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So, I have been playing the same MMORPG for several years now. Battlemaster, eventually worked my way up my faction and became King. there are an average of 30-50 players per faction, each playing lords and knights of a medievalesque realm. The game has a lot of structure to discourage metagaming, and a set of 'inalienable right' for characters to allow them to play as they wished.
Thus mobilising armies is like herding cats, but when the crud hits the fan everyone turns up in a neat line. It works so well it has been used as a teaching tool and is more considered a sim than a game.
Anyway I digress. one of my fellow players is playing an infiltrator character, real Blondin type. Less ranks of halberdiers more knife in the dark. I would wish he were a regular niombe as we could do with more troops but choosing character clas is one of the inalienable rights, you have to make do and CANNOT order a character to change class against their will.
So facing a border with a hostile realm three times our size, I have been stalling for peace while mobilising our knights, and doing quite well in this. I have managed to bog down my neighbour in endless talks while my borders are fortified. Then our resident assassin type (I would prefer to say serial killer) attempts to bump off the enemy king in the middle of truce extension talks.
I found this out first thing this morning, as in half an hour ago. When I had recovered by jaw from the keyboard and stopped blinking vacantly at the sheer futility of it all I just couldn't stop laughing. Its a real Henry II moment.
Stuff like this happens but most players play sensibly most of the time, so its not an endless chaotic slapstick, and most plans have a chance of working. But when one guy doesn.t get the memo (possibly literally) - ooops.
Anyone else got any multiplayer team feth ups they want to add.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Sounds interesting. Could you post some links to a few lets play/gameplay videos? Battlemaster is not a particularly unique name.
So facing a border with a hostile realm three times our size, I have been stalling for peace while mobilising our knights, and doing quite well in this. I have managed to bog down my neighbour in endless talks while my borders are fortified. Then our resident assassin type (I would prefer to say serial killer) attempts to bump off the enemy king in the middle of truce extension talks.
So facing a border with a hostile realm three times our size, I have been stalling for peace while mobilising our knights, and doing quite well in this. I have managed to bog down my neighbour in endless talks while my borders are fortified. Then our resident assassin type (I would prefer to say serial killer) attempts to bump off the enemy king in the middle of truce extension talks
Sounds like you've been playing the role of Serbia circa 1914
Anyone else got any multiplayer team feth ups they want to add.
So many.
In a sort of reverse feth up; My clan in CoD4 had an 'initiation' for new members where the new recruits played uneven matches against the entire clan (often resulting in 5 v 10+). My initiation included me and two others, so only three of us. We didn't lose. We wrecked the clans leadership save SLIK (who was a boss) for about five hours 3 v 7 and eventually the clan leader just ended it because he was too embarrassed XD
I was playing Rift when it first came out with my clan and we were running along the map towards an objective. I decided to shortcut through rough terrain rather than follow the road and all was well till I jumped over a ledge that had a much bigger drop than I expected. I literally screamed into TS "Oh god!" and hit the ground and died. I laughed. Then five people went splat around me XD I laughed harder.
Back during our brief time in Planescape Planetside 2 (no idea why I put planescape there...) we had a bit of a Leroy Jenkins moment. We were planning an attack on an outpost off on the side of the map, sparsely defended. A convoy was running through so we were waiting for them to leave and plan our attack. There were six of us but there were supposed to be seven and I look around and say "Where's Lopez?" No one knows. Then Lopez runs by saying, literally sprints by my screen, "Run away! Run away!" Within the next moment a whole gak ton of guys (from the red faction) swarm over us and kill us all;"Lopez wtf?" "Run away!" "Lopez what did you do?!" "I just wanted to steal their tank!"*
I also can't remember all the times I've been involved in crashing blackhawks in BFBC2. Including black hawks full of people XD
*Honestly, everything Lopez does ends in only two ways. Hilariously ludicrous success (what we dub "Lopez Artillery") or horrible painful failure (which is why no matter what we just blame Lopez when things go wrong XD).
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Anyone else got any multiplayer team feth ups they want to add.
So many.
