Share some of your Badass multiplayer moments (MMO, RTS, FPS, whatever you want)

[The White Hunter]

So I just ran the duty roulette on FFXIV: A Realm Reborn as I am want to do when wasting time solo or levelling up.

I'm put into Copperbell Mines, the third dungeon of the main story and the first one that requires some vague level of thought and co-ordination. I'm paired with a noob Pugilist, a noob Gladiator and a noob Conjurer.

Now some backgroung, baring in mind I am by no means an expert; I play a high level Black Mage and am levelling a Bard to 50, entered this roulette as said Bard at 38, I've also tanked my way up to 30 using nothing but instances, and have a seperate character at 35 as a Scholar (healer).

Now by the third dungeon I expect certain things to start cropping up, and do kind of expect people to understand their class, if not the systems in more depth.

The tank used very poor AOE Enmity generation in Flash as his opener, and then simply could not keep aggro, despite the Pugilist taking my advice to give him 10 seconds to secure it on the mob. I didn't get mad, gave him a couple of pointers; open with shield lob, fire off a flash, savage blade each mob at least once then rotate and respond. He didn't get it, maybe he didn't speak english, whatever. The Pugilist got really angry about all this and kinda lost his cool, and the Conjurer kept spamming Medica (Healing AoE) over the tiniest loss of HP in the tank and as a result kept pulling Hate from the tank.

Somehow I managed to help them through the sub-boss, which to be honest is the first vaguely technical fight in the game and it requires sensible positioning, restrained healing, and well co-ordinated damage dealing. The tank did get blown up by a Bomb, but hey that happens to us all, I've been there and I'm sure most tanks have, sometimes a blip in your ping will cause it and sometimes you just don't move fast enough. No big.

Later on we wipe to a easy mob by the tank not managing his Enmity, the healer spamming then, as she caught hate, kiting everything backwards down a path we didn't clear and pulling a good 6 extra enemies. Pugilist says mean things, tank rages and quits.

No matter, I say to myself, dusting myself off and pottering up to the location of the recent failure. I instructed the Pugilist to follow my mark, the Conjurer to focus on single target heals when I drop below 50% and onwards I go; to off-tank as a squishy Bard. The others follow my lead sublimely and we make it through with little trouble.

When we reach the boss I pull it and keep it the entire fight, self healing as needed, I order the others to ignore all adds and for the Puglist to Limit Break as the boss dips below 20% in order to burn it before the adds turn on us from their weird mining thing, he does so well.

I bid them a job well done and thank them for their co-operation, leave and receive both player commendations and many thanks.

Not the greatest of Badass moments, but a rather pleasing turn around of events if I say so myself.

TL;DR: What are your achievements of badassery in multiplayer scenarios of late?

 

[Barbas]

Well, I was doing pretty well in an online game of L4D2 once...if I recall correctly, it was on the Dead Center campaign and I decided to take the military sniper for a change:

Spoiler

It turned out that it was pretty good for taking out tanks on Advanced difficulty, if I could get a tight enough cluster of shots into their tiny face. I think about one magazine, plus a molotov and accurate fire from the rest of the team, felled every tank before they managed to reach us. Come to think of it, I don't recall seeing people getting that much better over the course of a single campaign of L4D2 before. Sure, it was an official map so they were probably familiar with it already, but still, friendly fire was at an all-time low...even against Rochelle!

During the finale, we had two people run upstairs to grab gas cans from the upper floors of the shopping mall and throw them down over the railings to us. I was down on the ground with the other teammate, filling the car. My aim was getting pretty good by the end; I knew where everybody was and could pick off anything before it hit the gas carriers. One managed to get pounced by a zombie on the top floor, but I domed that sumbitch. Right at the end, the two people upstairs employed their amazing parkour skills and knowledge of shortcuts to hop down from the top floor in less than five seconds. Quick, clean, business got done.

I remember joining another campaign with some fairly troubled newbies to the game...what was it, Dark Carnival? Must've been the finale...I remember screaming and friendly fire...lots and lots of friendly fire. There was no glory that time, only death. Still, we didn't leave a man behind...we left two!

