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Golden Alzheimer posted:Why are you telling him he should feel bad about something he posted in the griefing thread, of all places? How does where he posted change whether or not he should feel bad? Just because a bunch of people here will rationalize what he did doesn't change anything. I don't think just because the internet is anonymous, you have some indisputable right to be an rear end in a top hat to everyone you don't know. Many of the stories in this thread are hilarious, and only temporarily inconvenienced the guy being griefed. Of the ones with permanent consequences (MMO stuff), it's generally through in-game mechanics that are "expected" parts of the game experience. Getting some guy banned by impersonating an admin is funny, leaving him banned is just being an rear end in a top hat. It's not really any less funny if they are told what happened and the guys get unbanned. Unless, of course, you're getting satisfaction solely because you realize that the people banned were real, you believe that doing this will cause them to suffer in some way, and you enjoy that. At that point, I feel pretty safe criticizing you.
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whateverfor posted:Just because GBS has a morality squad doesn't mean Games needs one too. Less backseat consciences, more tales of griefing, please.
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whateverfor posted:You guys are assholes in video games why don't you complain about it
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whateverfor posted:I don't think this thread is for you. Why should he/we feel bad that some random guy got banned from ONE server? Please take your morality and  Anyway, to contribute instead of just being a shithead replying to stupid posts, there was a post earlier talking about teleports in City of Heroes. The entire game had a lot of easy ways to gently caress with people, but teleports really, really made it easy. I used to play with a large group of guys who hit the level cap relatively early, and since City of heroes is almost exclusivly a PvE game (and there was loving zero end game content. There probably still isn't), they had to find other ways to stay entertained. The funniest thing that I ever took part of was using Team Teleport to drop low level characters who were screaming to get power leveled into huge groups of high level enemies. Just dropping them wasn't enough, so we'd often fly up to the "flight cap" and drop them from there. It was impossible to die from fall damage in that game, you'd always just end up with 1 health left. So they'd fall, usually getting out a quick "why am I in the air?", drop to 1 hp, and then get loving obliterated by a group of 10 +30 enemies. Then we'd simply drop the team, and move on. I also used to herd up all the little alien monkeys in one of the highest level zones in the game, hovering above them with my toggle, area of effect debuffs running. When I had all/most of the monkeys on the island, I'd bring ALL of them back across the water and into the city to the hordes of low level dipshits standing around asking for power levels. The free update that was put on the servers after I had been doing this for weeks gave all the monkeys a ranged attack.  I'm sure there was a fuckload of other people doing the same thing, but I like to think I hosed over enough people to make them question whether or not it was a good idea to have such a high concentration of all those loving useless melee only monkeys over there. Golden Alzheimer fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Jul 7, 2008 |
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Back when CS was young (pre source, pre 1.0 version) there were a lot of ways to grief. There were more than a few locations where objects were opaque but did not clip on your shape. You could easily hide in them or partially hide in them. A common one was in a start area where a block sat on the ground and you could hide in. It was very entertaining. There was a level (was it Dust? not sure) where you could go above the level quite easily and come at people from above. It always pissed people off. Very juvenile but fun. There was a box in Dust 2 when it first came out that you could easily hide in. I think you had to come from a weird angle and then be invisible. I think bullets were weakened on exit, but you could still easily take out Ts trying to plant the bomb. There was also another trick of throwing a smoke grenade (cause it took forever to disappear) and throw it into someone. It would clip into them and lock them in place as it slowly slide down them and two the ground. Another trick was jsut flash banging at the start. If you were in the back, no one could tell who did it and it always got some screams.
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As for whether I feel bad or not about getting a few guys banned, I would say slightly but it's not weighing heavy on my conscience, nor will I be griefing for long since I have more important things I need to be doing. Honestly, I didn't think what I did would actually work, and it wasn't like I had thoroughly planned it. It just happened in the midst of playing the game. It's not my fault the admins are morons (oops, did I just say that? Typing moron in that server would probably get me kicked. It's one of those servers.