In a sort of reverse feth up; My clan in CoD4 had an 'initiation' for new members where the new recruits played uneven matches against the entire clan (often resulting in 5 v 10+). My initiation included me and two others, so only three of us. We didn't lose. We wrecked the clans leadership save SLIK (who was a boss) for about five hours 3 v 7 and eventually the clan leader just ended it because he was too embarrassed XD
I was playing Rift when it first came out with my clan and we were running along the map towards an objective. I decided to shortcut through rough terrain rather than follow the road and all was well till I jumped over a ledge that had a much bigger drop than I expected. I literally screamed into TS "Oh god!" and hit the ground and died. I laughed. Then five people went splat around me XD I laughed harder.
Back during our brief time in Planescape Planetside 2 (no idea why I put planescape there...) we had a bit of a Leroy Jenkins moment. We were planning an attack on an outpost off on the side of the map, sparsely defended. A convoy was running through so we were waiting for them to leave and plan our attack. There were six of us but there were supposed to be seven and I look around and say "Where's Lopez?" No one knows. Then Lopez runs by saying, literally sprints by my screen, "Run away! Run away!" Within the next moment a whole gak ton of guys (from the red faction) swarm over us and kill us all;"Lopez wtf?" "Run away!" "Lopez what did you do?!" "I just wanted to steal their tank!"*
I also can't remember all the times I've been involved in crashing blackhawks in BFBC2. Including black hawks full of people XD
*Honestly, everything Lopez does ends in only two ways. Hilariously ludicrous success (what we dub "Lopez Artillery" or horrible painful failure (which is why no matter what we just blame Lopez when things go wrong XD).
I feel it's pertinent to point to my favorite moment of COD4, where I was coming down a stair case with a P90. A fun a gun, a fun gun. Anywho I see hats here who is on the opposing team. So i decide to shoot all of the bullets, I missed every single shot. That's right not one of 50 bullets actually hit him at point blank range. Then I tried stabbing only to lunge past him missing yet again. Now at this point hats just turns around a wastes me and everyone in vent hears about it because how often does someone in COD 4 miss with an entire clip of P90 and a knife at close range? To this day i know of just that one occurrence
Then there was that time in R.U.S.E. beta where hats and our pal cook'n time decided to 2 v 1 me. And I only won because of the american artillery piece being so rediculously OP it's hilarious I only needed to build 2 of them. They tried valiantly to destroy the piece but they failed. They did however burn the entire surrounding area including the cover zone but that did not dissuade my beautiful artillery piece from winning in my name. Now we call similar occurrences "Lopez Artillery" - the exploitation of basic game imbalances to achieve impossible victories. Also Absurd amounts of friendly collateral damage allegedly caused by my artillery units. Allegedly
And then there was the time I flipped the tank upside down in BF3 well that one we actually caught on video before I got blown up by Matt(AKA Americanadian) but yeah... oh and there was that time I flipped a tank upside down
I'm the really annoying high pitched squeaky voice >.>
we also made jetskis jump islands in BFBC2 but the video for that one is lost to the internet.
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Being a member of an extremely PVE centered corporation in EVE Online that liked to pretend it knew how to PVP every once and a while (and indeed had a small core of pretty good pew-pew players, of which I was most definitely not one)... I have some stories I could share.
Most of them just boil down to having 20-30 people in really poorly equipped spaceships with no real game-plan roaming around looking for trouble before getting massacred by a fleet 3x our size that understood the concept of things like "fleet fitting doctrine" "target discipline" and "proper coms procedure".
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BrianDavion wrote: Between the two of us... I think GW is assuming we the players are not complete idiots.
Rapidly on path to becoming the world's youngest bitter old man.
I have a friend we've dubbed "Special Snowflake". Basically we try to coordinate anything between team games of 40k to RPGs we intentionally go into to be min-maxed. He loves min-maxing, but diverges against any effort to not do his own precious (and ultimately ineffective) thing.
Shadow Captain Edithae wrote: Sounds interesting. Could you post some links to a few lets play/gameplay videos? Battlemaster is not a particularly unique name.
So facing a border with a hostile realm three times our size, I have been stalling for peace while mobilising our knights, and doing quite well in this. I have managed to bog down my neighbour in endless talks while my borders are fortified. Then our resident assassin type (I would prefer to say serial killer) attempts to bump off the enemy king in the middle of truce extension talks.
