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.