Moments Of Online 0wn4g3

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2006-06-22 07:20pm

I'm just awaiting becoming a part of the SAS DoD clan after a rather fun night. I've restarted playing on DoD:S and was keen on the maps on this clan's servers. After a great match where I, unabashedly, did frackin' well, there came a moment that finally got one of the pros to ask me to consider joining. The moment went thusly.

Pissed at me getting headshots on him, even after he tried sneaking up behind me (twice) and failing to kill me (twice), one of the admins used that teleporter trick via console to have some fun. He teleported me in front of his MG and wasted me. The cackles of laughter on the speakers got me thinking they were trying it again for added humour.

Okay, if you want to cheat to try and even the score.

I heard them getting ready again over the speakers as I run to capture a flag, then I'm suddenly between the two admin players as they level their guns at me and fire. They kill me in the hail of bullets.

The grenade I had primed just as they said "Get ready" and teleported me, fell to the ground.

Both admins got blown sky high.

All I could hear was laughter and disbelief at that, and instantly I was told to sign-up, though having never been with a clan, I was a tad apprehensive, but I've got little better to do during evenings right now.

So, that match and the finale was sheer skill (especially since I was rusty as hell just the other day), but what moments have you had where you've not only surprised yourself, you've made others think "Wow, that's bloody brilliant!"?

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2006-06-22 08:24pm

It's difficult to point to any specific instance in FPSs recently. It's actually pretty random for me; sometimes just one day of playing BF2 or AA or CoD or whatever, I'll just catch on fire and tear the server apart in a conflagration of firey death.

But, since my long-term memory isn't completely shot, and since we're on the topic of DoD...

Back In The Day™, specifically DoD 2.x for HL1, when it was still just a mod and not a big ol' Valve thingy, I had mastered the art of firing the sniper rifles accurately without using the scope (there was no crosshair normally, unlike the other weapons). I don't remember the specific version history, but I remember they kept rebalancing the weapons' accuracy, and I had to keep relearning the sniper rifles - But anyways, it was in one of the new British maps and I was running around on my favorite server with a scoped Lee-Enfield. The clan there knew me pretty well as I'd been playing with them since 1.3b (the only TRUE DoD), and I often gave them a run for their money one-on-one.

So there I was with my scoped Lee-Enfield, mastering firing it unscoped - on the Germans, of course. Now, the clan leader and administrator happened to be on that team, and by sheer bad luck or something, he managed to catch the vast majority of my shots with his face. And they were horrifically accurate - I was racking up an obscene K:D ratio just whacking people, including SMGers and MGers, at close range with my rifle. Finally the admin had enough and thought I was cheating (always a sign you're doing well) and switched to spectator to watch me. I was still doing reasonably well, but I suppose not getting his head blown off contantly helped convince him I wasn't hacking or using 'tape' (why the fuck you'd put tape on your monitor just to say you can kill people without crosshairs is beyond me).

I've long since forgotten my final score or anything of that sort, but needless to say I dominated not only the team but the whole game in score by a ludicrous lead (and I am very objective-oriented in games; I typically have very high if not the highest objective-related score; in this case point captures). The next patch finally destroyed sniper rifles used unscoped I think, so that was the end of that. And then "v1.0" came out and it was lame and the rest is history.

Lazarus · Post by **Lazarus** » 2006-06-23 05:05pm

I tend to go through on/off phases on CS:S, so I'll play for hours one week, and then not come back for about a month, so I always have to get back into my stride again, which means what moment of l33tness I have are usually about a week after I start again. It's usually brought about by the opposition being of a good standard, but no one enemy being many times better than myself, the map being one I'm used to (assault or compound usually), and of course a generous helping of luck.

One particular moment which I remember was on cs_assault. I was defending inside the warehouse, sat behind cardboard boxes on the second level. Away on the other side of the warehouse (quite a distance!) was the door to the fire escape. The door opened, and a CT armed with a sniper rifle appeared and scoped me. My gaming partner screamed at me over my headset to 'FUCKING DODGE!!!'. I was only armed with a Deagle, but rather than run away, I crouched, spun and fired the last round in my clip. My friend swore, thinking the sniper had got me, before realising that I had in fact somehow managed a single headshot, killing the sniper in one go, from all the way across the warehouse. It's not 40-kills-no-deaths but it was pretty cool.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2006-06-23 05:31pm

Rocket jumping and sniping three people with headshots (some of them in midair with me) before I hit the ground in a modded Elite Force server that allows rocket jumping with the rifle.

