Great thread, and some awesome replies, really enjoyed reading them. Here's some of my own:
Thought I'd start with the oldschool.
CS match, 1.6 I believe.
The map - DE aztec, a public server. I was Counter Terrorist, and it was a few rounds in. I'd just finished off a guy at Terrorist side of the bridge from CT side. I checked the scoreboard, CT was ahead, only one terrorist left to go. I knew we had a couple of guys over at the main bombsite through double doors (cant remember if it was A or B for the life in me, too long ago) so I reckoned there was no way the last terro would be anywhere but his spawn. I quickly checked river from my position, and crossed the bridge to T side. I prepared to face off against the guy camping down near the crate just up from T spawn, so I moved out towards double doors, M4 in hand, ready to unleash a double tap to the guys head.
Nothing.
I moved forward, sure of myself that he must have been further into T spawn. I was right, I heard the footsteps. I was just about to pass under the archway that leads into the enclosed area up from the spawn, but I had no visual on the guy, I was faced with was a wall, and on the other side of this was their spawn point. I swapped out to my desert eagle and pinpointed the sound of the guys movement. He was running across T spawn, having just entered it from slightly to my right. I lined up my DE at the wall and fired - I heard a clunk, the clunk of a .50cal round striking a helmet. I panned my aim across to the left and tracked the sound of the movement, and within a second I let off my second shot.
There was a scream, and in the top right of my screen was the kill. Desert Eagle - Headshot.
A kill worthy of a wall hacker, funny that I wasnt and never have though.
Next one: Cs 1.6, De-Dust 2
A short one is this, I was standing on the right side of T enterance to tunnels, My trusty Desert Eagle in hands, a weapon I didnt use all that often, even though it got me some of my best kills.
Our team was suppressed by Ct's in the tunnel, we were pinned and we were loosing, we were on pistols, they were nearly on rifles. My teammates were doing a good job of catching bullets, and I decided to make a mad dash across the enterance of the tunnels to see if I could land any hits.
I set off, dashing from right to left, I span my aim to the left hand side of the tunnels, and fired a shot, as I moved further left, my view became more open as the crate ceased to obstruct it, and I put out another bullet. I didnt even time to process what I was shooting at, I just did it all on reflex.
I reached the other side of the tunnel enterance, checked my health, ejected my clip and slid home another one. I looked to the top of my screen.
2 Kills - Desert Eagle - 2 headshots.
Another one, a different game this time.
I was on my xbox360 with some of my buddies, playing chromehounds, the first game I really wanted for the system, and the entire reason I picked up the console in the first place. The map was a large dusty, desert map with plenty of combas towers and a series of long, castle like walls on top of the hillsides.
Me and my guys were faced with a problem. We'd all racked up with fairly heavy, slow mechs, especially myself, and this was a big map, and the enemy spawned on the hill. All the advantages were in their court, especially when we realised how they were planning on playing this.
I dont remember my other friends setups exactly, but there was about 3 of them, and theyd taken fairly slow, heavy armoured bipedal assault 'hounds'. I brought forward one of my new sniper designs, 4 legs, slow as hell, but incredibly stable. Its best feature though, was its huge armament. I was packing 6 sniper cannons, linked up in sets of 3. 3 Extremely powerful, DLC cannons with very limited ammo, but the best range and damage money could buy, and another 3 Cannons, almost matching in stats, but with a decent amount more ammo.
I manouvered up to a position where I had a reasonable vantage point, as my teammates moved up to the nearest combas towers. Our progress was steady, theirs was alot faster, by the time we had 1 tower, they had 2. This match was really not going to go in our favour. As my buddies were trying to make their way up the hill, the enemy struck. Theyd chosen specific choke points to position themselves, and rained down hell with howitzers and cannons onto my teammates as they tried to gain some ground. It was messy, and for the 1 they killed, my friends all suffered. As the last few cannon rounds struck my remaining ally, I draw a bead on their commander through a gap in the walls. A double burst from my triple cannon groupings later and he was gone, consumed in a fiery explosion.