 

[The White Hunter]

I remember playing Left 4 Dead 2 a few years ago with 3 other players on Swamp Fever (all online, didn't know em) and it was a pretty good run, but one of the other players wrecked the finale by failing to hold one of the points and we were overwhelmed quickly, 3 were downed, I was up, Tank was around and so were infected, rescue had arrived and I was close to death, I was ready to just die and try again, but instead, I took Pain Pills and got to work. I closed off one of the spawn points with a molotov, distracted the infected with a bomb and made a beeline for the others trapped in the house, I got 2 up before the tank found us and I went to revive the other while the other 2 downed the tank, we ran to the boat and the 3 other guys got on fine but I messed up and a tank caught up to me and punched me...right onto the rescue vehicle and we won the campaign.

I also have some good Realm Reborn stories, but I have done many dungeons where no one dies once and when it comes down to it, I can heal very competently and react well to changing situations.

I will say you're easily one of the best Healer's I've ran with, maybe because you don't spaz out the moment anyone gets hurt and hammer Medica...

 

[Aeshi]

Beating Wave 20 of the Bloodied Colosseum in Dawn of War II: Retribution Last Stand mode.

For those who haven't played it, this wave basically consists of:

- A powerful Chaos Lord who can 2-shot pretty much all but the toughest heroes if he gets close enough.

- Doppelgangers of your entire team, complete with all your abilities and the ability to revive each other.

- 2-3 Squads of teleporting, fairly powerful Daemon swordsmen.

- And possibly the mini-bosses of the previous 3 waves (if the Doppelgangers manage to revive them, which they probably will), who are reasonably formidable fighters in their own right.

Oh, and did I mention that at the start of the wave you're each teleported to a different part of the (admittedly not that big) map?


In Tribes: Ascend I also once managed to kill a light-class who was going at nearly 100mph with a Mortar shot, and it was very nearly a direct hit too!

 

[Erttheking]

It's a minor moment in a game we were losing and indeed still lost, but in League of Legends me and an IRL friend were running like hell from the enemy, my friend was a squishy mage low on health when Caitlyn used her lock on headshot move on her. I have fond memories of how I took the bullet, then stunned Ziggs to buy my friend time to escape. I died too but...eh, we weren't going to win anyway. And I now have a fond memory.

 

[The White Hunter]

I remember playing Left 4 Dead 2 a few years ago with 3 other players on Swamp Fever (all online, didn't know em) and it was a pretty good run, but one of the other players wrecked the finale by failing to hold one of the points and we were overwhelmed quickly, 3 were downed, I was up, Tank was around and so were infected, rescue had arrived and I was close to death, I was ready to just die and try again, but instead, I took Pain Pills and got to work. I closed off one of the spawn points with a molotov, distracted the infected with a bomb and made a beeline for the others trapped in the house, I got 2 up before the tank found us and I went to revive the other while the other 2 downed the tank, we ran to the boat and the 3 other guys got on fine but I messed up and a tank caught up to me and punched me...right onto the rescue vehicle and we won the campaign.

I also have some good Realm Reborn stories, but I have done many dungeons where no one dies once and when it comes down to it, I can heal very competently and react well to changing situations.

I will say you're easily one of the best Healer's I've ran with, maybe because you don't spaz out the moment anyone gets hurt and hammer Medica...

I used to overheal, but when I learned it attracts aggro I stopped and only healed when necessary, saves MP and makes thing easier, I eased into the healing role quite quick actually, its a fun role. Once I get a few cross class abilities, I will be more effective (regen was honestly the biggest help in ages, makes my job so much easier when it in a big fight)

Medica wasn't all that useful to be honest, not a big AOE and most of our dungeon crawls have everyone away from each other.

Ah yes the tradition DF randoms positioning strategy "spread out everywhere so neither heal nor song can reach you".

Very sound stratagem.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

My two favorite moments both come from Modern Warfare 2.

