Nicest thing you've done during online play

[tobi the good boy]

In Day Z, I tend to play as something akin to a white knight. I've never bandited, I've never really hogged the loot and I've never actually been all that mean to new players. But one that stands out would be when I was going towards Cherno and came across a new guy, I decided to team up and make it to the city. We were stocking up but shortly after we arrived, a huge bandit attack hit us. knowing that making out alive was going to be pretty slim I offloaded all my top notch gear onto the newbie (ALICE pack, Silenced MP5, M1911, a map, a compass, binoculars and all my bandages and stuff) and ran out into the open, drawing all the zombies and bandit fire I could in one glorious last stand while He got away with what was basically enough to set him up for the inland. I still remember killing 3 bandits and 12 zombies before being taken down by the last bandit.

 

[Bvenged]

In any Halo game where members of the opposing team have quit, and the remainders are... well... shit, to say the least, I refuse to kill them.

I even start blowing the shields off of any good team-mates who spawn trap and T-bag the unfortunately crap opponents. I do that not because the team-mate deserves it (which they do, usually) but because any crap opponent still trying to play a crushing defeat with no backup and still 25 kills and 5 minutes to go deserves a little respect, so I force my teammates to give it to them in the way of a death or two by their hands; I just give the noob an advantage of fighting a guy who has no shields.

Not my friends though, they don't usually go all-out like that on a lone noob. If they're being slightly douche-y I just try pleading with them. The only time they reject my claims is if the noob was being a douche to start with.

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Back when I played WoW, I was nothing special. I hardly ever raided and I was always and Expansion Pack behind. Whenever I hit my level cap I started a new character. That was just how I enjoyed the game.

But I'm also a bit of a philanthropist of-sorts. I would sometimes help out random strangers, new to the game, for the hell of it. I would give them just enough gold to make a few silly purchasing decisions, but just little enough so that they have to take up a money-farming skill (gathering skills). I would also run them through a dungeon once or twice by building a group, running them through then getting them to do it themselves.

It was alllll gooood.

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Back when I used to play CoD, I never EVER used Stopping power, M16, noob Tubes, Commando, Danger Close, nuke, shotgun or any automated/airbourne gunner killstreak.

I was averaging a 1.3 K/D and a 1.66W/L. I think that was incredibly nice to everyone I ever played against on that *game*.

Then after 6 months I realised nearly everyone on it were the scum of the earth, it was saturated with adolescent children who didn't know the first thing about a good game or chivalry and I'd had enough with the feeble attempt of fair-play the developers had (failed) to implement; coupled with a horrendously crappy matchmaking system.

I now actively try to avoid that game series, playing it less than once a month and when I do (less than an hour, for the sake of social interaction), I use as many of the douchebag tactics as I can.
Don't get me started on MW3, at least BO was balanced. Mw3 = MW2 but with even more lag thanks to the stupid lag-compensator they wrote.

 

[Murais]

Going against the grain of the OT, I'll share the nicest thing that someone else did for me in an online game. I think it'll be more genuine on all accounts that way, too.

I used to play WoW rather religiously on the Shattered Hand server. I played with a tight-knit group of friends and some family members, namely my cousin. We were all really close, and worked like a well-oiled, albeit dysfunctional machine. My cousin tanked, I had another cousin who was our main healer, I was DPS, etc., etc.

Unfortunately, there was a really tragic accident one day, and my cousin (warrior) died. He was young and healthy, and it was really shocking and unexpected to the family. The man was someone that I really admired and looked up to, and his death took a big toll on a much younger me. In my grief, I posted a thread on the realm forums so that his in-game friends might know what happened to him and/or leave some parting words. Naturally, the thread was flamed into the ground, and I was very upset. I didn't log in or look at the forums for a week.

When I finally cooled down a little bit, I logged back in to return to the daily WoW routines. I noticed that I had some mail, and figured that I had some AH stuff that I forgot about or something. What I found instead, was a detailed letter written by another player who told me not to lose my faith and get lost in grief, reminding me that the best course of action was to live on and embody the fiery warrior spirit and that he had and live my life as proudly as he would have.

Attached to the letter, was the starting orc character's two-handed axe, with the flame strike enchantment on it. It may have been a bit corny in retrospect, but to a troubled sixteen year old choking on his grief, it meant the world to me.

I don't know who that person was, but they were pretty damn good folk.

