Your biggest overkill

[honestdiscussioner]

Probably on Duke Nukem 3-D. I used the cheat codes to keep replenishing my pipe bombs on the first level. I laid pipe-bombs nearly everywhere I could, and blew up everyone in the level at once . . at least I think that's how many, this was way back in the 90's.

Another possibility would be in original starcraft. I'd love to get a dark archon to mind control an scv and then I'd have two armies. So I'd mine a bunch of resources and build a full 24 fully upgraded battlecruisers and 24 fully upgraded carriers and sent them all to wipe out the enemy base. What single opponent could hope to defeat that without copious defenses and a lot of very well placed psi storms?

Edit: Ooo, GTA4. I placed like a dozen sticky grenades on a single vehicle.

 

[Brandon237]

Minor Fallout 3 spoilers ahead.

During a game of Fallout 3, I came across the hotel that marks the beginning of the evil path (where you blow up megaton) and one of the missions there is take care of these ghouls that want admittance. The ghouls counter offer with the idea to leave a door unlocked so they can kill everyone inside. Frankly, I didn't want to be a part of either idea, but I found a third option. There WAS a diplomatic solution, if you can convince those in the hotel to welcome the ghouls into their community. So I worked on it, quite hard. I reloaded saves, I read charisma books in order to convince the harder guests. It took a good hour or two just to get it done, but in the end, the ghouls were welcome and everything was peaceful.

Then, after a week or so had passed, I was listening to my old buddy three dog, who chooses to reprimand me for killing all the humans inside the hotel. Strange, I thought, I'd done the awesome peaceful resolution, but its still playing me the evil one. The game must be bugged (Not a surprise, with that game) but I still stopped by the hotel to see how things were going.

The place was a wreck on the inside, with the bodies of humans everywhere as ghouls walked around. Furious, I found their leader (standing over the body of the previous hotel owner) who told me that they humans had 'annoyed them' and thus, had to be killed.

I had a Fatman on me I was saving for a day like this.

The ghouls didn't enjoy their hotel very much.

Lol, same mission for me.
Except I was a little angrier than that.
So I looked up the game's spawn codes.
And spawned an army of robots, the Mister Gutsy ones. And they didn't like the ghouls very much XD
When I say I spawned an army, I mean that when they started moving the entire compass was just green dots! And you couldn't see land not covered by them. Roy Phillips went down like a little *****!

Probably any time I used the Gauss Rifle on any game ever.

 

[FightintheShade]

I've always liked browsing this forum but haven't felt the need to post until I saw this. There are some amazing stories. Speaking of, how come every story on here seems to be about civ or COD? The best overkills are the ones the game wasn't really expecting.

My favorite is probably that the weapons in FF7 were giving me trouble, so I ground AP until I could mime w-summoned knights of the round with all three party members. I don't quite recall the numbers, but using the max dmg from the wiki that's nearly 800k per turn. For comparison the end boss rocks 80k.

In the same game, my chocobo got so good at racing i could let go of the controller completely and win, since there wasn't a button for normal speed. The buttons were for sprint and slowing down.

In FFX, my blitzball team became so good (after beating the goers in that first game btw) that I literally couldn't be beaten. My Forwards could break/skill around/throw through the entire enemy team and score, and my goalkeeper's stats were so high the probability of scoring was negligible, even in a 1-1.

Maybe I play too much final fantasy...

 

[The Funslinger]

In Alpha Centauri (or Civilization IV for that matter), I pretty much end every game by stockpiling so many planet busters (nukes) that I can wipe out my enemies 2-3 times over. Then I proceed to wipe out my enemies 2-3 times over. It's a lot more satisfying in Alpha Centauri though because you can literally destroy continents with planet busters.

I have Civ IV. Got it for cheap during a Steam deal. Never got into it too much. When does it get interesting as opposed to moving cavemen around and having to be nitpicky with units because only one can build anything good?

OT: Oh, I'm never any good in these thread...

I landed a jet fighter on an individual soldier's head in Just Cause 2 while I hookshotted away to freedom.

 

[Jodah]

Civilization 5. I was playing on the lowest difficulty (for the lulz). The other civs had Swordsmen and Knights. I had tanks and nukes...bad things happened.

 

[Lord Kloo]

On Spore, the original game I was in the final space stage of the game, playing as a militaristic race I decided to make war on everyone with lasers, proton missiles and phasers.. I then discovered the Grox, another military based race.. they f***ed up my spacecraft and my colonies so I went nuts and committed my vast fortunes to investing in planet busting weaponry and committed every major grox planet to exterminatus.. Twas hard to actually get the money but it was worth it to see the galaxy's greatest enemy turned to planetary dust..

In the same game I put 4 defensive satellites onto one planet because it keep getting attacked by every enemy that exists, note that 1 of these is quite enough to take out any invading forces, 4 just obliterated the opposition before I had a chance to join in..

Also Rome Total War: I was besieging Rome itself as the Greeks, and as Greeks seriously suck at attacking (your main unit the phalanx has some serious problems trying to fight in cities) I was waiting for the Romans to come and attack me, finally they did and I destroyed their army in the field only their general escaped with a few remanents of his army back to Rome, I then went back to siege it almost instantly when my catapults arrived, I had all switch to flaming rocks and we burned down a good chuck of their walls as well as destroying several city blocks.. collateral damage..