As for my own entry...I'm sure I'll have something the next time I play Planetside 2. Someone ALWAYS feths up in that.
Like is correct. do you want to sign up? We could do with some fresh blood. The game has no graphics but a LOT of depth, its played over months rather than hours, takes a few minutes (to several hours) to play and if you miss a few days it doesnt matter.
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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
2-2 in a warsong gulch game on WoW pre xserver.
Shaman holding the flag sees an alliance players who is a real life friend of his enter the flag room.
Does a /dance, drops the flag, it gets returned, a loss and much hilarity ensues.
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By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
This was more the result of crippling stupidity of the common man and how pathetically scared some players are of dying in Multiplayer games, but I have never surpassed this trickery.
Once I was playing Recon in Battlefield 3 on one of the numerous desert maps. We Russians sacked Bravo flag and were moving up our base with all of the snipers moving up to reposition, when with my wonderful luck I ran into a tank.
See, I was in the frantic process of darting across the road when an M1A1 Abrams caught me by surprise on the road and started firing. I panicked, and out of sheer fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants insanity, rushed the tank as Recon without any anti armor weapons on hand. I quickly then decided to test the wit of the driver, and started spamming my spawn beacon. Then, the driver (who was a outstanding example of human gullibility) thought I was placing C4 on his tank, despite the six foot rifle strapped to my back clearly pointing out I was Recon, and thus lacked explosives.
The driver ditched anyway, my ploy work, and the engineer class abandoned his tank. His. Tank. Mind you I had no ability to take that thing or even deal damage, and the dude just fled.
So I hopped in his tank and shot him, and then kindly donated the Abrams to a friendly engineer.
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“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
A while back, I was screwing around with Planetside 2, despite, y'know. Not knowing anyone who played the game and not being particularly interested in teaming up with an outfit. So there I was, bouncing around way behind enemy lines as a light assault, just kind of wandering up and down mountains...
I have no idea why the Scythe was on the ground. It was just parked there, in the middle of the road. Maybe the pilot was waiting for someone, maybe he was off getting a sandwich, I don't know. I guess he had figured he was so deep into his own territory that he felt safe not paying attention for a bit.
Little did he know that I had no idea how to play this game right.
It had been a boring ten minutes, and I had honestly been expecting to get spotted and killed long before this, so I walked up to the fighter...wandered around for a second...and then emptied my carbine into it. That was kinda fun, so I did it again. And again...by the time he woke up and realized some lunatic was standing outside the cockpit blazing away at his fuselage, I'd gone through quite a few bullets. He panicked, taxied off, and started to turn - which gave me the chance to fire a few parting shots. I figured he was about to either turn me into a crater or disappear over the horizon, never to be seen again. I was not expecting him to turn into a giant fireball.
So that's how you kill a plane using only small arms...
Planetside 2... other than the embarrassing frequency with which I flip my vehicles and explode...there was this one time I sat in a Prowler parked above a cliff overlooking the desert west of Howling Pass Checkpoint on Indar, using optic zoom and anchor mode to pour fire into NC armoured columns, picking off sunderers, tanks and hapless foot soldiers.
Took them a fugging HOUR to find me and drive me off.
You may now pray to all your gods if you so choose, but I assure you good sir hats. None of them can vanquish me. It's only a matter of time before I flip this thread upside down. Like the tank... or other things... like that time I discovered helicopters could do barrel rolls in BF2 but were not particularly apt drilling machines.
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Ugh, played some Halo: Reach last night, got a message from the opposing player in Grifball: "Fething Hacker!!" I've never hacked in my life, so I sent him an appropriate response: "I've never hacked in my life, but congrats on being a whiny little bitch." Half a second later, I got booted from the game. Then he laughed and said "you got trolled". Shame when people submit tickets against people who are better than them. It's the reason I mostly stick to only playing multiplayer questing games with friends. Random idiots online suck. At least I know he has no hope of a future if he can't handle people who are better than him.
Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
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The thing to remember about my splatter however, is that I managed it while the banshee was flying thirty feet off the air. I was trying to splatter a scrub walking around (we were losing horrible, so I stopped caring), but I botched the boost and hit a rock instead. The rock sent my flying into the sky and I ended the spree of the Banshee pilot- who at that point was going something like 23:1.