The first time was in Wasteland. Playing as a sniper in a ghillie suit. I took a shot at two guys and killed one but missed the other. He came running at me and I ran because I had to reload and he had an assault rifle. I turned a corner and laid down in the grass. I had cold blooded pro, but I still expected him to find me. He turned the corner a second later and froze, then slowly started walking through the grass. He literally passed within inches of my character and didn't see me. So I stood up and stabbed him in the back.

The other time, I called in a care package. It was just a sentry gun, nothing good, so I left it. And then I thought, "Hey, I have some C4." So I through the C4 near the crate and then ran upstairs. Less than ten seconds later this guy came running into the courtyard. He slowly looked around because he knew it was a trap, but he didn't see me. He ran up the crate and waited for a bit, and when nothing happened, he started to steal my crate. I pushed the button. I wish I could have heard what he said when his character went flying.

 

[LaughingAtlas]

I was playing Dark Souls and felt like sitting around doing nothing until asked, so I dropped a summon sign in Anor Londo. Long story short, my summoner was either a wimp or someone tired of dying over and over because they opted to let me handle both the Titanite Demon upstairs and Ornstein+Smough almost entirely by myself. And I fucking won both times! (Artorias's shield and the summoner was using their estus flasks when I lost health, before you ask) Praise the sun and all that!

Less gloriously, in Left 4 Dead 2, it was escape/finale time, two of my team were on the escape vehicle, one fell to the obligatory last-minute tank. The tank had taken some damage already, but was still a long way from keeling over. I ran back to save the teammate one of the safe ones was screaming to abandon (This person had shown up to this point that they didn't really get the spirit of the game so much as it's title, I think) when the tank rushed in to make my acquaintance. I don't think I was ever more than a few meters away from him, but I danced around as he swung very very close to my head while firing into his face. The teammate I was trying to save expired while I was doing this, but as neither of my 'safe' teammates thought to come out and help, I took down a tank pretty much alone!

...Just realized both of my multiplayer moments are of my co-op allies being less than stellar while I solo things... Off to Singleplayer Town for a bit!

 

[Strazdas]

Not sure if you count it as badass, but it certainly is multiplayer.

Now, i play little multiplayer, and even then im not usually a badass. In Eve Online im a trader/industrialist. In Tibia i was more of a guy doing my own thing and dieing from PKs (which i later would ban since i was admin, and random PK was against rules). Most other MMOs were either boring or i dont remmeber much. But then we go to...

World of tanks.

The game was in Mines, the tank was T20. being a medium i used the rush to the hill tactic and succeeded in being faster than the enemy team rushers. this gave me an advantage of being able to spot enemy hiding spots so my teammates could kill them easier, however i also ahd to defend the position because enemy may want to take over and do the same for us. after killing 2 enemy players defending the hill i went to do the spotting of their snipers (need to spot to be visible on map, and i was in right position to see it). however my teammates didnt prove much use other than cannon fodder and soon i was left alone against 7 enemies (the matches are 15 vs 15, so not counting those 2 i killed defending, my team managed to kill 6 tanks). Usually this of course spells doom, because 1 vs 7 does not work in World of tanks. however the enemy team wasnt very bright and they split up enough to be picked on. two of them went for our teams flag, which was clearly visible from the hill, so i killed them by shooting at their back. another one then went rushing in trying to get me off the hill, but i have defended. then i got lucky and bounced a shell from a Tiger II. however that Tiger was wounded and me having much higher reload speed than him meant i killed him before he loaded a second shell. 3 enemies remained. these 3 were smarter and bunched together, however at this point the match timer was closing to an end and match needed to end one way or another. so i drove down the hill luckily not gettig detracked due to that and managed to catch them from the side. they shot well but i shot better and used their teammate bodies as chest high walls (chest high walls for tanks, fun). eventually i killed 9 people in that match, 7 of which i did alone being the last person alive.
this is still my best battle to date.