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stop having regrets. Remember that internet people aren't real people, and if they can get hurt by a monitor keyboard and mouse enough then they are a lot worse off then you. Hey Hey Hey Smoke Flares everyday Took HLSS for a spin in since 2002. I have been out of gaming for awhile and I tell you griefing has never really changed. Decided to make a quick video but I'll be the first to admit it's not that interesting. Basically I jumped in and ruined some achievement mining on a server. Which caused all hell to break lose and some other goons jumped on board the rape train until we managed to empty the whole red team. All the sounds used are pre-recorded wavs I made of myself and adjusted to be more... juvenile. I tell you they can pierce anyone's nerves and would be an asset for the CS:S "unconnected" micspam. For some reason the credit music from wall-e is just hilarious to listen to as you constantly blow up endless people. Down to earth in a pile of gibs. 
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Kcow posted:I want that pokeball launcher thing. Where does one acquire this doomsday weapon? In the search option turn mature content on and search for pokemon under places. The area is called Pokefur Palace or something.
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Ralconn posted:In the search option turn mature content on and search for pokemon under places. The area is called Pokefur Palace or something. I tried this but everywhere I go has object creation disabled... did I get the wrong launcher? Was Poke Fur's Place or some poo poo.
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Reene posted:IIRC you got banned from the DRgoons IRC for being a gigantic douchebag about the whole thing and you whined about that for days too in PMs to the channel's founder. Or maybe you just left in a fit of righteous indignation, it's honestly too long ago for me to remember what exactly happened there. uhh no, you were the one who got banned for being a loving psycho, complete with forming your own irc channel and trying to get everyone else to go with you even though they were all like "about time someone did that, bitch is crazy" I don't even know where you're getting all that other poo poo from, all I remember is you and some other assholes harassing a random newbie who I thought could be convinced into getting you banned for a very long time. I quit with no fanfare after the few people who weren't insane also quit. Bonk posted:-Tribes: I have fond memories of my "roaming forest" gimmick. From the armor stations you could purchase a "Mechanical Tree" which would disguise you as a tree. You couldn't jump very high but you could move around. It was decent sniper cover, but for any other class it has no real function. what mod was that? I remember Shifter or Renegades or something having a deployable tree with a ridiculous number of polygons that would lag the hell out of anyone with an old video card, so they ended up being disabled on most servers and spammed everywhere if they weren't. one of the best Tribes tricks was hiding under the enemy vehicle pad, waiting for someone to spawn a bomber or transport, then jumping out and hitting it with the shocklance so it would flip, crash, and kill all the passengers. a lot of the time you could do it for the entire round and no one would ever think to look under the vehicle pad for the annoying shocklance guy.
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FadedReality posted:I tried this but everywhere I go has object creation disabled... did I get the wrong launcher? Was Poke Fur's Place or some poo poo. Just look for a normal cager or something. I doubt it's worth raking through tons of furry poo poo for a simple cage gun with a pokemon theme to it. I think there's a really common one called ".webspinner" you may be able to find.
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 My old guild (comprising 3-6 people and their alts), <Baby Punchin Bigman Crew> (which, surprisingly, was never reported on our server) basically lived to play the game for all the wrong reasons. We didn't raid and we only shot for pvp gear because it didn't take too much effort. Our motto: "It takes a big man to punch a baby." Often said to people when they asked about the name. We never did anything big like trash funerals but the social disturbance aspect is certainly what magnetized me to WoW. Lots of little victories here and there. Let me share a few stories of my WoW griefing past: Dealing with Beggars     My First PvP Macro In situations where I was doomed to die I would immediately spam this button (later upgraded to "WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW..." as that proved to be more effective at consuming chat log space).  Pissing Off Strangers, Then Complaining to Them About It A guy in our guild always stole the Skyguard escort from groups of people waiting for the last guy to show up so they could start. These were often fellow Horde members who would then attempt to trash talk Rakmer. It usually went down like this: "wtf dude why did you steal our escort we were about to start" "cause I'M A CHAMPION" (we're big Eagle Eye Smith fans) "yeah well i guess thats why youre in the crappy guild" (we maintain that our guild is the best guild on the server despite nobody knowing us at all) "yeah well i guess that's why i have the escort" So when I would log on Rakmer would give me the names of the people he had altercations with, expecting me to do something about it. So I wrote formal complaints to those we wronged. The following was my favorite draft: quote:To whom it may concern, No one ever replied. Can't imagine why. How to Clear the Battlemaster Crowds The Flying Machine mount is simply the best thing about World of Warcraft. You still cannot convince me otherwise. Imagine my delight to discover what a noisy piece of poo poo it was. On top of a passive grumbling engine sound, everytime you change direction there's a clunking sound to accompany it. So one day when AV queues were up to 2 hours I decided to express my grief in the form of hovering low over the crowd waiting for BGs/arenas and spamming strafe left and right over and over. What results is a terrible cacophony of aural hatred that nets tons of angry tells from bystanders. A few solid minutes of pain and inexplicably the battlemaster crowds thin out. If you own one of these privileged rides ingame, I recommend doing this and encouraging fellow chopper users to do the same. It's what I miss most about WoW. Alt F4 I know, oldest trick in the book. I don't really know if it ever worked for anyone but I feel an impulse to blurt it when appropriate (the way Michael Scott uses "that's what she said").   Like I said, nothing too impressive but they're the majority of the really good memories I drew from the WoW experience.
