, in Battlezone, every tank in your army had a pilot, who showed up as a small, bright dot in the sniper scope. You pop the pilot, and you can jack the vehicle, and continue on your merry way -- this handily also healed your meatsack to full, and refilled your ammo. All 5 shots of it. Well, I park my ride a bit away from the edge, out of sight, and creep up to get a view of his base. I spot a wayward tank, line up a good shot, cap the pilot, carefully climb down the cliff, hop in, and start laying waste to everything I can.
Naturally, his base defenses eventually pop that ride, triggering the ejector seat... which let me float back down on top of the cliff. After another 4 shots of this, my opponent caught on, and managed to trash my ride up top while I was blasting his base apart. Rather than get discouraged, I just landed on the other cliff, and snuck around to snipe away at the other end of his base. At one point, while beatin feet to get to a newly-relinquished ride, I hear the hum of a hovertank closing in from ahead, just behind a small hill. Right as I pull up the scope, a tank rockets over the hill, and I snap-shot the pilot right out of it. The unpiloted tank soars over my head, dukes of hazzard style, and lands, pilotless, behind me.
After getting *that* tank blown up in a glorious fashion, I found myself back up on the cliff, with no ride. I settle back in, and look over the available tanks for the last time. One of them is moving in a decidedly non-NPC fashion (my opponent) and I started dialing in a shot. As I'm fine-tuning it, I notice it turning, and aiming right in my general direction -- I pull the trigger right as my screen whites out from taking a tank shell to the face. As my shiny new body (last one!) is floating down on it's parachute from above, the win message shows up. Handing me the win. It turned out, that that was my opponent's last life. God I miss that game.
one was in TF2, I was playing as a heavy on Payload: Badwater Basin. The enemy had fortified the final basin position. My pocket medic and I were in the windows just above the garage where engineers like to keep their dispensers. We dropped down, he hit uber just as we landed and I tore the entire position to shreds. Killed the sentry, the engineer, two soldiers nearby, and a pyro before uber ran out, then tore up a sniper just before being backstabbed by a spy. Was a huge rush.
The second one was on Battlefield 2 as a chopper pilot. I was playing on the TV station map...I don't remember its name at the moment. I was hanging around the Construction site area on that map, and taking missile potshots (I had no gunner) at the infantry trying to capture the point. As I saw one particularly daring enemy player make a dash into the building, I swung around to the other side and tried to catcha glimpse of him. Too late, I realised I'd overcorrected and was about to crash. I spun my mouse the other way, ended up throwing the chopper into a near flip and went sailing underneath that steel beam that connects the two buildings under construction. I came out of the roll, righted myself, swooped around and volleyed a swarm of rockets onto the top of the building, killing the player and retaining the checkpoint.
I do miss Battlefield 2.