I've been accused of cheating for stuff like that

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2006-06-23 06:13pm

A few days ago I was playing CS, with my usual ratio of 1 kill to 2 deaths, when I decide to do something just for fun. I use Crazy Fucker as my name, so I just turn on my microphone, yell out "Crazy fucker rampage!" and charge. This on Office, at the start of a new map. So I bought the Duel Elites, charged down into the garage and got three consecutive headshots.

RazorOutlaw · Post by **RazorOutlaw** » 2006-06-23 06:40pm

Once during a match in HALO, I beat my best friend and his cousin 72-20. I'll never forget the match either because both of those jackasses played the game on Legendary skill level or some such thing.

And they lost. To a newb.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2006-06-23 07:21pm

RazorOutlaw wrote:Once during a match in HALO, I beat my best friend and his cousin 72-20. I'll never forget the match either because both of those jackasses played the game on Legendary skill level or some such thing.

And they lost. To a newb.

Unforgivable.

I haven't had many real ownage moments, although there was one awesome one I can remember from a few days ago: Halo 2, Headlong, 8v8 CTF; my team had just repelled a pretty major attack on the flag base (we were defending), and in the process killed most of the opposing team, so a few of us took advantage of the momentary lull to move outside and take positions from which we could stop attackers before they even got inside. A battle rifle carrier and myself, with rockets, mad our may up to the broken road overlooking the center field just as an enemy warthog flies across the valley towards us from the raised road jump. As it lands, I nail it with a rocket, and as I'm reloading, I see another warthog tearing away from the enemy base, jacked by one of our own. Hot on his tail is one of our ghosts, jacked by the other side and determined to kill the stolen hog. They're moving very fast, but I manage to get a lock on the pursuer just as he follows the hog down the alley towards the back of our base.

Meanwhile, the hog (just a driver, no gunner) takes the turn around towards the back of our base too hard and hits a rut in the road, sending him into the air and nearly spinning end over end. The ghost, which had been following a bit too close, hits the same rut and dives directly under the hog's wheels as both of them disappear from site. I'm not sure if the combatants were able to unwind their vehicles, but a half second later, my rocket tears around the corner away from sight after them, and a large explosion ensues. The computer informs me both of an enemy kill and a team kill. I thought it was pretty funny, although I was a bit afraid that I'd be booted, but the rifleman who was watching this all with me nearly falls over laughing; apparently, he was in the driver's party, and demands that the other guy not boot me.

A good moment, and we did win.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2006-06-23 08:03pm

It's an annoyingly common thing for people to yell "HAX!!1!" whenever someone of real skill (or just good luck) manages to kill them unexpectedly or repeatedly. It's like some people have a complex that won't allow them to accept that they aren't hot shit and are mortal and error prone online.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-06-23 08:07pm

My top one was in a TDM in CoD:UO in Pavlov (you know that shitty russian map where every fucking bastard just snipes).

Anyhow, I start stalking people (I was using a G-43), sneaking around the buildings and hiding, waiting for campers to turn up/move past. Hell, I was able to sneak right up behind at least half of my kills...

Speaking of kills - 10 melee kills on that 20 minute match. 10. That's how fucking retarded the snipers I was killing were. It made me feel GOOD.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2006-06-23 08:27pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:It's an annoyingly common thing for people to yell "HAX!!1!" whenever someone of real skill (or just good luck) manages to kill them unexpectedly or repeatedly. It's like some people have a complex that won't allow them to accept that they aren't hot shit and are mortal and error prone online.

Indeed. Hell, I've seen entire teams screaming HAX!!1! simply because a sniper found a good spot above one of their major spawn points and the other team was simply too stupid to use cover.

R.O.A · Post by **R.O.A** » 2006-06-23 09:22pm

I was playing Halo 2 8v8 on headlong once. The game was assault. A bunch of our guy's ran through the enemy complex's doorway (the one near where the warthogs spawn) and quickly get killed. The opposing force's tactics were to stay inside and focus on taking us out as we came in. Well I was in the air with a banshee and someone, either by amazing luck or if they were all together close: killed half the enemy team in one shot with a rocket. The other team started yelling HAX!!! HAX!!! on the headphones all of us are just laughing. Like idiots everyone starts pouring out LEEEEEEYROY!!! style which were promptly mowed down by myself and a few snipers.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2006-06-23 09:31pm

I went to a LAN a friend was throwing... And like any typical LAN, they have a bunch of popular games that I don't really play. So I see a couple guys playing Halo, then join in - first thing I do is jack up the mouse sensitivity to 10 (Because I like being able to turn more than 90 degrees with a flick of the wrist), which evokes a general reaction of "Wow, you're insane". Then I proceed to kill my opponent like 20 times in a row despite never having played Halo before. At that point, he gives up and challenges me to MechWarrior.