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Counter Strike has always had it's fair share of fun times. Operation Shield At some point, I think in Condition Zero, players got access to a ballistic shield. If you got enough people together you could have a lot of fun with this, especially on FF servers. One of the old favorites was to get four or five people together, grab shields, and then find some guy camping in a corner. You'd act like you were going to pass by, then suddenly you'd turn in and wall them into the corner with all your shields. First came the screaming. Then came the vain attempts at trying to teamkill you. If we were still all alive near the end of the round, we'd all switch to nades at the same time and blow ourselves and our victim straight to hell. The South Shall Rise Again! There were two weapons in CS that were bolt actions. One of the infamous AWP, and the other was the Scout. If you had a good ping and a bit of range, you could be hell on earth with either. Less so at close range. All the same, they were still threats. I and a few other of my friends, around six usually, would meet on a random server and work our way to the terrorist team. Once there we would change our names, usually along the themes of 'Stonewall Jackson, General Lee, Thomas Jefferson' or whatever and we'd all buy scouts. Another person would follow behind those with guns, spamming some sort drum song over his mic. We would walk in a broad line towards our enemy, cursing the damned Yankee CTs with their new fangled weaponry. Running was strictly forbidden, as a gentleman of the south never ran. More often than not we were the last people alive on any given map, which must have been tortuously slow for anyone watching. Whenever we won or killed someone, we'd slowly walk up to the corpse of the yankee bastard and spray their dead body with our confederate flag sprays. Anytime we were left with the bomb, we'd all stand around the bombsite while arguing back and fourth in voice chat about how to use the new fangled contraption. Whenever we spoke on voice, it was only in the most garish impersonations of Foghorn Leghorn.  "omg u fags had 35 seconds to plant the bomb with one guy left y didn u run?" "Well now see here, son, I don't even run for a fine glass of sippin' whiskey why would I run on all over the place for some drat yankee?"Stockholm Syndrome Back in the day where you could move the hostages as a T, it led to some interesting scenarios. You could use them to reach impossible spots on the map, or as human shields, etc. You could also lead them right to the CT rescue point if you wanted to. All you needed to do was get two or three people together, run balls out with your flashes and spam your way through everyone in your path. You couldn't see a drat thing, but you didn't really need to on most CS maps. The CTs would get surprisingly upset that the terrorists could rescue the hostages faster than they could.  Phantom Menace In CS, there are three teams. There is the T, the CT, and the spectator. You can only hear the spectator if you're dead, they appear far down on the team list ( so far down they're often off people's screens ), and they have camera tools to center them on players or free look. If a player died while you were looking at one, it'd automatically center on the next, often right on their head. Well, someone somewhere along the line hosed up and somehow you could pick up a gun as a spectator. I would wait until I found a favored gun ( P-90, Para, or TMP ), and then I would strike. At random I'd hold down my mouse button at the start of a round, often before anyone had bought any armor and any headshot was instantly death. In less than three or four seconds I could kill both teams so fast no one realize while the hell happened. Then I wouldn't do anything for a while, only to mow down both teams again five rounds later. NerdyMcNerdNerd fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Jul 8, 2008 |
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Just remembered another Gmod contraption you could use to mess with people. First, you place a dumpster somewhere vacant, and put a camera in it (or if you are on gm_construct you just shove it in the white room) Then you would spawn a vending machine, put some hoverballs on it, and a couple thrusters on it (make sure to bind the thruster forward keys to the same key as the toggle camera view). Hover the vending machine at about ground height, then stick a button on the front that toggles both the camera and the thrusters. Make all the additions to the vending machine invisible, except for the button. When people try to use your vending machine, it will make them look into your camera (which shows whatever junk you placed the camera into) and the vending machine flies away so they can't press the button again to turn off camera view. I did this quite a few patches ago and while I'm not sure if this has been fixed, the only way that people could see again was if they reconnected to the server.
