Video game shenanigans
 

This thread is about the little oddities in video games that fall under the category of "What the hell!"

No, I'm not talking about the AI's tendency to completely ruin you when it thinks you're going to win (although it could still qualify). I'm talking about things like this. And this.

So basically, unfair/weird moments in multiplayer.

One time in GTA IV I had a rocket launcher and Melfice did not.

That sounds like a strange german sex story.........

This one time, while playing Team Fortress 2, my brother me and my brother both killed ourselves at the same with with our rocket launchers when trying to kill a guy running across the map. It was sad and funny.

garrysmod, spawning mislabeled stargates in a spacemod map so someone would go through one expecting to be on another planet and instead finding themselves floating in deep space.

In Modern Warfare 2, I once killed someone with a care package. He was running up to knife me and it landed on him. It was the game winning kill, so everyone saw it. It was awesome.

On the other hand, one time you were in a car, and I had an assault rifle. BOOM.

Also, unrelated, driving ice-cream trucks over one of the longest courses in the game.

I once completely by accident managing to hit the driver of a transport with a mortar shell while playing tribes. I was firing randomly over mountains and then suddenely got a kill, followed by about 8 (this was back in the days when you could overload transports).

Soul Calibur 3, stage with sllippery floor.

I was Yoshimitsu and randomly decided to start flying. I ended up facing the wrong way, enemy behind me and in front only a ring out.

"Oh shit."
"Oh man, you're making this easy."

So he starts running and when he's about to hit me, I fly higher, he misses and rings out.

On DotA, I once managed to not get hit by a hook - which deals damage and pulls you towards who threw it - by jumping. This being DotA it runs on warcraft 3 and I had no idea jumps made your guy count as flying and thus evade the darn thing.

...Except I didn't get hit instantly, because I jumped not away from the enemy, but towards it, but I did get hit by the hook as it retracted.

I guess this one also counts: In Crysis, there's a part you fight an invulnerable alien. I cheated and set the melee attack strength to some absurdly high amount.

Then I hit it. It disappeared and then came crashing down some 10 seconds later.

Also, Battlefield 2, any stage with a bridge that you can explode with C4.

I think you know where I'm going.

TimeSplitters 3 with monkeys only. In a custom map with randomly lit tiles (creating a disco-style environment). And the only weapon is the Flare Gun. Four players.

I prefer hanky-panky to shenanigans.

Me and a friend playing the new AVP just now, and as Preds, toying with our enemies. Both of us as Preds, vs 2 marines, vs 2 Xenos.

An excerpt of some of our dialogue;
Friend; Oh hey dude, there's a human there, you wanna kill him?
Me; Nah, I need to recharge energy, you have him.
Friend; *Sigh* Fine. *FWAP*

(FWAP here being the sound of the plasmacaster instagibbing said marine).

We even enacted a policy of "calling your attacks", by shouting out something like;
"Hey Xeno on the cliffside, gona spear him!"
"Ok cool"
... *WHACK!*
"Nice hit!"


Good times.

Man, now I need to find that absurd game where it looks like virtua fighter graphically but movements are incredibly absurd and one guy has an attack that involves posing like a torpedo and flying around. And the battle ends with a crouching punch to the crotch.

You complete a challenge that way, I believe. Droppin' Crates, it's under the Humiliation tab, I think... I forgot.

Anyway... Similar story, but with Halo 3. No scoped a guy all the way across the map on accident when I dropped the controller.

Nearly maxed Shiva's level in FF8 before even getting Quistis in my party. Oddly, GF level faster than characters, so Squall was under 20 somewhere I think. Basically, boss battles become insanely easy for at least the first part of the game under those circumstances. Also, T-Rexaurs actually become manageable.

Quake 2. I had a rocket launcher, I spied someone up on a ledge. Fired a rocket, then he nailed me with the railgun. We both died. We respawn, I'm right by the rocket launcher spawn point, so I snag it again. I go into the room again, see someone, fire...I get killed by the railgun again...and the guy gets hit by the rocket again.

And it was by two different people too.

Back when Super Mario Kart was the newest Mario Kart out there, I was playing a battle with one of my brothers and he was sitting still and somehow, through veering and... the planets being in alignment or something I managed to fire a red turtle shell in a perfect orbit around him, it just kept circling, never getting closer, but if he moved it would throw off the rotation and hit him. It was pretty awesome.

Halo 1, Blood Gulch. I'm on one side of the map with a Rocket Launcher, and fire a missile. Now those things are S-L-O-W.

We continue to play for about 2 kills. All of a sudden, "Game"

I got my last kill because someone ran into my missile on the other side of Blood Gulch about 1 1/2 minutes later. O_o

I will see you in a few hours?
 

I know this is off topic, synk, but when is Yoruichi-sama going to come back?

I was actually thinking, earlier today, of changing it back to her.
 

Once shot somebody from across the map in Halo 2 with blind luck. Granted, I was in the tank, so that wasn't too impressive in and of itself, but the game told me I had sniped my opponent. Laughs were had.

Another time on Halo 2, in the stage with the train (Terminal, iirc), friend of mine fired a rocket launcher. Misses me, and I manage to kill him right after that. He respawns a few seconds later, and immediatly suicides. Like, before there was even time to throw grenades to kill himself. Turns out the rocket hit him just as he spawned.

Still Halo 2; start of a standard capture-the-flag game on Coagulation/BloodGulch where I'm on Blue Team. I take gunner on the Warthog, friend of mine rides shotgun, my brother drives. We're approaching the Red team base, and a grenade explodes from under us.

We go flying.

After a second or two of doing barrel rolls in the air, we land directly on top of Red teams base, with the Warthog poised and ready to drive away. I hop out, land inside the base, throw the flag up to my friend. He hops back in the Warthog, and I go into the basement and hide. Nobody sees me. The Warthog makes it back to base, scores the flag, and begins a return trip. NOBODY is inside the base, so I grab the flag as the Warthog starts to get near, and hop in as it pulls up. We ended up ahead 2-0 in less than 2 minutes, and the Red team all ragequit right after that.

Fun times, that Halo 2. Shame I don't play many multiplayer games >.>

Since rocket launchers stories seem to be so very popular, I do recall a time back in Alien vs Predator 2 where in a level featuring a dropship bay, I fired a rocket into the bay corner on general principle because I am a suspicious sort.

Dead predator fell down.

Huzzah for paranoia!

Oh, and I managed to shoot down an airplane in Unreal with a tank cannon once. Not too shabby!

More rocket launcher fun: My favorite kill I ever was awarded was on TF2. A demoman and soldier dropped down right in front of me from a higher platform. I was a pyro. I reflexively reflected a rocket back towards the soldier. It was a crit and it killed them both.

Soldier: "...well played."

I had to explain that I just got lucky.

I've managed to have two soldiers shoot rockets at me, one was a crocket. I apparently killed the one who shot the crocket with the other one and vice-versa, as I didn't get the "kill a soldier with his own reflected crit rocket" achievement. As a Heavy, I once got saved from getting sniped by a cloaked spy. Sniper was aiming for my head and the spy jumped and got headshot'd, but saved me. He didn't plan on it, though. He made sure to point it out that I owed him.