I still mostly play NS... Once I went like 76/1 as Lerk on NSA. I remember this one great frag I had where I heard something, snapped around to see a skulk bhopping towards me, then killed him in 10 bullets with a LMG (Perfect accuracy)

Once I was playing so well, even clanners (From CAL, not just some random one-man clan) started accusing me of hacking.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-06-23 10:08pm

And to clarify - with 3 of the kills I made, I missed the guys with melee attacks AT LEAST TWICE before hitting them. And the whole time they just kept staring on down their scope, waiting for someone to walk past their line of fire.

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2006-06-23 10:39pm

Metroid Prime Hunters, I've been playing my B-game and winning and not even trying vs some noobs, when suddenly I realize some guy grabbed the sniper and lept to the lead and was about to win. The match was to 7, he had 5, and everyone else had about 2.

I killed him from behind after collecting the red sniper beam thing myself with a locked missile while he was busy pwning noobs, then opened up with actually trying.

I'm pretty sure nobody knew what the hell happened, because all of the sudden red laser blasts and missiles just started pouring out of unexpected places on noobs. Even I really don't remember, it was just kill-kill-kill-kill as I did crazy shit like I fired reflexive headshots at enemies completely behind me, dumbfired missiles across half the map to kill a guy running for the health, and finally killed some noob using power beam firing randomly as he retreated and I was out of ammo.

I wish I knew how I did all the leetness, since usually I suck at FPSes. Must have been adrenaline. Or psychic powers. Because the reflexive headshot was a psychic phenomina, I saw an opaque forcefield that they use as "doors" in MPH and suddenly I knew the guy with the sniper was there. I just fired randomly into it at about head height and snapped his face off his shoulders.

Final Score- Me: 7, Guy with Sniper: 6, Noobs: 3 and 2.

mizuno · Post by **mizuno** » 2006-06-24 12:51am

Hey vlad, you're applying to SAS? If you're gonna play CAL for them I just might get to play against you next season, the team I play for is also in CAL-IM

As for moments of ownage.. once I rang for a buddy in a european dod match, the map was anzio and on the axis side I was able to quickly push up and was able to hold them from getting out of their beach for 3 spawn waves until my team was able to cap out. The second time I did the same thing and was able to quickly cap out again. The thrid time around they gave up trying to push anywhere and just camped and proned everywhere around their first flag. It was damn near impossible to crack their defense so we got an MG42 into the church tower to keep them from moving past their first into plaza and just played the waiting game until the end of the round where we made a last push and managed to overrun em. I ended the round 28:5, but sadly they forfeited the second half and left the server =/

As for pub play.. once I went went nuts on kalt. I suicide naded out the wheelhouse and managed to kill the prone MG in the ground with it. I then cleaned up the area around the house with my BAR, dropped it for a fallen k98 and got into the axis house. I then had a field day railing anyone who tried to push up past their second flag and when I ran out of bullets I dropped it for a scoped Springfield and continued the fun until I was finally spammed to death through the paper-thin house walls by a lucky enemy stg44. I ended with a score of 54-3

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LMSx · Post by **LMSx** » 2006-06-24 01:53am

Halo 2 on.....that city map, capture the flag. Red team's defending, Blue has taken our flag down one end of the two intersecting streets to the base and I'm running down the other one desperately trying to get to him; if he scores they win. I'm about 40-50 feet away, he's about 10, I throw a frag grenade desperately up in the air, it lands perfectly in front of him and kills him, and the flag bounces, landing about an inch from the return point. Another guy appears, just about to pick it up and win the match but I fire a few Battle Rifle rounds at him, throw another frag grenade, and bounce the flag 15 feet towards me. Time runs out, it's a tie but damn, only an inch away and they never got it in.

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-06-24 02:04am

Ghost Recon LAN party- in hours of play, I was always the last guy standing in the free-for all- no one else had my situational awareness, comprehension of the threat radar, or knowledge of the maps. Everyone else who was already dead would watch from my POV as I skulked around the map blowing everyone away with a single shot. It got especially tense when it was down to just one survivor, and everyone would scream at him to tell me where I was and what I was doing, but it never saved them.

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2006-06-24 02:06am

Not online BUT PvP...