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:The South Shall Rise Again! I think this and to a lesser degree Operation Shield are the best things I've heard in this thread
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My personal favorite game to grief in is Warcraft 3. There is a pretty large and active goon contingent who are pretty much dedicated to causing pubbies to cry tears of blood and rage. WC3 goon Mata is quoted as saying: "It's not about macro, or micro, or strategy, or tactics: It's about pissing off the enemy team." The main strategy involves the creative use of static base defense, towers, to create unassailable positions from which we mock the other team for however long it takes them to quit the game. The record for the longest game on battle.net is actually held by a few guys from the goon clan, clocking in at something like 17.5 hours. There's even a website that catalogs games in which we have griefed people. Our most popular strategy is on a map called "Highperch" for which we've become pretty well known in the Warcraft 3 battle.net scene. Here's a goon-made walkthrough of exactly how it's done. It's actually a very comprehensive guide that explains towering better than I could ever hope to. Worth the read even if you don't play warcraft. Furthermore, we've gotten dozens of death threats, a good number of phone calls, countless screenfuls of angry text, positions on personal shitlists, tagbans from probably half of the Arranged team clans on the USEast server, and a few 'hate accounts'. (the previous sentence was stolen almost directly from the official WC3 games thread.) A few examples of enraged enemies:    Definitely check out highper.ch for all the tower replays and Warcraft 3 griefing documentation you could ever want to see.
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joltx posted:Our most popular strategy is on a map called "Highperch" for which we've become pretty well known in the Warcraft 3 battle.net scene. Here's a goon-made walkthrough of exactly how it's done. It's actually a very comprehensive guide that explains towering better than I could ever hope to. Worth the read even if you don't play warcraft.
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m2pt5 posted:You can change your name in-game with setinfo name <name>. It doesn't persist between servers, though. Pretty much this, you can still use setinfo name " " with a space and get simillar results which doesn't change your actual steam name, just in game, but muting is easy enough if you're the only one, and votekicking leads to being semi-invisible on the lists until they figure it out.
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ATM Machine posted:Pretty much this, you can still use setinfo name " " with a space and get simillar results which doesn't change your actual steam name, just in game, but muting is easy enough if you're the only one, and votekicking leads to being semi-invisible on the lists until they figure it out. If you brought in a bunch of people, you could have them set their names to variable numbers of spaces and make it virtually impossible to votekick the right one, right? That could be useful.
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m2pt5 posted:If you brought in a bunch of people, you could have them set their names to variable numbers of spaces and make it virtually impossible to votekick the right one, right? That could be useful. Thats what we did, along with being able to clear mutes by changing teams or to spectators made alltalk servers very fun
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Well SL has been pretty entertaining so far, I'm in as Maumacto0The0Hungerer, After i figured out the controls within 10 minutes I had already found my first couple engaging in lewd acts of teacher vs. naughty schoolgirl complete with a corner for the girl to stand in with when she had been bad D: Now I'm just camping out Lita's Designs trying to get money for a good disturbing costume. How do you actually join W-Hat btw? MC Sucka Hater fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Jul 8, 2008 |
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I think we should get a small group together of spies on a team, maybe 3 or 4, and have ridiculous pretentious discussions with extreme views on politics etc. over the mic while holding the cigarette case and smoking cigarettes. Not only would we be doing nothing good for the team but we could also be creative and funny to some and extremely annoying to others. I would do this but I just got my wisdom teeth removed today so make sure you get a video if you do. EDIT: ATM Machine posted:Thats what we did, along with being able to clear mutes by changing teams or to spectators made alltalk servers very fun And if this works they wouldn't be able to mute us for long.
