Splicer posted:

Melee was hilariously broken in the first L4D despite it just being an alt-fire for your main weapon, since you could pile every survivor into one corner forming a horrible, Shiva-like monstrosity that flailed wildly with a gun-butt with one set of arms while the other six fired with impunity at the Zombie hordes desperately trying to get past your impenetrable rifle-shield.

And that's why we now have Spitters.

HMRising posted:

The amusing thing about kiting Kazzak to a city as a bannable offense was that Blizzard later purposely did this for a temporary, pre-launch event of The Burning Crusade expansion with Highlord Kruul, who was--in practice--a more difficult version of Doom Lord Kazzak (although they both shared the same model, loot-table, and abilities, as I recall). Considering that Kruul would sometimes spawn outside the major cities, he would wreak havoc and become virtually unkillable within a matter of seconds because of the same "Capture Soul" mechanic he and Kazzak shared. Kruul would also periodically summon several higher-level enemies all of which had large aggro-radii, and would one-shot lower-level players with Crushing Blows (a NPC mechanic that deals extra damage to a player if the player was at least three levels lower than the NPC).

I remember Kruul spawning outside the Undercity at one point, and the aftermath once Kruul had left revealed heaps upon heaps of skeletons from all races (yes, even Alliance) throughout the southern Tirisfal Glades and Ruins of Lordaeron. For people who haven't played the game, this was one of the the starting zones and frequently a high-traffic area for lower-level players. I think Kruul would eventually despawn as per a timer, and reappear elsewhere, later. To be sure, it wasn't "griefing" in the truest sense, but for its time, it was an enjoyable "world" event that got a lot of people intentionally killed that I don't think WoW has really indulged much in anymore, unfortunately.

Zereth posted:

Didn't the zombies get stronger the longer the event went on, too? So a zombie on the day the event landed was pretty weak, but by the end they were quite strong?

Doc Hawkins posted:

Okay, fess up, which of you writes for Cracked?

Gabriel Pope posted:

I actually like this one, stories about MMOs "griefing the playerbase" get old fast but I love the mental picture of a bunch of spergs flipping out while some schmuck holds a desirable loot target hostage in exchange for a cut.

tomanton posted:

Our latest fieldtrip: http://youtu.be/AIfBEFj0BLk

This video is sort of mediocre, but the play is killing everyone else on the server as quickly as possible and then running out the round microphone spamming and dancing in circles. Our crew probably is the reason GMod doesn't allow animations anymore; kids didn't appreciate hosed-up hitboxes and someone stripteasing killing them with bullets shot out of their weiners. Best of all the pubbies will wait out their entire 10-12 minutes in ghost mode planning their revenge, only to be immediately killed again, rinse and repeat.

I believe our last PGS thread dedicated to TTT has slipped into the archives; if it can't be dug up I'll make a new one shortly.

Third World Reggin posted:

In age of wushu we had a J4G try to join the guild. We declined.

He then went off, joined a guild, worked his way into leadership within one week, kicked everyone out of the guild, and disbanded the guild. That guild lost their land.

He is now in the GoonTangClan.

Fuzzyjello posted:

Sort of reminds me of WoW using the f4 button. Then I use the alt button for my push to talk, then f4 for an in game action.

Red Bones posted:

Why are there skeletons all over the floor in some of those screenshots?

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Case in point.

now might be a good time to remind everyone about the most glorious TF2 rage ever recorded.

Korgan posted:

Branflakes is a real piece of poo poo, lazy, biased community moderator. I asked the main pvp channel if anyone else got temp banned for killing him during the event and it blew up with people hating on him. He really needs to be fired.

Lazermaniac posted:

In fact, Garry himself is a goon! It's goons all the way down

Bro Nerd Alpha posted:

After reading about SS13 from this thread, this will be my late night "had a few beers, watching netflix" game. This makes me miss my old days of loving with people on Diablo 2 just with my user name. I'd make a character who I completely played wrong or used crap skills (favorite was maxing out Raven on the druid) and naming them something like "DBZ_sucks" or "RapMakesYouStupid"

I spent more time typing than killing.

SynthOrange posted:

The new hotkey input system has a dedicated fart hotkey.

GulMadred posted:

Fellatio del Toro posted:

Portal Roulette is even better now because Blizzard for some reason let mages get a portal to old Dalaran. Not Dalaran's new location floating around in Northrend; they can now create a portal that teleports you to where the portals would have been in Dalaran's original location in Alterac Mountains.

This is of course a few hundred feet in the air above a crater.

Artemis J Brassnuts posted:

I don't think I have it anymore, but a Magic: The Gathering magazine called InQuest once printed a Chaos Orb that was four times the size of a regular card, shown on the right:

Thumbtacks posted:

I really should get into more card games. The only one I've played is Munchkin which destroys friendships.

And Bang, but there isn't much room for griefing there other than just shooting your friends.

Soylent Pudding posted:

Back in college we had a group that played Egyptian whatever only the unintentional grief was that myself and one lady in the group both hold blackbelts. It quickly got to the point that the few people with the handspeed to get in before us quickly stopped because winning just got too painful. Games always devolved into just myself and her playing well past first blood until the group found a different card game.

SpookyLizard posted:

Playing with or without items is a good metric for determining if someone is a worthwhile person. Ditto taking the game seriously. How seriously people take that game loving astounds me.

Dizz posted:

I'm not one for Smash drama but is this the one where the smash players heckled a kid so much for winning a tourney for using items that he [The kid] ended up giving his winnings to the dude in 2nd place?

Ghostlight posted:

The sole purpose of griefing is to get a negative reaction from the other person so people who roll with it more than often don't make amazing stories.

A number of years ago on World of Warcraft my friend somehow managed to overhear the details for an in-game wedding, and we spent days organising how we were going to invade it and what the timing needed to be. We ended up with around 50-60 people including an Alliance rogue we knew and had asked to snoop for us and video-capture it, co-ordinating everything over voice chat so that as soon as the 'bride' got to the altar everyone would stream over the hill and just burn the roleplayers to the ground. It went off perfectly, we laughed and took screenshots of ourselves on their skeletons, and when the ally rogue told us they were regrouping at the capital city, we followed them there and did it again among the NPC guards.

The 'groom' later forwarded us a recording of their voice-chat and while they were kind of annoyed initially, they started laughing about it on the way to their second destination and when we showed up there they thought it was hilarious. If I remember correctly they even posted to the Blizzard forums thanking us for turning up.

Poil posted:

What is so special about asian girls anyway? I mean, why are some people so obsessed about them?

MizPiz posted:

Try a university with a a big enough humanities department, I'm sure there are more than a few people who would be facinated by what they can find out about online communities.

Zereth posted:

Or just look straight down, that turns off the water-walking effect so you can drop through fine yourself.

Bonald Farndhardt posted:

What theme would you guys like the next Ventrilo Harassment to be?

-Lemongrab
-"Whitest Kids U'Know" Abe Lincoln
-James Quall
-Belgian Farting Pig

Cast ur votes now

Shooting Blanks posted:

Reminds me of that EVE Online story where someone loaded up freighters with wads of paper, went to a crowded hub and told everyone to gather round for free loot. I'm pretty sure they managed to crash the server, or come very close, but I can't find the story right now.