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There's a SC2 arcade game called Hero Attack that's basically Dota with marines and hydralisks and archons that used to be pretty grieftacular. There were two zerg units, which were capable of building up a small army of summons pretty early in the game. Queen could spawn larvae and the nydus worm hero spawns little wormlings which can then attack other stuff. Or they could be made to hold position at the base exits and block every single creep wave into your base. The best part, they did not block your teams heroes so they required no micro. Make them stay and build up enough and the NPCs won't get a single unit through, completely starving out the other team's lanes of both money for upgrades and XP. All they'd have left is the critter patches. It only takes about 5 minutes game time to build up a ridiculously massive wave of creeps which will more often than not end the game if you can pull it off early enough. Most of the time half the enemy team will quit and the game will fall apart, so it griefs everyone not just the other team, by completely wasting everyone's time. Even if everyone stays winning or losing via 10 built up waves of creep washing over the map is probably about the most boring and mindless victory possible. None of this is possible anymore, they changed the way things work, but back before they patched it out it was pretty funny to do this and have people rage. Way back when they even broke it on an update and had a few items that only Terrans could buy that buying them in rapid succession would give you more than one of the item per purchase. They were sensor towers, and you couldn't sell them back for full price, but you could salvage them for full refund. So you'd go with the money to buy 4 towers and end up with 7. Then you'd set all of the towers up and salvage them all (the work of a few seconds spamming clicks in the right spot to autoplace them in base) and then you'd be able to buy 7 towers and get 13. And then 25. And then 49. And then 97. And salvage all 97 for 125 a piece to end up with somewhere around 10k minerals. You could do this in about two minutes if you click fast and have a few hotkeys memorized, and it took a fair bit less than that to buy every upgrade item you'd be able to use on a character except for straight stat boosts right from the start. Being a few levels behind doesn't matter when you do double damage and take half damage at 3:30 in the game. It got to the point that sometimes you'd end up with a TvT game where everyone playing did this and then crashed into the game a few minutes in with full upgrades and purchased spells and such at level 1, which was pretty hilariously fun while it lasted. Even with all the upgrades people had the money to spam siege tanks all over the map, which was even funnier. I won a few games cloaking into an enemy base and filling it to the brim with siege tanks when I was the only one doing this in a game. Also long since fixed, but it was great while it lasted. Oh, and this is an MOBA with hard stuns that has no stun diminishing return. And they saw fit to give Terrans lockdown as a buyable spell that can hit any target air or ground and stuns for like 4 seconds. The zerg buyable stun throws 2 broods at ground targets, stuns for 1.5 seconds, and the broodlings attack whatever it is for a few seconds for some fairly minor damage. The protoss get stasis so you can stop dudes in their tracks but you cannot hurt them while they're stunned. Also lasts 4 seconds. Really, it's terribly balanced and playing it is griefing myself but it's casual enough that you don't get the insane sperglord drama that gets drawn to Dota and League.
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Mash posted:In GTA5 there is a large dual-rotor helicopter called a Cargobob with a hook that can pick up vehicles, even when players are driving them. Nothing is better than picking up unsuspecting pubbies, flying into the clouds and launching their car into the sea / mountain / nearest skyscraper. The GTA5 next gen upgrade made this even more fun, because the Passive mode that prevents players from killing you now transfers to whatever vehicle you're piloting making your vehicle invulnerable while you do it. So you can grab someone's car, go Passive, and no one can actually blow you up. They just added a ground-to-air rocket launcher with lock-on, making you a huge target while flying around and the Cargobob is really clumsy and can't avoid it, but the car you've hooked up doesn't get the immunity. So when someone tries to explode you, they end up just blowing up the other guy's car that you're stealing. I like to find people shouting off on voice chat so I can steal their cars and get them to try and blow me up so they wind up wasting a ton of cash paying insurance bills.
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Policenaut posted:GTA5 passive mode Cargobob shenanigans Holy poo poo, I need to try that one of these days, after I get my Battlefield 4 fix. Y'know I'm pretty sure we've played together, but I can't remember your PSN. Mine is The_Maniac_Cop.
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Mash posted:launching their car into the sea 360 version: If you try to enter someone's personal vehicle to see who the owner is, destroying it via dropping it into the ocean will make you pay for it. But never checking who owns the PV gets you out of paying insurance for dropping the car into the ocean. Or you could use it as part of a game called Ignition Bombing A Pubbie.  Just reach/pass the level where you unlock a Los Santos Customs mod where you can attach a bomb to a car that triggers if anyone that isn't you enters it for 5000. Grab a cargobob/drive to the HPV as quickly as you can, attach the bomb at a LCS and just drive with it. If they don't realize what's going on, what they think will give them a higher payout than a regular car delivery ends in carnage. Alternatively, you you can drive around in a normal car with the ignition bomb attached, invite a pubbie to ride with you and after a while you leave the car. Which begins an animarion they can't stop which scoots them into the driver's seat that ends in them starting the car, triggering the bomb.
