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what were they? weve all done cheap stuff
like in saints row 2
on the fight against the asain guys father i just used to rocket launcher
he died as soon as i hit him

In Killzone 2 when I play as the sniper, which is most of the time I will sometime deliberately shoot someone in the chest (which allows medics to res them) in order to lure out a medic. Also I will deliberately sneak into a position near the enemy base which provides the enemy with no cover and wait to kill some one until an assassination mission starts.

I don't know if this counts as cheap but in MGO with one of my characters I waited in ambush until 4 enemies ran by and jumped out behind them. I was using the MP5 SD5 and hit one of the 4 dropping him almost ran out of ammo switched to my pistol, fired wounding the enemy, CQC'd one, released him as one of the other ran to CQC me which ended up with the guy grabbing his own friend, while the third guy fired and hit his team mates causing SOP to lock his gun.

A ran around them threw a grenade hitting the third guy, the grenade went off killing him while throwing the rest of us to the ground, I got up switched back to the MP5 which was at 1/4th mag cap and sprayed hitting them both in the head before running off and hiding in a box, which works some of the time believe it or not.

Hrm. Cheap stuff I've done...

Chromehounds, definitely immediately comes to mind...

I had this brutal "assassin" hound that I used exclusively for taking down the other team's commanders.
4x long-barreled sniper cannons, a flare mortar mounted on the back, real stable leg platform and as streamlined as it could get.

Man, that thing was brutal. I could take down the most heavily armored and well-defended commanders with a few well-placed shots.
My favorite moment was in this ruined city map. The guy who played our scout hound(he had it configured as a hovercraft with light weaponry and an AMAZING electronic warfare package) lured their support right into my line of fire.
Bam. All their artillery hounds were down before they ever engaged our main force, and he and I went hunting for the commander.
But now none of my friends play it anymore :(

Good old Counter-Strike, beta six something, I used to play it a lot with my brother. He was a canny bastard and had learned that it was faster to toss aside your main weapon than to either reload or reach for your pistol. He was running towards some guy with his auto-boomstick firing as he went, missing the guy! So the guy turned on him with his USP, popping off wild shots. My brother threw his empty shotgun aside, right into the hands of the guy he was attacking. He had auto-select better weapon switched on so his USP was swapped for the auto-shotgun, which was still empty. It took him a moment to realize that he was tapping the mouse while holding an empty weapon.

*click*
*click*
*click*
*click*
*click*
*click*

*boom*

My brother blew him away with his desert eagle.

BrookM wrote:Good old Counter-Strike, beta six something, I used to play it a lot with my brother. He was a canny bastard and had learned that it was faster to toss aside your main weapon than to either reload or reach for your pistol. He was running towards some guy with his auto-boomstick firing as he went, missing the guy! So the guy turned on him with his USP, popping off wild shots. My brother threw his empty shotgun aside, right into the hands of the guy he was attacking. He had auto-select better weapon switched on so his USP was swapped for the auto-shotgun, which was still empty. It took him a moment to realize that he was tapping the mouse while holding an empty weapon.

*click*
*click*
*click*
*click*
*click*
*click*

*boom*

My brother blew him away with his desert eagle.

Holy Crap... that is just awesome.

I played Counterstrike with the AWP.

in resi 5 i bought loads of rpgs and killed all the bosses in 1 shot

The Dark Trooper Class in Star Wars Battlefront is cheap in itself, a shotgun-type weapon with jetpack for delivery?


But the cheapest thing I've seen is the way my friend plays in Gears of War. He hides in some corner and chainsaws enemies from behind.

Energy swording. Followed by t-bagging.

in order to redeem myself, I proceded to use the plasma pistol, which is made of glass and feelings, and meleed till I got a kill.

In resi 5 I use the infinite RPG.

DOn't know if this counts as cheap, but in battlefield 2 on my PS2 I was playing black gold. Started out on the oil rigs with a sniper rifle.

It was 6 vs 3 and I was on the 3 side thanks to some drops. The other team loaded up into 2 blackhawks and 1 mini chopper.

I saw the first blackhawk and sniped the pilot, before the other guy could switch into the pilot seat, it crashed into the rig and blew up. The genius flying the second blackhawk was right behind him and crashed into the wreckage also blowing up. The mini chopper was a little better...he flew around the second exploding blackhawk and hit the tower on the oil rig, also blowing up. Unfortunately, it doesn't count kills caused by circumstances so I only got 1 kill.

Let's see, I guess the chick on the street corner doesn't count, right?

i played prototype yesterday and one a particualr boss i just sat back and let the military take its shields down and the i killed it.

I copy swords ( excalibur ) in FFT >.>

all my knights are dual wielding excalibur with restore HP on counter.

