Stupid Heroics And Epic Moments in Gaming?

[Loyal]

If you've ever played a multiplayer game, chances are you've had one of these. Y'know, the cases where you do something that would normally be considered very stupid, but because of the timing or the circumstances (or just how lucky you got in executing it), it turned out to be totally awesome?

Yeah, post yours!

To start the thread off, I was playing A Path Beyond (A FPS mod. Basically Renegade with Red Alert units instead, very well made), on a map where the Allies must defend against Soviet assaults for 15 minutes (I was Allied). The Allies start with two Longbow helicopters and cannot build any more... and I had taken one. I was using it for regular defense, but eventually we started getting pretty hard in our one critical building, the Radar Dome, via Heavy Tanks and V2s. The building's hitpoints were going down pretty fast, and my teammates had only just gotten to repairing it.

A V2 launches another rocket that surely would have destroyed the Dome if it hit. So I did the only thing I could think of.

Yes, that's right. I flew right in front of the V2 Rocket's path and caught it with my face. And it worked.

And due to armor types and other such silly calculations, the copter came out of it alive, which just made it even more epic.

[Ryu Van Burace]

It was some kind of Tenchu-esque game where it was two player co-op and we were protecting a Daimyo while he was walking back to his castle, injured.
My buddy decides to draw out all the amubshers by running like a loony straight out and taking them all on. This would naturally lead to his death what with these ninja protector characters not being full of vit. The plan was that he'd gather as many as possible and hold his own while I threw in a ninja bomb (basically a grenade with a slow fuse).
It goes relatively well except he gets stuck with the mob right outside the door which is our goal. Snap decision made, we decide to try the plan anyway because hey, retrying that level isn't too bad. I set the bomb and run off to make sure Daimyo's ok. However I find him really too close to the mob who are, fortunately, still engaged with my buddy. Now there's no way to move the guy as he's pretty much set on a course so we're thinking "nuts".

Then the bomb goes off.

The ambush party and my buddy are all killed instantly. Daimyo loses a huge chunk of life but the explosion throws him through the door and ended the level.

We got a C rank because of the health he'd lost but so worth it!

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.

We're outnumbered and we're trying to stop the Axis side from taking this truck out of this compound. There's scant seconds on the clock but there's just me and my buddy alive while the Axis team are at 6 man strength and waiting in the tunnel for the truck to finish its journey.They're going to make it, I could sprint down there and use the shotgun on maybe 2 of them before I get taken down and that still wouldn't stop the truck. We decide to send me on a suicide run.

My buddy calls in an airstrike on the location which will just about hit the truck's back end, stopping it but it won't hold them up for long because they've got engineers. So, using the run boost bar, I run all the way through the airstrike, explosions left and right and firing on the way, causing the other team to have to defend themselves, I take one down but am apparently bleeding profusely. The truck is badly damaged but is still going! We've got 5 seconds left, I hold down the grenade button and run into it.

The 4 engineers who were gathered around the truck in preparation of fixing it are killed in the blast, the truck's stopped and the remaining soldier is looking at his sniper rifle and thinking he picked the wrongest class ever at this point.

[OctoberRaven]

Not really an MMO moment, not really stupid heroics... But yeah.

Call of Duty 2 was popular with my Video Game Design class. Eventually we would up playing a capture the flag match.

It was two on two. Me and who we'll call A on the Allies team, B and C on the Axis team.

A and I would take turns guarding the flag and making runs for it. B would be going for our flag too. A and I kept getting killed out of seemingly nowhere by C... who we realized was pretty much hiding in a place where it was all but impossible to get a clear shot of C. (A and I liked to snipe, although A was MUCH better at it).

Eventually, we got so annoyed at this, I changed my player name from whatever anime/webcomic reference I was using at the time to "Stop Camping, C".

Which would eventually be our mantra, especially in Capture the Flag.


Another COD2 moment is what I call "Why Bruce Lee would have won WWII easily".

Melee is suprisingly effective in that game. A single unarmed strike will kill people. So jumping campers or unwary players and meleeing them was an uncommon, but not rare, occurance.

One time, despite getting dropped on by a player using a machine gun, I went directly up to one of the other players and hit a melee attack. Didn't even get SCRATCHED.

It wasn't an accuracy thing at all, mind you. This was a player who could snipe with the SHOTGUN.

COD2 had some weird balance issues.

[PyrosNine]

I managed to do an entire Deus Ex campaign with only my head and chest, thrice.

I'm talking arms, legs, and most of my chest health gone, and reduced to crawling along the ground like a slow turtle, a sitting duck.

Fortunately, my lowered state was a smaller target, and allowed for more stealth, but it took forever to get everywhere, scraping by with raids on vending machines and drinking a shitload of water.

And a lot of booze.

the first time was in an early mission I can't fully recall, but it was fairly early in the game and I recall an elaborate breakroom within with a pooltable, two vending machines, a basketball, and a fountain of water. I had triggered an alarm earlier and messed up with a grenade (Threw it at my feet while sorta bunkered down from coverfire, forcing me to leap off a ledge to the bottom floor). I then proceeded to do things all over again with like, 20% health, and much much less sucky.


The second time was at the Helicopter trap (where your Heli gets hijacked, and you have to break the signal and jammer keeping you in place. I crawled through a ventilation shaft, searching for a "mech" that would keep me from flying off, and I found it.

Oh boy, did I find it. I learned later that I could have simply walked by a passage where it would come out of the closet I found it in, and simply destroy it with a trap of sorts, but this time, I found it and it's bullets found me. It ended up partially destroying itself with it's own explosives, and since I lacked any piercing bullets, I had to make due with another poorly thrown grenade.