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
Halo 2. Our clan name was Clubbing Hookers. We have a PERFECT loss ratio. 200 some odd matches without a single victory. Now, give us credit, we did this on purpose.
We'd do crazy things. As soon as the match would start, we'd go and hide. We'd start grenading ourselves, trying to make it so the enemy never got a single kill. We'd race to get to -200 before the timer would run out, etc...
Our personal favorite, there was one level with a set of crates that had a small pocket you could fit 4 people in. We'd all hide in there, and one of our team would just put some Mario music on his computer, and play it over his mic. In Halo 2, you could hear the enemy teams voice, if you were relatively close. It would confused the living hell out of our opponents, and was absolutely hilarious, to us at least.
Anyways, one day we got into a match, and our opponents figured out what was going on. I don't remember the exact details, but somehow we got up by a kill or something, they had a greater negative then us or the like, so we started bailing. Didn't want to risk ruining a perfect loss record. Except this newer guy in our clan just wasn't quick enough. The whole other team bailed while he wasn't paying attention, and it gave us the win...
Months of shenanigans, gone. Our perfect loss record was ruined.
djones520 wrote: Halo 2. Our clan name was Clubbing Hookers. We have a PERFECT loss ratio. 200 some odd matches without a single victory. Now, give us credit, we did this on purpose.
We'd do crazy things. As soon as the match would start, we'd go and hide. We'd start grenading ourselves, trying to make it so the enemy never got a single kill. We'd race to get to -200 before the timer would run out, etc...
Our personal favorite, there was one level with a set of crates that had a small pocket you could fit 4 people in. We'd all hide in there, and one of our team would just put some Mario music on his computer, and play it over his mic. In Halo 2, you could hear the enemy teams voice, if you were relatively close. It would confused the living hell out of our opponents, and was absolutely hilarious, to us at least.
Anyways, one day we got into a match, and our opponents figured out what was going on. I don't remember the exact details, but somehow we got up by a kill or something, they had a greater negative then us or the like, so we started bailing. Didn't want to risk ruining a perfect loss record. Except this newer guy in our clan just wasn't quick enough. The whole other team bailed while he wasn't paying attention, and it gave us the win...
Months of shenanigans, gone. Our perfect loss record was ruined.
Oh, thanks to Halo's wonky physics engine, I've had far worse things like traffic cones kill me. Thanks to Covenant anti-gravity mucking with the physics engine in Halo 3 and Halo Reach, I've gone to space by just driving a Wraith. I was one time mulling about my own business in Reach when my Wraith decided it was going to fly today, and I instantly shot hundreds of feet into the air and exploded with zero warning.
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
djones520 wrote: Halo 2. Our clan name was Clubbing Hookers. We have a PERFECT loss ratio. 200 some odd matches without a single victory. Now, give us credit, we did this on purpose.
We'd do crazy things. As soon as the match would start, we'd go and hide. We'd start grenading ourselves, trying to make it so the enemy never got a single kill. We'd race to get to -200 before the timer would run out, etc...
Our personal favorite, there was one level with a set of crates that had a small pocket you could fit 4 people in. We'd all hide in there, and one of our team would just put some Mario music on his computer, and play it over his mic. In Halo 2, you could hear the enemy teams voice, if you were relatively close. It would confused the living hell out of our opponents, and was absolutely hilarious, to us at least.
Anyways, one day we got into a match, and our opponents figured out what was going on. I don't remember the exact details, but somehow we got up by a kill or something, they had a greater negative then us or the like, so we started bailing. Didn't want to risk ruining a perfect loss record. Except this newer guy in our clan just wasn't quick enough. The whole other team bailed while he wasn't paying attention, and it gave us the win...
Months of shenanigans, gone. Our perfect loss record was ruined.
In the continuing Saga of Lopez, I literally just watched him destroy Zone chat by giving a LFG in German. The chat literally collapsed within a minute wither five different people arguing about whether or not people from Europe should be on the NA server (Lopez is a Michigander).
The sheer number of times some donkey cave in a Battlefield game ran over to the plane and immediately ground looped it... It started in Battlefield 2, and I've seen it at least once a round in every Battlefield game I've played since.
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
or horrible painful failure (which is why no matter what we just blame Lopez when things go wrong XD).
