Weirdest way of saving your character.

[Longstreet]

Yes i know, strangely formatted title, but couldn't think of anything else.

Anyway, a few days a go i saw a thread about the most idiotic/strangest/weirdest deaths of your gaming character. This made me think about the ways i sometimes actually saved my character from certain death.

So i was playing FarCry 3 and was flying around in a hang glider. This was all fun until i accidentally pressed the exit button lets say a few kilometers above ground.

So my character jump out without a second thought and starts falling.

First though; *aah crap, now i can start waaay back at a save house*

Second thought; *Hmmm wonder if i can fast travel*

So i open the map in mid air, select a town close to my destination. Turns out you CAN fast travel, and end up save and sound where you want to go, while falling from a hang glider.

So escapees, what is the most idiotic/strangest/weirdest/funniest/whatever other way of saving your character from certain death?

 

[Marc Wyzomirski]

That reminds me of the logout save you could do in Minecraft (before they patched it). If you logged off during a huge fall, just before you land, logging back in will restart your momentum and you will land safe and sound.

 

[OneCatch]

In Far Cry 3 I saved myself once by deliberately getting attacked by some animal or another. Horribly fracas between animals, enemy and me. Low health, grenade at my foot. Have a shotgun, but let the animal charge me (think it was a dog or one of the big cats), it starts the QTE, which means I don't take grenade damage, I finish the QTE then run like hell.
I tried to repeat it but was never able to...


In XCom-EU I once saved a character by launching a rocket straight into them.
They were surrounded by Chrysalids that had taken some hits, were about to eat him, and my only team member with a turn left was a heavy. The rocket killed the chrysalids but left my soldier with 1 health thanks to the armour they were wearing.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I blind-fired my Longshot point blank at General Raam on Insanity. When the screen flashed I thought I'd died yet again, until the animation continued and he hit the ground.

There was also the time I managed to pull off a super move with Chun-Li on SF4 inbetween kicks on Guile's two-hit low heavy kick. To this day I have no idea how, or why, I did it but it worked.

Oh yeah, and I was at the airforce base in Broken Steel and getting swarmed by Combine soldiers... so I released the Deathclaw.

 

[Exius Xavarus]

Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall

I was perched atop the statue of Empress Jessamine near the end of the dlc, sniping at Overseers. One of them had seen me and fired a gun, which sent me off the edge and falling to my death.

Fortunately for me, a dude just happened to be right below me. The Drop Assassination prompt came up and I took it. Fell from at least 300 feet up and still survived because I Drop Assassinated the poor sap below me.

Added bonus? That just happened to be the requirements for a trophy. So I guess I was having a good day, that day.

 

[lRookiel]

Yesterday on Dark souls I went through the floor after sliding down a ladder. Alt F4 saved my ass as it spawned me at the top of the ladder again :3

 

[The Wykydtron]

Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall

I was perched atop the statue of Empress Jessamine near the end of the dlc, sniping at Overseers. One of them had seen me and fired a gun, which sent me off the edge and falling to my death.

Fortunately for me, a dude just happened to be right below me. The Drop Assassination prompt came up and I took it. Fell from at least 300 feet up and still survived because I Drop Assassinated the poor sap below me.

Added bonus? That just happened to be the requirements for a trophy. So I guess I was having a good day, that day.

Would you recommend the Knife of Dunwall DLC to someone who at least kind of liked the game? I hear it's pretty good but I was not that into Dishonoured for some reason. The fact that I am morally bound to never kill an innocent person and I count the bog standard City Watch as relatively innocent yet stealth attacks are limited to chokeholds and sleep darts made it annoying :/

I just let out all that pent up aggression on those assassin guys later on.

People say The Last of Us was gaming's first 3rd Person Strangler, pacifist Dishonoured was gaming's first 1st Person Strangler.

