Share your awesome FPS gaming moments

In My Humble Opinion
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Battlefield 1942-I like being a gunner in the JU-88 (particularly because it is so damn hard to shoot down pursuing spitfires, but so damn exhilirating to pull it off). I was doing my best trying to fend off 3 spits that were ganging up on our bomber, and it was clear the bomber was toast. The engine caught fire, the pilot bailed, and I was left to contemplate my fate.

I jumped out of the bomber, figuring I’d have to parachute onto Merry Ol England and hoof it to one of their airfields (to steal a spitfire). Suddenly, I saw another JU-88 flying a low altitude, and by some bizarre fluke, managed to land inside it! You heard right, I bailed out of a burning bomber, only to hop in another one, in midair!

Battlefield Vietnam- Took a chinook, used the winch to pick up a riverboat, then flew over to the Vietcong base and dropped the boat on top of 4 vietcong who were camping for a Mig. Ah, if only the Linebacker II operation involved the dropping of boats on enemy positions, we might have won that war… :wink:

Desert Combat- In Lost Village, sneaking into the Coalition base, getting inside (but not technically ‘manning’) a Black Hawk helicopter. Somehow the Coalition didn’t notice this Oppoisition dude huddled inside their helicopter, and five guys got in it and took off. Once it was airborne, I knifed the passengers to death and moved on to finish off the pilot, but he saw me in there by now and started spinning the helo wildly, which caused me to fly out the side at incredible speed (because of centripital force I guess). I flew a LONG way, and smacked into the side of a hill. Great laughs on both sides.

Planetside- I was an infiltrator (invisible guy) and saw two enemy snipers rather close to each other. They both saw me out of the corner of their eye (or were flickering darklight to see me), turned, and shot each other, killing each other simultaneously :eek:

Halo- Playing for the first time, getting sniped while driving a Warthog, which somehow sent the vehicle spinning out of control into a rock, which sent the passengers flying in every which way.

Aliens vs Predator 2: Primal Hunt- Seeing an Alien a long ways off, and lining up a shot with a rocket launcher. Suddenly the rocket explodes in midair. I am puzzled, until I see the killspam and realize I killed a Predator player somehow. Apparently a cloaked Predator was super jumping, and just happened to be in the immediate vicinity of the rocket I fired :smiley:

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It was a quake deathmatch. We were near the end, I was ahead, but the other player was catching up fast. We saw each other and were running towards each other shooting when I ran out of rockets just before we both hit acceleration pads, bumped in midair and began to fall to towards the lava. I knew we were both dead, and if we both lost a kill he’d probably be able to catch me up.

But I randomly machine-gunned him and he died inches from the floor, and I hit the fraglimit. It was so cool.

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When I get involved in a straight-up shooting contest with a more experienced player in Halo, I always lose, since I am not good enough to hit the head. But just before I die I release a grenade, which my opponent hardly ever sees.

THAT’S UNFAIR!!!..wonderful words to hear :slight_smile:

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Duke Nukem 3D - Multiplayer on a level with an elevator. I loaded the elevator with about a dozen pipebombs and waited until my brother called the elevator.

5…4…3…2…1…

I could hear my brother in the other room saying “What the hell is this?”, and that’s when I hit the detonator.

Victory was mine!

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Mine’s in a UT2004 thread som…no wait, I think I made a pit thread about it. Yeah that’s right.
I’d been milling about in this level, minding my own business tru… no it’ll be easier to go and find the pit thread and quote it…

The thread got no replies.

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Oh, for the old days. Only three moments now, as I’ve got dozens from over the years…

Duke Nukem 3d:
We had four computers dragged into one room and networked together. (ipxodi, baby!) On the subway map, I was dutifully picking up respawning laser trip mines and pipe bombs and filling a room with them from one side to the other. Ultimately, a dozen or more of each crisscrossed the room.

One of my friends died and respawned in that room and shouted some forms of profanity at the laser tripwires and pipebombs all around him. Yes, I admit to giggling when I triggered the pipebombs which triggered the mines which resoundingly killed him. 10 minutes of setup, but lord, was it worth it.

Battlefield 1942:
Due to far too much time spent playing, I eventually became able to arc a bazooka or panzershrek and hit a target at any distance - for example, on Iwo Jima, firing one from the base of the mountain and fitting it through the slit in a bunker, killing a sniper. The highlight, though, was shooting down a fighter plane with one as he was lining up a strafing run.

The pilot was understandably pissed.

Desert Combat:
I moved from antiarmor to special ops in this mod and fell in love with the C4 charge. Like Incubus, I’d sneak across the map to the Coalition base and drop a charge inside a helicopter, then scamper and hide in the brush. When I saw the helicopter lift off, I’d collect my six points.

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That’s what I always do in Medal of Honor. I did it enough while playing with friends that we called it “pulling a PigBoy.” One time my friend pulled a quadruple PigBoy. We were in the same multiplayer game (a team match). I saw him go up around a corner, where apparently he ran into a bunch of people from the other team headed the opposite direction. My friend got killed, but then a couple seconds later… BOOM! Four of those guys were killed by his grenade.