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I just gave SL another shot, and the goon-place is empty except for a few random pubbie slut types idling, and the whole game seems to be barren of any people with few exceptions. Also, the interface is bad as I remember. I don't know how people can grief in that game, let alone play it seriously.
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I don't know if many people bothered playing Lineage 2, it was a pretty lovely MMO after all, with an incredibly slow grind punctuated by a lack of parties and debilitating death penalties. Its single redeeming quality was PvP in all zones but towns. And when you PK someone, they lose xp like any regular death, and have a like 5% chance to drop an item, even equipped ones. Yes, if you see someone with that sweet rear end +9 Soul Separator afk, you can kill them and try to take it. This is one of those games like Eve where people spend like half their waking lives building up a single item, and when it's gone - it's gone - you're out a couple hundred hours of work. You do the math. Also, typically the only way to be successful at this game was to run multiple accounts/boxes at once. Usually 1 main, 1 healer to follow the main, and one buffer who hangs around - usually unguarded and afk - at the entrance to dungeons. You come up when you need buffs. But nobody plays L2 on the official servers anymore.
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Isko posted:I think we should get a small group together of spies on a team, maybe 3 or 4, and have ridiculous pretentious discussions with extreme views on politics etc. over the mic while holding the cigarette case and smoking cigarettes. Not only would we be doing nothing good for the team but we could also be creative and funny to some and extremely annoying to others.
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Ledneh posted:I think this (The South Shall Rise Again!) and to a lesser degree Operation Shield are the best things I've heard in this thread Seconded. That's got to be one of the funniest things I've ever read in my life, probably because I used to play CS a ton. It is such an amazing touch that you'd have a guy in the back spamming drum music over voice chat.
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InternetHateMachine posted:I just gave SL another shot, and the goon-place is empty except for a few random pubbie slut types idling, and the whole game seems to be barren of any people with few exceptions. Also, the interface is bad as I remember. I don't know how people can grief in that game, let alone play it seriously. Yeah, it's pretty loving terrible. The game's netcode or whatever the gently caress it is that runs the bandwidth must seriously be utterly dire because it's a constant lag fest and hideously easy to crash. The goon places are normally empty apart from one or two folks (maybe goons, I dont know) whom I fear may be a bit too far into SL. This said the griefs are pretty much funny, and if you look in the right places they're easy enough to find. Just look on the map for large clusters of people in what looks like it may be an urban area. If it's a bar or something, walk right in with a stupid/obnoxious costume on.
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I am angry. posted:Lineage Ok, apparently, in Korea, people controlled different zones by internet cafes. Well one of the players of one of these cafes had some ridiculous staff. From what I was told it took an insane amount grinding for mats, etc. So this dude comes along and says, "What the hell?" and starts wailing on this guy. I guess he figured, maybe I'll get lucky. Well, he did. He logs out or zones or whatever the hell you do in Lineage 2, besides not have fun. Anyways this guy in Korea finds out where this other dude (also korean) plays. They were all Korean because apparently only Koreans play Lineage 2. Ok, so anyways, they find this dude and beat the poo poo out of him. The proceed to kill this guys character over and over again till he drops the staff. I found this hard to believe at first, but then I remembered...Koreans take their video games very, very, very, very seriously...
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joltx posted:Furthermore, we've gotten dozens of death threats, a good number of phone calls, countless screenfuls of angry text, positions on personal shitlists, tagbans from probably half of the Arranged team clans on the USEast server, and a few 'hate accounts'. (the previous sentence was stolen almost directly from the official WC3 games thread.)
