Your Incredible Gaming Moments

[Seajay]

That controller aim assist made the needler super deadly for those that figured that out. I think they homed in a little as well, so you could get a ton of stacks done and keep super agile. I used to use a needler and the pistol to great effect.

[homerj]

I’ve never come close to beating it without the code or at least save states.

[glaman5266]

I couldn’t beat Contra WITH 30 lives, lol.

[latches109]

during covid I played some warzone. 100% legit. only hack I have ever used is the Konami Code for Contra NES, let's be honest there was not way to beat that game without 30 lives.

[Siress]

loads of them, but the magic is usually impossible to communicate with enough brevity. One I like to share is the first time that I ever played an Xbox. I was a die hard PC gamer with a strong tilt toward FPS and hyper-paced games. I was at a college party where some guys convinced me to join in their Halo tournament, despite my protests that I didn't know how to use the controller. They gave me a couple of practice rounds and I figured it out - though it felt awful and imprecise, and I had no idea about the map layout or various weapons that could be picked up. I got my first kill with what they told me was a shitty gun - a needler I think it was called. I liked it because I felt the high ROF helped compensate for the imprecision of aiming controls. After that first kill - they started the match for real.

Guys, what happened next made no damn sense. I just ran around jumping and spraying needles all over the damn place. I was doing this kind of figure 8 lap that I'd found to keep grabbing items that'd pop up. I went up the ranks as it was play until you die. The disbelief in the little crowd was palpable, with all kinds of jokes and smack talk being thrown around. I was siding with the people saying it's just beginners luck and there's no reason for me to be winning like this... As opponents left fully animated in their disgust I was having to struggle to see through the tears of laughter and disbelief. Finally, the host and apparent best-in-the-room was up, so I could rest knowing that my time had come to an end. ...until I'd put him down a few games and he was now leaning toward the screen hanging off the edge of the couch. I just lost it. I couldn't even finish the match. I just excused myself and went to chat with another group that wasn't interested in the VG fest. Those were good times.

[the_matrix_guy]

Any of you guys play MechWarrior 2-4 on the PC back in the day? That was my first competitive gaming experience and what got me into PC building and PC gaming in general. I have tons of awesome memories playing MW3 mainly. I played for CGB back when I was a teenager and 90% of my clan were 40+ YO. And boy, did we take that game seriously. Weekly practices and all. I piloted a Shadowcat mostly outfitted with medium lasers and a NARC beacon. Most of the other guys were all outfitted with long range weaponry, mostly long range missiles (LRM) unless we were playing a C1 match (all energy weaponry) but most clan matches were C5 (which is all weapons go) But I would breakaway from my lance, tag the first mechs to come into range with a NARC beacon and then circle back, then my lance would harass the crap out of them with LRM's all while being outside of their targeting range. Then I would circle back and harass them with medium lasers all while using the terrain to obstruct their LRM's which were always really easy to predict. But oh man... good times. Also, the Shadowcat was great at maneuvering and evading ER PPC's and gauss rifles. FOr the guys that played, you know what I am talking about. The key was to never target mechs head on with a medium scout mech, always moving perpendicular with your torso twisted and then changing direction every 30-50 yards. That being said, A Shadowcat with 14-15 medium lasers was also assault worthy. Even though that kind of weapon outfit wasnt canon to the battletech Shadowcat. In that sense, the old MW games werent canon at all, almost. Which I believe there was a clan match spec for more canon accurate outfits. i think it was C6? Cant remember. But from what I remember most clan matches were C5.

[the_matrix_guy]

bellicose Yeah, one major factor to consider if you want to stay competitive nowadays, is the type of monitor and resolution you play at. Of course your reflexes slow down too as we age. But to stay competitive these days online in competitive FPS games, you gotta run a monitor at 1080 and it cant be bigger than 23". I have an Alienware 1440p 36" ultrawide and hell no, I can tell it makes it 20x harder, you just cant compete with the guys that have FPS gaming setups and are practiced. The bigger the resolution the smaller everything is and the more your brain has to process and track, also mouse tracking wise it's much more difficult to acquire targets outside of your immediate FOV, youre doing longer mouse tracking as well apart from your brain processing all the visual information. The only benefit of higher resolution is a wider FOV but your mouse tracking as I mentioned is also longer so it negates the wider FOV pro to a con, and of ocurse as I also alluded, everything including your targets are smaller too thus harder to hit accurately. Plus at 1080 the refresh rate is also way higher which helps alot too.

[bellicose]

One of my winning moments was back when the Xbox was new, and Halo was taking the college campus by storm. This was probably 2003-ish. One guy on my dorm, Drewzie, was the best in the entire University, hands down. No one could come close to beating him. His twin brother visited once, and I came over to their room; they needed a fourth player for even teams. I was against Drewzie and his roommate, Castro. My teammate, Drewzie's twin, however, was ranked 3rd...in the nation. I was so proud that I held my own in those matches, and got praise from a nationally ranked player. That was definitely my apex fps days.

[bellicose]

I tried CS at around this time as well. Was so dominated that I quit. Last year, my students started playing it in the after noon game club that I run, so I jumped back in. I can safety say that I can hold my own with them (but not against anyone really good).

[Spider!]

Around 1985, three of my friends and I started a multiplayer, turn-based, world domination type game around 10 pm on my original IBM PC. Somewhere between 2 and 3am, the f'n thing crashed.

Stoopid computers.

[Seajay]

Counter Strike 1.6 back in 2003, Cal-M match, dropping down in the tunnel in de_dust with a Deagle as a T, and headshotting the AWPer peaking in the far corner where the ramp is as soon as i dropped down and then another Ct against the wall in the tunnel, both in succession, both headshots --just out of pure muscle reflex from playing that game so much. I had em call me a hacker the whole match, telling me that they had me on video and that they were reporting me...roflmao

That brought back some memories. CS 1.6 was great. I had played CS when it was a brand new mod for Half Life... those were some amazing gaming days.
Similar kind of feat, I was the last one alive on my team and it was on an italy looking map with cross path vertical walkways, can't remember the name. I was on a corner wall edge and the other guy was on the far end across the map on a 2 story balcony or wall. I peaked the corner real fast and got his location. Set my crosshair where his head would be, and strafed back out from the corner and fired a single shot from the AK and got the headshot. It was so quick I was in shock.

I was also super good with the scout, loved that thing. Headshots for days.

[the_matrix_guy]

roflmao

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[the_matrix_guy]

Hah thats awesome. I played CS at the cal-m level, and 3D Eddy was in my clan before he was in 3D, 3D was one of the first -- if not the first pro team to get sponsored by a PC company/chip manufacture, I think it was EVGA.

[the_matrix_guy]

Counter Strike 1.6 back in 2003, Cal-M match, dropping down in the tunnel in de_dust with a Deagle as a T, and headshotting the AWPer peaking in the far corner where the ramp is as soon as i dropped down and then another Ct against the wall in the tunnel, both in succession, both headshots --just out of pure muscle reflex from playing that game so much. I had em call me a hacker the whole match, telling me that they had me on video and that they were reporting me...roflmao

My buddies were all cracking up in the mic telling me to turn off my hacks (obviously joking)

A funny moment I can remember from another game, was playing TES Skyrim, I had all the double wielding axe perks, including decapitation, and one time I had a guy's head roll down a hill like 150 yards with ragdoll fx. Had me cracking up

[moonweasel]

Not sure I would say incredible moment, but I'm happy with my handy work