I am absolutely certain that I have experienced lots more great moments in Medal of Honor, but unfortunately I can’t seem to think of any of them right now.

And I just thought I’d mention…

…that this one really made me laugh.

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Quake I:

Had just a few hit-points left, and only a shotgun and a couple shells left. Ran desperately for a point where health and a nailgun appear. Came up a ladder to the tunnel where they are and find it occupied by a couple guys getting into it with nailgun & rocket launcher. I edge back down the ladder and aim at the top, since there’s no way I’d be able to get close enough to do any damage with the shotgun. Nailgun guy gets his frag and then comes in my direction. As soon as he appeared, I blew him out of his boots. The sight of the feet just standing there at the top of the ladder was golden – best gib moment ever. Got the health and the nail-gun and waded back in. Sweet.

Quake II:

Me and a friend were playing co-operatively against others. There were certain psychedelic substances involved. In the wee hours of the morning, my friend discovered a glitch in one of the maps that we dropped into – there was spot where you could go off a high roof that overlooked a courtyard, and as long as you remained crouching, you’d stay at the top of the map. He yelled over and told me how to do it (at first I thought it was just a ‘high’ thing-- since he kept saying "Hey, Larr! I can fly! – until he explaiined it) and we both spent a bunch of time up there with percussive weapons. People running through the courtyard were vulnerable because you just had to hit the ground near them. We had nothing but sky around us, and were too far away to hit easily with more precise weapons. People attacking from the roof had the same disadvantage. Cheap but amusing as hell under the circumstances – we had watched The Matrix earlier, so the jokes wrote themselves. (Eventually other players figured out how to do it, too, which was fun.)

Duke Nukem 3D:

Installed the mod that let you make Duke squat down and take a dump and surprised my roommate with it. In ‘fear’ (running with no weapons, leaving stuff for him to track around - plop, run run run, plop, run run run,) or distainfully after a frag, on the body. Heh heh. Yeah, I’m easily amused.

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Is jumping like an idiot still a viable tactic?

Whenever I am one on one with someone they are always jumping yet I can win them about 50:50. I am not jumping at all.

I realize it renders rocket type weapons useless as they are most effective for their splash damage but you don’t always have a rocket.

If you want, make this question specific to UT2004.

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UT2004:

I was in a Raptor, in an Onslaught match in Torlan. An enemy came up in his Raptor, and we duelled in the sky for the entire match. Anyone else who grabbed a flyer we wasted, and between us we had air superiority- no one was getting that redeemer on the central tower. We would attack, break off and go after enemy mantas, then reengage- over and over.

In a related subject, I think it’s the height of fun to enter a match on the down side- the enemy has all the points and is attacking the base- and leading the attack to sweep the enemy back to their base.

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Goldeneye:
Our house rule was that you can’t shoot anyone not holding a gun. I ran into a room at the same time as an unarmed enemy, and there was a weapon lyig on the ground between us. The usual situation was that the unarmed guy would turn and run, but we had the two other players bearing down on us and since I was the only armed one, I knew who they’d go for first. Our standoff continued for a few seconds. I shot the gun, sending it flying into the other player’s hands, then killed him before he could get a shot off. Screams of outrage. :smiley:

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Its called bunnyhopping as far as I’m aware, and is very prevalent in games that don’t penalize accuracy by running/jumping. In games like Planetside, bunnyhopping does not work because you can’t hit the broad side of a barn while hopping around.

Bunnyhopping is humorously effective in Counterstrike in conjunction with the shotgun (I call it shottyhopping). Jump, fire, land, rinse, repeat. One game in Iceworld I got 7 consecutive kills with 7 shottyjumps :smiley:

Also fun in Battlefield1942: Playing with the gravity turned way down. Sure this is fun in most FPS games, but particularly battlefield. Why? Well, for starters, you can throw a hand grenade about a hundred yards :eek: but on maps like Midway, when ships hit the shore, rather than getting beached (and rendered helpless) they actually take off into the wild blue yonder!. So Destroyers and Battleships are flying around, doing barrel rolls and stuff O_o

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UT 2k4:

Playing onslaught on Torlan, we were outnumbered about 2:1, not counting the fact that half of our people were away from their keyboards. They had all the nodes, and were attacking the base. I told the other three players “I’ll defend, you all get the node”.

There wasn’t enough time to get to the gun locker, as there were guys throwing grenades on our generator. I picked up dual assault rifles from fallen AFKers and went after the attackers.

They all sucked. It took about 10 seconds to get a “MegaKill” and some of the players on the other team started to claim that I was cheating. It was great.

It would’ve been even better had we won, but there were just too many of them. Still, held on through overtime.

CounterStrike:

I was a counter-terrorist, and only had an MP5. I came around a corner to see what I though were two terrorists coming through a doorway. I aimed at the first one’s head and opened fire. The first one goes down. The second one goes down. The third one that I didn’t even see behind the second one goes down. The fourth one behind him goes down. I was just as suprised as anyone that I’d gotten them all.

