Ridiculously unfair stuff in multiplayer

[pure.Wasted]

CoD Killstreaks. They're unfairness incarnate.

Winning? Here, take those toys! You clearly need them!

Losing? Shut up and take it while the big boys are having fun, noob... Here's a speed boost so you get killed more quickly. Stop wasting our time!

Yup, killstreaks. I only played MW2 but they were disgustingly obnoxious.

Wasteland. Pavelow. That is all.

The way to be good at the game at that point is quite literally not to play it. Hide in a house in the corner of the map for two minutes doing jack shit, and that way you don't feed the enemy any kills to unlock further killstreaks. Sound like fun?

 

[FilipJPhry]

Gonna have to go with the Banshee in Halo Reach. It can be countered with a Scorpion or a Falcon, but on the maps where they aren't around that thing can be a real pain in the rear, dive bombing people and fliping around like the pilot has ADHD which makes it impossible to hit with anything other than a SPARTAN laser, and can instakill you with ease. Oh yeah, can the Guass Warthog.

Yes. Fuck guys to take the Banshee at the beginning of every game and proceed to use it for the rest of it. I even see people wait until they respawn so they can get dibs on them. It is one of those very rare instances where I'm tempted to team kill.

Also, this is most likely beaten to death, but the Ghost perk on Black Ops. Also using Lesnar on UFC. You're really just going to keep it on the ground game? Speaking of wrestling, people who use Randy Orton on WWE 12. His Punt finisher is unblockable! Totally unfair.

 

[SuperNova221]

Unfair? Pay to win is the only thing that comes to mind. With most everything else it's usually not unfair, it's usually just people playing the metagame and/or pressing advantages where they can get them, regardless of whether it's considered "cheap" by others. But if the advantage is equally available to everybody to obtain then I see no reason to call it unfair.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Explosives in just about any shooter ever made. Particularly Call of Duty, where rockets kill you if they impact within 30 feet of you. Noob Tubers can go die in a fire as far as I'm concerned.

 

[redisforever]

The flamethrower in Call of Duty: World at War. A guy online was just running around torching everyone on the other team. The one time I ragequit.

 

[DustyDrB]

Favorite weapons:Axetinguisher, Flare Gun, Degreaser

Oooh, we should get along.

Sniper Rifle

Ah...nevermind. >

I do love how I pretty much stopped hearing people call the Pyro a noob class when the Degreaser arrived. I love that weapon. It makes playing the class so technical and satisfying. I always roll Flare Gun + Degreaser + Axetinguisher. Though that does make shotgun-carrying Pyros a big threat.

 

[Rule Britannia]

Ever played CoD? I understand it's difficult to satisfy all of the types of players but in all of the CoD games there's some sort of unbalance present.

I think the perfect CoD would be MW2 with its weapon balance combined with the perk system and everything (including maps) else of Black Ops. In MW2 there were only a couple of guns that were unusable just cause they were shit, in Black Ops there's about 5 guns you can use effectively (not to say you can't do well with the other guns of course) and the rest were crap (example: mini uzi).

 

[Wicky_42]

The USAS 12 w/ Grenade Shells in BF3... In an otherwise fairly well balanced game, it stands out as extremely OP. The Saiga or DAO-12 w/ Grenade Shells is alright, but you won't see it doing *that*.

The last time I recall something in a BF game being that out of whack was in BF: Vietnam (not bad company dlc), when the American support class had both a shoot-from-the-hip M60 and a Bazooka.

That video's in hardcore mode though, right? I mean, it takes like 3 or four hits to kill with frag rounds - I honestly think he would have been killing just as fast/faster with buckshot for the majority of those kills. Though I must admit, the first time I came up against people using frag rounds in Metro I was blown away by how much carnage they seemed to cause - it's hard to judge how much damage is actually being done behind all the screen blur and explosions!