 

[mikeybuthge]

i got a 38 killstreak in Halo Reach on SWAT, everyone was so proud, alas, twas a fluke and the next match i was 5-21

 

[Elemental]

Just today I was playing Battlefield 3 when this guy was shooting me wht an SMG in a hallway...
I shot a missile at him...

 

[Therumancer]

The title pretty much says it all, what is the biggest overkill you've ever done?

Now, some you who have Android phones(or maybe even iPhones, not sure if it is available on them) may know of a game called Totemo. It's a pretty fun game, the objective of which is to save these little spirit blobs by highlighting 2, 3 or 4, depending on the level, of the blobs in a row vertically or horizontally. So I got to a level which I just couldn't beat no matter how hard I tried. Granted, I'm not too good at puzzle games, but it is still annoying. So instead of asking for help or looking for a solution, I decided to make a program in Java which would try every possible combination of moves and output the winning move combination. By my estimates, I am about 25% done. And since I'm guessing I'd have to have it running for at least a day, I consider this my biggest recent overkill.

Hmmm, well if your looking for huge overkill you might look at some Disgaea videos on Youtube, that game is pretty much based around seeing how ridiculous you can get with overkill in the final equasion.

That said, I personally don't keep track, oddly one thing I like to do in some games is try and do just enough damage to drop my opponent, down to say exactly 0 hit points or whatever. Largely because it shows control and mastery of game mechanics, in comparison working out a way to overkill somethibng is easy.

 

[falcon1985]

Dropped a nuke on a single rifleman in Empire Earth. To be fair, he was pointing that single shot musket at my town hall at the time...

 

[Dr. wonderful]

I once minenuke a Rat in Fallout New vegas.

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

OH NO! Not the amazing pulpul sword! Seripusly what does pul stand for?

Pul is the name of a rune. It's PulPulPul etc. because I inserted several Pul runes. Effects:
Weapons: +75% Damage To Demons, +100 Attack Rating Against Demons
Armor: +30% Enhanced Defense
Helms: +30% Enhanced Defense
Shield: +30% Enhanced Defense

 

[MadMechanic]

Ah the FatMan... Fallout3 would be very dull without it...

Ok, this is more of a team effort but -
BFBC2:
Team on Valporismo (is that it? the one with the lighthouse in the day). Anyway, 4 snipers from the Russian team at the 2nd base (the hill with all the huts) are pinning the entire team. The American advance has completely stalled.
My squadmates and I all respawn as recon, or assault with C4. We plaster the Blackhawk with C4. Every single stick.
Pilot Blackhawk into Russian base, jump out at last minute and detonate as one.
One big smoking crater, and a lot of kills later...

MW2 -
Panic firing my L86LSW down a corridoor at a guy with an RPG - and finding out that there are 8 more people behind him.

 

[Cooperblack]

Last year i was on a company tour to Cray computers and they showed us around somebody asked "well that's all pretty good but can they play games?"

So 1 minute later i was playing Tetris on a Cray XK6.

 

[LeQuack_Is_Back]

Mine are ship-building based. Got 2 personal favorites.

Escape Velocity- Nova: Took a top-of-the-line ship that you have to steal from the AI. Then I upgraded it with every faction-specific piece of technology in the entire game. Then got plug-ins to add even more upgrades. Then played all the major storylines, and got all the storyline-specific upgrades too, including a beam weapon that bypasses shields. The resulting ship flies circles around interceptors, has more shields and armor than a pair of carriers, and can take on a planetary defense fleet single-handedly (which is 120 ships at least, usually consisting of said carriers).

Warship Gunner 2- There are wave-motion guns as one of the weapon options. They're overkill against everything except bosses, doing massive damage and reaching across most maps. I built a ship where I covered the deck with them. Then I combined it with a system that automatically fires all weapons at all targets they can possibly hit. Better yet, because the guns are affixed to the deck, it will even turn the ship to fire at potential targets. All I have to do is start up the level, and my ship with do a 45-120 degree spin, firing off all the guns in quick succession. Nothing ever survives.

 

[Torrasque]

Starcraft Brood War, I nuked the last drone standing next to the other player's final hatchery, just for spite.
WoW, I used Ravage on this lvl 5 that attacked me accidentally, and killed him with a 17481 overkill.
Halo Reach, target designator on a grunt
MW2: I called in an AC-130 to finish off the last guy in S&D. It took about 30 seconds of shelling to finally get him in his hidey hole ^_^

 

[Suicida1 Midget]

I think that would be when i was playing some horde in gears of war 3, a drunge sneaked up behind me when i was on the cliff on sandbar. Chainsawed it, spartan kicked it, and then the remaining half enemies remaining droped to one. Walked to the blast site for ammo, took a nearby hammerburst and smashed the head off the last downed enemy drone.

or.....

blind firing the MIRV from fallout 3 into the sky and killing somerandom thing.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare. I had 6 rifle shots before my reload, so I put them all in one zombie. One in each arm, one in each leg, one in his chest and the final one in his head.

It was like someone put an explosive inside a bag of blood. Glorious...