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I remember in old EQ days I scammed my way to almost half a million platinum simply using the Fungi Tunic scam. For those unfamiliar, fungi tunics provided much needed regeneration and were a big ticket item. It also happened to have the same icon picture as a typical dirt-cheap cloth shirt. It went pretty easily: offer to sell someone a Fungi Tunic for about 25k plat, start the trade window with the tunic in it, wait for them to put the money in, then close the window. "Oops! My fault, 1 sec." *One onethousand...two onethousand...* Open the trade window again with the cloth shirt. "Sorry about that. My cat jumped in my lap. LOL!" They put money in, don't think to re-check authenticity, and voila.
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YancyDCjew posted:I don't understand this at all, but it seems to really piss people off. Pretty sporting of you guys to give strategies to beat you at the end, which would make it even better to beat the other team. It sounds like they found a place on the map where they could quickly erect a network of defenses that would be nigh-impossible to break, and then just turtled until the other team quit in disgust. Turtling is a time-honored griefing strategy.
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Back when C&C Generals came out a lot of people's computers could barely handle running the game. I always found it amusing to join a game called something like "Slow computers only" and build something like fifty Chinese troop crawlers. For those of you unfamiliar with the game they were slow moving transports that came with eight free Chinese infantry inside. Once I had a suitable number of them I'd roll them up to the enemy and hit the unload troop button causing dumping hundreds and hundreds of infantry on the ground and causing the people with inferior computers to crash instantly giving me a win.
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Death Dealer posted:He proceeds to not give me the tshirt, complain that we almost drove a dedicated player to quitting (by killing him once and getting ready to kill him again for good measure. It was the druid, for the record), and then complained about us knowing he ran the Super Rogue and that it shouldn't matter who played it. Next thing I know, I'm banned.
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Having thief classes in MUDs just begs for griefing and game breaking. I played one in Discworld; they tried hard to balance out the classes, though the problem was that there was a dedicated group of 100 or so players that PvP'ed, and every time they tweaked the code to fix one exploit, another one would be found or open up, and those 100 players would then work that exploit like crazy to try to get ahead. I didn't go for combat too much; even though thieves could steal the weapons out of people's hands, the target usually had 4-5 weapons on them at any time, and you could only steal x times per minute or so. Plus, the target could do unarmed damage that was close to armed damage, so it didn't help. The coders also added in wards, which would explode if you tried to steal something with a ward on it. PvPers soon warded every item in their inventory except cash, which you couldn't, making stealing useless. And, if you killed someone in PvP, you could just take everything off their corpse anyway. Which left assassination as the only good griefing tool. Assassins were all PvP by default once they hit a certain level, and being assassinated did a lot more financial damage (and occasionally permanent removal of that character, if they were uncautious) to the target. Targets never knew who killed them unless you wanted them to, so putting contracts out on random PvPers for no reason whatsoever was great. They'd try to figure out who did it, and would usually hunt down one of their perceived enemies. Getting the money for assassinations was the hard part. Shoplifting was 'regulated' in the various cities in different ways. In Ankh-Morpork, if you stole over your Thieves' Guild limit within a certain time period, you got beaten up, thrown into a river, and fined heavily, to make it very not worth it. In Khot-Lip-Khin, however, the penalty was being thrown to the crocodiles if you were caught by the priests. So I made money by stripping naked, shoplifting an extraordinary amount in KLK (don't know where my character put the goods), stuffing the valuables in a vault, then using a temporary immunity spell right before displaying myself in front of the priests so that I'd get tossed in, be able to climb out without a scratch because of the nude/immune combo, and the shoplifter flag would be lifted.
