Fun times in Gaming. Odd crap you've pulled in Multi-player.

[Kevin164]

I love multi-player games for the random quarks between players when they are just thrown into a huge map and it's a free-for all. I'll give you an example I made four X-box Live friends one night playing GTA4. Basically someone was bored and started a pin ball game by bouncing off the side of buildings after being thrown out of helicopter.
I am good pilot with the Helicopter. So I found myself basically taxing these guys over the massive sand box city that is Liberty City, so they could bounce off the walls to certain death, then re-spawning somewhere else.
Before long there was another team trying it's best to shoot me down before I could pick them up. We didn't do a thing to these guys, but because we basically all were laughing our asses off over the headsets they took it upon themselves to kill the fun. Which made it all the more enjoyable.

Oh man, I can hardly wait for Alien Vs Predator so I can make my buddies crap their pants.

Anybody got any good stories of just doing odd stuff in a multi-player that wasn't intended for the game?

[The Dreaming]

I remember one game of Warcraft III in high school... we played 2v2 a lot, always the same teams. Anyway, our rival team was whispering all week about some killer new strategy they had developed, all hush - hush. When it came to our weekly gaming session, we finally saw what we had been dreading...

A wisp rush. In case you don't know, wisps are the Night Elf worker unit, they have no attack, all they can do is detonate to burn some mana.

After we destroyed them, the next day they acted completely incredulous.

"But it was the strategy that defeated Archimonde!"

[Avatar]

Where's Lord Foul? I never get tired of hearing his story.

--A

[SoulBiter]

Everquest 1 - Just after the Kunark expansion

There is this big gorilla the size of king kong that lives on an island near where the newbie area of Kunark is. Before all the expansions it was suicide to try to take him down without a full raid. He was incredibly fast and could outrun j-boots but not so fast as he could catch you right away.

Some friends of mine and I set up a chain of death... We all attacked him at once so we all had some aggro and he would chase us all as long as we stayed within his fairly large aggro range. The hardest part was getting him off the island because you had to swim for the bank. But basically it took 3 groups of us and we just ran together... some were just sacrifices to keep the aggro chain. It took forever to finally get it right and get the Gorilla to the edge of town past the Field of Bone. Once there he started killing all the newbies which aggroed the guards (which we thought were uber), he killed guard after guard and was unstoppable. He also was killing players over and over who couldnt get to the zone wall. In EQ you lost experience points every time you died.. so some of these people were actually deleveling.

Of course several people petitioned and a GM was summoned to the area and he got wasted within seconds. A higher level GM was summoned and he got wasted. After several attempts they finally were able to do something to keep the guards from spawning and the Gorilla after not having agro finally reset to his spawning spot on the Island.

We thought it was great fun until we all found ourselves transported to an area we had never been (you just disappear from where you are and you find yourselv somewhere else) with some GM's who suspended us for a few days and gave us a good talking to and a warning that we would be banned if it happened again. Very funny stuff.

Picture of the big ape for anyone who is interested.
everquest.allakhazam.com/scenery/fieldofbone-tangrin.jpg

[lucimay]

what? you wanna know how many times i've died from ridin outa naxx on my horse instead of my flying mount?

somebody was tellin a story the other night in vent about some group of people having kited some boss to a very populous area but now i can't remember who or what it was. very similar to soulbiter's story.

[The Dreaming]

what? you wanna know how many times i've died from ridin outa naxx on my horse instead of my flying mount?

somebody was tellin a story the other night in vent about some group of people having kited some boss to a very populous area but now i can't remember who or what it was. very similar to soulbiter's story.

Ive seen videos of Lord Kazzak in Stormwind. In wow this stuff is more fun than mean, no death penelty.

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-982380251124231965#

What makes Kazzak especially nasty is that he had an ability where every time he killed someone he would drop a HUGE aoe shadow bolt that would destroy people.

There was also a neat bug early in Wow's history where a certain raid boss (Baron Geddon) Would put a debuff on random players that would make them explode for massive damage after a timer. Well, he used to cast it on pets. What people would do in that situation was usually just dismiss the pet. Well, when you re-summon them, they would still have the debuff on...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq3dbHbHF08

That was the IF auction house, the *only* one at the time.

[Holsety]

I have only tried this twice and never succeeded, but there's this map on WCiii called highperch...

highper.ch/aoh/index.php

A few highlights to try and hook you guys into reading the full thing:

The true anomalies of this map lie in the mountainous plateaus at the 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock positions. Without any Goblin Laboratories on this map and from which no zeppelins to purchase, there is no direct way for land units to ascend these mountains. On the apex of each lies a fountain of health guarded by a green-level swarm of flying harpies.

The first thing people always type when they discover our stronghold atop these mountains is "how'd you get up there?" Without purchasable zeppelins to carry our heroes and workers up the 5 or so levels of elevation depending on which side we approach it from, the answer may not be apparent at first.

[Worm of Despite]

Where's Lord Foul? I never get tired of hearing his story.

--A

Heh, I have several...

For my most recent exploits in Ultima Online as the insane, goat-humping William Smit, you may go here:

Smit's Notes

For your info, Ultima Online is a massively-online role-playing game, where thousands of people play on one world. There's a lot of medieval role-playing going on there, and Smit's one of the most colorful and wacky characters.

But yes, back to goat-humping: right before a talent show I decided to bring in some goats for my act...I wanted something funny planned, but unfortunately I had no idea! So, naturally, Smit decided to just strip naked, rub oil on his body, and mount one of the goats in front of 40-odd people. The panic, outrage, and laughter was hilarious! I was chased, naked off the stage, and one guy said he was crying from laughter!

Another claim to fame: I'm the only person to ever be impeached in a game. Smit, in 2001, once became the Vice Mayor of his hometown, Yew: thing is, I never stopped acting like a fool, so when a trade fair happened in another city, I got myself drunk, danced naked in the road, accused a fortune teller of lying, smacked him over the head with a stool, and when ordered to be arrested, I screamed NOOO and tackled the town's Vice Mayor (who was a woman).

After being chase for an hour, I was informed that my town would be reading a list of my crimes at the next council meeting... For a laugh, I decided to bring an orc for a lawyer (yes, you could role-play orcs in that game; just put on an orc mask and talk like a baby). Thing is, the Chief of the orc clan decided to bring THIRTY orcs. So there I was, Vice Mayor of Yew stuck in the middle of a crowd of 30 orcs staring down 15 humans in the council chamber... Needless to say, all the humans were slaughtered, I became a traitor, and thus, to my utter shock and amazement ignited the Yew War (which the orcs won!).

[The Dreaming]

UO was something special, I really kind of miss those days. (And yes, shadowclan was freaking hilarious. I Spent a lot of time grinding at the Orc Fort south of Yew)

[Worm of Despite]

UO was something special, I really kind of miss those days. (And yes, shadowclan was freaking hilarious. I Spent a lot of time grinding at the Orc Fort south of Yew)

This one was on Atlantic, called the Stormreaver Orcs. Much smaller (had 40 orcs at most in its history) and the language much easier to learn (mostly English with a few alterations, whereas Shadowclan was annoyingly hard to get into my head).

[Avatar]

I meant the one where you got burned at the stake.

--A