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Serious business pro players sometimes get mad at me for winning with the spray-and-pray rocket shotgun on Team Fortress, instead of the precision blasting instrument I am supposed to win with. Mine works by forcing you to take time to "charge" your shots when you want to fire instead of just being able to click > fire, but the upside is multiple (up to 3) rockets come out with very little time between shots. Flamethrower Guys, who are used to standing in harm's way and handily keeping other Bazooka Guys at bay with a little trick that redirects rockets, can usually catch one of mine but not all! Rockets also come out with a slight random deviation, meaning that when the planets align, I can still kill you even when my aim is way off (they really don't like this trick in particular). Another "working as designed" grief imo, but it sure does chap some asses, since the timing and strategy is more or less completely backwards from the Bazooka Guy style everyone is used to countering.
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Spergminer posted:How did you make a good dickmobile? They always steer like poo poo because of how wide the balls are, and putting the wheels inside the balls makes it impossible to go uphill. I made a rectangular frame underneath that the dick rides on top of like a model plane dick. I've been experimenting with flying dicks, I got the rotors to fit inside the balls but without a comically huge glans you have to have a dick with helicopter blades on the tip. It's okay though, everyone likes to helicopter dick. Eventually I want to make a dick on tank treads or a dick with spider legs that looks like something from a porno version of The Thing. Robocraft: How Does Your Dick Move? Wild T fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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Working as designed griefs are the most satisfying. Using things the way they were meant to be is great for insulting someone's e-bushido. Case in point, Planetside 2. Planetside 2 is a MMOFPS (and extremely fun), which lets you do pretty much whatever you want, whenever you want. Want to drive a tank? Go for it. Revive dead teammates? Knock yourself out. You can pull aircraft too, of course. However, the air-game has attracted a lot of toxic assholes who care way too much about honor duels. Think light-saber duels in Jedi Academy, where one pompous douchebag expects you to conform to his ruleset so you can have an "honorable" fight (i.e. gimp yourself so he can win easier). The fighter jets in Planetside 2 defy physics and with a little tweaking can perform a reverse maneuver. This turned what was supposed to be a zoom-n-boom playstyle with actual dogfighting into a nosegun-only hovering rodeo. These rodeos are the "meta" to the particularly douchey pilots, and deviating from it makes you a no-skill noob 12-year old pussy dickhead cheater. How do you deviate from their idiotic meta? Play the game it was meant to be played and use anything but your nosegun of course! There are two-varieties of Air-to-Air missiles. Their only job is "blow up the bad planes" which they do very well. One is your standard lock-on, the only caveat is that you have to maintain a lock for the missile to connect. It can be countered by equipping flares, which break locks and make you lock-proof for 5 seconds, if juking isn't an option. The aforementioned "meta" pilots don't bother running flares, because in their smugness, simply expect everyone to cater to their preferred playstyle instead of using common sense. They are the best targets for air-to-air lockons and their tears are the most delicious. The second type of lock-on is a recent addition and it fires a small salvo of 6 micro-missiles, with low individual damage and a low velocity. However, they auto-lock based on proximity. They suck anywhere outside of "so close you will probably collide with the other guy" and are an excellent treat to bring to those hovering rodeos I mentioned. Simply bait some poor sucker into thinking you're playing by the rules, and unleash these babies. You don't even have to aim, just point it in his general direction and let them do the rest. People get furious when you use these, despite the fact that you need to exhaust nearly 3/4 of your ammo just to bring down one aircraft. Also, kamikaze attacks. People rage when you just slam into their jet with your jet. You both die of course, but usually the other guy starts raging about how you deprived him of a fair 1v1. Tl;dr fighter pilots take their shooting games way too seriously and don't like it when you use missiles, even though that's what they're loving designed for.
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You would think someone who deliberately chooses a fighter jet would want to dogfight in it, but then again, aspergers. And a pilot is stupid if he's not loaded with flares, and many aren't. I used to get so much XP defending a base by sitting next to an ammo terminal with an antiaircraft missile launcher. Step outside, fire, step inside, heal, repeat. Since half of the pilots didn't bother with countermeasures they would either die, bail out or even better, try to juke themissile using terrain and crash and burn like 50% of the time. Plus they're so caught up with their Sky Duelling (and/or tank plinking for XP) that many don't even notice a lone infantryman unless they're deliberately farming the spawn or equipment points. . Wild T fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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sitchelin posted:Also, kamikaze attacks. People rage when you just slam into their jet with your jet. You both die of course, but usually the other guy starts raging about how you deprived him of a fair 1v1. This is equally true in War Thunder. When I feel like it, I'll use the biplanes and crash them into the higher tier planes like the bombers. People really find that sort of stuff dishonorable.