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Gotta Catch'm All! In City of Heroes, everyone was always asking for summons. Constantly. Few people asking for a teleport even cared who summoned them where as long as they were summoned somewhere. City of Heroes also had a million knock off super heroes of whatever you could think of. Deadpool, Hulk, Wolverine, you looked and you would find it in spades. Well, at the start of every zone in the game there were these towers. Two guard towers, with no way in and no way out... Except when you wiggled the summoning teleport cursor into it. Whenever we got bored, I and a friend of mine would see just how many knock off characters we could capture. He'd take one tower, and I'd take the next. The people COULD summon out or teleport out, but if they didn't have certain powers and no one wanted to help them they weren't getting out without a GM. I think the record was ten Hulks in one tower. Terrorizing The Terrorists There was this game a while back that I've long since forgotten the name of. It was like CS, and I think it was a mod for Unreal Tournament or something. There was a unique gimmick in this game though that not many people knew about. If you threw the hostages a gun, they'd instantly start shooting at any terrorists in sight and then run around the map doing so. If you were quick enough you could get all of the hostages a gun before they killed you. Thus every few rounds, half the terrorist team would suddenly die as a team of NPC hostages stormed up from behind with guns ablaze. Whoops. The CT Eating Tree There is a map in CS called 'Piransei' or some ridiculous poo poo like that. It is usually HEAVILY terrorist sided, but if the CTs have balls or the Ts are just retards then the CTs can slaughter them on it. The terrorists have one ace in the hole though. In their spawn is this tree, which isn't all that hard to jump into. You can sort of wedge yourself between a bunch of branches. This makes you a pain in the rear end to see because of all the lovely tree graphics around and because you're half clipped into three different branches. Now, if you're flanking on this map a ton of CTs try to go through the terrorist spawn. If you sit in this tree, you can cover every entrance with ease and there is almost nothing for any attacker to hide behind. You will be among the most hated people on any server if you sit in that tree with an AK-47. I promise. Go try it. American Jihad On DoD, for a while there was the best bug in the world. When you threw a nade, picked it up and then held down the throw button again without releasing it wouldn't explode. However, when you died or released the button, the grenade would get chucked about six or seven feet in front of you and then it would instantly explode. I would creep up with grenade in hand and hide behind something, or otherwise use the terrain to my advantage. Then I'd charge forward whenever I saw a group of Germans, who would ALWAYS shoot me no matter how many times they exploded. They'd get a grenade to the face for their efforts. I also did this when they'd start to set up defense in an area, as it was good for breaking stalemates. It was surprisingly effective, sspecially when many people on their side had bolt action rifles. After about twenty or thirty minutes in a server whenever I started running they'd turn in the other direction and flee for their lives. Hilarity is seeing a squad of Germans being chased by a single American soldier who keeps shouting "FDR IS THE ONE TRUE GOD! DEATH TO THE UNBELIEVERS!" Generating Trouble In Planetside, whenever you took a base it was a big thing that you didn't kill any equipment or vehicle vendors you didn't have to. It was also VERY important you didn't kill the generator in a base. Apparently this tended to piss people off an immense amount when I started playing. Given that pissing people off was the only really fun thing in the game by then, I made it my mission to destroy every generator in a base under attack. This took time. People would figure out you were destroying the generator, and they were often left with a decision. Kill you and eventually get enough TK points to get kicked off the server for a while, or don't, and watch as you hosed up the entire assault. More often than not they chose to kill me. So I'd just get light armor, and lemming my way into hails of gunfire over and over and over again. Not only would people get kicked, but eventually I'd ALWAYS get to the generator one way or another. Whenever the generator went down, everyone in the base would know it and the chat window would fill up with "OH THAT DICKHEAD KILLED ANOTHER GENERATOR MOTHER FUCKER I WILL-" etc etc.
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:The South Shall Rise Again! That was easily the funniest thing i've read ever. Me and my friends did it a bit differently though. We'd all join a server with war movie names like Private Joker or Animal Mother and act out a war scene. If one of us died (and there were always at least 4 of us which made up a good chunk of a team), there would be a huge display over voice chat with things like "You're not dying on me man" and hysterical crying. One of us would be the AWOL soldier that would freak out, mow down a bunch of people, then commit suicide with a nade. We would also do the whole Russian battlefield commander/Warhammer 40k commissar and shoot anyone retreating from a fight in the head with a desert eagle and spam a sickle and axe spray over their body. Doltos fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Jul 8, 2008 |
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Discombobulator posted:WoW Oh my jesus the reported mod is fun. My server has an obsession with [Warp Slicer] legendary weapon. Can someone help me set it up so it responds to that weapon with [Jamp Slicer]? Some choice screenshots, all taken within 2 hours of getting the mod.   (They are trying to set it off, not knowing if it was a timer or I was manually doing it or what)    And comedy frog on wolf.  I also met a goon while doing this, although he didn't like the name goon.
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Terrorizing The Terrorists Tactical Ops and the hostages had loving godly aim too.
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