OT: I saved myself the other day by running back into a fight on 300HP as Hecarim in League. I was getting chased by 3 guys but my friendly Vayne was coming to bail me, my heal just comes back up so I just activate it and man mode back onto them. Fun fact: true damage reverse chunks a friendly Pony's health back up :3

 

[The Wykydtron]

Yesterday on Dark souls I went through the floor after sliding down a ladder. Alt F4 saved my ass as it spawned me at the top of the ladder again :3

"I am the best Dark Souls player. I alt-F4 to stop myself from dying lol!"

Have you finally noticed how shocking the keyboard controls are? Kills Quelaag at level 10ish with a naked man armed with a wooden club then practically dies to a ladder. Not to mention the time when I somehow drunkenly meandered off the cliff in Firelink because the movement controls suck.

Srsly invest in a 360 controller scrub. It's the only way to defeat the boss known as Bad PC Port.

 

[omegaweopon]

Am I the gonna have to be the first one to point out the biggest odd save in gaming? No matter how high you fall. No matter where you jump from. No matter how fast you were going. All you have to do in Mario 64, is ground pound right before you hit the floor.

Captcha: face the music. You've displayed that the last 7 times I've posted. Is one of my previous decisions going to come back and bite me in the ass?

 

[Evonisia]

I was on a mission of Halo 3, a Brute with a rather large, mean looking rocket launcher charged at me. I deployed a bubble shield which took the blast from the rocket launcher and the Brute was close enough to have died from the splash damage

 

[Exius Xavarus]

Would you recommend the Knife of Dunwall DLC to someone who at least kind of liked the game? I hear it's pretty good but I was not that into Dishonoured for some reason. The fact that I am morally bound to never kill an innocent person and I count the bog standard City Watch as relatively innocent yet stealth attacks are limited to chokeholds and sleep darts made it annoying :/

I just let out all that pent up aggression on those assassin guys later on.

I heartily enjoyed it. The missions are about as large as the main game missions and there are three of them. Functionally, I prefer Corvo over Daud. Daud's Blink is interesting, but it's harder for me to use than Corvo's. There's plenty of lore to find and the areas have lots to explore and see. I got about 10 or so hours out of just one run, and I did it three times. Personally, I think it's worth it if you enjoyed Dishonored.

 

[Evonisia]

Would you recommend the Knife of Dunwall DLC to someone who at least kind of liked the game? I hear it's pretty good but I was not that into Dishonoured for some reason. The fact that I am morally bound to never kill an innocent person and I count the bog standard City Watch as relatively innocent yet stealth attacks are limited to chokeholds and sleep darts made it annoying :/

I just let out all that pent up aggression on those assassin guys later on.

I heartily enjoyed it. The missions are about as large as the main game missions and there are three of them. Functionally, I prefer Corvo over Daud. Daud's Blink is interesting, but it's harder for me to use than Corvo's. There's plenty of lore to find and the areas have lots to explore and see. I got about 10 or so hours out of just one run, and I did it three times. Personally, I think it's worth it if you enjoyed Dishonored.

Now I'm interested in this DLC

 

[lRookiel]

Yesterday on Dark souls I went through the floor after sliding down a ladder. Alt F4 saved my ass as it spawned me at the top of the ladder again :3

"I am the best Dark Souls player. I alt-F4 to stop myself from dying lol!"

Have you finally noticed how shocking the keyboard controls are? Kills Quelaag at level 10ish with a naked man armed with a wooden club then practically dies to a ladder. Not to mention the time when I somehow drunkenly meandered off the cliff in Firelink because the movement controls suck.

Srsly invest in a 360 controller scrub. It's the only way to defeat the boss known as Bad PC Port.

I don't think you understood my post Dan, I nearly died from falling through the floor, not because of K+M control schemes you derp XD

Also, you have yet to complete dark souls so yeah "Waaaaah fps drops waaaah" is no excuse this time. So man up and beat the game with keyboard and mouse like I have several times :3

 

[doomed89]

The only example of I can think has to do with one of those free to play games gunz is the name. Anyways it was a two on two match and we split up and were fighting one on one and I was near death, so what do I do, I run towards the other enemy and kill them and hide and heal while my teamate fights my former opponent lol.