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It gets a bit of rage of World of Planes too. Ramming people on the initial approach with all guns firing was always fun 
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Icon Of Sin posted:It gets a bit of rage of World of Planes too. Ramming people on the initial approach with all guns firing was always fun
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Unfunny Poster posted:This is equally true in War Thunder. When I feel like it, I'll use the biplanes and crash them into the higher tier planes like the bombers. This is something I need explained to me. Why does it make people SO angry when you ram them in Warthunder? It works, it's part of the game and it's not an exploit so why not do it if it helps you win?
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Tracula posted:This is something I need explained to me. Why does it make people SO angry when you ram them in Warthunder? It works, it's part of the game and it's not an exploit so why not do it if it helps you win?
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Tracula posted:This is something I need explained to me. Why does it make people SO angry when you ram them in Warthunder? It works, it's part of the game and it's not an exploit so why not do it if it helps you win? 
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kalstrams posted:Air bushido. Internet air bushido
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Tracula posted:This is something I need explained to me. Why does it make people SO angry when you ram them in Warthunder? It works, it's part of the game and it's not an exploit so why not do it if it helps you win? Because it doesn't award any player any kills, and it's also a pretty lame instant death in most cases for both players. Kickass dogfights are way cooler.
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kalstrams posted:Air bushido.
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It often is very effective way to idiot-proof victory of your team, however. Edit: Jackard posted:You think that's air they're breathing?!? cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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people who are air only in planetside 2 are the most hilarious literally anything that kills them from the ground or air causes them to get super loving angry
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Basically any death is infuriating, unless it is a proper engagement initiated by double-counterclockwise barrel rolls executed by both participants, followed by a direct flyby with no fire, direct flyby with only primary weapons and direct flyby with only secondary weapons. Double-counterclockwise barrel rolls are initiated by proper key password to key question written in Latin.
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utilizing rock-paper-scissor counters instead of bashing rocks together in mutual love and respect is Bad and Ignoble you ruffian
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Borderlands is a pretty great game. It's an FPS that features a maximum of 4-player coop, and the gameplay from there is pretty MMO-like (quest hubs with sidequests plus a main storyline that you can blitz through pretty easily). It's got player levels and a complex loot system that uses the same color scheme as World of Warcraft, so of course there are a lot of tryhard players out there who pride themselves on having the best gear and who grind on bosses all day just to get more shiny stuff. Borderlands has some pretty huge area, and there are stations where you can spawn vehicles. Gearbox (the developers) decided to make this feature really easily griefable 1) Each vehicle can hold a maximum of 2 players (one driver, one gunner) 2) You can only spawn a maximum of 2 vehicles at a time, so if the driver throws you off a cliff then you're going to have to run back to a vehicle spawn point and spawn a new vehicle. Death costs money (and more importantly, time) 3) From the vehicle spawning station, you can teleport instantly to an open vehicle seat. Here's an example from Geoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjVodQLEdWY The guy who uploaded this does some other funny stuff - Force everyone to move into a new zone, interrupting whatever they were doing before - Waits for new cars to spawn and immediately blows them up. "I HEARD YOU LIKE EXPLOSIONS IN YOUR RIDE" - Pushes a dying player around with a car so that other players can't revive him At some point one of the kids pretends that they're calling Live or whatever and are getting the guy's account deleted, it's pretty awesome
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QuarkJets posted:Borderlands has some pretty huge area, and there are stations where you can spawn vehicles. Gearbox (the developers) decided to make this feature really easily griefable Then there's the Pre-Sequel, which some say is griefing yourself for buying it. (It's not THAT bad, but it's a letdown from the previous games. Get it in a few more months once the price drops below $20 and it's a decent enough time waster.)
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hehe i shot guy he call me feg *farts*
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Jerry Steinfeld posted:hehe i shot guy he call me feg *farts* Five Star grief.
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Speaking of war thunder, one of the things that I used to live doing was cow tipping. There is a fast tank called the T-50 which has good armor for its tier, and is kinda wedge shaped. So what I would do is rally car around and ram tanks broadside, normally causing them to ride up on my hull and flip on their back. Now until recently, there was nothing you could do if you were flipped other than bail out or convinve someone to ram you until you unclipped, which almost never worked. People would get so pissed when I would flip them and then just sit there trying to have a conversation with them.