The following is a horrowing recount of a wicked "Homeworld-2" game.

Stipulations for the game were as followed:
All things had to be researched,
No Heavy Platforms (Golans)
No Probes of any type
No ships bigger then a Heavy Frigate
The map was huge, but resources were small, there was a total of 2,000,000 resources on the whole map

I was Alliance, he was Imperial

Yea, it was fun.

The game started out with my normal defences, 10 Skipray Blastboats and 4 Heavy Correllian Gunships. Since both of us were playing ‘blind’ we had to scout using only small Fighters hyperspacing around the bored. It wasn’t long before we both found each other and I soon had to start defending myself from small raids of Correllian Heavy Corvettes.

I hassled him for a while with a couple of Marauder Corvettes ((God these things are so underpowered in the game )) and used the time to begin a little insurance policy.

By now I had finally researched normal Frigates and. While I was working on Heavy Frigates, I started my true goal here. What is it? Well, Let just say that, for their cost, Liberator cruisers Kickass.

Much later… I had finally got a small force together and was out cursing the bored. We both had plenty of interdictors, so no one was using Hyperspace anytime soon. So, I was just coming out of a Gas Cloud when my 4 Dreadnaughts and an MC-40 stumbled into his three Enforcer Frigates and 6 Carrack Cruisers. Yea, so things got ugly.

I sent my MC-40 out quickly to see if he had anything bigger out on the fringes while my Dreadnaughts began to valiantly defend themselves. While I was stuffing most of my funds into my little project, it seemed he had invested almost all he had in larger Frigates. My MC-40 scouted out another three Enforces and two Eidion Strike Cruisers coming from his main base along with most of his fighters.

I still needed another few min to spring my trap, so in the mean time I diverted everything I had to hold him off. It was really a beautiful battle, My total was 4 Dreadnaughts, 3 MC-40’s 10 Skiprays and a bunch of Gunships and Marauder Corvettes worked to keep his 6 Enforces, 2 Eidions and many many fighters Corvettes from overwhelming my position.

I fought a slow battle, with-drawling only when I had too and cycling my ships to try and keep any one of them from being destroyed. The whole point of the delaying actions was I needed time, since Hyperspace was useless I couldn’t leap in with my little secret, that was now finally finished.

10 Alliance Liberators and four Bulk Cruisers… While the last of my Dreadnaughts went down in flames, my reserves came in and began pounding serious but. With all the hangers I was able to heal up my Skiprays and send them back into battle as well.

It was close in the end, by I was able to overwhelmed him and drive in to take out his ship yards.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-06-24 03:15am

Vympel wrote:Ghost Recon LAN party- in hours of play, I was always the last guy standing in the free-for all- no one else had my situational awareness, comprehension of the threat radar, or knowledge of the maps. Everyone else who was already dead would watch from my POV as I skulked around the map blowing everyone away with a single shot. It got especially tense when it was down to just one survivor, and everyone would scream at him to tell me where I was and what I was doing, but it never saved them.

Sounds like our LANs, although at least half the people there have been playing GR for at least 4 years now. And we are GOOD at it. It's why we usually end up playing Co-op, because otherwise, in a free-for-all it comes down to the small group of us decimating everyone else, and occassionally getting a lucky glimpse of one of the others and MAYBE getting a quick shot off at them.

example: The night train wreck MP level. 3 of us played it for a 30 minute match. There was one kill. That was me hitting the guy with less experience in the head with a single shot from a MP5SD. The rest of the time we were all too busy being stealthy THAT THE SINGLE KILL WAS ALSO THE ONLY SIGHTING OF ANOTHER PLAYER ALL GAME.

For true tests of skill, play either MP-Island or MP-Creek (I think that's the one - you know with the idyllic TINY little map with the creek and the little shed, its nice) in a 2-4 player free-for-all.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2006-06-24 03:16am

The game was Duke Nukem 3D, one-on-one PvP over a modem. I was very n00bish at the time and had never beaten my friend yet. We were on the Freeway map (a secret level in the game), which in one part had a wide open area with a tall building beside it. There was a window high in the building accessable by jetpack, and inside there was a respawning box of pipebombs and a camera monitor. One of the cameras in the level was actually mounted to the side of the building I was in and had a clear view of that entire open area.

So my friend was running around in another area of the map, collecting weapons and looking for me, and I started idly throwing pipe bombs out that window. I kept picking up the box as it respawned and wound up throwing probably close to 100 down there. Then I went back to watch the monitor.