Here's cheap.
Setting your PS2's internal clock 2 weeks ahead and just letting time kill "The End" in MGS3.

i killed him that way but i just didnt do on pupose i just didnt play for 2 week beccause i didnt feel like palying

GTA Vice City, jumping over the wall of the golf course rather than going through the entrance and the metal detector. That way I got to keep my weapons so I just shot the guy I had to kill with my assault rifle.

Also on the mission where you have to take a pic of that politician guy I used a helicopter and landed on the building next to the hotel and took the pic from there, so when the FBI came after me I just got back in my helicopter and flew back to the film studio.

More MGO, I play my female character because people automatically assume that if you play as a girl that isn't showing off her tits (I have the Outer Heaven Uniform) that you are a girl and will not play as seriously. In those situations its time to lay the hammer down on them.

I know where to point a sniper rifle for headshots on most of the spawnpoints on Cerebere Landing, in BF2142. That's damned cheap.

Cheap stuff that makes me laugh?

CoD4 - MP5, Silencer, UAV jammer on the Shipment level and just camp at the enemies spawn as they have ZERO idea where you killed them from

Gears of War - Two Piece! melee someone, count to 1, shoot the shotgun, time it right and murder people, they will hate you for doing it but its really hard to kill someone who is good at it

L4D - (Before the Patch came out for 360) Hunter Swiping! omg it was so funny to run to a survivor and dance around him clawing at his back a couple times doing insane damage. Good times

Star Wars battlefront 2, on Hoth. Ramming the AT ATs and AT STs with snowspeeders that I had modified. By sticking mines to the front. It was actully hilarious.

You can no longer camp spawns on CoD 4. Enemies will spawn a fair distance from you, no matter what. If they cannot safely spawn, they start spawning on your original end of the map.

Cheese Elemental wrote:You can no longer camp spawns on CoD 4. Enemies will spawn a fair distance from you, no matter what. If they cannot safely spawn, they start spawning on your original end of the map.

it works as long as you are the only person at there spawn and you keep moving, when they switch spawns you just run to the opposite side, it works, i promise

NeedsMoreDakka wrote:
L4D - (Before the Patch came out for 360) Hunter Swiping! omg it was so funny to run to a survivor and dance around him clawing at his back a couple times doing insane damage. Good times

Have you tried a Boomer strafing run? Only works when you are outside.

Find a long area to spawn in a move as fast as possible towards the Survivors.

Jump just before you spawn. You will be moving absurdly fast. You will also be in the air. Possibly pretty high in the air.

Start barfing. You will cover a HUGE area, but will almost guaranteed detonate when you hit the ground.

Also looks REALLY funny if people are watching.

Mattlov wrote:

Have you tried a Boomer strafing run? Only works when you are outside.

Find a long area to spawn in a move as fast as possible towards the Survivors.

Jump just before you spawn. You will be moving absurdly fast. You will also be in the air. Possibly pretty high in the air.

Start barfing. You will cover a HUGE area, but will almost guaranteed detonate when you hit the ground.

Also looks REALLY funny if people are watching.

Words can describe how awesome that sounds lmao

Going to have to steal back L4D from my girl and try it out

It isn't easy to pull off, but can be friggin' hilarious.

In a really competitive environment, your teammates might not appreciate the suicide bombing.

Warcraft 3... whosyourdaddy ... nuff said...

up up down down left right left right b a start FTW.

I was helping my youngest brother on a particularly annoying mission on Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. You know, the one that changes the game so that you're still basically doing all the same things. but in vehicles you make out of parts you buy or find that managed to make so many people mad that it was a new take on an old idea.

Anyway, the goal of the mission is to prevent these flying robot drones from destroying some golden egg statue on top of a pedestal in the middle of the map. The little things infinitely respawn in waves and crash into the statue one at a time at random intervals. You can make a flying vehicle with lots of firepower to try and destroy them beforehand, but the fact that they are infinitely respawning(slowly, but in groups) and can circle slowly above the target while you make passes on them to attack whenever they feel like makes the mission frustrating. So we obviously had to do something else. The game lets you make your own vehicles however you want as long as you use the requisite pieces(engines, fuel tanks, ammo containers, wings, what have you), and looking around at things to use to try and give myself an edge in the garage, I noticed armor plates. Then it hit me. I wouldn't even bother attacking the Without Number Kamikaze drones. I just made a huge inverted box, large enough to fit over the statue, added some engines, propellers, etc. to make it into a sort of v-tol looking monstrosity, and parked it on top of the target statue at the beginning of the mission. The little tards kept crashing into my armored turtlecopter over and over again trying to hit the statue. Got a perfect score.

Diablo 2... getting so fed up with an angry american teen *accidently* managed to load an "edited" necro who raped all the quests then proceded to taunt him :(

I forgot one. The super scrab from halo wars.