I thanked them for lining up all nicely like that. That really ticked them off, and they ignored the objectives for the next four or five games all just to try to kill me. By the end of that session I had teammates guarding me because they knew the terrorists were coming for me. We won every round.

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More great Battlefield 1942 moments:

In the B-17, if you are the top turret gunner and get out, your guy stands on the wing instead of actually falling out of the plane. I learned this the hard way (getting shot down, trying to bail out and unable to pull my chute because I was standing on the wing). However, I once used this to my advantage. In BF1942, the ‘health’ of the vehicle only displays 90% of the vehicles actual HP. Once it gets down to 10% left, the vehicle generally catches on fire (ships sink) and the remaining 10% goes down to 0 on its own. Something few people realize is that even if a vehicle is on fire, its not dead yet! Case in point:

We were in a B-17 getting attacked by 2 Me-109’s. All four engines burst into flame and the plane starts losing altitude. Being an engineer, I get out of the top turret, depositing me on the wing. I then use the wrench to repair the plane until the fire goes out. I get back in, the pilot guns the throttle, and is able to pull out of the dive! one of the Me-109 pilots uttered a resounding “WTF” when he sees the bomber go down in flames, only to suddenly come back to life! :smiley:

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Goldeneye:
Playing the library map with infinite ammo and proxy mines. With practice and pattern running we could keep the explosions going continuously.

Quake II:
Playing a LAN game, I picked up the grenades without the launcher. Since I was pattern running to the rocket launcher, I decided to randomly throw them away as decoys. About 15 seconds later, I hear cursing as another player just happened to run straight over it.

Jedi Knight II:
Force grip and cliffs - 'nuff said.

Duke Nuke 'Em 64:
Playing a 4 way deathmatch in the Stadium level. My flatmate picked up the explosive shotgun shells and the steroids and was running around like a loon when he suddenly explodes. Turns out he ran straight in front of the goalpost (which is only 5 pixels wide) and fired, resulting in a selfkill.

Team Fortress:
Disguising myself as the enemy spy and increasing the opposition’s paranoia ten-fold.

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Team Fortress Classic At the start of the game, I diguised myself as an enemy unit, and got into the enemy sniper nest on 2fort. From then on, I was able to sneek up on the enemy snipers, and knife them, and then I feigned death, redisguised, and did it all over again. I managed to get 50! kills before the other team realy caught on.

Counterstrike Some lamer on the other side was using a speedhack, and liked to rush into our spawnpoint a couple seconds after the round started. But I noticed the hacker always came from the same route, so I bought the AWP, and lined up the on his path. I killed him 10 times in a row before the guy left.

Battlefield 1942 On the map Coral Sea, I like getting an airplane, and then buzzing the deck of the enemy carrier, and ramming people with it. Or there was the time I was flying the Zero, and I spotted an American tank with some extra people riding on top; so I decided to go Kamikaze style. Heh, A 5-1 kill ratio isn’t bad.
:slight_smile:

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Halo:

Some loser couldn’t keep his hands off the Fuel Rod Gun, which is a big green rocket launcher that lets any newbie clear out a room with 2 or 3 shots. I told him real men use real guns, then went on to kill him over and over with nothing but the pistol, shotgun, and assault rifle. Ended up with more kills and more flag captures than him at the end of the round.

Oh wait, you want a moment? Sorry. That one happens all the time. :wink:

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Far Cry, single player mode. 450 meters away, one enemy kneeling in a guard tower. All I could see was the very top of his head. I fell prone, aimed my sniper rifle, and took his head off. I was positively preening (drove my husband nuts).

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Halo PC:

I joined a random CTF game that had about 7 other people in it (so 4 per team). As soon as the game starts, all the other idiots on my team run off after the other team’s flag. So, I figure I’ll hang back and play defense. All vehicles were available, so I grabbed a Scorpion tank up on a ledge, and waited. Before long, someone from the other team showed up after our flag, and I blew him away. Then came more. Killed them, too. They kept coming, one at a time, every so often, and they kept dying. They brought their own tanks in, but still got taken down before they fired a shot. A couple times, someone managed to gun me down and grab our flag, but I would always re-spawn at the base and hose them down before they got more than a dozen meters with the flag.

I single-handledly kept the other team scoreless during the entire game. I only wound up with about 17 kills at the end, but every one of those was a would-be scorer who went home empty handed.

That was actually the last time I played, come to think of it. Many months ago.

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Both with Halo:

My brother and I were playing on that one ice map. We both had a tank and could see each other only as a dot, we were that far away. We would both fire and then look at the other’s screen. When we missed, we would move the tank a hair to whatever direction was needed, and fire. Repeat until one of us died. I won that duel.

For some reason, whenever the other player has the tank, and they kill me, I always respawned near there. So I’d die before I could do much. So, I spent the short amount of time I had throwing the sticky gernades. Then, we’d both die, and start equal.