I remember playing Left 4 Dead 2 a few years ago with 3 other players on Swamp Fever (all online, didn't know em) and it was a pretty good run, but one of the other players wrecked the finale by failing to hold one of the points and we were overwhelmed quickly, 3 were downed, I was up, Tank was around and so were infected, rescue had arrived and I was close to death, I was ready to just die and try again, but instead, I took Pain Pills and got to work. I closed off one of the spawn points with a molotov, distracted the infected with a bomb and made a beeline for the others trapped in the house, I got 2 up before the tank found us and I went to revive the other while the other 2 downed the tank, we ran to the boat and the 3 other guys got on fine but I messed up and a tank caught up to me and punched me...right onto the rescue vehicle and we won the campaign.

I also have some good Realm Reborn stories, but I have done many dungeons where no one dies once and when it comes down to it, I can heal very competently and react well to changing situations.

swamp fever finale has defence points? i know 1 but for the rest we just ran around like chicken till we killed everyone. and we played on hard (not the hardest, jsut hard) so we had 2 tanks at once which wasnt fun.

as far as punching tanks, you know that map on the amusement park railroad. tank punched me into the savehouse there once. i was like whooops and im in safehouse and then started shouting for the rest of the team to actually come into safehouse and finish the map (rushing in there isnt as easy as it looks when tank is coming down the tracks right in front of you).

 

[Riddle78]

Today,I played WATCH_DOGS. Today,I did Trailing. Today,I was a ghost. In Trailing,you have to keep direct line of sight on your target. You CAN do this with a camera,but I tend to have bad luck with camera hopping. So,I followed them directly. Started with a police chase,and the police are ALSO not allowed to spot you. The host shook them quickly,and I followed them. Stole an SUV,and drove slowly. Behaving like a civilian. For some reason,they stopped every now and then. Suits me. By the end of it all,they were never the wiser while I observed them.

 

[Brian Tams]

There was no glory that time, only death. Still, we didn't leave a man behind...we left two!

You have no idea how incredibly disappointed I am that the punch-line of that joke wasn't "We didn't leave a man behind... but we left Rochelle".
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OT: Anyways, I was visiting my Dad for father's day, and he's a huge halo fan, so we hunkered down to play some Halo 4: Swat.

Killed 3 of the enemy at once, and then the respawn system went haywire: they started respawning right in my face. I ended getting 12 kills in the space of like 3 minutes, it was ridiculous.

 

[Drizzitdude]

Well in dragons dogma I remember my first encounter with an elite ogre had me pulling off the most clutch time blocks in order to stop his insanity. At the end I was clinging on to his back, he jumped into the air in an attempt to slam be down into the ground, and while in the air I jumped off and did a downwards falling attack right on to his head to finish him.

Then you have the regular battlefield/planetside moments I guess, being able to kill 30 something people in one life as an infantry is pretty damn good and you feel like a badass afterwords.

Any moment in devil may cry is a bad ass moment.

 

[sovietmisaki]

I have several from World of Tanks, although I'll give one since I had many of such awesome moments. One match, I was driving my Tiger II on Westfield. I was getting hammered while doing a decent amount of damage, so after a few minutes, most both our teams where nearly gone, so I decided to retreat behind the church in the town on the hill. So it happens, a fellow Tiger II driver had also managed to survive the onslaught, and there where only 2 enemy tank destroyers left, although we were the only 2 tier 2 tanks left in the game who could still amount to much since the rest of my team was probably racing to the cap, and we where the only ones who where in a decent position to kill the enemy tank destroyers. So there I was, waiting for either the SU-100, or the ISU-152 to get impatient, and try to make a run for it or something. Then the other guy in the other Tiger II who was also hiding behind the church with me, decided to going double teaming the tank destroyers. So I went along, deciding that even if one of us gets wrecked, the other will have enough time to kill the other TD before their gun reloads. It just so happens that he managed to kill the ISU-152, and I finished off the SU-100. At that point of the game, all of us in that area could've easily been finished off in one shot from each other.

