Dumb Moments in Gaming

bob48 · January 15, 2013, 04:49:14 PM

One of my dumb moments was standing by the car in L4D2 with 2 bots whilst LB fought a lone battle to find fuel cans - samuri swords flashing and sowing destruction - his progress marked by fountains of blood and severed limbs - and me guarding a car that no-one was gonna steal.

It was an awesome spectacle, but I distinctly remember thinking 'maybe I should give him some help'.......

LongBlade · January 16, 2013, 09:38:52 AM

Quote from: bob48 on January 15, 2013, 04:49:14 PM
One of my dumb moments was standing by the car in L4D2 with 2 bots whilst LB fought a lone battle to find fuel cans - samuri swords flashing and sowing destruction - his progress marked by fountains of blood and severed limbs - and me guarding a car that no-one was gonna steal.

It was an awesome spectacle, but I distinctly remember thinking 'maybe I should give him some help'.......

The AI in L4D loves to find moments like that and send a horde. I'm not sure exactly how it works, but I suspect any time two people are separated by more than about ten feet, the AI starts building aggro.

sandman2575 · January 16, 2013, 05:01:58 PM

Once, playing TPB, I got locked in a land war in Asia and went in against a Sicilian with death on the line. Mistakes both.

TheCommandTent · January 16, 2013, 05:23:13 PM

Quote from: sandman2575 on January 16, 2013, 05:01:58 PM
Once, playing TPB, I got locked in a land war in Asia and went in against a Sicilian with death on the line. Mistakes both.

Ha! I see what you did there. ;D

sandman2575 · January 16, 2013, 06:16:31 PM

Quote from: TheCommandTent on January 16, 2013, 05:23:13 PM
Quote from: sandman2575 on January 16, 2013, 05:01:58 PM
Once, playing TPB, I got locked in a land war in Asia and went in against a Sicilian with death on the line. Mistakes both.

Ha! I see what you did there. ;D

...an attempt at wit whose inspiration can be filed under "Work, A long day at"... 8)

Father Ted · January 16, 2013, 07:04:50 PM

This is slightly convoluted, but here goes...

My fave ever FPS is Darkest Hour (in case I haven't mentioned that). I have 900 hours logged, and the controls are hard-wired into my muscle-memory. The game encourages team play, with resupplying heavy weapons an important component. Soon after I started playing Red Orchestra 2, I was stumbling around some map, getting shot to hell, and generally wondering what on earth I was doing. During this period of frustration I chanced upon a teammate who was low on ammo for his MG34. "Aha", thinks I, "something I know how to do..." So I faced him and pressed G, for "give", which is, of course, for "grenade" in RO2...Luckily he was a comrade from DH, and knew that I wasn't the type to TK, but, even so it felt like a pretty dumb moment in gaming.

Atilla60 · January 17, 2013, 08:28:22 AM

I had a nade "incident" in Red Orchestra too.

I had just re-spawned with a Kar98, and got the bright idea to go suicidal in order to get the SturmGewehr44, which I knew was available.
So, I dropped a grenade at my feet, and a split second before it went off, 4 guys re-spawned right in front of me. Yeah I took 3 of them with me.

It took some messaging back and forth, before I was in good standing again.

LongBlade · January 17, 2013, 09:36:06 AM

Quote from: Atilla60 on January 17, 2013, 08:28:22 AM
I had a nade "incident" in Red Orchestra too.

I had just re-spawned with a Kar98, and got the bright idea to go suicidal in order to get the SturmGewehr44, which I knew was available.
So, I dropped a grenade at my feet, and a split second before it went off, 4 guys re-spawned right in front of me. Yeah I took 3 of them with me.

It took some messaging back and forth, before I was in good standing again.

Hah! I'll bet it took some time.

Atilla60 · January 17, 2013, 11:50:13 AM

^
Oh yes :)

Tuna · January 17, 2013, 04:24:29 PM

First few times I played COD, well.. I use my G key in ventrilo/team speak to talk...

You can guess what happened the first few times I talked!

MengJiao · November 18, 2013, 12:56:07 PM

Quote from: Sir Slash on January 15, 2013, 02:58:16 PM
How about Skyrim, the first time I walked through Whiterun. I thought it'd be funny to walk over and wack a lady's chicken. When I did, not only did she attack me but the whole damned town came after me. Even the little children. Those people take their chickens VERY seriously.

Thanks to the fact that there's a lot of stuff about Skyrim available all over the place, I have so far avoided doing anything like killing chickens. I did sort of panic during the first dragon battle and I thought it would be a good idea to jump off the top of the Western Tower and land on top of the dragon, but this turned out to be a fatally flawed plan.

Windigo · November 18, 2013, 01:00:24 PM

Quote from: Tuna on January 17, 2013, 04:24:29 PM
First few times I played COD, well.. I use my G key in ventrilo/team speak to talk...

You can guess what happened the first few times I talked!

LOL, that hilarious... +1

Jack Nastyface · November 19, 2013, 11:02:35 PM

HPS Squad Battles dumb moment: just before taking a USMC stack (2 squads, 1 leader) into a close assault of a Japanese bunker with MG, I wanted to use the "drop / pick-up weapons" command to get some more BAR's and a satchel charge. So I picked up the weapons, switched to "move" mode, and then assaulted. Disaster and disbelief ensued. Apparently I had somehow "dropped all" weapons during my prep phase, which thus left my Marines to fight bare-handed in the assault.

Might have worked if John Wayne had been in command...

Ian C · November 20, 2013, 04:38:42 AM

Grand Theft Auto 4 after a long epic chase across the city.

I was down to 3 RPG rounds and no other weapons. The last round fires off after my character dies.

BanzaiCat · November 20, 2013, 07:39:23 AM

I loved using nukes in the Civ games. It was fun outpacing everyone and while they're still fiddling with flintlocks for me to drop an A-bomb on their heads. So when I first got Civ V and built myself up to that point, I got a slew of Enola Gays and went to town on a large neighbor. Next turn, he did the exact same thing to me, lighting up my cities like a Fourth of July celebration. Oops? I was both in awe and shock that the game dared to step to me like that; a silly warmongering choice but one that has really endeared Civ V to me.

I can't even begin to recount how many grenade accidents I've had over the years.

Skyrim's lands are to chickens what India is to cows - don't go ruffling feathers. Although I tried hitting a child with my weapon instead of a chicken - I figured this was a medieval society and they had too many mouths to feed. Besides, the little brats weren't doing anything but running around aimlessly anyway. (I saved the game first; I figured that would bring righteous hell down on me.)

A long time ago I played Axis & Allies often with a group of friends. One time as Germany, Japan and I had conquered Russia, leaving the UK and the US...which would be easy now that the bear was dead. I shifted forces west and just as I was embroiled in England and Brazil, the Japanese player decided to go Allies and attack me. I remember thinking, 'You...you...you...you can't DO that!'