Recently, choppers' TV guided missiles in BF3 have been pissing me off - it seems to have unlimited range and kills armoured vehicles in a single hit. Wut? With all the nerfs recently to AA missiles etc, just seems insanely imba. Oh, and guys using the SMAW anti-tank rocket as their primary weapon in infantry matches is just annoying XD

Other than that, I've only really been playing SCII which is kinda awesomely balanced sooo...

 

[Biodeamon]

No one said this yet? Yay i'll be the first .

WESKER!
WESKER!
WESKER!

Really anyone that uses Wesker in UMVC3 doesn't care for a fair fight . Best tip i have recieved for dealing with wesker is , don't get hit ... EVER .

he's also cheap in multiplayer in his OWN games. all of wesker's outfits in resident evil 5:mercenairies mode have a secret move that nobody else has but wesker. and on top of that his s.t.a.r.s. outfit gives you a hydra and a cannon as starter weapons, one of which i'm pretty sure has infinite ammo. this basically gives the multiplayer to point farmers on a silver platter.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

EA's servers

Seriously every time I've play the ME multiplayer recently I get kicked off the server in the last 30 of the match


AAAHHHHHHHHH!

It's worst when it happends in the last 15 seconds of wave 11 on gold, almost makes me want to scream

Disconnects don't bother me so much because they can't really be helped, it's when some retard leaves the extraction zone in the last 3 seconds of the match.

Also ME3, I hate when you get level 1 soldiers and the like trying to join in matches on gold. I swear I spend more time trying to find a good team than I do playing.

 

[Fumofu]

Say it all with me now!

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR

TF2, 95% ubercharge, A WILD CROCKET APPEARS!

Seriously, I don't know what Valve was thinking with random crits. It really takes a lot of skill out of the game and I feel cheap whenever I get a kill with one.

 

[kTrmnatr]

So just a little topic, ever had any insanely unfair games/sessions/team compositions etc etc over the course of your gaming career?

For me it's got to be the Invasion system in Dark Souls 60% of the time. Basically you use an item and you enter a random person's game world and try to murder the fuck out of him for lolz. You only invade upwards level-wise though so you're always supposed to be roundabout the same level as the guy you're invading

People start to abuse the leveling system by not leveling at all and getting end-game equipment (through glitches, getting gifted it or just beating the bosses) to absolutely destroy the newer players they just get matched with. Basically after just about failing a legit Invasion of mine (at level 6 with base eqiupment, naturally) I was then set upon by this guy with the most obcene set of end-game equipment i have ever seen.

Waved at him then quit to dashboard. Not losing my Humanity over such bullshit, and to be honest killing some random noob and taking their probably only Humanity, gains you fuck all and you've just ruined some guy's day...

Another problem comes in from people summoning other people to help fight you off, that on its own is fine, the host has to do whatever it takes to live because you're just waltzing into his game session and trying to ruin potentially hours of progress. But when are actually people summoning guys in advance to wait for your supposedly "random" invade and then ambushing you it starts to seem a bit broken.



Oh, and the Red Soapstone is a joke, never use it. It's meant to be a fair fight where you put your summons down, the guy takes you up on the challenge and you fight to the death. Instead he summons a fuckton of guys, summons you and they all just spawn kill you.

^^^
Definitely agreed. Furthermore Dark Souls PvP really irritated me for a while because of the Dark Wood Grain Ring. I could not for the life of me figure out how everyone except for me was able to do acrobatic flips while all my guy could muster was a lame roll. I eventually caved into using teh internets to research this source of frustration and learned about the PvP necessity that is the DWGR. I've also since discovered that the Zweihander is ridiculously powerful compared to most of the other weapons for PvP. It has a huge horizontal hitbox, deals a ton of damage, and staggers pretty much anyone not wearing full Havel's.

 

[shrekfan246]

so, for sake of the thread, KoA: Reckoning, playing a walking tank with greatswords/hammers.

Most of the later enemies can either stagger lock you [hit you so you stagger allowing for the other five enemies to do the exact same], or teleport when you get within 10 meters and immediately throw every spell they have at you.

In the same style as this post...