Here comes my friend, who's finally figured out I must be around here, popping around a corner into the open area, and runs right into my field of pipe bombs. I trigger the last one I threw, and the entire pile goes off and blows my friend to gibs. According to my friend, he had just enough time to realize he was picking up dozens of pipe bombs and go "What the fuck?" before the world blew up.

It was my first real, clean, kill in deathmatch that didn't involve me just blindly spraying fire and killing someone by accident. Duke Nukem 3d still holds a special place in my heart because that game was great for setting traps and getting kills from the other side of the map.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2006-06-24 03:38am

Super Smash Bros. for the N64. Probably about six or seven years ago. I was Pikachu, one my pals was Kirby and the other was DK; free-for-all. We were at Sector Z, and you know Kirby's throw move, right? He grabs the opponent, jumps waaaaay up into the air, then crashes back down to earth.

So it's the very begining, we all happen to be close together smacking the shit out of each other, and Kirby grabs DK and goes up into the air for the throw. Because it's not a situation that's usually dangerous, one might not realize that this move always takes Kirby and the victim to the upper limit of the level's ceiling without going over, every time. I just so happened to use Pikachu's down and B attack: the thunderbolt from the skies. Just--and I mean just--as Kirby reaches the climax of his move, the bolt nails him. Both he and DK are sent spiraling into oblivion off of an essentially harmless series of events. So famous is that double-kill, it is discussed to this day.

My other Smash Bros. related ownage comes from Melee. Long story short, I used the standard shield' redirectional abilities to angle a fully charged Samus cannon shot into my buddy; he had like 100%+ damage and so he died instantly. It was hilarious beyond words.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-06-24 09:05am

This is my all time favorite, and I might had posted this in a previous thread, but...

My two best friends and I were playing Conker on the N64, doing deathmatch in the bunker (IIRC; it was the map with the pom-pom machine guns at both ends). All three of us had sniper rifles. I'm up in the top bunker on end of the map, one buddy is on the bridge in the center, and my other buddy is in the top bunker on the other side. See the one in the center, he sees the one in the other bunker, who in turn sees me. All three of us line up our shots and... the screen turns into three exploding heads - we all pulled the trigger at the same time. It took us almost ten minutes to stop laughing like a bunch of school girls.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2006-06-24 01:58pm

Me, my brother, and two friends were playing Halo 2, on Juggernaut. This was on that huge map with the two bases on both ends of the map with the banshees (Outdoors, I forget the name).

Of course, I get to be the Juggernaut, and all three of them decide to jump in the huge APC/Jeep and gun me down. I pick up the rocket launcher, hide it immediately, and watch them jump on and charge towards me.

I proceed to switch, hold the trigger, and track the thing as quickly as I possibly could. By the time they hear the rocket fire, it's already tracking them. They all go "SHIT!" and start jumping out of the vehicle...

Only to be destroyed by my tracking rocket absolutely wrecking their ride. Cue stunned silence proceeded by profane cursing...

We still joke around about it

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2006-06-24 03:49pm

My most treasured moment of 0wn@ge was in BF2. I spawned as a sniper with the m95 & was just looking around getting my bearings when my finger twitched and I fire off a shot. Lo & beholed I get a '=UNIT= DocHorror has killed so & so' & I see this chopper slowly crashing to the ground.

Complete fluke & oh so sweet.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2006-06-24 05:17pm

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Super Smash Bros. for the N64. Probably about six or seven years ago. I was Pikachu, one my pals was Kirby and the other was DK; free-for-all. We were at Sector Z, and you know Kirby's throw move, right? He grabs the opponent, jumps waaaaay up into the air, then crashes back down to earth.

So it's the very begining, we all happen to be close together smacking the shit out of each other, and Kirby grabs DK and goes up into the air for the throw. Because it's not a situation that's usually dangerous, one might not realize that this move always takes Kirby and the victim to the upper limit of the level's ceiling without going over, every time. I just so happened to use Pikachu's down and B attack: the thunderbolt from the skies. Just--and I mean just--as Kirby reaches the climax of his move, the bolt nails him. Both he and DK are sent spiraling into oblivion off of an essentially harmless series of events. So famous is that double-kill, it is discussed to this day.

My other Smash Bros. related ownage comes from Melee. Long story short, I used the standard shield' redirectional abilities to angle a fully charged Samus cannon shot into my buddy; he had like 100%+ damage and so he died instantly. It was hilarious beyond words.

The two Smash Bros games have given me more laughter and ownage moments than all my other games put together