Oh I just remembered there was one in MAG too it was an assault on a bunker and everything was chaotic I had a stealth loadout with all the stealth stuff anyways I was being shot badly and we obviously lost the fight, I layed down (there was a bit of grass) and things were so chaotic the guy shooting at me didn't realize he didn't kill me, and I didn't show up on the mini map because of my stealth items, anyways I healed there and pretty much waited for the next spawn and everyone to run away, I'm not sure what I did after that but it was awesome.

 

[FalloutJack]

FALLOUT 3...

The Lone Wanderer stepped back to allow the sheriff to do his duty. He'd informed Simms about Mr. Burke's little arrangement involving this town and the bomb going off in it, and then allowed justice to take its course. Lucas Simms told the white-suited man off, a dressing down he wouldn't soon forget. So not soon, in fact, that as soon as the sheriff turned his back, there was a quick motion from the suit. Even before the glint of the gun caught anybody's eye, the kid drew his laser pistol and fired swiftly at Mr. Burke's head. The silenced pistol dropped from his disintegrating hands and naught was left of the shifty man but his stupid hat.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I know how to build a legend.

 

[Altorin]

I blind-fired my Longshot point blank at General Raam on Insanity. When the screen flashed I thought I'd died yet again, until the animation continued and he hit the ground.

There was also the time I managed to pull off a super move with Chun-Li on SF4 inbetween kicks on Guile's two-hit low heavy kick. To this day I have no idea how, or why, I did it but it worked.

Oh yeah, and I was at the airforce base in Broken Steel and getting swarmed by Combine soldiers... so I released the Deathclaw.

My friend while playing SF2HDremix, being in general a complete noob at the game, playing as Guile routinely launches flash kicks while maintaining forward moving asskickness. I'm not sure how he does it, because for me, Guile's slow and annoying. He makes him dance though.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Resident Evil 5

Remember that mini-boss in the beginning, that big bad boy with the ax?
Okay, so I was fighting him and his small swarm of villagers, right? I killed one of the villagers and they dropped some money, so I go over to pick it up. Here's the thing, big bad ax-man swung horizontally so when I bent down to pick up the cash, the ax swung right over me. I had no idea he was behind me and I didn't even know what happened until my friend I was playing co-op with started laughing hysterically.

Picking up a penny probably saved me from being cut in half.

 

[Innegativeion]

with keyboard and mouse

Why in god's name would subject yourself to that kind of outlandish torment?

Controlling Dark Souls that way is like playing Kid Icarus: Uprising on a carriage drawn by a drunken horse going over cobblestone.

 

[lRookiel]

with keyboard and mouse

Why in god's name would subject yourself to that kind of outlandish torment?

Controlling Dark Souls that way is like playing Kid Icarus: Uprising on a carriage drawn by a drunken horse going over cobblestone.

I literally have NO idea why people struggle with K+M, seriously I've played over 400 hours with no problems. I played about 300 hours without hearing of DSMFix and only applied it a couple weeks ago. I must just be that good at dark souls :3

 

[Innegativeion]

with keyboard and mouse

Why in god's name would subject yourself to that kind of outlandish torment?

Controlling Dark Souls that way is like playing Kid Icarus: Uprising on a carriage drawn by a drunken horse going over cobblestone.

I literally have NO idea why people struggle with K+M, seriously I've played over 400 hours with no problems. :3

Probably because it's like the aforementioned metaphor simile.

I played about 300 hours without hearing of DSMFix and only applied it a couple weeks ago. I must just be that good at dark souls

For which I conjure another metaphor from my magical metaphor hat which is, itself, a metaphor;

I wouldn't say riding a motorcycle with a helmet full of bees is necessarily an indication of one's motocross prowess.