Goddamn blood mages in Dragon Age: Origins. I may just not understand the intricacies of the mage class in that game, but it seems like enemy blood mages are about 50-100% more effective than any mage on my team, all while doing less collateral damage to their allies than I would to mine. I hate fighting blood mages so much. They always seem to manage to root three of the four people in my party, them blow them all up with a Fireball that also knocks them over, finishing with a super-powered Chain Lightning that chains to the entire party because, as previously stated, they were all knocked down by the fireball so they couldn't move away or anything, all while two or three of their buddies and/or a boss monster is wailing on my team too. Oh, and the Fireball puts on a flame damage-over-time effect too.

 

[Risingblade]

EA's servers

Seriously every time I've play the ME multiplayer recently I get kicked off the server in the last 30 of the match


AAAHHHHHHHHH!

It's worst when it happends in the last 15 seconds of wave 11 on gold, almost makes me want to scream

Disconnects don't bother me so much because they can't really be helped, it's when some retard leaves the extraction zone in the last 3 seconds of the match.

Also ME3, I hate when you get level 1 soldiers and the like trying to join in matches on gold. I swear I spend more time trying to find a good team than I do playing.

Thankfully once you hit 20, the extra exp doesn't matter

 

[Mad Sun]

The KV in World of Tanks. When you see one, you know that you are royally screwed. It has the speed of a Soviet tank, the armor of a German tank, and the raw power of a French tank. It can one shot almost any tank below it, and several tanks above it, and the way matchmaking is set up, you'll see one in most games between tier 3 and 7 (it being tier 5). Glad to finally be away from it? That's okay, meet the tier 7 KV-3, an upgrade!

 

[Chairman Miaow]

EA's servers

Seriously every time I've play the ME multiplayer recently I get kicked off the server in the last 30 of the match


AAAHHHHHHHHH!

It's worst when it happends in the last 15 seconds of wave 11 on gold, almost makes me want to scream

Disconnects don't bother me so much because they can't really be helped, it's when some retard leaves the extraction zone in the last 3 seconds of the match.

Also ME3, I hate when you get level 1 soldiers and the like trying to join in matches on gold. I swear I spend more time trying to find a good team than I do playing.

Thankfully once you hit 20, the extra exp doesn't matter

I know, but it still annoys the hell out of me I like to see a nice little full extraction.

 

[Risingblade]

EA's servers

Seriously every time I've play the ME multiplayer recently I get kicked off the server in the last 30 of the match


AAAHHHHHHHHH!

It's worst when it happends in the last 15 seconds of wave 11 on gold, almost makes me want to scream

Disconnects don't bother me so much because they can't really be helped, it's when some retard leaves the extraction zone in the last 3 seconds of the match.

Also ME3, I hate when you get level 1 soldiers and the like trying to join in matches on gold. I swear I spend more time trying to find a good team than I do playing.

Thankfully once you hit 20, the extra exp doesn't matter

I know, but it still annoys the hell out of me I like to see a nice little full extraction.

That or being sole survivor are always nice

 

[JLML]

Perhaps submachineguns in general.

Fast rate of fire and unrealistic spread make them more useful than shotguns a lot of times and have such high power that they make both shotguns and assault rifles redundant.

And let's not mention that games like CoD have like 5 square meters of area and the inaccuracy of SMGs doesn't make a difference.

A lot of spawns. The MW spawn system has been broken for the past 3 games with no fix, in BF2 it is plagued by spawnkilling. But at least you can chose where you spawn.

Funny you mention that about SMGs. Since, you know, I've been playing APB for like, a shitload of time this weekend, coming to the conclusion that it's just stupid. Stupid, because an SMG will beat a shotgun at 1-5 meters. And I'm talking when aimed exactly at each other. And the shotgun is auto-fire. Heck, it's even worse when the targets are moving around, within that 5 meter distance, then the SMG is even more superior to the shotgun. We're talking like, 5-10 bullets from an SMG to kill. Whereas the shotgun can get 3 direct hits without killing. /rant