 

[Wintermoot]

I compliment players if they kill me with trick shots

 

[Nouw]

I sacrifice myself to save time for the other player/s to escape the zombie horde. Of course they're probably just running away but at least I have the decency to buy him or her time .

I also compliment other people if they kill me with skill. I suppose waiting for people to run into their line of sight isn't real skill at least they have the smarts to do it. Doesn't matter anyway, in Elim Pro -combat arms- you win or you die!

 

[DiZtAnT]

While playing MOBA games I refuse to kill AFK/Disconnected players.

The MOBA genre is too "make or break" for me to take a kill like that with a clean conscience.
Il even go as far as to type in chat something like, "D/C? wont Kill".
And just leave it at that.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Well I alway's felt really happy and satisfied when playing Dark souls as my sunbro character and getting summoned to someones world. When we have an epic battle and finally beat that giant boss and wave and cheer before I am sent back, it's just great. Especially when they send a message saying thanks over Xbox live.
I have even had people help me then send a message offering to help me further in more levels. Other than the people who grief new players by invading with end game equipment because they suck and hate everything that is fun in the world, other than them the Dark souls community is pretty cool.

Tribes Ascend- Repairing Vehicles as a Tech, it takes a bit to repair and I don't get any points for it. But a thanks is rewarding enough.

Dark Souls- I'm a SunBro, and whether it's warding off DickWraiths or helping someone beat a boss, I'm there!

Praise the Sun! We should engage in jolly co-operation!

OT:I have a pretty sweet story concerning online benevolence.
So, Dark Souls. My character is a Warrior of Sunlight (SunBro) and I was summoned to help out in the Darkroot Woods, specifically, the area after the big door you need the Crest of Artorias to unlock.
As I summon in, I notice that the host is being chased by two invaders and the local hostile NPCs.
The NPC aggros on me while the host distracts the invaders.
The NPC was taking a while to kill, and I got impatient, so I pulled out my lightning spear miracle and toasted the NPC with it.
I then charged the invaders, only they hadn't seen me, so I flung another spear at one, downing him.
I did the same to the other one, but he survived, so I ran up to him and cleft him in twain with my blade.
Easily the best PvP I've ever engaged in, plus I felt good knowing that I saved this guy (who was not a PvP character) from losing his souls/humanity.
We then proceeded to murder the boss of the area, and bid each other farewell.

 

[Altorin]

I compliment players if they kill me with trick shots

I've done that a couple times - an awesome kill is an awesome kill, even if you're the one getting killed.

 

[The Mighty Stove]

-Snip-

Ah, a fellow SunBro! Greetings!

Yes, I've taken a break from the game, but when the PC version comes out...Hello new community and more players to help! Sadly, I didn't pick up the game when it first came out. So this is a way to give my money to From Software.

 

[Alkali]

Conjoined effort in WoW; my room-mate and I decided to level a druid and a warrior respectively. We got up to level 13 or so, then just started joining dungeon queues.
Not only did we instantly get a group (Him being a healer, me being a tank) but if asked, we'd always do more runs with the group. I'd always let someone else take loot on the first run too, because I knew I'd have a much easier time getting it later.
We probably got 10 new friends out of that. It was uncommon to find someone from our server.

Sure, it might seem like taking advantage of a system, but in a time where every new character thought he could tank and do a terrible job of it, everyone was relieved when we came in and got things done.

Everyone wondered how we were so in sync, we never mentioned that we were in the same room.

 

[Creator002]

When playing GTA IV with a friend, there was a guy that kept spawn killing a kid and being an asshole about it. My friend and I decided that enough was enough and gathered an arsenal of weapons and went down there. When we got there we hopped into separate cars. I drove over the kid and parked next to him to pick him up while my friend ran the asshole over and killed him.
The kid was grateful and the asshole started raging, calling us fags, no lifers and what-not while we killed him every time he came close.

Good times. ^.^
Too bad many people cheat on the PC version now. You basically need a trainer just to protect yourself from them.

 

[Sean951]

In L4D I live on pain pills and prayers and let my friends use most of the med kits. Still get most damage taken too! It's a point of pride for me, holdover from my WoW days as a tank.

Speaking of which... In WoW, I played a tankadin. I knew my class forwards and back and would often help people new to tanking, paladins, or WoW in general. I couldn't begin to guess how many hours I spent coaching people or gold spent gearing people. I was never well off in terms of gold, at least not by my standards, but I liked helping newbies and it made me a lot of friends. As a well geared tank, I also was able to make sure that some of my friends wouldn't get kicked in random groups. They weren't holding the group back, but they definitely weren't performing up to potential, so I just stepped in and dared them to mess with me. Paladins had a wonderful knack for saving at least 2 other people from dieing and I would use that to shut people up.