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This is more of a griff than grief, but in War Thunder I used to fly around on Swag-9T or Swag-9K and one-shot bombers. After they were being chased by friendly pubbies for minute or two.  Another War Thunder grief, a very good one, was German or Japanese decals on Soviet planes. You would be surprised to the amounts of rage induced by this to an average Russian pubbie. Another, which is more of a  grief , is to fake an attack on a friendly in simulator mode, when they are not aware of you until ammo starts whizzing around their cockpit.
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Where has her land gone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHIVZPYAQt0
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Inkel posted:Where has her land gone? Goddamn, why are Second Life trolling videos so amazing? This one had me laughing til my sides hurt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z5cS6q7s5w
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Ok so I've got a story that could count as a SS13 grief, although its questionable to tell any SS13 stories in this thread since its almost the intent of the game at this point but w/e This round, I conducted my Fun from a distance, I was a miner, minding my own business. Gettin ores, making ridiculous amounts of money selling poo poo to QM and opening abandoned crates full of  . I noticed over radio that the captain sounded like a shitlord, trying to brig people over inane bullshit and generally being a funhater. So I decided to run a contest, which I advertised repeatedly over radio, "ARE YOU INTERESTED IN GETTIN TONS OF BUX? WITH THIS LIMITED TIME OFFER YOU COULD GET A WHOPPIN 10,000 CREDITS, ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS KNOCK DOWN THE CAPTAIN AND FART IN HIS FACE, IT COULDN'T BE SIMPLER!" I continued to advertise it like a space carnie for 15-20 minutes, with no results despite the captain's constant bitching about it. What I didn't know is that it was apparently stirring up poo poo on the station, with people constantly rushing him and trying to knock him down and loving up everything he was trying to do. He'd flashbang 'em, flash 'em, baton 'em and so on. Nobody succeeded, until one guy, whose name I honestly can't remember. He knocked the craptain over, farted in his face a dozen times, and then got robusted. The AI was watching and confirmed his success. I hand delivered the money to the now blind and deaf hero, who couldn't be happier about his victory. The round was nearing it's end, and I advertised other prizes, 5,000 credits for the captain's sunglasses, 10,000 for his hat, 1,000 per fart in his face and etc. Nobody got the chance to claim these prizes before the round ended, but at the round's end, I noticed that 1.) the captain wasn't a traitor, he was just a fucker, and 2.) he had changed the AI's laws: Hungry Pickins is not human, anybody who participates in Hungry Pickin's contest is not human, and by the sounds of it he was encouraging deadly force on the part of the AI and borgs. The AI and borgs didn't seem to care too much about my not being human, though. I wasn't a traitor, I didn't encourage anybody to beat him up, or take anything important, but it did mess with the round of somebody who didn't like fun. He refused to come on the shuttle because he knew what would happen if he did, he locked himself in a room that nobody else had access to iirc. I gotta wonder if he adminhelped it and they didn't care.  edit: its more like justice than griefing tho 'cause he was a dick and deserved to get messed with
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Inkel posted:Where has her land gone? VirtualExperiences is one of the funniest griefers I've ever seen. I like this short one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePoNnRDekgM edit: Holy poo poo, BBC Interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xzLSBjEoSo This reminds me of the old Goons in Terrorist Town group. Consisting of a third of the population in a TTT server being goons could get overwhelming but that poo poo was fun. I'd love to get back into that but I don't think many goons play TTT or Garrys Mod anymore. Mom with a blog fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jan 7, 2015 |
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Telltolin posted:He refused to come on the shuttle because he knew what would happen if he did, he locked himself in a room that nobody else had access to iirc. You keep minimizing your exploits, but this is actually really funny. It's like a little kid locking themselves in their room because their aunt keeps teasing them in an innocuous way and they just refuse to laugh about it.
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Telltolin posted:Ok so I've got a story that could count as a SS13 grief, although its questionable to tell any SS13 stories in this thread since its almost the intent of the game at this point but w/e SS13 stories are always fun. No matter what happens, some unfun sperg will hate it, so feel free to keep sharing.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:SS13 stories are always fun. No matter what happens, some unfun sperg will hate it, so feel free to keep sharing. no dont! :spergsay:
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I don't have any griefing stories to share, but I would love to hear some more SS13 stories. They and the old MMO ones were easily the best things in the thread from back in the day, easily better than the "hurr so i did something TF2 that lagged someone out lol" poo poo the wannabe-rapist and his ilk used to post.
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Screaming Idiot posted:I don't have any griefing stories to share, but I would love to hear some more SS13 stories. They and the old MMO ones were easily the best things in the thread from back in the day, easily better than the "hurr so i did something TF2 that lagged someone out lol" poo poo the wannabe-rapist and his ilk used to post. Then go make some instead of crying about content in the thread where you've never contributed
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