Helpful grenade tip: You cannot crawl away from a grenade before it explodes, unless you have speed implants. You cannot use speed implants, if a giant robot shoots off your legs.

I managed to barely survive, hacking another robot to do my dirty business, and what was left of me crawled into the Heli and got away.

The final time was in the sci lab place in tokyo (you enter it twice, once easily, next not so easily unless you frigging gutted the place) where I had to deal with that lightsaber carrying bitch, and steal sciency stuff (wasn't too sure of the plot at this point, especially after I cheated and brought back JD's brother as an immortal ally of doom, and summoned the big bad guy for the explicit purpose of killing an NPC him (which for some reason, all his sworn enemies were extremely offended by).

Any who, there are forcefields, lasers, and superwarmech cyborg-ninjas of doom, who took me apart much, much quicker.

And if you're wondering why I didn't just load a previous save, I had set my save and restore buttons to "Z" and "X", and sometimes when I wanted to load a save, I'd end up saving.

After crawling through some sucky defenses and murdering hundreds of innocent scientists, lab rats, and eating all their junk food, drinking all their water (how does a waterfountain run out of water?), and downing all their booze, I finally found the bitch, who promptly killed me (I was expecting the cinema scene to last longer, that and I forgot who it was I was looking for at that point, and was thinking, "Hey! I may know her! I bet she knows whom I'm here to kill!")

I then reloaded to a previous, not dead but pretty close state, and then just delegated to shooting her into the lava(?) below with a rocket, and relishing her inability to climb ladders, which only I, a top of the line super sexy cyborg, could do.

[Flarecobra]

I was playing Rogue Spear with a couple of friends in a free-for-all match, and I was one of the last two people...and I was out of rounds for my rifle, and one full clip left for my pistol, as well as a pair of frag grenades. I was looking for a place to hide, and saw a room. I tossed in a grenade to clear it, but threw too hard and it bounced out. It blew up just as the other guy was walking over it, and I didn't see it.

[Pip Boy]

I was playing Starwars Battlefront 2 for the five billionth time when every one of my allies died, leaving me alone as a clone trooper against over a hundred invading CIS at Utapau.

I won, too.

I miss that game, they need to make a third one. Maybe with good online.

[TDK]

Oh! I love this story...My friend and I were playing Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Co-op, and I am slowly sneaking up on this guy, who walks up to a door...And JUST before I kill him, my friend kicks open the door, knocking him out. Neither of us knew the other was there. He was just kicking doors open randomly. It was incredible...

[ThunderousWrath]

This was way back in the days of Delta Force 2...

I forget how many people we had in the game, but it was the maximum number. 30? 32? 36? I was camped out on a ridge overlooking the enemy base, snatching easy kills with the .50 sniper rifle. I was an extremely successful sniper in that game.

DF2 featured a pretty realistic bullet-drop mechanic, which only a few players ever learned to exploit. By learning how your bullets behaved at extreme ranges, it was possible with enough practice to nail headshots with impunity. There is nothing more amusing than sniping a whole team, one at a time, while you're watching their snipers' bullets fall about ten feet short.

Anyway, I had been alive so long and had taken so many shots that my rifle went completely dry. And I'd even taken two cases of extra ammo, instead of the usual ghillie suit / video camera most snipers opted for in those days.

I never bothered with ghillie suits. I didn't need camoflauge -- it didn't matter if they could see me, I was too far away for them to figure out how to hit me.

I pulled out my silenced pistol and charged down the ridge directly at the enemy base. I was headed for their armory, with the dire hope that I'd be able to access the inventory menu from within their base. I shot a soldier exiting the armory in the face with my sidearm -- he probably didn't have time to realize I wasn't on his team -- and then knifed one more as he stared at the wall, no doubt choosing his equipment from a menu.

As it turns out, I was able to access their supply menu, so I took an extra case of ammo for my .50, plus a satchel charge. I was hoping that I could use the satchel charge to blow up their armory. Just like accessing the enemy inventory, it was something I'd never even heard of being attempted, and had no idea whether it would work -- in DF2, some buildings could be demolished, others could not.

...It worked! I blew up the armory, denying the other team's access to extra supplies, and ran away, back to my original sniper spot. Not even a full minute passed before someone knifed me while I was looking down my scope, but it was probably the most epic moment in the history of my video gaming career.

[Ryu Van Burace]

I believe this to be related under the title of "epic":
http://kotaku.com/355765/metal-gear-...icture-follies

[Arhra]

I still have fond memories of Alien vs Predator 2 multiplayer. Some friends and I used to play it a fair bit at LANs and it had some particularly memorable things happen.

One stand-out was in this level with a dropship in a big central hangar bay. I was playing a human and I thought I might possibly have seen a blip for a split second on my trusty old motion detector. Being paranoid, I took a pot shot at the corner of the bay ahead of me with the rocket launcher I was conveniently carrying at the time and this dead predator falls down.

Go paranoia.

There's also fond memories of dropping into the midst of a party of four marines with a preatorian (big, nasty, slower Alien basically) and killing them to a man. Later attempts to replicate that success weren't as successful...

Another game, I think it was something like Soldier of Fortune, I had a roof top showdown with another friend. Now, this was a pretty big roof, not really any cover but there were ridges. My friend had a nasty machine gun type weapon and a rocket launcher.

I had a knife.

He managed to get off two shots with the bazooka and still had enough time to switch to his machine gun and yet I still walked away the victor somehow. What can I say, sometimes the stupid tactic works.