 

[Dethenger]

I always try to be pretty nice online. No use being a dick. Little things. I'm always a sniper, right? So if I spot a guy standing still, my first instinct is to scoop his head off; but if I see a friendly sneaking up behind, I'll let him get the sneaky kill. I'm usually really far away, so he'll never know I essentially granted him that kill. It's just what I do. Also, I always watch my teammate's backs; the best thing ever was one time in Reach, I managed to snipe a guy mid-assassination, saving my teammate's life. feelsgoodman.jpg

Spoiler: But the nicest thing I've ever done?

This one will more likely than not resonate with Halo 3 players, particularly the ones that did the Vidmaster Challenges for Recon around 2008.
There was one challenge on Halo 3, an achievement called "Annual." It was a real pain in the ass. What you had to do was beat the final mission of Halo 3 with 4 people, doing the final run with everyone in a Ghost, on Legendary.
I did this with a few friends, and we were all fucking pissed by the end. The achievement was brutal. There's no strategy to it, you can't be absolutely sure what'll happen, and it was on Legendary, which means if one guy dies, whether it was completely not his fault or he legitimately fucked up (everyone will assume the latter), everyone spawns at the last checkpoint, making any progress from that point essentially useless.
It's starts out amicable enough; who cares about reverting back some when you're not that far anyway? Everyone knew at the start to put some time away. It's near the middle when things start going especially to shit, when you can't help but notice that one guy in particular has died more than anyone else, or when the checkpoint saves you in a compromising position, or the part itself is just fucking horseshit, or what have you. Near the end, on the final drive, is where you start really hating at least one person there, whether it's because he's the guy who keeps dying, or because he's the guy getting disproportionately angry at the guy who keeps dying.

Now, me doing that fucking achievement with my friends isn't the nicest thing I've done; I wanted the achievement too.
What was probably the nicest thing I've done, was doing it twice. Another friend of mine was having troubles getting a 4th. I already had it. I already knew 0how terrible the experience ultimately was. But I did it anyway, because he was my fuckin' bro. Also worth mentioning, this wasn't like a, "Hey, you got some time to help me with this?" This was an investment. This took us upwards of 4 hours.

 

[-Samurai-]

The amount of gear I gave away, free rushes and grushes I did, and the amount of times I helped people getting tged and nked by other people in Diablo II speaks for itself.

You want eth p-botd? Here, take it. Full Tals? All yours. Spirit on n-l? Go for it.

I was way too fucking nice.

 

[shadyh8er]

I've had something nice done to me. A guy let me win my Demotion Risk in Tekken 6.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I just go out of my way to be friendly to people in MMOs, especially players who seem new. It's been a while since I played one, so I don't remember many specific examples, though.

I do remember an instance in WoW, escorting a trio of players half my level through Deadmines, so they could complete their quests at the appropriate level, but it wasn't really out of my way. Besides, I'd completed all my Deadmines material when I was overleveled enough that the quests were grayed out; it felt good helping people who would get more reward and some decent loot out of it.

 

[Moriim]

Spent 1.5 hours teaching a DK how to tank back in the 3.2 patch of WoW. I was pugging the Trial of the Champion 5 man through trade chat(Pre-LFG tool) and happened to pick him up as DPS. Throughout the course of the five man he mentions several times that he wishes he knew how to tank so he'd get groups faster.

After the dungeon I asked him if he wanted me to give him a few pointers, to which he responds yes and I spend the next 90 minutes going over specs, rotations, and stat priorities of "How to not be one of those dumbass Death Knight tanks." I bummed him a couple of Bind on Equip items I had been trying to sell, and went dps on my warlock alt and did a few dungeons with him. Once he got the hang of I got him an invite to join my guild and after a week or so he was geared enough to raid with us.

We became friends and did dungeons together all the time, and he actually went on to be one of the best DK tanks on the server (granted it's a RP server and that's not the most prestigious award ever) and by far the best DK dps. He stayed with the guild after I quit to play with family, but we still did dungeons and our two guilds actually had an alliance for 25 man ICC.

Tis a shame I'm completely sick of the game now, he was fun to hang out with in vent and pvp with.