It was now 2 against 1, and I had only spotted 1 of their number, a reasonably slow soldier type, with a decent armament, nothing too heavy, but definately not weak. I repositioned myself slowly, as I had already placed a few shots into this guy. Time was ticking down, and my ammo was starting to dwindle.
It was at this point my mech rocked back as I was hit from a concentrated burst of fire, I scanned the horizon, spotting a small hound on wheels. However its initial appearance was missleading, and a noticed a concentrated array of sniper rifles and cannons on its mounts. I immediately recognised the threat and switched myself into a counter-snipe role. I cycled through my weapons until I got to my grenade launcher. There was something odd about this weapon though, which im sure confused a number of my opponents. Rather than facing upwards so that it could arc its payload into the distance, I had placed it under one of my cannons, so that the barrel faced the ground.
I pulled the trigger, and immediately the entire area was enveloped in a huge smoke cloud. I then switched my view mode, activating the powerful thermal sensor on top of my mech. Now the tables were turned, I could see him and he couldnt see me. I moved my mech slightly to the right, and engaged him with a full cannon salvo. My aim was a little off, as I the adreniline was pumping and I wanted to get the shot in before he disappeared again behind the wall. Two of his weapons went up in smoke, and his cockpit rocked from the force of the explosion.
I was seriously low on ammo at this point, I had used up my most powerful sniper rounds, and only had around half a dozen rounds between my remaining 3 cannons. I switched my fire mode to single shot, and scanned the horizon for his reappearance. Over the next minute or so we exchanged shots, he continued to reposition, trying to use the wall to his advantage, whilst I continued to drop smoke and try to use my advantages as best I could. Finally i placed an accurate cockpit shot into his mech, and it went up in flames.
The timer was down to less than a minute, I had 3 shots left in my cannons, They had the same number of towers as us, but there were uncapped ones on the map, and there was no way I could reach any of them. I was going to loose this.
I spotted my last remaining opponent traversing along a wall, his torso just sticking up slightly above it. I put a round into the side of his cockpit, shaking his mech slightly but only damaging its toughened body. He fired wildly in my direction, machine gun bullets and cannon fire streaking around me. I lined up another shot as he traveled to his target, an uncapped combas tower behind which he seeked to take refuge. The shot missed, and I cursed under my breath.
At this point, my opponent had managed to place himself behind the tower. The timer ticked down, it was down to under 10 seconds as the combas tower changed allegiance to the enemy team. I could feel the sweat on my palms and my heart was beating faster and faster, I couldnt win, but the suspension was killing me. I loaded up my last shot and tried to get a bead on my enemy, but I couldnt see him. I couldnt get the shot through the gaps in the tower and garauntee a body shot.
Then my taget made a mistake. He stepped out into the open, and headed towards another uncapped combas tower. I glanced at the timer, it was at 3 seconds remaining. I tracked my target with my crosshairs, placing them about half a targets length in front of the enemy hound. Time seemed to stop as I took aim, the enemy mech trugging slowly across the dunes. My teammates went silent for the first time all game.
I fired. The shot sailed forth, straight and true. I watched it with baited breat, as it passed just inched in front of his mech. I threw my head back in anguish as the black border encroached on my screen. Then I heard it, like music to my ears. The sounds of an explosion. I quickly looked back at the screen.
It read "Mission Complete", and behind the message, A firely cloud rose up into the sky. My friends went mental over voice coms, and I couldnt contain my excitement, and joined them.
I looked down at the clock, and realise how close it had been.
Last chance, Last shot, Last second.
Here's something alittle extra as well, just to tag on. I dont rate myself very highly when it comes to beat em ups, but I spent a while trying to get good at Dead or Alive 4 on my 360, and after a month or so, had a match with my friend, who was A ranked at the time. I believe I was B rank. It was a double perfect.
Anyway, heres the video, I dont claim to be amasing at beat em ups, but this video I am proud of. Be sure to watch in high quality, and the freeze frames at the end give a good indication of how close it really was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGmCVpe0irg