I remember this one particular match in War Thunder where I was flying my British planes, and I had to fight tooth and nail to secure a very narrow victory on a cap map, and in the final stretch, I managed to down 3 enemy planes that where trying to cap the airfields before being shot down in my last remaining fighter, via shooting one, ramming the next one and managing to survive, and then shooting down another one, in a straight line. my team was so close to defeat that by the time we actually managed to win, you couldn't even see the countdown timer stripes, and I had managed to carry my team enough to bring down the enemy's timer from maybe 1/3 of the total length.

Just goes to show that in some situations, defeat only comes if you let it.

 

[Guffe]

Back in the good old Halo2 days me and 7 friends had a H2 tournament.
Two Xboxes, 8 controllers, 2 TVs and 2 Sofas, TVs back to back.
Tournament/Battle modes: 4v4, 2v2, and 1v1.

So in 1v1 me and the other pal who owned the Halo games were (of course) in the final.
It was 5 lives and surviver wins, so I have 3 lives left and he has one, small map, only handguns/weakweapons except for one beamsword. So he finds the beamsword in some strange tower somewhere (I didn't even know it excisted on the map). Well you can guess my surprise when he charges up on me with a shining sword and all I have is a smg and magnum dual wield.

So I am 2-1 up in lives and find some grenades, again, only a magnum gun as a random starter, I run along and suddenly I see him falling down from above towards me, I make a 90degree turn and look up (fast motion) and out of reflex press the grenade button only to stuck him with a plasma not even a second before he charges into me with the beamsword.

So before it was cool "death from the grave" and victory xD

 

[Shinkicker444]

If MMO's count...

World of Warcraft, Mimron Hard Mode in Ulduar any one who did that would know the pain of that fight, back when it was current. First time we killed him, we were running right on the edge of the DPS timer. Both the Torso and Base were killed right as the enrage timer pops, the room explodes in fire and all but one are killed. All that is left is the Head at a hundred thousand HP the tank and a sea of fire...

Aerial Command Unit Plasma Ball was reflected by xxxxxx.
Aerial Command Unit Plasma Ball hits Aerial Command Unit for 151490
Aerial Command Unit Plasma Ball hits xxxxxx for 98850 (31046 Resisted)
Aerial Command Unit died.
xxxxxx died.

Up pops the loot chest, and out go the nerdgasms. T'was an absolutely epic moment.

That combatlog snippet is still our tanks signature on our forums.

 

[A-D.]

Hrm, most recent would be Dark Souls 2. Throne of Want, playing one of my builds (BKH/Pyro). I get summoned and off we go, the Host had also summoned another phantom, a sunbro, i was just white-phantoming this since i didnt need the Sunbro Rewards and didnt feel like grinding 30 summon-wins out. Anyhow, we run down, fog-door, in we go. Throne Duo, okay so far, so good. Sunbro starts spell-slinging and i start firestorming the Duo, Watcher de-aggro's from host who had been kiting them and goes after the sunbro, long story short, he died fairly quickly. Leaving me and the host, with the host being smart and keeping his distance. I keep hacking away at em with my halberd or pyromancy, whichever was more useful at the time, one went down and then i went after the other. I learned that they can revive each other in this fight, Watcher died first, Defender revives him, Defender goes down, Watcher revives him. So i just use chaos storm twice, get both down to 1/4th of health and start going apeshit on them. Watcher down, 10 seconds later the Defender is down as well. Fight over.

And in comes Nashandra, with me low on pyromancy and just me and the host left. "Well here goes nothing" i thought and threw my last chaos storm at her, followed by a poke of my halberd, kiting her around a bit and destroying her curse orbs to give me some room. Then she lasers me, hits full on because i failed to dodge in time (too close) and am left with 1% or 2% of health, my healthbar was literally gone but i was still alive, Nashandra meanwhile was at 1/4th of health. I figure i have nothing to lose and may as well get her down enough for the host to finish off if i die. Couple hits later she's dead, im alive without having healed once in either fight.

The host was simply doing the prostration gesture over and over until i was sent back to my own world after that.

 

[Dark Knifer]

I was playing halo 3 with my mate. It was 4v4 but our ttwo team members kept betraying us so we booted them.

And then proceeded to thrash the other team. I had 34 kills in a 50 kill match. It was excellent.